Kapil Sidana

kapilsidana@gmail.com
Contact +919306959729
https://in.linkedin.com/in/kapil-sidana-62365517

Objective & Interest

To pursue a challenging career and reach new peaks as a Testing Consultant. To be a source of strength
and dedication to the team, I may be working with, in the field of QA/Software Testing, adding values, setting
new standards and ultimately leading to organizational growth.

Professional Experience

 Out of total 14 Years of IT experience 10 years+ experience in Performance & Automation

Testing, Black Box Testing, Data Driven Testing & Database Testing.

□ 4+ Years of industry experience in the area of Software Testing with a solid understanding of
Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking.

 Hands on Experience in Working on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and AWS (Amazon Web
Services) cloud Services.

 Excellent knowledge of Load Runner, Neoload, JMeter, RPT, Introscope, SiteScope, Dynatrace
& AWR Reports. SOAP UI , Selenium

 Working experience in Mobile App testing using Android Studio

 Test Management with Test Director for Quality Center.

 Having knowledge of Automation tools like Selenium Web-driver using java, testng, Mavan.

 Experience in Automating the API’s using SOAP UI and Postman.

 Experience in writing and reviewing the test scripts in selenium and reporting in testng.

 Performed Load/Stress/Volume Testing using Manual and Automated testing methodologies.

 Expertise in Understanding and Analyzing Test Requirements, Tracking changes and maintenance of
Test Requirements.

 Well acquainted with all phases of SDLC and STLC.

 Worked in waterfall model, V model, Agile & Scrum methodology.

 Extensive experience in writing SQL scripts to validate the database systems and for backend
database testing.

 Expertise in GUI, Functional, Integration, Security, Regression, Stress, Load and System Performance
Testing.

 A good motivator with strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact with customers
with ease and professionalism.

 Having good experience in Script developing, Scenario design, Execution, Monitoring and analyzing
the results.

 Worked individually in End-to-End Test planning and implementation across Ware House
Management, Retail, Bank and Manufacturing domains.

 Have worked independently in assuring the performance, scalability and reliability of a web/Client
Server applications right from the test environment creation phase.
 Testing Methodology: Water Fall, Agile / DevOps with TDD & BDD approach

Project / Test Management Tools: Quality Centre ALM, JIRA

Academic Qualifications

□ Master in Computer Application (MCA) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. year 2006.

□ Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra year 2003.

Presentation and Training Skills

 HP Certified Load runner Professional(AIS)
 IBM RPT (Rational Performance Tester) Certified Professional.
 HP QC (Quality Center 11.0) Certified Professional.
 Proof of Concept (POC) of HP products to Clients.
 Implementation and product support to HP customers.
 Training and knowledge transfer of HP products to clients.
 Successful implementation of POC of HP product at client’s environment.
Work Experience:

QualityKiosk Technologies Pvt Ltd- (1st Feb 2022-Onwards)

Project Manager-
 Handling multiple e-commerce clients at a time & SPOC for their overall performance testing activities
 Understand the technology stack at customer end & propose solution accordingly.
 Involvement in PE activities to identify the bottlenecks and share the RCA plan with customer.
 Participation in script creation activities, to make them reusable across the releases

Telus International India -Noida (25th March 2020-28th January 2022)

Portfolio Manager-
 Direct interaction with Client & understand the scope of the project.
 COE point of contact for all performance testing needs (RFP’s/ Adhoc client needs)
 Approval authority of test plans, estimates
 Managing a team of 20+ resources & handling
 Escalation point of contact from offshore/ on shore perspective.
 Innovation Activities such as
 Grafana€JMeter Integration
 Mobile performance Testing using Jmeter & Emulator studio
 Google Cloud Platform Performance Testing

Qual IT Wellington-New Zealand (30th July 2018-13th March 2020)

Test Engineer
 Direct interaction with Client & understand the scope of the project.
 Get the understanding from business & technical stakeholders on the NFR’s
 Preparation of test plan & get sign off on agreed approach
 Script Creation of identified Business Process Scenarios.
 Responsible for Script Execution for various tests(load/stress/endurance) to check system
sustainability/break even point.
 Walkthrough to client on all conducted tests & the servers behavior .

