SUMMARY:

• 8+years of extensive experience in Design, Development and implementation of Mainframe application in Retail, Confidential (AP and credit settlement).
• Excellent knowledge of all the phases of software development life cycle (Requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation) and SDLC methodologies such as Confidential, Waterfall model.
• Performed analysis of Business and system requirements including impact analysis of existing systems and create design specifications with the consultation of Business users and technical architects.
• Involved in Unit Test, Integration Test, User Acceptance Test (UAT) preparation and testing of the applications.
• Good experience in Production Support, identifying root causes, Trouble shooting and Submitting Change Controls
• Roles performed include SME, developer, customer facing, Expert system analyst etc. Carried out tasks in Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, and Implementation & Maintenance.
• Excellent experience in developing and maintaining JCL, COBOL Batch, Easytrieve and CICS application
• Experience in read - write operations on data in Flat file, VSAM, QSAM, internal Arrays, DB2 tables
• Experienced in Mainframe tools such as ICETOOL, DFSORT, IEBGENER, IEBPTPCH, COZESFTP and BPXBATCH.
• Developed several tools using REXX such as converting report file to XLS, calculating the lines modified etc.
• Extensively worked on mainframe tools such as TSO, SPUFI, EXTRA PC CLIENT,ABEND AID, IOA, Expeditor and CA utilities and non-mainframe tools such as WINSCP, PUTTY, BPE
• Experienced on File Transferring from Windows Server to UNIX using UNIX FTP Commands and also in setting up mainframe SFTP jobs that connects to windows and UNIX server.
• Experience in developing application using UNIX scripting, XML.
• Strong Experience in working on MS Access, MS Excel and MS Power Point
• Good knowledge on C and C++
• Experience working with the source control and versioning tools SCLM and VSS .
• Possess good Analytical and Logical skills and follow project standards.
• Quickly adaptable to newer Technologies.
• Ability to work with a team as well as individually.
• Ability to lead a team.
• Experience in developing written documentation for technical audience.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented professional with strong business and technical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve, JCL, SQL for RDBMS,CICS, UNIX,XML

Database Technologies: DB2, VSAM

Domain: Retail (AP, Confidential )

Mainframe tools: TSO, SDF2, SPUFI,Extra PC Client, Freeze Frames, Abend Aid, IOA, CA,BPE editor

Web Technologies: XML,CICS

Data access and tools: Flat file, VSAM, QSAM, Arrays, File aid

Source Control Repositories: VSS, SCLM

Microsoft office tools: Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook, Presentation, project planner

IBM utilities: DFSORT, ICETOOL, ICEGENER, DSNUTILIB, IDCAMS, IEBPTPCH.COZY

Operating Systems: WINDOWS (98, 2000, NT, XP, 8, 8.1), MS-DOS, Unix, MVS, Z/OS

Training Knowledge: C, C++, Basic Unix, XML, Client server concepts, RDBMS concepts

Logging Tools: IPM+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Adapted to new account and new project in short time.
• Worked closely with various IT and Business teams in developing and maintaining MAINFRAME applications.
• Provided estimates and required resource plans for the projects.
• Lead a team of 6 resources.
• Performed risk assessment, impact analysis etc to put forth the best IT solution for the problem.
• Worked with IT development teams at both onsite and offshore locations.
• Developed simple to complex, time sensitive and high volume applications in both batch and online Mainframe environments using COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve, JCL,UNIX, FTP jobs etc.
• Worked on Epicor to CAR migration project.
• Always kept the quality, performance, maintainability, modularity and reusability of the applications as priority during SDLC.
• Brainstormed and created test plans for developed modules at various levels such as unit testing, integration testing, system testing, Performance testing, regression testing etc.
• Provided additional reports and/or macros to business team to simplify the data validation during UAT.
• Created and followed implementation planning documents, conducted discussions for having a smooth and software installation.
• A Go-To person for business and IT team as an SME to help in any analysis or clarifying the process.
• Created a lot of Ad-hoc processes to report required data or as a work around during production issues.

Skills used: COBOL,CICS, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, SORT, IBM utilities, Control-D reporting, FTP, TSO, SDF2,BMC utilities ., MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Outlook, MS access.

Confidential

Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand, analyze and clarify business and system requirements.
• Requirements elicitation and translation to technical specifications.
• Create high level and low level design documents.
• Ensure timely completion of various phases of the project including coding, unit testing, regression testing, system testing and user acceptance testing.
• Provide accurate status of the module to Team Lead.
• Ensure high quality deliverables.
• Perform review of all deliverables including code, test plan, test results and other artifacts.
• Support users and testing teams during user acceptance testing and system testing.
• Deployment of code adhering to all deployment process and procedures.
• Create transition documents to transition the project to support team.
• Ensure adherence to software process and standards as laid down by client and Confidential .
• Mentoring and guiding the team members.
• Document and share own learning from multiple modules of the project, seek information and leverage knowledge from other projects.
• Monitor production jobs, analyze issues, propose solution and implement fixes during production support and maintenance.

