SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in the IT industry in the areas of Analysis, Coding, Designing, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance using various software skills in Mainframes technologies and regular Office management tools, in different Operating systems like MVS, Windows.
• Around 6 Years of experience on Insurance Domain.
• Functional Expertise in Development of components skills applied to programming, analyzing and understanding the Projects
• Assignments cover a wide range of areas in the Mainframes and mainly include working in Application Solutions & Maintenance, System Integration and Migration Project. Worked in India, United States.
• Extensive expertise in Analysis, High Level and Detailed Design, Development and Deployment of applications using mainframe software like zOS, COBOL, PL/I, JCL, SQL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM and MQ Series.
• Well - versed Tools like IBM Rational Developer, File-DB2, Revision Management System and SPUFI.
• Given solutions for complex technical challenges, proposed and designed major performance improvement initiatives and developed many complex tools.
• Debugging batch and online programs using EXPEDITER tool.
• Have good and proven experience in mentoring, guiding and grooming of team. Also have good interpersonal, logical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Worked in SDLC and Agile methodologies.
• Provided 24/7 Production Support to Mainframe System, which includes support during night batch run, providing temporary fix to JCL’s during batch abends to avoid delay
• Worked for wide range of Projects - Development, Migration, Maintenance, and Testing.
• Experience in designing Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Manual Test Cases and UAT Design Documents.
• Have played various roles - Offshore Lead, Sr. Software Programmer and Onsite Coordinator.
• Have good and proven experience in mentoring, guiding and grooming of team. Also have good interpersonal, logical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Solution Environment: Mainframes

Languages: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, SAS, SQL, CICS

Database: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, MS Access

Modules worked: ISPF, TSO

Tools: APP TUNE, Expeditor, MQ Series, HP Service Manager, FMDB2, BMC DB2, DUG, Lotus Notes 8.5, Revision Management System, IBM Rational Developer, File manager, IBM Data Studio, Control M, MS Office, IBM RDz(Rational Developer) and SPUFI

Utilities: IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, ICETOOL, SYNCSORT and IDCAMS

Operating Systems: Windows and MVS

Other: Insurance domain knowledge, Familiar with C, C ++, Visual Basic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Confidential, MI

Responsibilities:

• Attending Clients Business Meeting, understand requirements and writing program specifications.
• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized and documented source code.
• Contribute to technical design documentation.
• Understand and analyze the Application Architecture for which the functional and performance testing need to be done.
• Develop process to dump IMS DB segments, convert to DB2, and load to new DB2 format.
• Document and maintain software functionality.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert.
• Participated in Unit Testing and prepared Unit Test Cases, Unit Test Logs as a part of it.
• Status Reporting.
• Comply with project plans and industry standards.

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Confidential, Quincy, Massachusetts

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirements and writing program specifications.
• Preparing High level Detailed Design business requirements.
• Developed Mapping Document between business requirements to Technical Specification.
• Coded Programs for the Enhancement projects that come from clients using COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, and JCL.
• As an agile team member, should maintain co-ordination between Product Owner and SQA team.
• Coordinate work with Offshore Team and ensure deliveries on time.
• Participated in Unit Testing and prepared Unit Test Cases, Unit Test Logs as a part of it.
• Status Reporting
• Creation and Execution of unit test cases. Defect Management

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attending Clients Business Meetings.
• Understanding requirements and writing program specifications.
• Strong experience in Mainframe Batch Cycles Processing.
• Understand and analyze the Application Architecture for which the functional and performance testing need to be done.
• Responsible for daily verification that all JOB’s ran and files copies were executed as planned, troubleshooting any steps that failed, and providing both immediate and long-term problem resolution.
• Coordinate work with Offshore Team and ensure deliveries on time.
• Root cause analysis of system test and production abends.
• Used Control M tool for scheduling jobs
• Participated in Unit Testing and prepared Unit Test Cases, Unit Test Logs as a part of it.
• Status Reporting
• Perform SQL Tuning with IBM Data Studio on consultation with DBAs
• Defect Management

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for Project at offshore and managed Host Development and Test deliverables.
• Prepared component specifications for new components.
• Created IUXD and retrieval DB2 Stored Procedures for movement of data.
• Used Control M tool for scheduling jobs
• SQL optimizations through IBM Optimum query tuner
• Coded Programs for the projects that come from clients using COBOL, DB2,VSAM, JCL
• Worked with Web development and ensured web application is delivered with high standards.
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project

Senior Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Single point of contact for Project at offshore and managed Host Development and Test deliverables.
• Develop Technical Solutions to Integrate Host with Web application.
• Lead team of Host developers at Offshore
• Worked on XML generation and developed Patch up jobs for SQL generation to fix the mismatched records during Regression testing.
• Study and Analyze the Application Architecture for which the functional and performance testing need to be done.
• Providing ad-hoc reporting and decision support required for management decision process.

Mainframe Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identifying test case scenarios for Party Associate related components.
• Preparation and execution of the Test Cases as per the Test Strategy.
• Create and maintain test data.
• Test result evaluation, documentation and reporting.
• Support the UAT Issues.
• Preparation of Unit Test Cases, Unit Testing and Integration Testing.
• Testing Status reporting.
• Data will be fetched from mainframe using COBOL and formatted using SORT. After doing required formatting, the generated reports.
• Involved in Regression Testing of Party Associate components.
• Executing the Host test cases and validating the results.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creation of SAS code in JCL based on the type of the tables.
• Involved in coding reusable code which involves extraction of data from various table and insertion into Single table.
• Attending onsite calls.
• Used Control M tool for scheduling jobs
• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handling Daily Service Tickets for maintaining the database.
• Tracking all the production related incidents via HPSM and provide regular updates within defined SLA’s.
• Develop solution, conduct testing and perform analysis of the specifications as provided by the users or clients.
• Conversion of the SAMS System from IMS DB to DB2
• Monitoring the daily update services updating the database.
• Worked on performance tuning of SQL’s for the ad-hoc SQL’s and for DB2 modules to improve the overall performance of the jobs and cost effective of the SQL’s.
• Worked on development of Daily batch jobs to generate report on daily/monthly/annual basis.
• Redesigning existing process according to business necessities.
• Analyzing problem tickets, tasks, request of the business partner and fixing the code, generating SQLs using Patch up jobs.