EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of experience in application development, maintenance and enhancement using Confidential Mainframes PLI, COBOL,MQ , IMS(DB/DC), DB2, VSAM, JCL, CA7 and CICS .
• Experience in ETL - TALEND, Informatica power center.
• Good exposure to the life cycle of Confidential Mainframe projects.
• Good at understanding user requirements and concepts at managerial level as well as at technical level.
• Strong programming skills with diverse computer science experience. Sound analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Experienced in troubleshooting and addressing production issues like performance tuning and fixing the data issues.
• Experienced in modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data of an application on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Expertise in delivering projects using Waterfall, SDLC and Agile methodologies (Scrum)
• Experience in making Proof of concepts and solution architecture.
• Excellent Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent in data cleansing in maintenance projects.
• Self-motivated, adaptive to new technologies, team player with good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent Team leading and people management skills.
• Experienced in Project Management, leading, planning, managing priorities, scoping & estimation for large projects/programs.
• Experienced in managing project communications within in teams, across teams and higher management, delivery status tracking.
• Ability to work in a team as well as individually.
• Worked extensively with the onsite - offshore model, main responsibilities include understanding of client requirements, provide effective solutions.
• Good user communication ability and debugging skills, experience includes Retail industry working knowledge.
• Experience in HPQC testing tool.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: JCL, PLI, COBOL, CISCData integration Tools Informatica and Talend

Cross domain: Web services, java applicationsDatabases DB2, VSAM, IMS

Operating Systems: MVS, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP

Tools: TSO/ISPF, Endeavor, File-Aid, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Sr System Analyst

Environment: COBOL,DB2, IMS(DB/DC), VSAM, JCL, File Aid, Abend Aid Remedy tool, Easytrieve and Endeavour. External - Talend ETL tool and Postgres DB.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the Business Requirements document and conducted Gap analysis with Development team and Business to ensure that all the requirements are captured
• Identified the dependencies and steered the planning meetings with all the stake holders including business users, analysts, managers and developers
• Customized the pages based on the user requirements
• Established communication mechanism among all the project modules
• Preparing the project plan, Line up the resources and Track the project status
• Build components as per LLD and preparing Unit test cases and proofs.
• Maintaining the applications by modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Coordinating with Hadoop team to prepare the data models for Talend jobs.
• Ingest CISCO data in Postgres DB using Talend Jobs as part of mitigation for Strom defects.
• Coordinating with testing team during SIT and UAT phases of the project.
• Creating, implementing and maintaining schedule in Control M for all the batch processes in the project, for SIT and UAT phases
• Preparing Defect log and Defect Action Plan documents.
• Monitoring SIT & UAT Batch Cycle
• Package and promote to production and follow up the same.
• Provide aftercare until transitioned to production support team.
• Preparation of all the project relevant and supporting documentation.
• Status reporting and communication to all the stake holders
• Prepare KT documents and transition the development tasks to Offshore and perform review and sign off for the same.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Lead Developer

Environment: COBOL,DB2, IMS(DB/DC), VSAM, JCL, Power Builder, File Aid, Abend Aid Remedy tool, Easytrieve and Endeavour.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewing the Business Requirements document and conducted Gap analysis with Development team and Business to ensure that all the requirements are captured
• Identified the dependencies and steered the planning meetings with all the stake holders including business users, analysts, managers and developers
• Customized the pages based on the user requirements
• Established communication mechanism among all the project modules
• Preparing the project plan, Line up the resources and Track the project status
• Build components as per LLD and preparing Unit test cases and proofs.
• Maintaining the applications by modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Coordinating with testing team during SIT and UAT phases of the project.
• Creating, implementing and maintaining schedule in Control M for all the batch processes in the project, for SIT and UAT phases
• Preparing Defect log and Defect Action Plan documents.
• Monitoring SIT & UAT Batch Cycle
• Preparation of all the project relevant and supporting documentation.
• Status reporting and communication to all the stake holders

Confidential

Lead Developer

Environment: COBOL, PLI, MQ, IMS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, File Aid, Abend Aid Remedy tool and Endeavour.

