SUMMARY:

• Proficient in Mainframe Applications with 10 years of work experience in multiple full life cycles projects including Requirement Analysis, Detailed Design, Build/Development of code, Unit/System testing, Implementation, Defect Fixing and maintenance as well as Application Support.
• Excellent working knowledge in Banking and financial Domain.
• Dynamic self - starter with exceptional knowledge on business processes of Tax Lot System, Gain/Loss information for Tax reporting, Real Time Tax Lot data for Merrill Edge, My Merrill and Portfolio+.
• Exceptional Knowledge in the Area of Corporate Actions, Wash Sale, Mutual fund Average cost Processing, Gift/Inheritance processing, Bond processing.
• Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive knowledge of Mainframe COBOL and IBM DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, EAZYTRIEVE, etc.
• Expertise in using Mainframe tools like TSO/ISPF,SPUFI, Endeavor, Changeman, File-Aid, File-Manager, Platinum, BMC Catalog Manager XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, QMF, Control-M, COMPAREX, ICETOOL
• Used JCL and JCL utilities like IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL etc to manipulate datasets, backup datasets, analyze data, load VSAM datasets, extract data for test conditions.
• Used Mainframe online CICS to develop pseudo conversational programs, develop BMS screens as per flow of the application functions.
• Debugged batch programs with XPEDITOR and Online CICS programs with INTERTEST
• Hands-on experience in IBM Debug Tool for z/OS and XPEDITOR.
• Working Experience on DB2 stored procedures, SOLA Web Methods and X4ML.
• Proficient in formulating business requirements into technical solutions and Skilled in major services such as Development, Implementation, Enhancement/Maintenance and Upgrade.
• Able to analyze and measure current processes, identify and recommend the ideal best practice towards a better solution
• Hands-on experience in Code Reviews and UTP Reviews.
• Working experience on VSAM to DB2 conversion
• Experience in large scale Database expansion for new project requirements and impact analysis
• Create system health-check SQLs, Programs, jobs to identify the issues and fix the data for accurate tax reporting and eliminated corrections on the tax statements.
• Professional, flexible, creative, and service-oriented team player with effective communication skills, analytical and design skills along with strong problem solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently as well as a team lead in a fast-paced, challenging environment while effectively directing and providing support to entire team. A passion to learn and to absorb and apply new skills or concepts
• Proven ability to run large-scale IT initiatives; Strategic as well as solutions-focused thinker. Undertakes complex assignments and meet tight deadlines and delivers superior performance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages:  VS COBOL II, JCL, Easytrieve, CICS, DB2, PL/SQL, IBM z/OS (MVS), VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedures

Domain Knowledge:  Daily Trade Activities, Average cost, Wash Sale processing, Dividend, Spin-off, Return on capital, Bulk &JE Account Transfer, Bond Processing, Tax reporting

Scheduling Tools:  Mainframe TIVOLI workload scheduler for Z/OS

Utilities / Tools:  TSO/ISPF, JES2, SPUFI, VSAM, FILE-AID, PLATINUM, NDM, SAR, DYL 280, OSDA, DEBUG TOOL, CLIST, REXX, CA-11, File Manager, Easytrieve, Fault Analyzer, AFP tools, CSF, BMC, ICETOOL, Expeditor, COMPAREX, SuperC, DFSORT, ICETOOL

Databases: DB2,Version Control Tool,ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN

Application Packages:  MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint), APF/PDF convertor, VISIO,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 Confidential,Pennington, NJ

