EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Having 8+ years of Information Technology experience including Project Management, Systems and Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance, Change Management and Programming.
• Hands - on experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle, including Requirement Gathering, Design, Coding, Integration, Performance Testing, production implementation and Subsequent support.
• Provided both production and development support for several Banking, Telecom and health care, manufacturing applications.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Experience in documenting the business requirements.
• Experience with converting business requirements into functional specifications.
• Actively engaged in Gap, Feasibility, Risk and Impact Analysis.
• Strong experience and co ordination skills to lead onsite offshore teams throughout all Phases.
• Experience in manual testing of online and batch systems.
• Extensive experience in developing scalable and reliable enterprise applications using Mainframe technologies like DB2,COBOL,JCL,VSAM,CICS and IMS-DB .
• Expertise in generating the error free code by meeting all the standards and known for becoming subject matter expert through self-study.
• Strong collaborator and communicator with ability to prioritize and meet operational deadlines in demanding+ environments.
• Expertise in using Mainframe tools like CHANGEMAN,Control M,FTP,PANVALENT,XPEDIDITER, FILEAID,QMF,SPUFI,SYNCSORT.
• Having strong experience in debugging and problem determination.
• Good knowledge on Waterfall, Agile methodologies and the Scrum process.
• Hands on experience on Agile scrum.
• Experience in adhering to coding standards and finishing on time.
• Strong experience in writing the SQL stored procedures.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of Queries, indexing to improve Performance and have the ability to code and implement complex business rules in SQL and DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Expertise in writing Database Objects such as Tables, User Defined Data Types, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Views, User Defined Functions, and Cursors.
• Strong Project/technical leadership skills in the areas of mainframe applications and their maintenance projects.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Proactive in learning new technologies and updating my skills including Strong analytical, verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Research-oriented, motivated, proactive, self-starter with strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills, good organizational abilities, good leadership qualities and excellent problem solving skills.
• Have good domain knowledge in Banking, Telecom and Natural resources sector.
• Responsible for Project Management with the offshore team to get the development work scheduled/delivered with high quality. Worked on development activities on timely manner/peer reviewed offshore work before handing over to the client.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe (Z/OS, MVS), Windows 9x/2000/XP, MVS

Key skills: COBOL, IMS DB, JCL, DB2, CICS,IBM Utilities.

Access methods: VSAM

Database: DB2, IMS-DB, IDMS.

Mainframe Tools: File aid, ITSM (ticket tracking tool) SPUFI, Control M,FTP, QMF, TSO/ISPF,Change Man, Endeavor, Expeditor, Pan Valet tool, Rational Asset Analyzer RAA), IBM UtilitiesAutomation Office MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook and MS-PowerPoint, Visio.

Sorting techniques: SYNCSORT, DFSSORT

S/W Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Water fall.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Scottsdale, Arizona

Technologies: COBOL, JCL,IMS DB

Mainframe Programmer Anlayst

Responsibilities:

• Resolve the tickets of priority P1, P2, P3, P4 as per the SLA.
• Works on development tickets as well, which involves code changes, unit testing.
• Worked on CICS and Cbol based programs which deals with Online Transactions.
• Involve in Analysis, Design and Implementation of User stories.
• Worked on analysing and debugging programs which were coded in Rexx.
• Estimates the user stories through development review process.
• Generated high end reports using Sceptre scanning systems.
• Deliver the stories on targeted Sprints.
• Works on VMS operating system for analyzing the COBOL programs and fixing the issues.
• Analyzes the COBOL programs and coding to the requirements by using the Cool Gen tool.
• Create queries to generate reports off peak times for business needs.
• Use of TOAD tool to check the JVM error logs.
• LDAP being used to monitor error logs.
• Monitoring the tickets in Remedy control Tool.
• Works on Change Man version control for versioning.
• Documents the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Reviews components that are to be delivered to the client.
• Provides On call support five days a week.
• Works on performance improvement initiatives.
• Coordinates with the client team during production moves and supports.
• Identifies & fixes bug and maintain software application Quality
• Involves in debugging high severity defects.
• Maintained the defects for every month and proposed new measures to prevent them in future.

