SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience in various mainframe technologies and tools.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and worked on all major aspects of SDLC.
• Proficient in Waterfall methodology of Software development.
• Performing activities like Planning, Estimation, Tracking, Monitoring the project.
• Extensive work experience in COBOL, PL/1, CICS, DB2,VSAM and JCL.
• Extensive work experience in developing real time CICS applications.
• Sound knowledge of mainframe related tools like SPUFI, Changeman, Endevor, SCLM, File - Master, File-aid, Xpeditor, InterTest, Eazytrieve, ISPF, ABENDAID, JSCAN, PLATINUM, Syncsort, CEDF, CEMT etc.
• Knowledge in IMS-DB.
• Excellent in understanding the business requirements and acted as Technical Analyst to convert the business requirements into detailed system requirements.
• Participate in defect prevention activities like root cause analysis.
• Experienced in designing and developing banking and insurance applications using Mainframe technologies.
• Very strong analytical skills and thrives to deliver quality software components. Very eager to learn new skills.
• Aggressive task approach, productive, work well independently, assist the team in achieving organizational and customer goals.
• Flexible and adaptable across multiple development technologies and methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements from business users and attending business requirement walkthrough meetings.
• Acts as a technical analyst to create detailed system requirements based on the business requirements. Communicates extensively with the business analysts to understand the business needs and converts them into system requirements.
• Involved in the coordination of all phases of software development. Involved right from the requirement gathering of a project thru the technical design, coding, testing and till the implementation and implementation support.
• Responsible for resolving the defects during the Quality Assurance (QA) testing by interacting with QA testing team and development team.
• Implemented complex projects successfully by interacting with different infrastructure teams like DBA, CICS management team and Configuration management.
• Developed complex and user friendly CICS interfaces for processing and user maintenance.
• Created CICS programs which interact with messaging services like WebSphere MQ and TSQ.
• Received accolades from the client and was rated 10/10 on customer satisfaction.

Environment: z/OS,TSO/ISPF,COBOL,CICS,JCL,DB2,VSAM, QMF, SPUFI, Confidential File Manager, Intertest, JCL Utilities, Endevor, ALM defect management, CA-7i.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering business requirements from business users and attending business requirement walkthrough meetings.
• Acts as a technical analyst to create detailed system requirements based on the business requirements. Communicates extensively with the business analysts to understand the business needs and converts them into system requirements.
• Involved in the coordination of all phases of software development. Involved right from the requirement gathering of a project thru the technical design, coding, testing and till the implementation and implementation support.
• Responsible for resolving the defects during the Quality Assurance (QA) testing by interacting with QA testing team and development team.
• Implemented complex projects successfully by interacting with different infrastructure teams like DBA, CICS management team and Configuration management.
• Developed complex and user friendly CICS interfaces for processing and user maintenance.
• Created CICS programs which interact with messaging services like WebSphere MQ and TSQ.
• Received accolades from the both the client and the Virtusa management on the hardwork implemented.
• Was honored with GEM for the commitment shown.

Environment: z/OS,TSO/ISPF,PL/1,COBOL,CICS,JCL,DB2,VSAM,File Aid,, VSAM, Xpediter (Online and Batch), QMF, SPUFI, Abend Aid, CICS Screen Definition Facility (SDF), JCL Utilities, Changeman, ALM defect management, CA-7

Confidential

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as offshore team member and responsible for requirement analysis, impact analysis when required, technical design, coding and unit testing.
• Very efficient in doing the requirement analysis and creating technical design documents. Developed quality software components with very little defects.
• Created Unit test plans and Unit test results. Created quality unit test plans by mapping with the business requirements which helped in developing quality software components and reducing defects.
• Very quickly identified the root cause for the production issues and provided the fixes.
• Automated lot of processes which required manual intervention.
• Developed extensive understanding of the system and helped newcomers in understanding the system.
• Developed complex COBOL batch programs and implemented them using Job Control Language (JCL)
• Developed complex and user friendly CICS interfaces for processing and user maintenance.
• Created CICS programs which interact with messaging services like WebSphere MQ and TSQ.
• Extensively used tools like xpediter to interactively analyze the programs and debug the issues.
• Documented the functionalities of the complex projects with flow diagrams and functional specifications.
• Vital individual contributor for the team and was available for the team in crunch situations

Environment: z/OS,TSO/ISPF,COBOL,CICS,JCL,DB2,VSAM,File Aid VSAM, SPUFI, Abend Aid, CICS Screen Definition Facility (SDF), JCL Utilities, Changeman

Confidential

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as offshore team member and responsible for requirement analysis, impact analysis when required, technical design, coding and unit testing.
• Very efficient in doing the requirement analysis and creating technical design documents. Developed quality software components with very little defects.
• Created Unit test plans and Unit test results. Created quality unit test plans by mapping with the business requirements which helped in developing quality software components and reducing defects.
• Received Spot for the individual effort shown in the success of the project of De Goudse.

Environment: z/OS,TSO/ISPF,COBOL,CICS,JCL,DB2,VSAM,File Aid, SPUFI, Abend Aid, CICS Screen Definition Facility (SDF), JCL Utilities, Changeman