SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in analyzing, designing, developing, testing, implementing and post production support for various businesses using Mainframe Technologies
• 2 years of experience as Onsite project lead in USA and leading 8 members of offshore team.
• Proficient in Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS - DB, IMS-DC, Changeman, File-Aid, Strobe, MQ, SAS, CICS, VSAM, ISPF, QMF, Online and Batch Expeditor, Express, SAR, I Strobe, SORT, FTP and IBM Utilities.
• Good Knowledge and experience in SQL queries.
• Experience in supporting Tech uplift activities - Changeman, DB2, IMS and z/OS upgrade.
• Very good knowledge in Dealer management, Transportation, Marketing and Customer relationship systems in automotive domain.
• Experience in all stages of SDLC.
• Experience in BMC Enterprise Data propagation tool.
• SOX Coordinator for automative Vertical in Confidential Sales.
• Expertise in change control and Incident Management tools - Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case, Peregrine Service center and BMC Remedy.
• Experience in web oriented Mainframe architecture - Host Integration Server.
• Worked in Mainframe online (IMS DC) with web service architecture.
• Developed detailed design specifications for software development with technical teams.
• Configured applications to meet system requirements identified by users to obtain required system functionality.
• Created test plan and test cases to be utilized in end to end system and user acceptance testing to insure applicationfunctionality, accuracy and reliability.
• Highly organized. Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced environment. Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with individuals at all levels and to mobilize and lead a team.
• Experienced in developing and implementing test strategy for functional testing environments (Unit, Integration & UAT).
• Expertise in Product Application evaluation, Process flow reviewsand Requirements definitions and implementation.
• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as part of the team and independently
• Identified the critical jobs within the application and STROBED them to identify the time consuming tasks and worked on them to improve the performance. Also we moved several non-critical jobs from the critical path and converted majority of the TAPE files to DISK files for performance improvement.
• Also involved in cross functional training between applications as a measure of backup continuity plan.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MVS, OS/390, z/OS, Windows XP, Windows 7.

Languages: COBOL, JCL

Databases: DB2, IMS-DB

Online Systems: CICS, IMS-DC.

Middleware: MQ Series

Debugging Tool: XPEDITER - Batch and Online.

Configuration Tool: Changeman.

Performance Analysis ToolI: Strobe

Incident Management Tools: Peregrine Service Center and BMC Remedy.

Change Management Tool: Rational Clear Quest and Clear Case

Other Tools and Utilities: SPUFI, File-AID, ABEND AID, MS Word, MS Office, MS Excel, MS Power Point,Visio and IBM Utilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

System Analyst

Confidential, Torrance, CA

Responsibilities:

• Participated and documented the requirement gathering sessions and analyzed the impact of the changes.
• Analyze the requirements, design and implementation of business applications, middleware, database etc.; study the impact of software/application changes; and ensure that all system components are designed and tuned to acceptable levels of performance and resource utilization
• Participate in technical architecture and design discussions to determine the most appropriate solution model, taking into consideration high performance, availability, failover and disaster recovery
• Partner with the Development, Application & Infrastructure Architecture and Technical Services teams to ensure that changes in technical or business systems do not adversely impact application performance
• Serve as a technical expert, resolving critical and complex application performance issues. Identify and drive optimization changes in the application design to improve customer experience for business-critical IT applications
• Develop, maintain, recommend, documents and support tools and backend utilities to perform performance and capacity planning management.
• Preparing Estimation, Impact Analysis, Business-Technical Requirement, Technical Design, Test Plan Results, System Testing and Release Pack documents as result of analysis, coding, testing and implementation
• Attended Change Control Board meeting for approval of Change Requests.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for various repetitive problems and provided suggestions for speedy problem resolution.
• Maintained the regular interaction with the Client, End users, Technical team, participated in the meetings on regular basis and followed up the progress of work.
• Working with different teams to resolve all issues for the assigned sites.
• Tested the interfaces, reports, and processes to ensure that all the functionalities are working correctly.
• Worked with the users and businesspersons in designing and defining the new Reports and Customizing the existing Reports.
• Coordinated Set up activities in UAT and Production Environment of all the modules
• Supported the Team as Subject Matter Specialist in Financial Modules and business Process

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SAS, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, Strobe, MQ, Changeman, OTM (Oracle Transportation Management),WAS (Webshpere Application server).

System Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Estimation, Impact Analysis, Business-Technical Requirement, Technical Design, Test Plan Results, System Testing and Release Pack documents as result of analysis, coding, testing and implementation
• Develop new applications and functionality including modifying existing code; Develop and document functional and non-functional specifications
• Write and review technical specifications as required, meeting the objectives of functional requirements, identifying specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures or functions as required
• Responsible for the software release management of projects including packaging for deployment and working with Configuration Management for the release of, and integration of released applications into production
• Convert system requirements into logical program designs, code modules and stable application systems; Develops technical design documents for software solutions independently and collaboratively.
• Participate in the full SDLC (Iterative Waterfall/Agile), including requirement analysis, design and implementation, estimations and other aspects of iterative development
• Perform unit and component testing as well as supporting system level and user acceptance tests and develops any necessary supporting documentation
• Develop production application support plans, schedules, and assignments as required.
• Estimate the level of effort related to technical design, coding, and unit testing
• Report status to development management and project/program management
• Develop specification documents outlining technical requirements with associated solutions
• Provide technical support for maintenance of existing applications
• Assists in the development of estimates for projects
• Contributes to defining time tables and project plans
• Assists in the definition of milestones
• Manage project development efforts pertaining to scope agreements and business and IT requirements.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Architects to design flexible, scalable, maintainable solutions; with business analysts to understand and implement complex business functionality; and with Project Management, and Quality Services personnel to ensure successful delivery of solutions; Works with Operations and IT teams to help support the releases of code into production
• Able to effectively communicate across teams and roles
• Demonstrable ability to work within a highly collaborative team to deliver projects on time, with high quality, and within budget
• Works cross-functionally to manage and organize work processes and ensure most efficient work flow

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, SQL, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, Strobe, MQ, Change man,VB .Net and HIS ( Host Integration Server).

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirement from client, analyze requirements, identifying the information needs, checking process and finalizing on the best practices.
• Understanding requirements, interacting with cross functional teams and identifying solution approach
• Conducting impact analysis and preparation of detailed design documents
• Providing development and testing effort estimates
• Conducting design walkthrough with developers and production support teams
• Providing overall system testing approach, co-coordinating testing activities with the system testing team
• Reviewing test results and providing ST sign offs
• Assist clients in business/technical specification gathering when requested.
• Work in conjunction with other technical team members to deliver services to the client.
• Function as a developer on design, programming and testing of assigned project / tasks.
• Develop technical design specifications.
• Code and unit test in various languages and technical platforms.
• Support the system testing and client integration testing efforts as required.
• Interact with other team members and clients to ensure a quality solution.
• Interacting with project stakeholders at different stages of the project and managing communications across teams
• Ownership and overall responsibility for successful implementation of projects.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, MQ, ESSBASE and JAVA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Onsite coordination for Development and Maintenance activities.
• Client interaction for business requirement gathering and clarifications.
• Offshore Work allocation, monitoring and controlling.
• Creation of new transformations in EDP for data exchange.
• Peer reviews.
• Data analysis for the external team queries

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, Informatica EDP (Enterprise Data propagation) tool

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role as a Team Lead for Mainframe team.
• Offshore Work allocation.
• Part of Mainframe development team.
• One of the major developers in application rewrite.
• Conducting reviews of all the deliverables to meet the customer expectation.
• Mentor for new joiners.