Summary of Experience:

• 6.9years of IT experience in analyzing, designing, developing,System Testing, Integration Testing, Implementation,Support and Documentation, conversion and maintaining Enterprise Software Development in various domains like Insurance andManufacturing.
• Dedicated service oriented professional with experienced in the IT industry with UNIX, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, CICS Transaction Server, Unix Scripting, DB2, SQL, IDMS,IBM mainframe utilities, Sybase as primary skills.
• Extensive exposure to handling of Development, Maintenance, Migration and Conversion projects.
• Expertise in the full cycle of software development including Requirements Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, Maintenance and Documentation with Strong programming skills with and Sound analytical and problem solving skills.
• Have Coding Experience on SAP ABAP and functional knowledge on SAP Sales and Distribution module.
• Have knowledge on Cordys Middleware dashboard.
• Experience as a 24x7 Production support in Mainframe and UNIX environments.
• Worked on CICS, File-Aid, Control-M and other upgrade activities.
• Good user communication ability and debugging skills with a good exposure to the ISO 9001, SEI CMMI Level5 quality standards.
• Worked extensively with the onsite offshore model and highly successful in developing synergistic relationships to bring projects to completion on time and within budget.
• Good team player with excellent inter-personal communication, leadership, training and multi-tasking skills and ability to maintain professional demeanor in high-stress situations.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Languages: VS COBOL, MICRO FOCUS COBOL, JCL, MQ SERIES,UNIX, SQL, C.

Database: DB2, IDMS and SYBASE.

OLTP:CICS and CICS Transaction Server.

Utilities: IBM Utilities, ISPF/PDF, TSO/ISPF, BMS MAPS, DCLGEN, Super C,

SDSF,IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SYNCSORT, FTP, FILEAID, ABENDAID,Dump Master,

PUTTY, GSOAP, XML GENERATOR, EXPEDITOR, INTERTEST.

Access Methods: VSAM

File Organization: GDG, PS, PDS

Scheduler: CONTROL-M

Debugging Tools: XPEDDITER

DB2 Tools: QMF, SPUFI, SQL ADVANTAGE

Operating Systems: ZOS, OS/390, MVS, WINDOWS NT, WINDOWS XP/ME/98/95

Version Control Tools: ENDEVOR

Defect/Time Tracking Tools: SOLOMON, QUALITYCENTER QC

Email: OUTLOOK, LOTUSNOTES

Doc/Office Utilities: MS OFFICE, MS VISIO, MS PROJECT, MS Access 2003and MS Excel

Hardware: IBM-3090, IBM ES-9000, IBM COMPATIBLES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Environment:OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2,Sybase, Unix, SPUFI, MS-Office, Endevor, File-aid, DB2 File aid, Expeditor, SYNCSORT, IEBGENER and IDCAMS UTILITIES, GSOAP, SOAPUI, LOTUS NOTES, STORED PROCEDURES, IDMS, MQ SERIES.

Responsibilities:

• Research, design, install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade hardware and software interfaces with the operating system. Analyze and evaluate present or proposed business procedures or problems to define data processing needs.
• Design, program, and implement software application packages customized to meet specific client needs.
• Review existing computer systems to determine compatibility with projected or identified client needs. Research and select appropriate systems, including ensuring forward compatibility.
• Analyze the communication, informational, database, and programming requirements of clients. Plan, develop, design, test, and implement software
• Programs for software application and highly sophisticated network systems.
• Review, repair, and modify, software programs to ensure technical accuracy and reliability of the program.
• Test and implement the system to provide analytical support to monitor operation of assigned application systems
• Review the client's complex specifications to identify problems in the systems package for systems development that require revision of project scope and operational strategies.
• Assisting as part of the team to resolve technical problems and issues for the Client's applications.
• Preparing detailed flow charts and diagrams outlining systems capabilities and processes.
• Developed new programs using Cobol/DB2/Sybase that generates XMLs and interact with webservices using GSOAP utility.
• Developed many programs batch online using COBOL II, DB2, IDMS, SYNCSORT Expiditor.
• Modified existing back ground programs that require MQ as middleware messaging between java programs and COBOL programs as per the requirements.
• Prepared the test cases and test plans using SOLMON for user testing, system, integration testing and User Acceptance Testing Executed Test Cases and cross verifying the results using SPUFI, QMF, POWERBUILDER, SQLADVANTAGE and recording the results in SOLMON.
• Prepared the test data for various testing needs.

