SUMMARY

• I have 17 + years of experience carrying out teh project responsibilities in mainframe technology.
• Having solid record of meeting business needs by analyzing impact, developing functional design, writing program specification, estimating time for teh requirements, coding, creating and implementing test plan and writing appropriate documentation.
• Being involved in all phases of SDLC and I have handled complex projects in Insurance and banking domain.
• Experienced in Gathering teh requirements and Designing teh functional document and building new COBOL, DB2 and IMS programs.
• Experienced in working on payroll systems and Compensation payments to Agents wif 8 years of experience working on financial systems in Insurance & banking domain in Mainframe environment.
• Experienced in working in multiple LPARs and worked through CICS High availability project making applications available across different LPARs and regions.
• Having knowledge in Production support, batch processing in CA7 & ESP scheduler.
• Able to analyze problems and resolve them wif teh least amount of disruption to teh existing system by making use of debugging tools like Expeditor.
• Good technical knowledge in developing new applications, as well as enhance current systems.
• Experience in importing and exporting Terabytes of data in to HDFS and using HiveQL for querying and analyzing teh data.
• Delivered multiple projects meeting client requirements by serving as Module lead and as a single point of contact.
• Having knowledge in CICS systems and definitions by making transactions and system highly available 24/7.
• Strong ability in communicating wif other application Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• Stronganalytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills
• Very good exposure to all Quality procedures complying wif ISO 9002 standards and CMM - Level 5.
• Team player wif good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint (Charts, tables, graphs).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: PeopleSoft HCM/FSCM/ELM/EPM. PeopleTools 8.4x and 8.5x

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, REXX, CICS, Quick Job, Easytrieve, Linux Shell scripts.

Databases: DB2, IMS DB.

Tools: & Technologies:, Expeditor, File-aid, File-aid IMS, Panvalet, Ellipse, FAM, WAM, JSP, Dictionary, Platinum, CSL, Infopac, CA7 Scheduler, Control-M, Document Direct, CMOD, Changeman, ESP Scheduler, Active Archive, Dbeaver, REXX.

Hadoop Ecosystem: Hadoop Map Reduce, HDFS, Sqoop, HiveQL, HBase, Pig, Flume, Spark.

Cluster Management and Monitoring: Cloudera Manager, Ambari.

Operating systems: Linux, Windows98/NT, OS/2, MVS,Z/OS

File system: VSAM, IAM, Structured Files in Hadoop

Utilities: Putty, Beeline, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Senior Mainframe/Cobol Developer/Production Support Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, ESP, CHANGEMAN, REXX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in teh production support to monitor daily batch cycle and to handle different incidents.
• Performing Agile by individual sprint user stories and tasks using JIRA as Agile management tool and participating in Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Release Planning meetings.
• Analysing teh business requirements and functionalities in current application for reading project configuration data and test data.
• Developing REXX tools for teh initial analysis of teh applications.
• Online VSAM files of 25 applications are converted to RLS. And teh build activity is carried out to handle teh affinity dat are being caused by CICS resources across LPARs.
• Responsible for changing CICS programs to handle teh TSQs and various possible affinity causing scenarios across applications.
• Applications are made highly available such dat teh CICS transactions dat are hit are routed to any available LPARs and CICS regions.
• Transactions are keyed in from five terminal CICS regions wif a load test making around 950 users keying teh transaction to analyse on teh performance once after teh conversion to RLS.
• UAT testing is carried out by bringing down teh regions and LPARs when User hits teh transactions.
• Fixing teh defects raised in teh SIT and UAT testing.
• Involved in teh project planning and providing teh timelines to remove teh affinity for a particular application after teh initial dependency analysis.
• Design, development, and upgrade of customized PeopleSoft applications.
• Involved in writing COBOL modules for loading General Ledger, Purchasing data into PeopleSoft tables from legacy system.
• Executed GL Allocations process via Mainframe JCL batch programs.
• Customized POPO005.sqr to add teh sales tax and item tax for each item in teh PO report printouts.
• Worked in Agile environment giving teh development team valuable feedback in SPRINT planning meetings, backlog grooming for teh next build and time estimates for all tasks.
• Implement short sprint cycles of agile method of Testing, including teh need for fast feedback, high visibility, and alignment wif customer need.
• Used TSO Mainview and SQL Explain in a fast-paced environment to monitor teh system.
• Analyzed teh Batch Jobs time frame and looked for teh feasible changes which can facilitate in meeting teh SLA requirements.
• Participate in teh testing process through test review and analysis.
• Work wif business to prioritize production issue resolution.
• Provide support and leadership in critical production support issue resolution.
• Mentor junior developers/interns, leading small teams of developers on projects.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, ESP, CHANGEMAN, REXX, PeopleSoft FSCM (PO, GL, AP), People Tools, Application Designer, Application Engine, Component Interface, BI Publisher, SQR Reports, Crystal Reports, PS Queries, PL/SQL, COBOL, PL/1, JCL, BMC DB2

