Koti Vasu has over 10 years of experience in performance testing and engineering. He has extensive hands-on experience using tools like LoadRunner, ALM, JMeter, and SoapUI to test a wide variety of applications. Some of his responsibilities include test planning, script development, test execution, analyzing results, and improving performance. He has worked on projects for clients such as Farmers Insurance Group, Zurich, Cisco, and others.

1. Koti Vasu
E-mail: vasu.koti23@gmail.com
PH: +91-839 0000 953
Current location: Pune
Performance Testing and Engineering - Automation Tools
Experience Summary:
• Concluded (total) 10.3 years of IT experience, with7.8 years of relevant hands on experience in Performance Testing
& Engineering.
• Well-versed with End to End Performance Testing & Engineering activities..
• Including requirements gathering, workload modeling/analysis, volumetric data analysis, test planning, defining
performance scenarios, developing efficient and accurate automated test scripts, test data creation, load tests,
executions/interaction with dev/client team, reporting observations and analysis, server monitoring, occupied with
engineering tools, effort & test plan estimations, POC & proposals writing.
Roles & Responsibilities & Key Activities.
Current Roles • Sr.Test Lead
• Individual Contributor/Performer
• Performance Testing Analyst-End to End
If requirement demands equipped
to move and adjust with any role.
Main
Responsibilities
• Understanding & gathering the requirements, key business
functionalities by going through NFR, design document`s.
• Meetings with client, ,business analysts, architects, development
teams to understand the requirement scope
• Oversee and review the development and execution of the test plan
• Deliver high level test plan & test strategy.
• Scripting-Creating& developing automated/custom coding.
• Test suit preparation-Design scenarios and WLM modeling.
• Configuration of load testing-Env set up and configuration.
• Test data preparation.
• Test execution- Perform all types of Performance Testing
Executions.
• Analyzing test reports
• Working closely with development team in identifying key
performance issues and bottlenecks.
• Providing test scaling factors, observations, recommendations and
getting sign off.
• Capacity planning, Profiling and Tuning activities
• Server, DB configurations and SAR Implementation.
• Coordinating all performance testing tasks within the team &
responsible for configuration management activities.
• Coordinate testing activities, resolving and escalating any testing
issues and share the task with team mates.(Active participant in
helping to team mates for bunch of projects)
• Responsible for setting up daily meetings with onshore service
manager/team for the project status, tacking the activities, updating
the tracker, assigning tasks, defect tracking, performance issues etc
• Participate in defect reviews.
• Defect management.
• Manual and functional validations/tests
• Up-to-date task elements.
• Based on projects, it will
fluctuate.
• Most recent tasks
Key Activities • POC activities- Finding issues and feasibility solutions. • Value add in`s to/with

2. • Hands on experience in test management focusing on test planning,
effort estimation, proposal of WO ,scheduling and tracking and
people management
• Responsible for sharing weekly project dashboard, weekly/daily
status reports for all applications in our project (E&E) and also
taking care of clarity timecard for the entire performance team on
weekly basis.
• Published case studies and whitepaper documents and root cause
analysis
• Active participant in Performance COE activities like performance
testing forum, blog posts, standard performance template
implementation across projects
COE/Practice and Senior
Management.
Automation Tools Summary: My automation skill sets @ Performance Testing (NFR/NFT) and Engineering.
Used Automation Tools Task Performed Using Automation Tool Comments
HP Load Runner, ALM-PC,Silk
Performer, Jmeter, Keynote and
Bad boy.
Scripting, Scenario Design, Execution and Report
Analysis.
Having good experience. Top level
working knowledge.
VSTS, Open STA and IBM-RPT Same as above Mid level working knowledge.
Soap UI Web Service –Limited Performance Testing &
Functional Validations
Having good experience. Top level
working knowledge.
Site Scope CA Wily, Perfmon and
Nmon
Creating Performance Counters, and Server`s
Monitoring and finding performance issues &
bottlenecks.
Having good experience. Top level
working knowledge.
HP-BSM, and TONE Server & DB Configuration, SAR Implementation,
SLA creation for Available Reports, End User
Management Activities,Monitoring applications
availability & errors fix using automation scripts—LR
VUGen.
Having good experience. Top level
working knowledge.
HP Diagnostics, ,Dynatrace, GC
Analyzer, AWR(Automatic
Workload Repository)
Diagnosis and Report collection(Report generation and
online analysis)
Mid level working knowledge.
Hyperformix Capacity Planning Mid level working knowledge.
Jconsole, Jprofiler and DB Profiler Tuning and Profiling Mid level working knowledge.
ALM-QC Bug Tracking and Reporting Having good experience. Top level
working knowledge.
MySQL, Oracle,SQL Server, SQL
Developer, Toad
Used for Performance Testing activities like Query &
DB verification’s, data extraction and Query creations.
Having good experience. Top level
working knowledge.
Protocols-Load Runner:
Very good hands on exp and knowledge of protocols • Web (HTTP/HTML),
• Web Service,
• Ajax True Client & Click and Script,
• RDP,
• Siebel-Web
• Click & Script and Web Custom Request.
Basic Understanding and can work, once task assigned Oracle NCA, Client Server, SAP, Citrix, ODBC, Oracle, Mobile
App(Web),COM/DCOM and .NET.

