K N Kishore Gowda

Performance Test Engineer with 2.6 years of experience designing and executing comprehensive performance testing strategies for large-scale telecom applications at Amdocs. Proven expertise in workload modelling, critical bottleneck identification, and JVM-level diagnostics including thread, heap, and GC dump analysis. Delivered production go-live support and led client-facing performance engagements across transformation projects spanning monolithic-to-microservices migrations, on-premises-to-Azure and on-premises-to-AWS cloud transitions, and major application upgrades.

Adept at collaborating with developers, architects, DBAs, and DevOps teams, with strong analytical and stakeholder communication skills.

Performance Test Engineer - Amdocs - Pune, India

(2024-02)

• Developed and implemented end-to-end performance testing strategies (load, stress, endurance/soak, spike, scalability) for telecom applications supporting millions of subscribers, defining SLAs, test objectives, and success criteria.
• Designed, developed, and maintained performance test scripts using Apache JMeter and OpenText LoadRunner, simulating high-concurrency traffic and peak-hour workloads.
• Assessed application scalability under varying load conditions; monitored CPU, memory, throughput, response times, error rates, and network latency using Dynatrace, Pinpoint APM, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Conducted JVM-level diagnostics during and after load test runs, including thread dump analysis (deadlocks, thread contention), heap dump analysis (memory leaks, OOM errors), and GC dump analysis (pause times, allocation patterns).
• Captured thread dumps, heap dumps, and GC dumps directly from live JVM processes to support real-time root-cause analysis during performance test execution.
• Performed REST API testing and validation using Postman and SoapUI during pre-performance sanity checks and regression cycles.
• Executed SQL and NoSQL (Couchbase, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL) queries for test data preparation, environment validation, and result verification.
• Generated comprehensive performance test reports with metrics, trend analysis, and actionable tuning recommendations; tracked and validated defect closure in Atlassian Jira and OpenText ALM.

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science & Engineering - Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (SSIT), Tumkur (2019 - 2023)