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (16th Aug 2010-12 August 2013)
Team Lead, Performance Engineering Group (29th April 2015—17th July 2018)
 Identification of Scenarios either from BRD/FSD or directly asking from Business Team.
 Script Creation of identified Business Process Scenarios.
 Responsible for various enhancements wrt Parameterization/Correlation/data changes
 Responsible for Script Execution for various tests(load/stress/endurance) to check system
sustainability/break even point.
 Involved in Analysis part for various produced parameters (Response Time/SLA
met/Throughput/Transaction Response time/under load/Vuser States/Transaction Summary etc)
Capgemini Services India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore (19th Aug 2013-23rd April 2015)
Team Lead, Performance Engineering Group

 Identification of Scenarios either from BRD/FSD or directly asking from Business Team.
 Part Of Recruitment Group to onboard Fresh/New talent
 Doing risk based assessment for all application, whether performance testing is required or not.
 Responsible for gathering Performance testing related requirements. Creation of Detailed Test Plan
 Responsible for Script Execution for various tests(load/stress/endurance) to check system
sustainability/break even point.
 Involved in Analysis part for various produced parameters (Response Time/SLA
met/Throughput/Transaction Response time/under load/Vuser States/Transaction Summary etc)
 Monitoring through Site scope and Wily Introscope for various flavors of application like any GC
heaps, Connection pools, threads etc

HCL Technologies Ltd, Noida (7th Dec 2009-13th Aug 2010)

Software Engg, Performance Testing Division

 Part of HCL Recruitment Group for hiring at corporate level for Performance Testing division
 Identification of Scenarios either from BRD/FSD or directly asking from Business Team.
 Script Creation of identified Business Process Scenarios.
 Responsible for various enhancements wrt Parameterization/Correlation/data changes
 Responsible for Script Execution for various tests(load/stress/endurance) to check system
sustainability/break even point.
 Involved in Analysis part for various produced parameters (Response Time/SLA
met/Throughput/Transaction Response time/under load/Vuser States/Transaction Summary etc)

Vista Info Systems Pvt Ltd for Wipro Technologies Ltd, Bangalore, INDIA
Technical Consultant for HP & IBM Products (Oct 2008 – 25 th Nov 2009)

 Alliance with various Project teams, if they are facing any issue get them resolved
 Alliance with clients (offshore/Onsite),get requirements and compile the Deal order accordingly.
 Involved in Performance POC’s for various projects .(which product would be best suited for
the project ,as per the requirements)
 Involved in RFP’S making for various clients.
 Involved in Project execution right from Project bid till handover the details to client in terms of
script generation/execution various tests/analysis wrt various reports.
 Provides Testing training to fresh batches (New Employees).
Better Deal Transport Company Pvt Ltd (Jan 2006– Till Oct
2008) (Software Services)
 Being into Software business, my responsibilities were do a lot of POC’s with various market
available performance Testing Tools (RPT/Silk performer /Load Runner/JMeter) for our
customer applications.
 Involvement in client projects (where they are stuck), responsible for making the problem up
and running
 In house Performance Testing assignments for various clients (below mentioned).

3.1 Birla Soft (Key Consulting Assignments/Project Details)

Using HP products for the entire software development life cycle. I am actively
involved in providing consultation and support of HP products specific to Testing
and Profiling for Birla Soft. My role is to help different teams in
Functional/Performance Testing of J2EE, .net Applications using different tools like
Load Runner, Win runner, QTP (Quick test Professional)

3.2 Group 4 Securities Ltd

Given training to a team of 25 people about How to use Load Runner for their
performance issues. It also required turning their main efforts towards conversion of
whole manual testing works in automation.

3.3 IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation)

This organization is working with a project named as Indiatourism.com. So my
profile in that organization is to learn the performance issues of their website like
what exactly is the response time application is getting from the server ,Throughput
rate ,hit and miss ratio .So measurement of all these aspects with the help of (Load
Runner) Testing tool. And get the things done.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems : Win95/98/2000/NT, Dos (6.22)
Programming Languages : C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN,
Database : SQL Server and MS Access.
Web Technologies : VB, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, UML, and
VBScript.
Methodologies : OOPS, Data Structure, SAD, Software Engineering.
Testing Tools : IBM RPT, Introscope, Load Runner9.0, Quality Center, Jmeter
Special Skills : Manual & Automated Testing.

