Madhu Kurva

Senior Performance Engineering Leader with 14+ years of experience driving enterprise-wide performance transformation, owning Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), governance models, and performance KPIs for mission-critical applications. Expertise in architecting and institutionalizing scalable performance frameworks, workload engineering models, and benchmark-driven validation strategies across high-volume digital ecosystems. Demonstrated impact in capacity engineering and production readiness, enabling systems to sustain peak traffic, optimize resource utilization, and minimize performance risks in complex environments.

Deep specialization in performance optimization of distributed architectures, covering APIs, messaging systems, and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on latency reduction and throughput maximization. Recognized for driving root cause-led performance engineering, uncovering architectural and systemic bottlenecks to deliver sustained performance improvements and system resilience at scale. Implemented/Led AI performance testing and engineering activities with AmazonQ.

Improved Application

Observability with DAVIS-AI Dynatrace. AI-Agentic performance Analysis. (Hermes -Agent)

Tester, Visual Studio Test at CNX (2026-06 – Present)

Performance Lead | Industry Consulting Manager at NTT DATA (2024-05 – 2026-05)

Common Engineering Lead for 7 Modules

• Analyze system architecture, design for high performance, and validate that software design meets reliability, availability, and scalability requirements.
• Define performance engineering strategies and Capacity testing for iPhone Launch and Provided Infrastructure recommendations.
• Prepared dashboards (Dynatrace) for Core Web Vitals in production and proactively improved 25-30%.
• Benchmarking and Service Level Agreements, Transforming business requirements into actionable NFRs.
• Implemented performance testing into CI/CD pipelines, a Shift left practice identifies performance bottlenecks at early stages.
• Effectively certifying release & feature builds.
• Provide early feedback to developers and Collaborate Cross to implement or Improve performance test frameworks.
• Proactively collaborate with stakeholders and Building Quarterly performance optimization road maps for all the modules.

Associate Quality Engineering Manager at Optum (UHG) (Landmark Health) (2022-09 – 2024-05)

Senior QA Engineering Lead at Persistent Systems (2018-10 – 2022-08)

Test Lead at LTI (2018-03 – 2018-10)

Senior QA Engineer at Clarivate Analytics (Formerly Thomson Reuters) (2017-10 – 2018-03)

Senior Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra (2016-01 – 2017-10)

Test Specialist at IBM (2015-06 – 2015-12)

Associate – Projects at Cognizant (2014-06 – 2015-06)

QA Engineer at Virtusa (2011-03 – 2014-05)

B.Tech in Electronics & Communications – SK University, Anantapur (2010)