Experience Summary

• 11 years of IT experience in mainframe design, development, testing and maintenance.
• 4 years of experience as Project Manager handling different Banking Finance and Telecom Projects
• Good experience in application development as well as production support of more than 8 years.
• More than 7 years of experience in requirement gathering, Creating Technical requirement, High Level design and Low Level design.
• Worked functionally very close with business team and development team. Played role similar to Business analyst. Created many technical as well as database ER diagrams using VISIO and other Microsoft tools.
• Excellent skills in working on Batch and Online application development and Production Support.
• Worked on defect fixing, defect tracking with tools like Quality center, Vantive, Zira.
• Also involved in project initiation, execution and implementation encompassing activities that include requirements definition, prototyping, and proof of concept.
• An accomplished software professional with experience in IBM Mainframes and exposure to different open system technologies.
• Good experience in Risk management, Incident Management, Configuration management etc.
• 3 Yrs onsite experience in various roles as Project Lead, Technical Lead, and Onsite Coordinator.
• Good experience in Banking and Financial Services industry in different lines of business Credit Cards, Wealth management,Investment Banking and Core Banking and currently in insurance domain.
• 5 years of experience in different areas of Telecom domain.
• Good Technical, Analytical and Management skills.
• Excellent planning, scoping, scheduling, budgeting, and delivery skills
• Solid team empowerment, motivation, and leadership skills
• Strong documentation and reporting skills
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and interaction abilities
• Coordinating with the multiple Application teams - clients / onsite / offshore team for gathering requirements, status updates and issue handling.
• Worked on multiple SDLC methodologies.

Skills Summary

• Working currently in Xchanging Solutions as Senior Programmer Analyst.
• Close to 3 years of work experience in Cognizant Technology Solutions.
• 9 years of working experience on Mainframe Technology.
• 5 years of working experience as Project Lead.
• 7 years of experience in Requirement gathering, Design and Project execution for applications using Mainframe technology and toolsets
• Strong Team Lead with excellent inter-personal, written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to adopt in demanding, fast-paced environments requiring highly adaptive, flexible and resourceful technical management skills.
• Ability to meet deadlines with no compromise on the quality of the work product.

Role and Responsibilities

• Analysis as per the requirement for new URS system.
• Coding and unit testing for modules.
• Production support for NHUIS nightly batch schedules and to provide quick fixes and recoveries forbatch program failures in production environment..
• Assistance to business users for successful completion of user acceptance testing for different system changes.
• Review of the program changes to ensure that they meet the requirements and standards.

Role and Responsibilities

• Business requirement gathering and preparing design documents.
• Analysis, coding and unit testing for different user raised defects and issues in the NHUIS batch system.
• Production support for NHUIS nightly batch schedules and to provide quick fixes and recoveries forbatch program failures in production environment. Technical assistance to other team members with development of complex business logic using oracle PL/SQL and required database changes.
• Assistance to business users for successful completion of user acceptance testing for different system changes.
• Review of the program changes to ensure that they meet the requirements and standards.

Role and Responsibilities

• Involved in all the project management activities.
• Providing Production support 24x7.
• Defect fixing, tracking the defects. Incident resolutions.
• Creating RFP for new projects.
• Creating Design document.
• Managing Team of 7 resources. Involved technically also in the project.
• Involved in design, coding, testing, review and deployment process.
• Managing the fixed bid and T M projects.
• Project and Resource planning, budgeting.
• Timesheet approvals and involved in the quality processes involved in the project.
• SOW creation and cost estimation, forecasting the fixed bid and T M projects.
• Project estimation for the ongoing and new projects.
• Invoicing of fixed bid and T M projects.
• Client Management for the projects.
• Mentoring resources under the team

Role and Responsibilities

• Managing Team of 20 resources.
• Maintaining Quality Processes for the Project
• Involved in all the project management activities.
• Project and Resource planning, budgeting.
• Timesheet approvals and involved in the quality processes involved in the project.
• SOW creation and cost estimation, forecasting the fixed bid and T M projects.
• Project estimation for the ongoing and new projects.
• Invoicing of fixed bid and T M projects.
• Client Management for the projects.
• Mentoring resources under the team
• Communication with client for the status of deliverables
• Review of code, test cases, test results
• Tracking of on-time deliveries.
• Mentoring resources under the team
• Knowledge Transfer between application teams for effective utilization.
• Participate in Quality processes
• Functional and Verification Testing FVT , System Testing ST .
• Bug fixing and retesting

Roles/Responsibilities:

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing Team to deliver the project on time, On budget.
• Co-ordination with onsite Cognizant and UBS team for day to day tasks.
• Project Management involved, managing the team, Risk management, Incident management, Problem management etc.
• Conduct effort estimation and schedule estimation for different tasks.
• Performing requirement analysis, design, code reviews, testing and implementation activities.
• Documentation of processes
• Status Reporting to senior management and business partners
• Raise and escalate project issues and risks
• Prepare weekly status reports
• Quality data tracking and matrix preparation
• Monitor and track project deliverables in timely fashion
• Day to day project management activities

Roles/Responsibilities:

As a Technical Lead

Responsibilities

• Preparing high level and low level designs
• Tracking of on-time deliveries.
• Mentoring team technically and functionally
• Performing Peer Review
• Knowledge Transfer between application teams for effective utilization.
• Attending daily status calls with client and senior management.
• Understanding of Initial Requirement Documents, Initial Analysis of project and Enhancements.
• Coordinating work with onshore team
• Client meetings for technical/functional discussions and Suggestion in design changes.
• Task allocation to the team
• Resolving queries of team members, Issue resolving.
• Management activities like Weekly status report WSR preparation.