Responsibilities:

• Production support with respect to incidents in Remedy tool includes Fault Analyzing to support the production issue.
• Providing solutions to fix the incident driven problems.
• Maintain the components with standards.
• Build components as per LLD and preparing Unit test cases and proofs.
• Maintaining the applications by modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Data cleansing while maintain the applications or change in data structure in DBA.
• Preparation of system test plans.
• System testing of completed modules.
• Business and Technical knowledge sharing with team members.
• Solving defects at SIT/UAT phases and giving the Implementation support.
• Mentoring and motivating team members in enabling the team to work independently on Tasks.
• Including project delivery I was also responsible in training new team members.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Environment: PLI, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, JCL, ADMI, File Aid, Abend Aid

Responsibilities:

• Procuring the project requirements from interaction with onsite coordinator, breaking up the project delivery into phases and meeting the dead lines as per the estimates.
• Transforming the Business requirements into design.
• Coding new modules.
• Maintaining the applications by modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Updating the database by data cleansing for every year to fasten the application.
• Preparation of system test plans.
• System testing of completed modules.
• Manage customer discussions, issues and escalations using HP ALM tool
• Bug fixing and minor enhancements
• Production support
• The first run of a newly developed batch cycle and CICS module are followed up and fix the issues with immediate effect if it is a technical issue and to give a temporary fix for a functional issue.
• Business and Technical knowledge sharing with team members.
• Perform Review of Test cases and code.
• Solving defects at SIT/UAT phases and giving the Implementation support.
• After implementation preparing Defect log and Defect Action Plan documents.
• Mentoring and motivating team members in enabling the team to work independently on Tasks.
• Including project delivery I was also responsible in training new team members.

Tools: and Technologies: Mainframe Legacy System, Cobol, UNIX, SQL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Oracle and IMS, Confidential Debugger, File-Aid, Endeavor, Changeman, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF and HP ALM tool.

Confidential

Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, PLI, IMS, VSAM, JCL, ADMI, File Aid, Abend Aid

Responsibilities:

• Procuring the project requirements from interaction with onsite coordinator, breaking up the project delivery into phases and meeting the dead lines as per the estimates.
• Transforming the Business requirements into design.
• Coding new modules.
• Maintaining the applications by modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Updating the database by data cleansing of unwanted or old data.
• Preparation of system test plans.
• System testing of completed modules.
• Manage customer discussions, issues and escalations using HP ALM tool
• Bug fixing and minor enhancements
• Production support
• The first run of a newly developed batch cycle and CICS module are followed up and fix the issues with immediate effect if it is a technical issue and to give a temporary fix for a functional issue.
• Perform internal, external code and documents review
• Business and Technical knowledge sharing with team members.
• Perform Review of Test cases and code.
• Solving defects at SIT/UAT phases and giving the Implementation support.
• After implementation preparing Defect log and Defect Action Plan documents.
• Mentoring and motivating team members in enabling the team to work independently on tasks.
• Including project delivery I was also responsible in training new team members.

Tools: and Technologies: Mainframe Legacy System, Cobol, UNIX, SQL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Oracle and IMS, Confidential Debugger, File-Aid, Endeavor, Changeman, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF and HP ALM tool.

Confidential

Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, PLI, IMS, VSAM, JCL, ADMI, File Aid, Abend Aid

Responsibilities:

• Transforming the Business requirements into design.
• Coding new modules.
• Maintaining the applications by modifying the database with inserting/modifying/deleting data on daily/monthly/yearly bases.
• Updating the database by data cleansing to fasten the application.
• Preparation of system test plans.
• System testing of completed modules.
• Manage customer discussions, issues and escalations using HP ALM tool.
• Bug fixing and minor enhancements.
• Production support
• The first run of a newly developed batch cycle and CICS module are followed up and fix the issues with immediate effect if it is a technical issue and to give a temporary fix for a functional issue.
• Perform internal, external code and documents review
• Business and Technical knowledge sharing with team members.
• Perform Review of Test cases and code.
• Solving defects at SIT/UAT phases and giving the Implementation support.
• After implementation preparing Defect log and Defect Action Plan documents.
• Mentoring and motivating team members in enabling the team to work independently on Tasks.
• Including project delivery I was also responsible in training new team members.

Tools: and Technologies: Mainframe Legacy System, Cobol, UNIX, SQL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Oracle and IMS, Confidential Debugger, File-Aid, Endeavor, Changeman, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF and HP ALM tool.