3. Domain Knowledge : Banking, Financial services & Insurance, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Advertising,
Telecom, Healthcare and Retail
Major Clients : Farmers Insurance Group, ZURICH, CISCO, Xerox, Toyota Financial Services, Pitney Bowes,
North West Airlines(Delta),Lehman Brothers, JPMC,WESTPAC,KOTAK MAHINDRA,and
PEOPLESOFT,SOK,Metso,Valmet.
Trainings:
• Played active role in open-handed training to new joiner`s on Performance Testing and Load runner concepts.
• Trained on Rational Performance Test, Jmeter, Silk Performer& Load Runner Diagnostics and LoadSter.HP-BSM,TONE.
• Cross trained on various internal automation tools.
Awards/Recognitions:
• FIMC: Feather In My Cap Award (On the Spot Recognition for importance to the project) in Wipro Technologies
• Received Performance Excellence Award for demonstration of technical expertise and
delivery commitment shown in Load and Performance for TFS and Farmers Insurance Group in CSC
• Recognized and appreciated by WESTPAC/Lehman Brothers/CISCO/Farmers as Outstanding Star Performer for
followed projects in HCL/WIPRO/CSC for handling multiple projects during critical time and covering the shortage in
resources
• Received Good Chef (At fun events) award in HCL.
• Recognized and appreciated by client (Received numerous letters of recommendation, and appreciation) in all
projects I have performed.
• Received many/lot appreciation mails from Lehman Brothers/CISCO/Farmers Directors and application owners
for handling critical projects, arrangements for training sessions/interviews etc..
Strengths:
• Ability to work & quick adopting skills while working with new tools and technologies.
• Experience in Performance assessment of wide variety of applications/technologies [Web based &
Client Server Apps, Middleware, SOA Web Services, Batch Processes]
• Having onsite experience (USA,IRELAND).
• Familiar with more than 8 Performance tools & mid-level working knowledge in 4 Monitoring & Diagnostic tools
• Handled multiple critical assignments concurrently.
• Excellent Communication and inter-personal skills with proven ability to take initiative and build strong relationships.
• Highly motivated, self-directed work style and ability to work in a team environment and ability to understand the sense of
urgency.
• Proven ability to consistently and positively contribute in a high-paced, changing & challenging work environment.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple functions and people and good relation with all the team which I used to interact.
• Used to maintain very good relation with junior and senior level folks.
• Total I have supported 14 large clients and worked 200 +(Approx) applications and 20+ projects as of now excluding small
modules
Educational Qualification:
Bachelor of Engineering (With 71% Aggregate)-1st class with distinctions from BIET Davanegere/Kuvempu University,
Karnataka
Professional Experience:
Company Name Organization Designation Start date End Date
Tieto Software Technologies Ltd.
Finland Organization.-
Location: Pune
Sr. Test Lead 9-Feb-2015 Till date

