Career Summary

• Over 6.5 Years of IT industry experience spanning across challenging engagements consisting of Bank of America Meriilynch, Pershing USA, Inautix Technologies, Century Link Software Services, Seattle.
• Have a strong experience in software design, analysis, development, maintenance, testing and troubleshooting on IBM Mainframes.
• Experienced in business application development with 6+ years of Systems Analysis, Application Design, Development, and Maintenance with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, MQ series, VSAM, Stored Procedures and SQL.
• Expertise in the Mainframe tools like TSO, ISPF, Endeavor, ChangeMan, Tracemaster, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Dumpmaster, CA7-scheduler, SPUFI, Insync, NDM and FTP.
• Experienced in creating tools for daily support and testing activities using languages like REXX, CLIST and Panels.
• Experienced in creating batch COBOL programs using VSAM, DB2 and IMS DB databases.
• Experienced in developing BMS maps for the CICS program.
• Experienced in creating JCL and JCL PROCs using various JCL utilities like DFSORT, FILEAID, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBCOMPR and ICETOOL.
• Experienced in creating SYMBOLIC and CATALOG PROCs.
• Excellent knowledge in DB2 with respect to Application development and performance tuning for different applications.
• Experienced in creating SQL for retrieving and manipulating DB2 database servers using query management tools like QMF and SPUFI.
• Experienced in creating DB2 stored procedures using language like COBOL.
• Operating systems include z/OS, OS390, MVS and Windows.
• Good understanding of SDLC and STLC life cycle and involved in all the activities related to it.
• Experienced in providing estimates for application development or maintenance and System Testing.
• Experienced in creating High Level Design, Detailed Design and Functional Requirement documents.
• Expertise in creating System Test plans, Test Strategies, Test cases and Test Completion Reports.
• Excellent knowledge with Unit Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing, production implementation and maintenance.
• Experienced in providing on-call support for different applications. Worked as a Primary on call support for Entitlement Management System and Application Security Database System.
• Possess excellent client co-ordination and involved in various related activities like attending Project Kickoff Meeting, Preparing and sending daily and weekly status reports to stake holders of project, conducting weekly project progress meeting with projects stake holders and by addressing queries related to the project.
• Possess excellent Project management skills, led large projects and involved in project management activities like adhering to process, gathering metrics, attending process review meetings
• Have worked in onsite-offshore model for over 5 yrs (1 year at onsite) and in various client interfacing roles and exceeding client expectations.
• Excellent team player, good communication, strong problem solving skills, and interpersonal skills with excellent team leading capabilities.
• A conscientious professional committed to excellence and continuous improvement.
• Certificates & Accolades Holder of IBM DB2 Exam 700 Certification with 98% Trained in IBM Mainframe Systems from Maples ESM for 3 months Received a note of appreciation from my onshore manager for displaying timely response to requests and queries from other teams. Have done numerous presentations to the team on a variety of topics and have actively mentored junior members in the team. Have consistently demonstrated proactive, systematic and thorough approach.
• Was recognized by senior managers for outstanding contribution toward project delivery
• Have received best peer review ratings in a team of 50 people
• Have exhibited fast career growth in Inautix , Bank of America and TCS(in a span of 6+ years)

Skill set

Operating Systems

Windows \' 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / 2007 / XP / 7, IBM z/OS 390 and MVS

Testing Methodologies

Good experience in Functional Testing (System Testing, Integration and Regression Testing)

Internet Languages/Scripting

HTML

Languages

C, Cobol, CICS, JCL and SQL

Tools and Utilities

Test Mgt Tool: Quality Center 8.x Defect Tracking Tools: Quality Center 8.x Version control tool: Endeavor Mainframe Tools: QMF, SPUFI, FileAid , MQ series

Databases

VSAM, DB2

Project Experience Details

Confidential, Seattle, Washington, USA Duration: August 2011– Till Date

Role: System Test Lead

Project: InRegion Billing

The New discounts , Offers, And various other projects that are created by Century Link will be tested during system testing phase which includes testing of Billing system, Cashing and Orders

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement gathering, Test case and Test plan preparation , Test case validation
• Writing Service orders, and identifying defects
• Involved in running Jobs and writing SPUFIs
• Also does activities related to testing software applications for each release. Gathering test requirements related to the changes; coordination of test activities such as environments, test cases, and data; monitoring jobs; troubleshoot defects and job failures. Report performance issues to performance team; track runtimes, issues and defects; coordination of UAT with testers; report daily status of test activities to leadership and peers; Strong Documentation capability
• Prepare Test plan, Test cases and necessary test date for testing the developed code.
• Unit, Regression, Integration and System testing
• Created Test Plan and Test strategy documents.
• Coordinating with the offshore team for test execution and test reporting.
• Report the progress of test activities to the client on a daily basis.
• Created Test documents for both Integration and Unit testing and tested the same to make sure it is fulfilling all the business and functional requirements.
• Monitored the entire testing phase using test management tools like Quality Center.
• Involved in various testing activities like requirements extraction, Test design, Test execution, Defect creation, Defect tracking, Defect Closure and test reporting.
• Providing timely and quality solutions to assigned business or technical problems
• Addressing technical issues reported by Business partners
• Provide IT Support by resolving Service Calls, Incident and Problem Management Tickets.

