Thulasi Raju

About Thulasi Raju

With 9+ years of engineering experience, I\'ve evolved from functional test automation into performance and platform engineering owning the full spectrum of observability, performance, and scalability for Kubernetes-native, event-driven microservices architectures.I champion reliability as a first-class engineering concern. That means designing synthetic monitoring frameworks that catch failures before users do, instrumenting services with meaningful telemetry (Prometheus, StatsD, Grafana), and building the feedback loops that let teams ship with confidence.Where I lead: Capacity planning and performance engineering for cloud-native workloads running on Kubernetes - sizing pods, tuning autoscaling policies, and stress-testing event-driven pipelines under realistic traffic models Designing and scaling test automation platforms (Playwright, Pytest, Robot Framework) as internal products, not afterthoughts Driving observability culture - defining SLOs, tracing bottlenecks across microservice boundaries, and translating performance data into actionable engineering decisions Bridging QA, DevOps, and platform teams to eliminate reliability gaps that fall between ownership linesI believe performance and scalability are systems design problems first - instrumentation and testing just reveal the truth faster.Currently deepening expertise in platform engineering, Kubernetes workload management, and cloud-native observability at scale.

Experience

1. Test Engineer 3

   Johnson Controls

   Apr 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   My role evolved from Quality Engineering to owning the performance, reliability, and observability layers of a cloud-native retail platform on GCP and Kubernetes, building internal platforms that bridge testing, performance engineering, and system stability.Distributed Synthetic Monitoring Platform⁃ Designed and deployed an in-house synthetic monitoring platform from scratch, continuously validating mission-critical APIs and customer journeys at 1–5 min probe intervals to catch regressions before they reach users.⁃ Leader–worker architecture on Kubernetes with a custom TypeScript orchestrator managing probe scheduling and result aggregation⁃ FFD Bin Packing algorithm to optimally distribute workloads across worker pods within minute-level execution budgets⁃ KEDA autoscaling dynamically scales the worker fleet based on probe queue depth, eliminating idle infrastructure⁃ Dual probe engines: JMeter for API health checks, Playwright for browser-based journey validationPerformance Engineering & Observability⁃ Built Grafana dashboards surfacing P99 latency, throughput, and error rates as actionable reliability signals⁃ Led capacity planning and autoscaling validation for event-driven microservices under peak retail traffic⁃ Integrated performance testing into GitOps CI/CD pipelines enabling self-service validation across product teamsLeadership & Enablement⁃ Partnered with business stakeholders to translate critical workflows into automated probe coverage⁃ Standardised performance validation workflows, lowering the barrier for teams to contribute to platform reliabilityKubernetes · KEDA · GCP · Playwright · JMeter · Grafana · Prometheus · TypeScript · Python · Docker · GitOps

Education

• Board of Intermediate Education

  Intermediate, Mathematics

  2010 — 2012

• Vemu Institute Of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2012 — 2016

• Board of Secondary Education

  High School, Mathematics and Computer Science

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Black Box Testing
• Software Testing Life Cycle (Stlc)
• Consumer Electronics
• Incident Management
• Digital Marketing
• Quality Control
• Defect Tracking
• Optical Communications
• Test Planning
• Test Case Generation
• Core Java
• Testing
• Team Management
• Html
• Information Technology
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Test Cases
• Functional Testing
• Smoke Testing
• Test Management
• Software Quality Assurance
• Sql*Plus
• Defect Life Cycle
• Critical Thinking
• Interpersonal Communication
• Jmeter
• Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Test Automation
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• Software Testing