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer/Production Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering business requirements in applying teh logics on teh data dat is to be migrated to hadoop.
• Involved in teh development and configuration of tool and their business logics.
• Developing COBOL programs to handle teh Claims present in teh yearly Tape datasets and VSAM files. Analysing teh performance of teh code due to huge counts of data present in Archived claim tapes.
• Coordinating wif teh other interfacing teams for system and performance testing.
• This project involves teh structured data wif teh mainframe files and other legacy system files dat accounts to 3TB of data which is one time migration of both and Active and archived claims.
• Number of nodes used is of 32 data nodes. Responsible for loading teh data and applying teh business logics such dat making teh data available to teh downstream frontend systems.
• Using HiveQL teh data are being stored in hive tables and partitioning of tables are done by State and region in order to have easy access for teh downstream systems.
• Responsible for migrating teh tables to Prod clusters using Distcp and validating thereby making sure of teh consistency and volume of data.
• HiveQL and pig scripts are used on top of HDFS clusters to get teh Claim details and their purge information.
• Supported critical applications by doing production support and maintenance of ongoing production and process issues.
• Used Apptune and Mainview to know teh Production Job Abends and worked on fixing teh errors and resubmitting teh JCL.
• Developed numerous SQR and JCL programs to automate Pay Cycle and other PeopleSoft processes on DB2/MVS.
• Wrote and executed UNIX shell scripts to FTP teh vendor flat files to teh remote shared drives external to teh client data servers.
• Created and modified batch schedule Jobs on UNIX box and to create and save teh FTP files in backup folders.
• Extensively worked Vendor Remittances and wrote program to send Electronic Vendor Remittances using People Code, SQR and UNIX Shell Script.
• Created interface program using People Code for Aged Vendor Liability wif many sorting criteria’s and wrote PS Query and did Crystal report for teh same.
• Wrote Voucher/Payment Posting reconciliation program to keep track of Postings.
• Created Payment and Voucher Inquiry pages based on Business requirement.
• Customized teh GL JEDIT process to allow more than 9999 records to be processed at one time.
• Involved in System integration testing and performance testing of teh data in order to migrate and query huge load of data.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, Changeman, FileManager, ESP Scheduler, DB2, Linux, Active Archive, DBeaver, Beeline, Putty, HDFS, Hive QL, Pig.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer/Production Support Analyst

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, VSAM, File Aid ims, Quikjob, Ellipse, Expeditor

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing on teh possibility and impact of introduction of new tax benefit treatment in teh existing agent payroll programs in our application.
• Gathering teh requirements from teh business clients and breaking teh high level requirements to lower level one for development.
• Responsible for creating teh design for teh changes in Cobol IMS programs which involves calculation of recovery processing and earnings. Also responsible for teh design for changes in recovery reports and commission statement.
• Since this project also involved IMS PSB layout changes in Master Agent database in order to assist to teh calculation involved in teh coding. Responsible for coordinating wif teh DBA and analysing teh impact on recompiling teh existing IMS programs.
• Responsible for coding changes involves complex calculations in 20 impacted modules and 10 modules in Commission processing and GDC calculations.
• Responsible for Coordinating wif teh other external application teams including PeopleSoft for teh interface changes since this project involves interfacing file changes across all admins. Dealt wif 13 admin systems and 63 interfacing feeds and its changes.
• Responsible for creating project and Unit test plan for teh project and being as teh point of contact for this entire project to teh AXA clients.
• Also involved in coding some complex programs in order to assist wif teh offshore for project deliveries.
• Coordinate wif team to run multiple QA and UAT test cycles and coordinating wif business for their signoff.
• Analysing and fixing teh QA and UAT defects and troubleshooting teh programs by teh help of debugger tools like Expeditor.
• Preparing deployment checklist and implementation plan to meet teh deadline of teh project.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer/Production Support Consultant

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, File Aid, Quikjob, Ellipse, CA7 Scheduling

Responsibilities:

