SUMMARY:

• Have 13+ years of experience across Insurance, Healthcare, Utility and Financial clients spanning large Auto/Home Insurance, Billing, Claim Processing and Investment area.
• Strong experience in development, enhancement, maintenance and production supports projects using Mainframe and Stratus technology. My technology Forte is COBOL, Stratus Cobol, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, ISPF/TSO, IBM Utilities etc.
• Exceeded client expectations in development of scalable Mainframe Applications
• Have 2.5 years of Release Management experience where I executed Scheduled and Emergency releases. I used to assist in resolving issues that affect release scope, quality and schedule.
• Involved in complete project development life cycle, involved in activities like Requirement analysis, Reviews, workflow design, high level design, low level design, Coding, UTP & ITP creation, Unit & Integration testing and system test support
• Requirements Development by collecting, analyzing, validating, and communicating with the client to understand customer and business needs
• Clear understanding of business procedures and ability to work as an individual and as a part of a team.
• Excellent analytical, functional, design and development skills with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent skills to express complex concepts and work collaboratively with people from diverse disciplines and varying degrees of technical experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MVS, Windows XP, Windows NT/2000/XP/95/98/ME/7, Z/OS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Stratus Cobol

Databases & Tools: DB2, SQL, DBQ, File Aid, Abend: Aid, Endevor, Intertest, Xpediter, QMF, HP Quality Center, Changeman, iService, Remedy, SOUPUI, Rational,WorkBench, FTP, NDM

Other Utilities: SPUFI, Microsoft Visio, Excel, MS Word, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Jira, Source Query System, Software Impact Analysis Tool

Interfaces/Framework: MQ Series, Web Services, HUON insurance system - IPM, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Saint Louis, MO

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, programming and testing of COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and JCL program.
• Working on the production incident and provided the resolution to meet the SLA.
• Responsible for Testing online programs and batch programs using XPEDITER
• Preparation of High Level and Low Level design documents based on Business specification document.
• Creating Unit Test Plans, Unit Test Results, Functional testing & Regression Testing
• Perform Impact Analysis for proposed changes to check what are all the programs, jcl's, copybooks, procedures, tables related to that program will going to change
• Modifying the CICS Screens and corresponding programs as per requirements for fixing existing bugs in the trades and list manager system
• Conducting code review meetings with SMEs.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Work Bench, Xpediter, File-Aid, HP Service Center, MKS.

Confidential, Miami, FL

Senior Mainframe Developer, Tech Lead, Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the analysis, design, coding and testing of COBOL, DB2, CICS and JCL program
• Translation functional/non-functional requirements to system requirements
• Creation of Unit Test Plans, Unit Test Results and Intergration testing
• Perform Impact Analysis for proposed changes to check what are all the programs, jcl's, copybooks, procedures, tables related to that program will going to change
• Understanding the existing system and business before gathering requirements for future logic
• Analyzing and synthesizing information provided by customers, staff, IT professionals, and executives
• Work with stakeholders to identify and understand their needs and concerns, and understand the environment in which they work
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is clear to development team
• Execute SDLC processes to document requirement, testing and implementation activities to ensure a quality product
• Defining and validating solutions that meet business needs, goals, or objectives
• Executing testing activities to ensure a quality product
• Driving conversation with customer, keeping everyone focused.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Changeman, Endevor, Xpediter, File-Aid.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Senior Developer, Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the mainframe code written in PL/1, COBOL, JCL, REXX, Stored Procedures, Assembler as part of Legacy Modernization.
• Analyzing the mainframe code written in PL/1, COBOL, JCL, REXX, Assembler as a part of Legacy Modernization
• Writing programs from scratch for automating the search process on Mainframes system
• In depth analysis of code for determining if components are currently active and being executed in system or not
• Gathering information about where and how the code is active
• Preparing the final list of components to be obsoleted for SMEs as per standard templates.
• Working with project mangers and leads on planning and distribution of work
• Training and guiding new team members to understand the process involved for analysis

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, Stored Procedures, CICS, Changeman, Endevor, Xpediter, Intertest, Source Query System, Software Impact Analysis Tool.

