Loadrunner
SUSHANT KUMAR
Senior Performance Engineer
Hyderabad,TG
Summary
Performance Engineer with expertise in performance testing, analysis, and optimization of large-scale systems, including network firewall analyzers. Proficient in identifying bottlenecks using heap dump and thread dump analysis, database tuning, and distributed system profiling. Skilled in designing and executing load, stress, and endurance tests using LoadRunner, JMeter, and k6, integrated with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) for automated performance validation. Experienced in real-time monitoring and analytics using Grafana, Kibana, and Datadog to track system health, latency, and resource utilization. Adept at cloud-based performance testing (AWS) and optimizing infrastructure for scalability. Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering high-performance, low-latency solutions for enterprise-grade security products.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Senior Performance Engineer
AlgoSec
08.2024 - Current
- Company overview: Cybersecurity Company
- Working on several network security products as ASMS, Appviz, ObjectFlow, Prevasio
- Design, develop, and execute performance test strategies for firewall analyzer systems under varying network loads.
- Conduct latency, throughput, and scalability testing to evaluate system behavior under stress, peak, and endurance conditions.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and developers to define performance KPIs (e.g., TPS, latency, resource utilization).
- Translate business requirements into technical performance benchmarks (e.g., max concurrent sessions, log ingestion rates).
- Identify bottlenecks in firewall rule processing, log correlation, and data storage performance.
- Work closely with development teams to fine-tune firewall rule engines, database queries, and log processing pipelines.
- Recommend hardware/software optimizations (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network stack) for improved performance.
- Validate fixes for performance-related defects and regressions.
- Provide performance insights to QA, DevOps, and SRE teams for capacity planning and scalability improvements.
- Document performance test results, best practices, and tuning guidelines for internal stakeholders.
- Support customer escalations related to performance issues by reproducing and analyzing real-world scenarios.
Senior Performance Engineer
IQVIA
05.2023 - 08.2024
- Company Overview: Healthcare
- Conduct performance testing and engineering of products at IQVIA to ensure high scalability and longevity with minimum downtime
- Participate in various product management planning and discussions
- Measurement of the performance of the products and microservices by conducting various types of performance tests - scalability, load, endurance, etc.
- Benchmarking of the product and individual components/ microservices
- Identification of various performance issues in specific modules or services in the products
- JVM tuning for optimized memory distribution and usage on the application stack
- Performance evaluation for App, DB servers for scalability and stability under various load conditions
- Engage with development, platform and data science team for analyzing performance bottlenecks
- Setting up the environment for performance testing through terraform and service deployment through ansible
- Creation/control of EC2 instances using AWS console
- Using/managing docker-compose for deployment of microservices in performance environment
- Publish the performance test results to the senior management
- Healthcare
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
09.2016 - 05.2020
- Company Overview: Technology and outsourcing
- Engaged as a core member in performance test plan & strategy development across various projects and gained hands-on experience in team handling, team management, and estimation activities.
- Involve in e2e performance testing activity involving creation of scripts, WLM design, execution, analysis, test summary reports
- Involve in training freshers on performance testing before deployment into projects.
- Extensively worked on handling a team of 3 subordinates covering all the technical areas of the project as a team lead.
- Achieved awards in receiving appreciation for all the projects that I was engaged in the year 2019 for commitment, active participation and continuous effort displayed towards successful delivery
- Worked with a complicated Retail lending application and engaged with Load and Endurance testing identifying various bottlenecks and provided recommendations like reducing the page loading count after the login to 1 using pagination to avoid long-running queries.
- Technology and outsourcing
Education
Bachelor's Degree -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
Bhubanswar 04.2012 - 12.2015
Skills
Performance Engineering
undefinedTraining
- Industrial Automation
- Java
- Servlet
- Jsp
- Selenium
- ISTQB
- HP Load Runner
Passions
- Travelling
- Cooking
- Guitar
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
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friday
saturday
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Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 5-7 in the development of Performance test strategy.
- Supervised team of 5-7 staff members.
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
RemoteHybridImportant To Me
Work-life balanceCompany CulturePaid time offWork from home optionHealthcare benefitsStock Options / Equity / Profit Sharing4-day work weekSoftware
Jmeter
AWS
Kubernetes
Elastic
Datadog
JVM tuning
Heapdump
Thread-dump
GC log analysis
Selenium
Jenkins
MongoDB
Oracle
Postgres
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Interests
Traveling
Cooking
Quote
Optimizing performance isn’t just about speed—it’s about precision. I dissect bottlenecks, tune systems, and transform data into actionable insights, ensuring networks don’t just function, but excel.
Sushant
Affiliations
- NA
Certification
Loadrunner
Timeline
Senior Performance Engineer
AlgoSec
08.2024 - Current
Senior Performance Engineer
IQVIA
05.2023 - 08.2024
Loadrunner
06-2019
Associate Consultant
Capgemini
09.2016 - 05.2020
Bachelor's Degree -
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
04.2012 - 12.2015
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