Balaji Pitchaimani

About Balaji Pitchaimani

Hi, I’m Balaji Pitchaimani, a passionate Performance Engineering Manager with 19+ years of experience in ensuring applications are built for speed, scalability, and resilience. I specialize in designing and leading performance testing, engineering strategies, and chaos experiments that help enterprises deliver reliable, high-performing systems.Over the years, I’ve managed large-scale QA and performance programs, set up Testing Centers of Excellence, and worked across both Agile and Waterfall delivery models. My expertise spans end-to-end performance engineering — from planning and execution to deep-dive analysis, tuning, and stakeholder reporting.I thrive on solving performance bottlenecks and ensuring systems are resilient under real-world stress, using tools like LoadRunner, JMeter, Dynatrace, and Gremlin. More recently, I’ve focused on Chaos Engineering, validating reliability and fault tolerance on Azure and Kubernetes environments with Azure Chaos Studio. Key Expertise: Performance Testing & Engineering – LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, APM & Monitoring – Dynatrace, AppDynamics CI/CD & Automation – Jenkins, Jira Cloud & Chaos – Azure Chaos Studio, Gremlin, Kubernetes, Azure Cloud Automation Testing – UFT Leadership – Team management, stakeholder engagement, strategy planningI’m committed to building resilient, high-performing systems and love mentoring teams, driving strategy, and helping organizations strengthen customer experience through performance and reliability.Let’s connect! Always open to sharing insights on performance engineering, chaos testing, and reliability at scale.

Experience

1. Performance Engineering Manager

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Sep 2016 — Present · Chennai, IN

   Key Roles & Responsibilities Performance Engineering• Delivered end-to-end performance testing (load, endurance, scalability, latency), optimizing infrastructure and improving responsiveness.• Supported critical project phases with scripting, execution, troubleshooting, and detailed performance reporting.• Proficient in using performance testing tools MicroFocus LoadRunner, Apache JMeter and Dynatrace APM tool• Expertise in designing, developing, and executing performance test scenarios for applications using protocols like Web/Mobile (HTTP/HTML), Web Services, True client Web, Citrix & SAP etc,• Good Knowledge with Dynatrace APM tool on slow calls diagnostics and report preparation• Led presales activities including RFP/RFI responses, client presentations, solution proposals, and POCs to recommend optimal tools and strategies.• Provided consulting and solutioning support on performance testing strategies, best practices, and tool adoption for enterprise customers. Chaos Engineering • Designed and executed Chaos Engineering experiments (infra, network, Kubernetes, HA/DR) to validate failover, disaster recovery, and graceful degradation.• Validated autoscaling and resilience for AKS, Function Apps, and Logic Apps in production-like environments.• Integrated observability dashboards (Dynatrace, Splunk, MQ monitor) for system resilience insights and proactive bottleneck detection.• Validated automated monitoring, alerting, and reporting workflows via ServiceNow and JIRA to enhance operational readiness.

Education

• University of Madras

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)