Technology: ALM , IMS DB , JCL , Manual Testing , QC

Confidential Duration: Sep 2010 – April 2011

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Project: Precious Metals Billing

In this role, as Senior Software Engineer, I was responsible for preparing Estimation Document, Requirement Extraction, Detailed Design, Design, test design, execution, test reporting and Production support. As a part of the role, I have designed, developed and maintained applications, developed scripts for testing files and reports in mainframes. I was part of the team from the Billing project from Bank of America., I have contributed in all the projects and WR in the mainframes space over a period of 1 year. I also played a vital role in transferring application knowledge to everyone in the team. I was part of the innovation team to create tools and macros for improving the productivity and nurture ideas to add value to the clients. Have done extensive optimization in tools application to ensure maximum productivity within the given timeframe.

This project aimed to incorporate fee calculation for precious metals in the existing FS2 billing calculation process. Reconciliation report will be created for transmission to Gold Bullion International (GBI) funds and Journal Entries will also be made to debit sclient accounts.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, construction, testing and production support.
• Prepared weekly status reports and ensured tasks were on track.
• Analyzed and resolved issues in test and production environments.
• Attended project kick off meeting and business case walk through meetings.
• Gathered business and functional requirements from business case documents and functional specification documents.
• Created project estimation document.
• Created High Level and Low Level design documents.
• Indentifying pain areas in testing for different projects and developing methodologies to improve test coverage.

Technology: z/OS, JCL, Cobol, DB2, File-Aid, SPUFI, System Integration Testing and Adend-Aid.

Confidential Duration: Oct. 2009 – Aug 2010

Role: Senior Application Developer

Project: Entitlement Management System

I was part of the application Development and maintenance team for Entitlement Management Services Team of Pershing, USA. I was part of the team from the inception and contributed to the creation of support manuals for mainframe applications. As a part of the role, I had direct interaction with the customer on a daily basis for the business changes in the application. This project aimed at relieving the end user from the hassles of updating multiple systems to manage their user access through integrating multiple security systems present in the firm and providing a unified user-friendly interface to the end customer.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and analyzing the requirements of TPR’s (Technology Project request).
• Involved in analysis, detailed design for implementing data entitlement creation/assignment to users and providing audit trial summary.
• Did a presentation to the team on the online module development process.
• Set high standards for the quality of the system by documenting various processes, coding specifications, module designs and organized the changes by coordinating within and outside the team.
• Showed heavy operational focus by involving myself in unit, integration tests, analyzing production bugs and fixing them as well.
• Preparing high level and low level design documents.
• Generating codes and software.
• Preparing, Reviewing and Executing unit test plans.
• Reviewing unit test results to comply with user requirements.
• Tracking Project quality metrics using IPMS.
• Appearing for Quality review meetings and preparing checklists for defect prevention.

Project: Application Security Database System

The goal was to administer and control user access to various applications, by securing the trading applications.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed the conversion project of the client Metlife and managed the setup of users and user access for various trading applications for the client.
• Improved testing efficiency in test regions, thereby averting any major severity issues due to insufficient testing.
• Developed many new modules to help in weekly auditing reporting.

Technology: JCL, Cobol, CICS, MQ series, DB2, SPUFI, Stored procedures and Dumpmaster.

Confidential Duration: June 2006 to Oct 2009

Role: Application Developer

Project: Latency Mitigation

This project aimed at devising a new methodology to avoid the timeouts that were occurring in linking to my application at the start of any trading day. This involved modifying the flow of control from various front end applications to my application for security checks and access control

Responsibilities:

• Was involved in creation of new jobs to remove access that are no longer valid and reversal jobs to revert back the changes that the client requires after remediation is done
• Generating a report of the image after remediation to ensure that the user is entitled to the right role or access.
• Coding and Code Review of programs developed by the Team.
• Preparing Code Review Report and Comment document as per standards.
• Involved in conversion and unit testing.
• Trouble shooting the doubts raised by the team.
• Handling a Team of 8 members.

Project: Business Function Entitlement Administration

This product allows Pershing Administrator to create, maintain and delete a BFE which is a core entitlement component in Pershing. PII architecture has been used for the communication between the mainframe and the UNIX Application servers.

Responsibilities:

• Developed several DB2 and online modules.
• Created stored procedures and did integration testing with frontend screens.
• Was involved in regular maintenance of the project as well.
• Developing code as per the defined standards and operational documentation during development.
• Test case/data preparation, execution and verification of the test results and result logging
• Coordinating and Conducting Unit, System and System Integration testing
• Resource Management and Onsite-offshore co-ordination