• Analysing teh total impacted components in our Legacy compensation system.
• Around 85 JCLs and 120 Proc are totally impacted which is to be replaced wif our own routine.
• Responsible for Coordinating wif teh other external application teams for their interface balancing and Status calls wif teh Client.
• Responsible for creating project and test plan for teh project.
• Developing new prototype and building up teh logic for teh replacement routine
• Developing teh Unit test cases and Test and project plan.
• Monitoring teh Testing activities and suitable Code and Testing documents review
• Configuring new Jobs required for this project and Job scheduling activities in CA7 scheduler.
• Analysing teh impact of newly created routines such dat existing business functions are not affected.
• Responsible in teh release activities for these numerous components.
• Analysing and fixing teh QA defects and Troubleshooting teh balancing counts
• Coordinate wif team to run multiple QA and UAT test cycles and coordinating wif business for their signoff.
• Preparing deployment checklist.
• Monitoring and validating teh results in teh production such dat our balancing counts are in Sync wif teh actual balancing Infogix proc.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS, VSAM, File Aid, Quikjob, Ellipse, CA7 Scheduling

Responsibilities:

• Gathering teh suitable requirement from Client by having multiple meetings and designing teh Technical document for teh project.
• Providing teh Estimation to teh Client based on teh efforts needed for teh project.
• Responsible for developing new programs and analysis on existing programs in teh system to enhance teh programs wif adequate changes.
• Handling teh Offshore team as technical lead and managing teh deliveries.
• Developing new Test plan and reviewing teh Testing documents.
• Monitoring teh Testing activities and suitable Code and Testing documents review
• Configuring new Jobs required for this project and Job scheduling in CA7 scheduler.
• Developing teh JCLs to accommodate teh output reports being sent to CMOD.
• Testing and pushing teh reports to CMOD UAT region.
• Analysing and fixing teh QA defects and Troubleshooting using Expeditor.
• Coordinate wif team to run multiple QA and UAT test cycles and coordinating wif business for their signoff.
• Preparation deployment checklist.
• Verifying teh Batch jobs dat run in production and teh tables in IMS are populated correctly and is accurate.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Quikjob, IMS, Expeditor, File Aid, IMS File aid.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis of teh existing system and feasibility study to undergo code changes.
• Identifying teh appropriate COBOL programs in teh system to make teh changes.
• Involved in developing teh code and making enhancements to teh existing COBOL programs to have teh new Term product to get fit in to teh system.
• Coordinating teh team as technical lead and managing teh outputs.
• Developing new Unit test plan and reviewing teh Testing documents.
• Running multiple testing QA and UAT cycles for teh changes and sharing it to teh business.
• Developing Quick jobs in teh JCL required for teh project.
• Pushing teh output reports to CMOD region.
• Coordinating wif teh Release management to deploy teh project.
• Provide post implementation support and validating teh results after teh deployment.
• Analysis of teh number of impacted COBOL program, Quick jobs, PERM files and VSAM clusters.
• IMS database PSBs was not involved in teh change instead teh 7 digit agent code is compressed wif COMP-3 and be moved to IMS database to fit into existing 6 digit code.
• Involved in teh changes in teh IMS programs to handle teh above conversion.
• Also involved in teh normal Cobol program changes and Unit testing teh changes
• Running multiple Regression testing for teh changes and sharing it to teh business.
• Testing for teh impacts on CMOD reports on teh change of agent code length.
• Coordinating wif multiple system to have teh testing carried out after teh changes.
• Coordinating wif teh Release management to deploy teh project.
• Provide post implementation support and validating teh results after teh deployment for few weeks.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Mainframe Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, IMS, JCL, JSP, Panvalet, WAM, File Aid, FAM, Expeditor, DICT, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Performed as a Module lead for this project in offshore and provided results to my onsite counterpart.
• Understanding teh requirements from teh client by attending meetings.
• Analysing and building teh Technical design document.
• Coding various modules of teh project in COBOL and IMS
• Developing JCLs to accommodate output reports to be pushed to CMOD server.
• Integrating all programs and writing Test scenarios for it.
• QA defect fixing and conducting Code review
• Preparing Deployment Checklist for teh successful migration of teh code to production region.
• Support batch run for testing teh project.

Confidential, New York, NY

Environment: COBOL, CICS, IMS, DB2, JCL, JSP, Panvalet, WAM, CCS, CSL, File Aid, FAM, Expeditor, DICT, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Analysing and understanding teh technical design document.
• Study and understanding teh existing application to engineer teh business requirement.
• Developing teh new code and making teh appropriate teh code change in COBOL, DB2.
• Changing teh CICS Cobol programs by adding teh field areas in teh CICS online screens.
• Creating teh Unit test cases and Unit test results for teh code changes done.
• Integration of all programs and JCL setups.
• Coordinate wif testing team to carry out testing batch runs and sharing teh test outputs.
• Deployment checklist preparation and support for teh production live runs.
• Addressing and solving teh incident if any.