Environment: Cobol, JCL,IMS DB,DB2,Change Man, Control M,File AID, TSO/ISP.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2,IMS DB

Responsibilities:

• Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) which is a Agile methodology starting from high level design to system/integration testing.
• Worked in all phases of development and review teams for SDS (system detail specifications), TSD(Technical specification documents),coding, test cases/test plans, unit testing/system testing/integration testing.
• Worked closely with functional and technical project leads, Finance, Sales, Marketing subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and other business groups to identify, analyze and document Business requirements.
• Interacted with business analysts and data architects to develop a data model.
• Coordinated with the front-end teams in regression testing the Applications.
• Conducted user interviews, gathered requirements, analyzed, and documented Business Requirements based on the analysis of credit appraisal workflow model.
• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business line, operations, and the technical areas throughout the project cycle.
• Performed client facilitation meetings to gather requirements (Inception phase), there after assisted tech leads in Analysis & Design approach using UML & Rational Unified Process
• Worked on various Pivot tables to do the calculations for creating reports accordingly
• Actively worked in Data mapping, date lineage & data transformation from source to target
• Conducted User Acceptance Test (UAT) with stakeholders and system users to uncover latent defects in the system. The defect were corrected and verified through a new cycle of regression testing
• Actively involved in end user training and support.
• Worked on IDMS databases for retrieval and updating of data.
• Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
• Maintained the defects for every month and proposed new measures to prevent them in future.
• Preparation and execution of test plans and test cases based on the Requirement specifications for Regression, Functional testing.
• Worked under adhoc situation and helped other applications within the project and among projects.
• Understands business requirements, proposes flexible solutions, and provides specifications and designs in support of application development.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of assigned job ensuring quality.
• Documenting and reviewing components those are to be delivered to the client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, Change man, Expeditor and IBM Mainframe MVS.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements.
• Interacted with the users, designers and developers, project manager to get a better understanding of the business processes.
• Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time.
• Actively worked in Data mapping, date lineage & data transformation from source to target.
• Analyzing the COBOL programs and coding to the requirements by using the Cool Gen tool.
• Experience in analyzing reports and data with MS Office applications such as Excel.
• Involved in creating and enhancing requirements, analysis and design using MS Office tools (Access, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Developed system requirements specifications encompassing Functional and Non Functional requirements.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VMS OS, DB2, Change Man, Rational Asset Analyzer, SQl and CICS with an Agile SDLC and UNIX operating System.

Confidential

Mainframe programmer

Responsibilities:

• The client was using PEP+ whichis a high-powered mainframe system that allows your bank to automatically receive and originate electronic payments through the ACH network.
• Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams using UML & Visio Document any areas of provided source code that could not be analyzed
• Worked with a cross functional and diverse team of business users and developers to enable accurate communication of requirements and ensure consensus.
• Document any areas of provided source code that could not be analyzed.
• Checking the applications to find out the interfaces.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of assigned job ensuring quality.
• Coordination with Team members.
• Interacting with the onsite counterpart.
• Preparation and execution of test cases based on the Requirement Specifications for Regression, Functional testing.
• Reviewing components that are to be delivered to the client.
• Generating client reports.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, Change Man, MVS and File Aid.

Confidential

Programmer

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed project plan to gather the business requirements and prepared Detail Design document from the requirement specification.
• Resolving defect within stipulated time.
• Coding, testing, Documentation and implementation of complex software modules.
• Resolving the abends in time.
• Working on performance improvement initiatives
• Identifying and fixing the bugs and maintain software application quality.
• Providing support during the go live of the project.
• Fixing the issues during the production.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File Aid, MVS, CICS.