Resume - Balaji Venkatesan

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Balaji Venkatesan +32 466 372 554 | vbalaji@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/balajivenkatesan2212 Avenue Henri Dunant 64, Mailbox – 12, 1140 Evere, Brussels.

PROFILE OVERVIEW

- Over 8+ years of IT experience and have involved in various phases of SDLC.

- Currently working for Cognizant Technology Solutions as Associate, Projects.

- Strong expertise on Performance Testing and Tuning of Java/Oracle based applications.

- Advanced level of expertise in application development using J2EE technology, and Web technologies.

- Experienced troubleshooter, resourceful and ability to work under pressure.

- Team player with demonstrated ability to build strong relationships vertically and horizontally.

- Inherent ability to communicate well and excellent inter-personal skills.

- Currently working for the client ING bank, Brussels Belgium.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

- Recognized with “Rising Star of the Quarter” award in cognizant at client location ING Bank, Brussels.

- Recognized with “Associate of the Month” award in cognizant for quick learnability of new technologies.

- Recipient of INFOSYS’s highest rank of awards – The AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE for Client Delight.

- Recipient of PRIMA Award for Quality Assurance with Client Delight in INFOSYS

- Recipient of a Spot award for excellent team engagement in INFOSYS.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Programming/Scripting Languages Java

Web Development Adobe Flex 4, HTML

Databases MySQL, Oracle

Data warehousing Tools Informatica 9.0 (Performance Testing/Tuning)

Performance Testing Tools HP Load Runner, JMeter, Rational Integration Tester (Previously

known as Greenhat)

Performance Engineering tools JProfiler , JProbe, IBM Analyzer Tools

Monitoring Tools Wily Introscope, GEMS, Hawk Monitor (TIBCO), Tivoli

performance Monitoring Tools

Servers Apache Tomcat, Websphere Application Server

Operating Systems Windows, AIX/UNIX/Solaris servers

Middleware Systems TIBCO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INDIA [4 YEARS & 4 Months] NOVEMBER 2011 – TILL DATE

Associate, Projects – Performance Engineer – Cognizant technology Solutions

- HP Load Runner 9.0, Informatica 9.0 , JMeter , JProfiler , IBM Analyzer , Wily Introscope , Oracle DB/Query

Tuning, AWR , NMon Analyser, SAR reports, TIBCO Hawk reports, GEMS.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Core member of Performance Engineering Center of Excellence in Cognizant.

- To Understand System and Architecture and overall landscape of the applications

- Collect the Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) details from business stake holders for each of the participating transaction and Jobs.

- Analyze the CPU utilization reports to understand the peak CPU usage workloads

- Study & analyze major performance issues reported in production environment.

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- Statistical data analysis, correlation for capacity planning.

- Analyze the logs and data collected during tests and identify potential performance and scalability bottlenecks; Resource utilization trend analysis (CPU, Memory & Network)

- Perform trend analysis, hotspot analysis from appropriate environments and provide quick fix, medium term & long term recommendations to address the current performance issues with profiling tools like Jprofiler/Jprobe.

- Identifying long running/time consuming queries & Stored procedure from production monitoring and providing recommendations to increase the performance and reduce time of these identified queries.

- Monitor & Analyze the logs of database servers and server resource utilization logs.

- Performance analysis on strategies such as data Archival, DB maintenance etc.

o Execution plan for long running queries o Partitioning, Table spaces and Index spaces specific to the problem o Logging & Parallelism o Locks and Latches o Optimal DB configurations

- To suggest suitable recommendations for query tuning and database tuning parameters and their interconnections with the business process, based on the analysis.

INFOSYS, INDIA [4 YEARS] OCTOBER 2007 – NOVEMBER 2011

Technology Analyst – Technical Consultant – INFOSYS

- Flex 3, Action Script 3.0, Core Java , Websphere Application Server, MySQL, Springs Framework , Ruby,

Selenium IDE, WCS, Oracle/BEA Weblogic, Core Java, Adobe InDesign

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Working right from gathering requirements to design, development, deployment and testing for more than 3 projects.

- Involved in Requirement Analysis of releases which includes analyzing requirements proposed by the client.

- Preparing understanding document, Coding, Testing, day-to-day deliverables of the team, and status reporting to onsite for enhancements in project.

- Take care of individual module deliverables as a part of enhancements, development of new feature to the existing system related to the front end part of application.

- Review the code developed by other team members with all possible test-cases. For every install that goes into production.

- Involved in chart Design and Estimate the Functional specifications that are proposed for enhancement to the existing applications.

- Involved in systems performance and process improvement activities.

- Imparting client system knowledge on a continuous learning basis to the new team members, inducted into the Project.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science (74%) August 2003 – May 2007

Anna University, St. Peter’s Engineering College, Chennai, India

OTHER DETAILS

- Date of Birth - 22nd December 1985

- Nationality – Indian

- Visa - TYPE ‘B’