4. Computer Sciences Corporation India
Private Limited –(CSC) (4 years, 8
months)—USA Company.
Location: Bangalore & Hyderabad
Prof 1:Product Test 31-May-2010 31-Jan-2015
Wipro Technologies(3 years, 9 months,
10 days )
Location: Bangalore
Associate Consultant(Test
Lead)
7-Aug-2006 17-May-2010
HCL Technologies(1 year, 2 months, 25
days)
Location: Gurgaon
Software Engineer 10-May-2005 4-Aug-2006
Key Projects:
Project # 1—Current and most recent projects.
Project Title SOK, Metso and Valmet(3 clients)
Role • Sr.Test Lead
• Individual Contributor/Performer
• Performance Testing Analyst-End to End t
Tools Load Runner, ALM/PC , Soap UI, Site Scope, BSM,HP-Diag,Dynatrace, Perfmon, GC
Analyzer.
Duration/Team Size • Feb16-2015 to till date
• 6(Including myself)
Description SOK, Metso and Valmet is looking to deploy both Customer interface website (Online
purchasing) and Adviser interface website. Earlier it will provide the general public
information related to the SOK,Metso and Valmet business. Then later will be more
specific adviser-related information and access are for proved practices. SOK contains
mainly 2 modules, Customer interface and Adviser interface website in that each one
having number of links. Customer application only for public any one can access. For
Adviser site there should be authorized access once login process is over the
authorized person can access to Wrap, Adviser Exchange and COIN Office. Etc
Responsibilities • Understanding & gathering the requirements , key business functionalities by going
through NFR, design document
• Meetings with client, ,BA` architects, development teams to understand the
requirement scope
• Deliver high level test plan & test strategy.
• Oversee and review the development and execution of the Test Plan.
• Coordinate testing activities, resolving and escalating any testing issues and share the
task with team mates.(Active participant in helping to team mates for bunch of
projects)
• Scripting-Creating& developing automated/custom coding.
• Test preparation-Design scenarios
• Configuration of Load testing-Env set up and configuration.
• Test data preparation.
• Test execution. Perform all types of Performance Testing Executions.
• Good experience in analysis –worked closely with development team in identifying
key performance issues and bottlenecks.
• Providing test scaling factors, observations, recommendations and getting sign off.
• Capacity planning, Profiling and Tuning activities
• Server, DB configurations and SAR Implementation.
• Coordinating all performance testing tasks within the team & responsible for

5. configuration management activities
• Responsible for setting up daily meetings with onshore service manager/team for the
project status, tacking the activities, updating the tracker, assigning tasks, defect
tracking, performance issues etc
• Participate in defect reviews.
Defect management.
Project # 2
Project Title iBAS for first load runner testing- performance Zurich Germany-Offshore
Role Test Lead-Performance Testing Engineer and Analyst
Tools & OS: Load Runner 11.52/ALM/Performance Center 11.52 , Web Services, Soap UI 4.5.1 and
Windows2003
Duration/Team Size • July23-2014 to till date
• Individual Performer
Description iBAS is one of the hot core departments of Zurich - Germany a part of Zurich
Motors Insurance and mainly dealing with insurance motor parts. The project is
mainly focusing on technical performance and scalability issues. There are many
areas in the iBAS system where yearend performance and scalability can be
improved.The goal of testing is : 500 requests to be processed in parallel(within 1
minute). This would mean up to 30000 request in an hour and up to 720000 in a
day on one server.Last year they had up to 1.000.000 requests on one day as there
are times with and times with less traffic they want to assure that at least 500
requests can be processed in parallel(within 1 minute). Client is also required for a
limit of requests i.e. processing how much requests in a minute will lead to an
issue
Responsibilities • Coordinating with the onshore team to get the performance test requirements
• Understanding the requirements and key business functionalities by going through
NFR,Design document
• Meetings with client,Bas,Architects,Development teams to understand the requirement
scope
• Deliver high level Test Plan & Test Strategy.
• Oversee and review the development and execution of the Test Plan.
• Coordinate testing activities, resolving and escalating any testing issues.
• Test Preparation (Test Cases and Test Scripts).
• Test Data Preparation.
• Test Execution.
• Participate in defect reviews.
• Defect Management.
• Coordinating all performance testing tasks within the team & responsible for
configuration management activities
• Responsible for setting up daily meetings with onshore service manager for the project
status, tacking the activities, updating the tracker, assigining tasks, defect tracking,
performance issues etc
Project # 3
Project Title Commercial Lines – Farmers Insurance Group - Offshore and Onshore(USA)
Role Test Lead-Performance Testing & Engineering Expert
Environment HP Load Runner8.x,9.x, 9.5/,Performance Center9.x, Bad Boy2.1,2.2, Keynote5 and
Windows 2003 server/2000/NT/XP
Duration/Team Size May 2011–July2014 / 6 Members

