SUMMARY:

• Confidential Mainframe Application Developer, around 9 years of experience in application development using - COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, TSO /ISPF and MVS. Extensive experience in the Health care, Insurance and Confidential Domain.
• Worked for several modules like EDW, Customer Interface, Claims Adjudication System, Membership Eligibility, Electronic Transmission and Facility Confidential .
• Involved in various phases of SDLC and Confidential Method
• Experienced in Development, maintenance, enhancement and production support projects.
• Good functional knowledge about the application processing of Health care domain.
• Proficiency in Batch environment.
• Experienced using Panvalet, Endevor, Changeman Job Scheduler CA-7, Debugging tools XPEDITER on Batch and online programs, FTP Tools-GIS & AXWAY, File handling using FILE-AID.
• Experience in analyzing production bugs and fixing the same within SLA time.
• Hands on QuikJobs and SAS programs.
• Experience in writing programs in Batch (COBOL, JCL & DB2) Environment.
• Expertise in developing Test plans based on Functional & User requirements in various stages of testing like Unit, Integration test Environments.
• Highly motivated, has ability to work independently and as a part of the team with Excellent Technical, Analytical and Communication skills.
• Completed the certified training on Big-Data Hadoop. Having the knowledge on Hadoop, HDFS, Pig, Hive and Spark.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MVS (OS/390)

Environment: TSO, ISPF

Database: DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM, SQL Server 2012, Teradata and Data stage.

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Eztrieve, SAS

OLTP: CICS

Tools: SPUFI, Stored Procedure, Panvalet,Abacus,QuikJobs, Changeman, Savers,SPUFI,Endevor, Platinum, Unicenter,JMR, ClearQuest,Repository, SAR, Gentran Integration Suite, Secure Transport (Axway), Service Now, Jira.

Scheduler: CA7, Control M, Zeke

File Handling: File-Aid

Debugging: ABEND AID, Expeditor

Allied: MS-Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson-TX

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing the code using COBOL, JCL and DB2.
• Building the BTQ’s for the MLOADS.
• Running the cycle and providing the data to QA for validation.
• Monitoring the EDW load cycle and
• Performing EDW to Teradata Load.
• Worked on the Zena and Zeke.
• Monitoring the data stage jobs and fixing the issues.
• Providing the 24/7 support on monthly loads.
• Handled the RI issues and business questions.
• Worked closely with change management.

Environment: COBOL, JCL and DB2, SPUFI,Zeke, Zena, Expediter, Teradata, Networking Protocols, Service Now, Jira.

Confidential, IL

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the production Online and batch cycles.
• Developing Batch programs using COBOL, DB2 and CICS programs.
• Preparing the quikjobs.
• Coordinating with Development team and Suppliers.
• Modifying the impacted programs whenever required and write new program.
• Monitoring the production Online and batch cycles and fixing Abends.
• Procurement of new enhancements via change orders.
• Creating new interfaces between SAP and Mainframe System.
• Unit testing of above-mentioned modules in development region with the prepared unit test plan and to compare the test results with the expected results.
• To make the changes in the existing process, so as to match the new requirements.

Environment: COBOL, JCL and DB2,stored procedures, SPUFI, QuikJob, Changeman, File-Aid, Expeditor, Abacus, SPUFI, QMF,Savers,Abend-Aid, Endevor., SIMON, REMEDY, CEO, IMS-DB.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Communicating with Business Users, to clarifying their queries.
• ABEND resolution and Job Monitoring.
• Developing stored procedures.
• Enhancement of Batch programs using COBOL- DB2 and Online programs.
• Involved in estimation process.
• Coordinating with Offshore and On-Shore members.
• Documenting the Test cases and Test results.
• Maintaining the ABEND details for PQ Audit.
• Maintaining the Team Members and assigning the task.
• Conducting Client level meetings.
• Coordinating with intermediate teams for requirement gathering.
• Monitoring the job cycle that includes many Daily/Monthly/Quarterly/Yearly Jobs.

Environment: COBOL, JCL and DB2, SPUFI, CICS, Ezytrieve, Endevor, ABEND-AID, SAR,JMR, Expediter, Panvalet, CA7, Unicenter, Clear Quest. MQ-series.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Business Requirement gathering process.
• Involved in estimation process.
• Enhancement of Batch programs and Online programs.
• Developing COBOL-DB2 programs.
• Coding new stored procedures.
• Involved in Unit and System testing based on test plans.
• Perform Mapping, Maintenance, New TP Development, Maintain FTP Communications.
• Build Trading Partner Relationships, Deduce problems and create resolutions to ensure proper deployment of the EDI services.
• Develop, test, and implement EDI transaction for both inbound and outbound to the company including intercompany communications.
• Design and build GIS Business Processes and Trading Partner configuration.
• Actively involved in setting up new EDI trading partners and interacted with existing EDI trading partners on a daily basis for all types of production issues.
• Mapped over 100 separate EDI transactions across multiple trading partners for GIS.
• Worked with internal and external trading partners in determining requirements to develop in and outbound transaction.
• Communicated directly with trading partners to accommodate a testing and implementation schedule.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and correcting issues plaguing
• Creation of JCLs and procedures to run the programs.
• Monitoring the job cycle that includes many Daily/Monthly/Quarterly Mainframe Jobs.
• Submitting batch Jobs to process a received FTP file to the mainframe and generating the output dataset for downstream processing.

Environment: COBOL, JCL and DB2, SPUFI, CICS, Ezytrieve, ABEND-AID, SAR, JMR, Expediter, Panvalet, GIS, Networking Protocols, AXWAY Secured Transport

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the existing application system and changes to application programs using COBOL, DB2.
• Development of Batch programs using COBOL, DB2.
• Involved in Preparing sizing Documents
• Preparing process analysis and design document.
• Involved in Preparing Test case Documents.
• Involved in system testing.

Environment: COBOL, JCL and DB2, Stored Procedure, SPUFI, CICS, ABEND-AID, Expediter.