Sr. Mainframe Analyst/ Developer

• Incorporate IRS cost basis regulations to Tax Lot processes and Gather Monthly Statements and Tax statements/critical 1099B IRS statements.
• Created Realized and Unrealized Gain/Loss reports for the Key clients after the daily Activities
• Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment
• Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive knowledge in DB2 Stored Procedures and SOLA Web methods.
• Developing new programs as per client’s or business requirements.
• Work closely with business for requirement gathering and review.
• Perform Unit, Functional, Negative, Regression, System integration Testing (SIT) and Performance testing.
• Testing all the functionalities in QA Plex region (Similar like Production environment)
• Developing suitable solutions, alternatives and options
• Developing testing strategies for efficient and error free testing
• Facilitate system testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business.
• Coordinate in Scheduling of Jobs and provide on call support during tax season.
• Monitoring and solving abends of the production batch job runs.
• Analyzing the programs/jobs for any enhancements and modifications towards permanent resolutions for the issues encountered through tickets and user’s requests.
• Talented communicator, able to build working relationships with wide range of co-workers in team environment.
• Extremely well organized, with proven ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.

Environment: OS390, MVS/XA V 2.9, COBOL, JCL, SQL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, QMF, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, DB2, CICS, Stored Procedure.

Confidential,Pennington, NJ

Mainframe Analyst/ Developer

• Julius Baer Taxlot was brand new system that was created from the scratch in short period of time.
• Development, Testing and Production Support
• Design discussion and gathering requirements;
• Create High level and low level design documents,
• Analyzing the Requirements obtained from the client and Estimating the time required to incorporate the requirement in the system.
• Preparing the Software Design Documents stating the code changes and the location of the Code Changes in various modules
• Perform Peer Code review, review the code and there unit test results and compare them with the requirement document
• Coordinate with the integration of different requirements to implement the code to production
• Monitor the deployed code and review the performance of the code
• Generate Feed to JB and work with business to confirmation then send the files through FTP.
• Responsible for 24x7 production support; Respond to Abend or Issue calls from monitoring team and fix the same on immediate basis.
• Involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle from the gathering till Rollout of the projects to production
• Depending on Complexity, responsibility involved is to create a Test data, Test files, table setups, Test environment Setup.
• Involved in Unit Testing, System Integration (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT). Followed Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Involved to create the new Packages and turnover control to move the components to production as per standard checklists.
• Participation in Quality Assurance Program in the organization.
• Achieving customer satisfaction by ensuring service quality norms and building the brand image by exceeding customer expectations.
• Identifying, analyzing defects (If any) in software program functions, outputs, online screens and content.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery procedures

Confidential

 Mainframe Developer Lead

• Client interaction with team from Offshore to understand the requirement
• Providing an Estimations for new requirement or change requests.
• Requirement Gathering, Creation of functional, technical Documentation & mapping documents.
• Following SDLC process with impact Analysis, Coding, unit Testing, SIT/UAT.
• Analyzing business and functional requirement For High level design.
• Development of code and unit testing
• Perform Component integrated testing and work with external applications for system testing.
• Fix issues reported during the testing.
• Worked large scale Database expansion for new project requirements and impact analysis
• Create health check programs/jobs to identify the issues and fix the data for accuracy
• Present data for Business sign off and Implement the code on sign-off.
• Performing reviews and ensure the overall quality of the project
• Work with DBA and discuss the ideas for improving system performance & cost saving of the project.
• 24/7 Support for job monitoring and production issue fixes.
• Acted as the Offshore Lead during entire project execution.
• Handled 7 member team and trained, assigned task to them, review assigned items.

Confidential

 Mainframe software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Complete Software Development Life Cycle of the project and Requirements Analysis.
• Coded new programs using COBOL & DB2 as per the functional & requirements specifications.
• Worked on Enhancement of the system as per requirements and/or Change requests
• Responsible to perform unit testing.
• Responsible for creation of online maps.
• Performed Unit, Functional and Regression Testing
• Involved in creation of JCLs and PROCs.
• Good experience of version control tools like Changeman.
• Responsible to execute SQL Queries to get the data from Database.
• Having Good experience using QMF and SPUFI.
• Developed and maintained batch/online systems.
• Converted the Mainframe Output files to Text format using FTP and send the Test files to Client for review
• Updated the review comments from the client and rerun the JCLs
• Performing Production Support activities for major production release and support phase (activities involved Batch job Monitoring, fixing).
• Creating the documentation for knowledge transition.