Confidential

Senior ProgrammerProject

Environment:

OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SPUFI, MS-Office, Endevor, File-aid, DB2 File aid, Expeditor, IEBGENER and IDCAMS Utilities.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements gathering from business and defining specifications for the system.
• Making code changes to fine tuning the programs that take more CPU time for execution.
• Preparing test results and test documents.
• Coordination with offshore team and Business Analyst for requirement clarification.
• Support during UAT testing.
• Developed new COBOL Batch and changed existing ones as per requirements to identify areas of fine tuning.
• Used different Quality Assurance techniques to meet with the standards and to sync up with the other subsystems
• Used SPUFI, QMF and File-AID to query the DB2 database.
• Prepared the documentation like FD Functional Design , BR Business Requirements as part of the development.
• Involved in systems testing and support to monitor the cycle operations and verify the reports.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Project

Environment :OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SPUFI, MS-Office, Endevor, File-aid, DB2 File aid, Expeditor, Alchemist, IEBGENER and IDCAMS Utilities.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development activities such as compiling the programs, writing one off jobs, running queries and documentation.
• Attended the KAP session for the IMAGE application provided by TCS in TCS office.
• Used SPUFI, QMF and FILEAID as testing tools and for data manipulation and Data cleansing.
• Provided value-add proactively to the clients by understanding the application.
• Gave client presentations on the applications that I have undergone in KAP.
• Extensively worked with QMF to check and validate the data for programming needs and maintenance issues.
• Prepared the test scripts for Unit Testing and Systems Testing and involved in execution of them and prepared the test results.
• Prepared the documentation like FD Functional Design , BR Business Requirements as part of the development and STR State Task Request .
• Developed new programs using Cobol/DB2.
• Design and develop the business rules, specs and make sure to follow the standards as per AVIVA guidelines.
• Involved in Systems testing and support to monitor the cycle operations and verify the reports.

Confidential

ProgrammerProject

Environment:OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IDMS, CICS, SPUFI, MS-Office, Endevor, File-aid, DB2 File aid, Expeditor, IEBGENER and IDCAMS Utilities.

Responsibilities:

• Interpreted the requirements of business into design solutions.
• Enhancements of the existing batch and online programs according to the client's new requirements
• Review and lead team members and implement the code changes
• Prepared unit test plans, system test plan
• Carried out unit testing, system testing and intersystem testing thoroughly and compare with the expected results.
• Developed programs in COBOL/JCL for mainframe applications using DB2 and IDMS.
• Debugging programs to fix the issues.
• Develop new programs to generate reports as per the Business partner's requests
• Involved in Business Analysis, Estimation and Systems Planning.
• Involved in Understanding Business Requirements and developing the Technical Specifications and High Level Design Documents HLD .
• Coordinating with Business Analysts, Testers and Subject Matter Experts.
• Developed batch and online programming COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Control Cards, IDMS as per ISO standards and also prepared the documentation up-to-date using MS-Office and MS-EXCEL.
• Prepared test scripts, plans and involved in Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing and fixed identified issues as part of UAT using File-Aid, COBOL, JCL, Xpeditor,Intertest, QMF, SPUFI and CICS verified the test data using random spot checking.
• Played a developer and coordinated with Team members at offshore and onsite.
• Review the modifications made to the code and the test documents to ensure quality.
• Responsible for all batch and online related issues.
• Maintaining application and technical support and documentation.
• Investigation and analysis of operational defects, Emergency operational defect fixes and Testing of operational defect fixes and Delivering operational defect fixes.
• 24X7 Production Support through a combination of on-site, offshore and on-call support
• Routine maintenance, such as execution/monitoring/review, as needed, of batch processing related to supported applications and Implementation of Quality System Procedures.
• Issue log maintained to track the Issues/Queries/Clarifications for each of the project

Confidential

Day to Day Activities:

• Interacting with clients for requirements understanding and status updating.
• Coding, Unit and System testing the programs that are developed or changed in respective regions.
• Preparing test plan, test cases for all the testing done like Unit testing, System testing.
• Fixing the bugs if reported by clients.
• Implementation of the programs developed.
• Scheduling the jobs as per requirement.
• Warranty support Post Implementation .
• Documentation.