Confidential, Saint Louis, MO

Developer, Tech Lead, Onshore Coordinator, Release Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the project management activities like Planning, Estimation, Initiation & monitoring activities for all the development projects for the client.
• Responsible for the analysis, design, programming and testing of COBOL, Stratus COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Stored Procedures and JCL program.
• Preparation of High Level and Low Level design documents based on Business specification document.
• Gathering requirement from end users and client for enhancement and development projects
• Reading the business level requirements and creating High level design documents.
• Conducting peer reviews and preparation of review comments sheet to track the review comments.
• Writing queries using DBQ to extract data from various VSAM files reporting purpose
• Creating Unit Test Plans, Unit Test Results, Functional testing & Regression Testing
• Production support - Log, track, and resolution of software production support defects by adhering to defined SLA’s
• Triage production support tickets and assign them to offshore team members
• To support the application 24/7 round the year.
• Provide Level 1 and Level 2 of oncall production Support
• Responsible for providing status updates to Client for task assigned to team members
• Construction of COBOL batch programs and JCLs to meet the Technical requirements.
• Interacting with client to understand and analyze the requirements (CR).
• Training offshore on various functionality related to Workers Comp project
• Worked on multiple Healthcare functionalities like Adjudication, Eligibility, Billing and Client Reporting Workers Comp system
• Primary point of contact for all SAS70 and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Audit Control activity. Responsible for executing Monthly, Weekly and Daily billing tank reconciliations and coordinating the activities with Auditors
• Assist in managing project and request interdependencies to ensure release delivery and integrity.
• Assist in resolving issues that affect release scope, quality, schedule, budget, and resources.
• Make sure the release work product adhere to unit standards.
• Measure and monitor progress to make sure releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations.
• Negotiate, plan, and coordinate the release content and effort based on the request backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates.
• Develop, socialize, obtain approval, and distribute release related communications and documentation.
• Make sure the release documentation (including user guides, reference materials and administrator guides) are updated based on release.

Environment: Cobol, DB2, JCL, CICS, File-Aid, SQL, Endevor, Changeman, QMF, HP Quality Center, Xpediter, Intertest, Stratus Cobol, DBQ, Stored Procudures, iService, Remedy.

Confidential

Developer, Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle. Responsibilities involved in the project were Responsible for the Analysis, Design, Build and Test of IPM and Sales &Services Applications Development and Maintenance
• Use knowledge of Accenture Delivery Methods for Custom Development to help estimate work efforts and scope of work for deliverables on each phase
• Preparation of High Level and Low Level as per Requirements.
• Creating and Executing Unit, Integration and Regression Test Plans for the assigned modules
• Assigning work to team members based on the criticality and priority of different task
• Reverse-engineering the COBOL code and writing requirements as well as User guide documents for Sales and Service Portal System
• Creating Requirement Traceability Matrix to track the completeness of given work products
• Conducting peer reviews and preparation of review comments sheet to track the review comments.
• Responsible for Testing online programs and batch programs using XPEDITER
• I have worked on many Auto/Home insurance functionalities like New Business, Amendment, Out of sequence Amendments, Renewals, Customer Docs, Losses and Claims
• Policy management portal has JAVA as Front-end and Mainframe as backend. The interface is done through either MQ series or WEB Services (SOA)
• Every week Status reporting to all stake holders providing the Status of task assigned to whole team.
• To conduct Causal Analysis and Resolution activity to reduce the defect count in various steps of HDLC

Environment: Cobol, DB2, SQL, File-Aid, JCL, File-Aid, QMF, Endevor, Changeman, Xpediter, CICS, Abend-Aid, HUON insurance system - IPM, Web Services, Service- Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Visual SourceSafe