Danush Sridhar
Bengaluru
Summary
Performance Testing professional with 3+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale performance engineering solutions across API, cloud, and distributed systems, with a strong track record at Deloitte US-India. Progressed from Associate Analyst to Analyst, contributing to multiple large-scale client engagements and successfully supporting the production release of six+ major projects with zero performance defects.
At Deloitte, served as a lead performance test engineer on critical initiatives, owning test strategy, execution, analysis, and stakeholder reporting while working across on-prem and cloud infrastructure. Built and operated real-time production monitoring dashboards using Dynatrace and DataDog, enabling early detection of high-impact incidents and earning multiple performance-based awards for preventing rollout-blocking issues. Known for a consulting mindset, strong cross-team collaboration, and accountability for production-grade outcomes.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Performance Testing - Senior Analyst
Evernorth Health Services - Cigna Group
Hyderabad
11.2025 - Current
- Drive the modernisation of performance testing assets by leading the migration of legacy JMeter scripts to NeoLoad, improving maintainability, scalability, and team adoption. Migrate JMeter-based CICD pipelines to K6-based pipelines for increased resource efficiency, scalabilty and load distribution.
- Implement Git and Azure DevOps-based version control for performance test scripts, establishing standardised workflows, and improving collaboration across distributed teams.
- Manage performance test environments and support SQL databases, including controlled data refreshes and snapshots to maintain test data integrity across test cycles.
- Utilise Windows Performance Monitor and SQL Profiler to support system-level performance analysis and troubleshooting during test execution.
Performance Testing - Analyst
Deloitte US - India Office
Bengaluru
08.2022 - 11.2025
- Conducted API-based performance testing for over 60 APIs across three application services, significantly enhancing operations in over 3,000 retail stores.
- Successfully tested and deployed more than six major projects into production, maintaining a record of zero performance defects.
- Served as the lead test engineer for two of the six projects, overseeing requirements gathering, test design and planning, execution, analysis, and reporting.
- Analyzed the performance of services across three infrastructure platforms, including on-premises, cloud, and vendor servers, using tools such as Dynatrace, DataDog, Neoload Web, Kibana, and Azure Cloud Monitoring.
- Developed real-time production monitoring dashboards using Dynatrace and DataDog, which facilitated the identification and analysis of over thirteen production incidents, including identification of memory leaks, pod scaling issues, and kubelet issues.
- Performed Kafka event-based performance testing to assess consumer lag in critical services, ensuring optimal performance between consumer and producer services.
- Earned four performance-based awards within an 18-month period, and received two shout-outs in client newsletters for identifying critical, rollout-stopping bugs.
Business Operations Intern
Milaap
Bengaluru
12.2021 - 05.2022
- Provided multi-channel support (mail, WhatsApp, phone, social media, and live chat), improving user experience.
- Collaborated closely with product and technical teams to provide insights on customer behavior and feedback, driving product improvements
- Conducted thorough verification tasks for crowd funding campaigns on the platform, enhancing trust and reliability among users.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Application - Data Analytics
Jain University
Bengaluru, India06-2022
Skills
Performance Engineering & Testing
- NeoLoad, Postman
- API, event-driven (Kafka), and distributed system performance testing
Observability & Monitoring
- Dynatrace, DataDog
- Azure Cloud Monitoring, Azure Application Insights
- NeoLoad Web, Kibana
DevOps & Collaboration
- Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps
- Environment coordination and release support
Project & Stakeholder Management
- Jira, Confluence
- Test planning, execution tracking, defect triage, and executive-ready reporting
Certification
NeoLoad Specialist Certification - nzbg2andhjz6
Timeline
Performance Testing - Senior Analyst
Evernorth Health Services - Cigna Group
11.2025 - Current
Performance Testing - Analyst
Deloitte US - India Office
08.2022 - 11.2025
Business Operations Intern
Milaap
12.2021 - 05.2022
Bachelor of Computer Application - Data Analytics
Jain University