Skills used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, SORT, IBM utilities, Control-M, TSO, SDF2, DB2,SPUFI, Extra PC Client, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Outlook, Text pad.

Confidential

Senior systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented simple to complex COBOL/CICS application that is used for Billing and store polling based on Calendar.
• Developed numerous Easytrieve reporting process to extract and format data into reports for easy business analysis.
• Involved in Testing and implementation of project.
• Lead and mentored a team of 5 resources during the course of the project.
• Took bottom line responsibility in completing the estimated tasks and deliver the code to Client.
• Communication with direct client as this did not have any onsite coordinator.
• Continuous status tracking across multiple modules in the project.
• Build and organize project test cases with multiple modules integrated before delivery.
• Issue analysis and offshore support during UAT and Implementation
• SME and Go-to person for any technical/functional questions within the project.
• Created the functional and technical designs documents for users
• Supported the testing and implementation during the integration of common supply chain systems for our clients.
• Communicated with business users from various business areas to understand and review the correctness of modifications in the modified modules

Skills used: COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, SORT, IBM utilities, Control-M,FTP etc., MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft Visual source safe,SCLM, Text pad.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Quickly learned the project requirements with little to no involvement from the peers.
• Developed COBOL /CICS applications based on the requirements provided.
• Developed mainframe to SAP interface using COBOL/EZT programs .
• Learned to be a good team player that project managers can count on for an error free development code.
• Learned various tools and techniques and quickly applied them in the build process.
• Review programs coded by new team members to make sure the requirements and the standards are followed.
• Followed the standards while building applications.
• Performed self-testing on the applications developed or changed to make sure that the requirements are met.
• Created detailed designs from functional designs provided.
• Documented and submitted the test cases and test results for the applications tested.
• Participated in project training and induction programs.
• Delivered defect free code to onsite without missing the milestones.
• Analyze and communicate the list of impacted sources for the changes requested by business.
• Impart business knowledge to team members for new business requests and help in creating design documents
• Creation of test plans, testing the jobs and programs for ensuring artifacts meets the requirements
• Maintaining trackers and status reports about the progress of the project.
• Creating documents on domain/technology for knowledge sharing
• Mentor the new joinees and review their work

Skills used: COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, SORT, IBM utilities, Control-D reporting, TSO, SDF2, Abend Aid, File-Aid, Trace master, Extra PC Client, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft Visual source safe, Text pad.

Confidential

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Quickly learned the project requirements with little to no involvement from the peers.
• Developed COBOL/CICS applications based on the requirements provided.
• Followed the standards while building applications.
• Performed self-testing on the applications developed or changed to make sure that the requirements are met.
• Created detailed designs from functional designs provided.
• Documented and submitted the test cases and test results for the applications tested.
• Participated in project training and induction programs.
• Delivered defect free code to onsite without missing the milestones.
• Analyze and communicate the list of impacted sources for the changes requested by business.
• Impart business knowledge to team members for new business requests and help in creating design documents
• Maintaining trackers and status reports about the progress of the project.
• Creating documents on domain/technology for knowledge sharing
• Mentor the new joinees and review their work

Skills used: COBOL, CICS, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, SORT, IBM utilities, Control-D reporting, TSO, Abend Aid, File-Aid, Trace master, Extra PC Client, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft Visual source safe, Text pad.

Confidential

Management and Mainframe Support, Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical assistance in analyzing the jobs and fixing the issues.
• Handling of the modules Mainframe and Confidential IDM. Coordinate with the onsite and clients.
• Monitoring the IDM feeds provide fixes when feed errors out.
• Providing On-Call Batch Support for Production, UAT and Test regions jobs on 24/7 Basics.
• Fixing abends in Production batch run and online.
• Developing the jobs in Mainframe which include oracle triggering end.
• Scheduling and restructuring of Jobs using CA7
• Coding the jobs and programs according to the detailed design.
• Creation of Unit test plans, testing the jobs and programs and creating the Unit Test Results, Integrated test results which involved oracle end.
• Maintaining trackers and status reports about the progress of the project.
• Creating documents on domain/technology for knowledge sharing
• Mentor the new joinee and review their work

Skills used: COBOL, UNIX, JCL,SFTP, Confidential IDM,XML, VSAM, SORT, IBM utilities, Control- M,CA, TSO, SDF2, SPUFI, Abend Aid, File-Aid, Trace master, Extra PC Client, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft Visual source safe, Text pad.