6. Description CLS (Commercial Line Services) is one of the programming solutions departments of
Farmers Insurance Group (FIG), a part of Zurich Financial Services group. The application
handles the policy processing cycle of FIG commercial insurance business which includes:
Commercial Lines of Business
Automobile, Boiler and Machinery, Commercial Property, Crime, General
Liability, Inland Marine, and Workers Compensation, other low volume specialty
lines are also processed.
Responsibilities • Coordinating with the onshore team to get the performance test requirements
• Understanding all performance and capacity requirements for the project
• Understanding the PE Test Strategy deliverable and project timeline
• Responsible for providing detailed testing results in a consistent format across projects
to the project team
• Develop the automation Performance scenarios & scripts for all the test environments
and execute the scripts using Load Runner,Bad Boy, Tealeaf, Keynote, Performance
Centre, Fiddler and IE net developer.
• Support Prod ,UAT,QA ,FT,AIT and Regression
• Script walkthrough with client
• Set up process for various types of Performance engineering for various environments
where client secured servers.
• Coordination with Client for Prod and UAT environments where scripts run 15
hours/day.
• Production monitoring and fixing issues at client authorized networks installed/have
access only at Onsite.
• Daily face to face meetings with all client stake holders on analysis of the results and
discussing ways to improve the performance
• Daily face to face meetings with Onsite CSC coordinator
Personnel Details:
Name (Full): Koti Vasudeva Rao
Civil Status Indian/Male/Married
Travel Readiness: Yes - Any where
Valid Visa: B1/USA/Multi entry
References: Available upon request/Linked in/Reporting managers/Team
mates
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Telugu & Kannada and little bit Marathi,Tamil.

7. Description CLS (Commercial Line Services) is one of the programming solutions departments of
Farmers Insurance Group (FIG), a part of Zurich Financial Services group. The application
handles the policy processing cycle of FIG commercial insurance business which includes:
Commercial Lines of Business
Automobile, Boiler and Machinery, Commercial Property, Crime, General
Liability, Inland Marine, and Workers Compensation, other low volume specialty
lines are also processed.
Responsibilities • Coordinating with the onshore team to get the performance test requirements
• Understanding all performance and capacity requirements for the project
• Understanding the PE Test Strategy deliverable and project timeline
• Responsible for providing detailed testing results in a consistent format across projects
to the project team
• Develop the automation Performance scenarios & scripts for all the test environments
and execute the scripts using Load Runner,Bad Boy, Tealeaf, Keynote, Performance
Centre, Fiddler and IE net developer.
• Support Prod ,UAT,QA ,FT,AIT and Regression
• Script walkthrough with client
• Set up process for various types of Performance engineering for various environments
where client secured servers.
• Coordination with Client for Prod and UAT environments where scripts run 15
hours/day.
• Production monitoring and fixing issues at client authorized networks installed/have
access only at Onsite.
• Daily face to face meetings with all client stake holders on analysis of the results and
discussing ways to improve the performance
• Daily face to face meetings with Onsite CSC coordinator
Personnel Details:
Name (Full): Koti Vasudeva Rao
Civil Status Indian/Male/Married
Travel Readiness: Yes - Any where
Valid Visa: B1/USA/Multi entry
References: Available upon request/Linked in/Reporting managers/Team
mates
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Telugu & Kannada and little bit Marathi,Tamil.