PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over all 8.7 years of Experience as a Mainframe Developer in Application Development and maintenance in software industry.
• Experience in IBM Mainframe in Application Development, Change Request and enhancement project handling in waterfall and agile methodology
• Expertise in all phases of SDLC - Requirement Analysis, Design and Application Development, Coding, Debugging, Testing, Implementation
• Expertise in Web-based financial banking services using MQSeries like IVR, eCommerce, mobile sms, utility bill payments
• Expertise in Pacbase and Vision Plus development and enhancement
• Good functional-technical knowledge of HealthCare domain-834 format heath plan enrolment
• Good functional knowledge of Vantage system in Insurance domain
• Sound in functional knowledge of Credit Management System(CMS) and Financial Authorization System(FAS) on Vision Plus in Banking and Finance(Cards)
• SME in Banking, Finance and Insurance domain
• Worked as Business Analyst for Vantage Healthcare projects
• Good Analytical, Technical and Communication skills
• BCP co-coordinator - Business continuity plan creation, pilot testing of the plans
• Experienced in internal team audits for Quality Audit Process as an Internal QA for BFSI projects
• Developing tracking processes on HP Quality Center for auditing
• Working as a Scrum Master along with role of development lead in Highmark-Membership
• 7 years of Waterfall model experience,2 years of Agile process experience
• Currently, 1.0 yr working as Application Developer in Highmark, Pittsburgh-PA on IBM Mainframe platform for HealthCare domain
• Worked 0.5 yrs as Programmer Analyst in Proswift Consulting, California-USA on IBM Mainframe platform for Capital One as client
• Worked 5.0 yrs as Senior Software Engineer in HSBC Software Development Pvt. Ltd on Mainframe-Vision Plus platform
• Worked 2.2 yrs as Analyst Programmer in Syntel Ltd on IBM Mainframe-Pacbase, Vantage platform

TECHNICAL SKILLS:Languages: COBOL, PACBASE, JCL, C

Databases: DB2, VSAM

OTLP Systems: CICS

Operating System: OS (390), Vision Plus, MVS, DOS, Windows 95/98/2000/XP

Tools: TSO/ISPF, FILE-AID, ChangeMan, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, IBM-Debugger, ABEND-AID, File-Manager, Eazytrieve, Endeavor, HP Quality Center,TWS,CA7,MQ Series, IVR, Trace-Master, ESP,RTC,Version-ONE

Domain : Insurance, Healthcare, Banking and Finance

Platform : Vision plus (CMS,FAS), IBM Mainframe, Pacbase, Vantage

Process : Productivity initiatives, Business Process Analysis and Improvement, Business Continuity Planning, Quality Auditing, Process Quality ImprovementPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 Mainframe Developer

Pittsburgh, PA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Working as a lead for Highmark health-care initiatives
• Offshore-onshore work allocation and co-ordination
• Analysis of initial requirements and specifications
• Queries consolidation and tracking till closure
• Technical-Functional Specification Design, Coding in Cobol,DB2,JCL, Testing the Cobol code, Implementation and Post-Implementation support-all SDLC phases of the projects
• Review of test plan and test cases for unit testing, SIT, UAT and regression
• Testing co-ordination and support
• Defects consolidation, tracking and resolution
• Environment support, Schedule tracking, Day to day status
• Co-ordinating status calls,release management tasks for release phases
• Working as Scrum Master along with development lead

Pittsburgh, PA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analysis of initial requirements and specifications provided by the clients
• Queries consolidation and tracking till closure
• Technical-Functional Specification Design, Coding in Cobol, Testing the Cobol code, Implementation and Post-Implementation support-all SDLC phases of the projects
• Creation of test plan and test cases for unit testing and System Integration testing of the Cobol code
• Testing support during User Acceptance Testing
• Defects consolidation, tracking and resolution
• Environment support, Schedule tracking, Day to day status

Pittsburgh, PA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analysis of initial requirements and specifications provided by the clients
• Preparation of Business requirement documents, Initial requests, Architecture review board documents for Business approvals
• Supporting QC related project work process
• Queries consolidation and tracking till closure
• Technical-Functional Specification Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Post-Implementation support-all SDLC phases of the projects
• Review of design and code for global initiative projects apart from HBME middle east
• SME for global initiative projects directed in HBME region
• Creation of test plan and test cases for unit testing and System Integration testing
• Testing support during User Acceptance Testing
• Defects consolidation, tracking and resolution
• Environment support, Schedule tracking, Day to day status
• Coordination with other application cross-commit teams-ATMP, HUB, Collections,etc
• Working for ISR approvals, attending QAB and CAB meetings with Business
• Handling audits and quality control-adherence for different projects

Business Analyst

Pittsburgh, PA

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications, requirements provided by the clients
• Providing estimates for different projects to Business
• Preparation of Business requirement documents, Initial requests, Architecture review board documents for Business approvals
• 1.0yr of experience as a Business Analyst for Vantage projects
• Supporting QC related project work process
• SME for Pac base projects directed in Ameriprise Financials
• Technical-Functional Specification Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Post-Implementation support
• Creation of test plan and test cases
• Batch execution and batch support
• Execution of test cases during unit testing and SIT phase
• Testing support during User Acceptance Testing
• Defects consolidation, tracking and resolution
• Resolution of issues raised by onsite team
• Environment support, Schedule tracking, Day to day status
• Attending CAB meetings with Business for change approval
• Coordination with other application cross-commit team like Vantage
• Handling audits, SOX compliance for different projects
• Quality Control, improvements and adherence
• Productivity initiatives