SUMMARY:

• 10+ Years of strong IT Experience as Mainframe Developer and Application Engineer.
• Extensive experience in designing and testing systems following the waterfall and agile software models.
• Well versed in all the stages of the software development life cycle like Requirement Gathering, Architectural design, High level Technical design and coding, testing with the Mainframe applications.
• Hands on experience in writing and analyzing various SQL like Oracle, DB2 for 8+ years.
• Strong functional experience includes, Retail, Credit Cards, Banking and Financial domain.
• Extensive knowledge in COBOL,JCL,DB2, VSAM, Store Procedures & CICS and other Mainframe Utilities
• Experience in handling on call application support for the production failures.
• Knowledge with using version control tools namely Endevor, Changeman & GIT
• Experience in financial software Application Vision Plus with various modules like CDM, CMS,CTA,ASM,FAS,LTS,MBS,TRAMS,ITS.
• Experience in ACAPS Mainframe for real - time channel in credit application decisioning.
• Comfortable with technical and functional applications of RDBMS, Data mapping, Data management and Data transportation.
• Analyze business requirements, preparing the flow chart, perform the gap analysis, and maintain the traceability matrix as per the project need.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: DB2, Oracle, VSAM, SQL

Languages: Cobol, CICS, core-Java basics

Version control: Git & Endevor, Changeman

Data Interaction Tools: TSO/ISPF, JCL, File-aid/File Manager, QMF, SPUFI, CSF, Vision Plus, XPEDITOR, Abend-aid, DB2-Platinum, Confidential

Schedulers: CA7,TWS

Other Languages: Eztrieve, SQL, DB2 Store Procedures, HTML, XML

Transfer Method: MQ, FTP,MFT,SFTP, Connect direct

Defect Tracking: HP Quality Center, Service Now and JIRA

Operating systems: OS/390, Z/OS, MVS, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement gathering/analyzing
• Conduct impact analysis of interface applications
• Involved in effort estimation
• Design the HLDs & LLDs
• Participate in design review meetings
• Develop application in Mainframes using JCL, COBOL Batch and CICS, DB2,VSAM
• Perform unit testing to verify the functionalities of developed applications work as expected
• Work with testing team for RITs, SITs & defect fixes
• Track & fix the defects raised by testing teams
• Work with business for UAT testing
• Creating knowledge document & providing knowledge transition to support teams
• Provide post implementation support for the developed applications
• Provide solution for stability issues post implementation
• Generated SQL reports using SPUFI and QMF

Environment: MVS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Endevor, Sort, JMR, Abend-aid, File-aid, File-Manager, Expeditor, SPUFI,QMF, CA7, CSF

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in system analysis, design, development and implementation of Data warehousing system using IBM DB2 and Oracle.
• Extensively written and analyzed various SQL like Oracle, DB2
• Involved in gathering Business requirement and Designing Functional specifications for Autopay and Check free systems.
• Experienced in effectively working and coordinating with multiple teams across multiple time zones.
• Monitor critical application batch jobs thru Control-M.
• Debugging the production failure and recover them and conduct root cause analysis for permanent fix.
• Work with business users to understand their stability problems & provide solutions
• Partner with vendors like Gemalto, Confidential, TCS for new development
• Setup data transfer mechanism like SFTP, MFT

Environment: MVS, JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, Sort, JMR,Endevor/Changeman, Abend-aid, File-aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, CA7, MFT, ServiceNow, Endevor

Confidential, Minneapolis

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement gathering/analyzing
• Conduct impact analysis of interface applications
• Involved in effort estimation
• Design the HLDs & LLDs
• Participate in design review meetings
• Develop application in Mainframes using JCL, COBOL Batch and CICS, DB2
• Perform unit testing to verify the functionalities of developed applications work as expected
• Work with testing team for RITs, SITs & defect fixes
• Track & fix the defects raised by testing teams
• Work with business for UAT testing
• Creating knowledge document & providing knowledge transition to support teams
• Provide post implementation support for the developed applications
• Provide solution for stability issues post implementation

Environment: IBM Z/OS,MVS, JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, DFSORT, JMR, Changeman, Abend-aid, File-Manager, Expeditor, SPUFI, CA7, MFT, ServiceNow, Endevor

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the requirements thoroughly by going through the Functional Specification.
• Co-ordination and effectively managing the Onshore-Offshore work module.
• Lead root cause analysis identification & resolution issues.
• Convert business requirements into technical requirements for various enhancements including facilitating discussions between business and development teams to reach agreement on objectives and priorities.
• Define test plan, perform system testing, regression and integration testing.
• Resolving incidents logged on the Remedy (Incident & Problem management tool) by TC users, meeting the SLA according to Service Definition guidelines.
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Manage the resource for offshore team.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Provide idea generation, cost and estimation, resource management and mentoring.
• System ownership of highly visible month-end process. Extensive user interaction providing customer with various ad hoc reporting requests.
• Provide proven problem research and resolution skills via 24/7 weekly on-call production support of daily batch transactional processes for approved excess application.

Environment: IBM Z/OS, VisionPlus, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SPUFI

Confidential

Mainframe developer (Enhancement)

Responsibilities:

• Business Requirement gathering/analyzing for the Client’s Customers.
• Prepared the HLD and LLD for all the functional Requirements.
• Worked on new requests that involved online programs coordinates with front end and retrieves data from DB2
• Conduct impact an analysis of interface applications
• Create low and high level design documents
• Perform the changes in the Cobol components
• Create a test data based on the business requirement and perform unit testing of the application modified
• Coordinate with onsite coordinator for User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Decommission of Mainframe Applications using impact analysis document
• Worked on Requests that involved updating various DB2 tables

Environment: MVS, JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, DFSORT,Changeman,Endevor, JMR, Abend-aid, File-aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, CA7