Projects Done:

1. Direct to Customer (Telus , Canada Client)

Phantom being the old legacy application was being replaced with
Description Direct to customer application (brand new application). Objective was
to test whether application is in good shape to go live
Role Performance Consultant
Operating System(s) Windows-XP
Skills Loadrunner
Environment Windows 10,
 Get to know the critical scenarios & complete the requirement
gathering phase
 Preparation of test plan & get sign off from client
Contribution  Script preparation using automation tool like Loadrunner
 Running the tests as per agreed scope
 Report preparation & giving walkthrough to client based on
application behavior
Start Date Dec 2020
End Date April 2021
Period(in months) 5
Team Size 4
2. NZ Post
Ahead of planned elections NZ post wanted to check if the
system/application is well versed for go live. So they wanted to
Description
conducted performance testing on Votext application & check the overall
application behavior

Role Performance & Functional Tester

Operating System(s) Windows-10
Skills NeoLoad
Environment Windows
□ Get to know the critical scenarios & complete the requirement
gathering phase
□ Preparation of test plan & get sign off from client
□ Script preparation using automation tool like Neoload
□ Running the tests as per agreed scope
□ Report preparation & giving walkthrough to client based on
application behavior
□ Review requirements, specificationsand technical design
documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
□ Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test
plans and test cases
□ Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
□ Design, develop and execute test scrips using tools like
SOAP UI.
□ Validation of test results using SQL database querying.
Contribution □ Used SOAP UI for Functional testing, Smoke testing,
Regression testing and Re-testing.
□ Responsible to verify Web services API request, response
data validations in REST, SOAP protocols.
□ Responsible for creating Test Environment for Web
Services testing.
□ Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs inJIRA.
□ Develop and apply testing processes for new and
existing products to meet client needs
□ Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers andproduct
managers) to identify system requirements
□ Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and
open defect counts
□ Supported User Acceptance testing.

Start Date April 2019

End Date May 2019
Period(in months) 2
Team Size 4
3. FNZC (First New Zealand Capital)
Complete migration from ANZ application to FNZC server stack (after
acquiring complete ANZ securities business in New Zealand), It was
Description huge risk for the FNZC to go live post migration. Lot of complexities
say data migration at backend & application level changes. Hence
FNZC wanted to check the performance of the application pre go live
Role Performance & Functional Tester
Operating System(s) Windows-10
Skills Neoload
Environment Windows
□ Get to know the critical scenarios & complete the
requirement gathering phase
□ Preparation of test plan & get sign off from client
□ Script preparation using automation tool like Neoload
□ Running the tests as per agreed scope
□ Report preparation & giving walkthrough to client based on
application behavior
□ Review requirements, specifications and technical
design documents to provide timely and meaningful
feedback
□ Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test
plans and test cases
□ Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
□ Design, develop and execute test scrips using tools like
SOAP UI.
Contribution □ Validation of test results using SQL database querying.
□ Used SOAP UI for Functional testing, Smoke
testing, Regression testing and Re-testing.
□ Responsible to verify Web services API request,
response data validations in REST, SOAP protocols.
□ Responsible for creating Test Environment for Web
Services testing.
□ Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs in JIRA.
□ Develop and apply testing processes for new and
existing products to meet client needs
□ Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers andproduct
managers) to identify system requirements
□ Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densitiesand
open defect counts
□ Supported User Acceptance testing.

Start Date November 2018

End Date December 2018
Period(in months) 2
Team Size 3
 3. Project Information System
This is a web based application, based on automating various projects
in the organization. The functionality includes storage of information of
various Projects and manage them in a proper form to make it
Description available easily to Ministry of India. The project works on the network
where client’s data is stored in database and all the Projects are
controlled by the server. The clients and server communicate through
Network.
Role Performance Tester
Operating System(s) Windows-XP
Skills QTP 9.0, HP Load runner 9.0 (Web Protocol)
Environment Load Runner & QTP
 Major contribution is to automate the testing process by using
Quick Test professional testing tool.
 Reporting bugs through bug tracking system and
updating their status.
 Done the Performance Testing with the help of Load Runner
Contribution
Tool so that we can measure the actual throughput, response
time, no of hits, no of miss, load at a particular time.
 Reported the status of defects; including severity.
Documented defects as they happen including supporting
evidence.
Start Date Feb’ 08
End Date July’ 08
Period(in months) 5
Team Size 3

Personal Information:

Name : Kapil Sidana

Father’s Name : M.L Sidana
Mother’s Name : Sushma
Sidana Sex : Male
Passport No : K5899102
Date of Birth : August 16, 1982
Nationality : Indian
Hobbies : Interaction with different people, Netsurf, cricket.
Modeling, Driving.
Permanent Address : Prestige Tranquility, House Number 1191, Bangalore

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