SUMMARY:

• Having 9+ years of experience in Mainframe Technologies primarily in Analysis, Design, Coding and Mainframe testing and Development of Confidential and Banking applications.
• 6+ years of hands on experience in Application Design, Development, and Enhancement in Confidential and US Banking domain.
• More than 3 years of experience in Application batch production support in both healthcare insurance and banking domain.
• Technical expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and Ezytreieve.
• Having good experience in agile methodology and scrum process.
• Strong application knowledge and experience on Confidential and Banking and Credit cards industry in terms of Functional Knowledge as well as in Technical terms.
• Self - motivated and a quick learner with strong analytical, programming skills.
• Comprehensive problem solving abilities.
• Having good knowledge in CICS.
• Having good experience in Hyperion reporting tool.
• Strong hands on experience in Endevor, File aid Tools and Sort utilities.
• Moderate knowledge about Message Broker and Message Queue (MQ).
• Undergone Training in Hadoop, Mapreduce, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, HDFS.
• Ability to handle multiple projects at the same time.
• Possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to follow project standards, documentation and procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL and Ezytreieve

Databases: DB2

File Management: Vvvvv VSAM

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP, MVS, OS/390

Tools: Hyperion Reports, ENDEVOR, ISPF, SAR, SORT Utilities, File aid & TSO Options, HP ALM, HP Quality Center, SharePoint Portal,CA-7, ESP Batch Monitoring, SPUFI, Quik Job, JHS, XPEDITOR

Domains: Health care Insurance, Financial Banking Services and Credit cards.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,CT

Senior Developer /Designer

Environment: MAINFRAMES, COBOL, DB2 JCL, Hyperion, MQ, Message broker, HP ALM, IBM Command Editor, CA Work Load Automation Tool, Endevor, XML,IBM-BPC, Share Point, Rally Software, XPEDITOR,EDI, NDM FTP.

• Interacting with SA to gather the business requirements
• Prepare the High Level Design based on the business requirements.
• Involved in Design, Development and Documentation.
• Involved in Coding using COBOL, DB2, JCL
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Carry out Unit Testing
• Having Experience in generating reports using Hyperion tool.
• Extensively following Agile methodology, Scrum process.
• Perform integrated testing with MQ and Message broker application.
• Deployment of Application code on Test and Production Server.
• Involved in Pre and Post production Implementation activities.
• Production Batch Support.
• Preparing High Level Tier-1 Estimates
• Creating workarounds to fix the production issues temporarily.
• Working on Business escalated tickets and providing solutions with in SLA.
• Conducting Design and Code walkthrough with all the required partners.
• Analyzing and fixing the production batch abends with in SLA time.
• Deployment of Hyperion code in Test and Production Environment.
• Involved in Creation order of activities document for production implementation.
• Coordinating with application/technical teams to know the code dependencies or impacts.
• Preparing of daily production batch summary report and send it required partners.
• Providing delivery support to QA team during System and Integration phase.
• Providing Long term/Permanent solutions to the production abends and Service request’s.
• Root cause analysis of daily production batch abends.

Confidential,Chicago IL

Developer

Environment: MAINFRAMES, COBOL, DB2 JCL, CICS,VSAM,ENDEVOR,HP-Quality Center, SAR, UNIX, CA-7,REXX, MQ,ICE TOOL,SYNC SORT, SPUFI, XPEDITOR

• Analyzing business requirements and preparation of program specifications accordingly.
• Developed new batch programs, Jobs and Procs for imparting new business requirements.
• Preparation of Pre Design, Detailed design document and Unit testing cases.
• Involved in Coding using COBOl,DB2, JCL, VSAM
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and Carry out Unit testing
• Developing of DB2 New Stored procedure
• Developing New database Triggers
• Deployment of Application code on Test and Production Server
• Working with Enhancements and SR’s
• Documents issues into the Problem Management system and conducts follow ups for proper resolutions
• Deployment of code in various test environments during QA testing phase.
• Preparing Internal project metrics for each release and publish them to Quality team.
• Fixing the QA defects on time and update the QC with all the required details.
• Creating the DMR request to New table creation or table changes or to define stored procedure in DB2
• Performance tuning of SQL’s used in existing programs and also new programs with help of DBA.
• Perform Code reviews and update the comments in code review tracker.

Confidential IL

Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Change Man,SAR,CA-7,Patterns,File-aid, Sync Sort, Ezytreieve, Quik Job, HP Quality Center, SPUFI, XPEDITOR

• Development of new batch programs as per business requirements.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans and Unit Testing.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of work requests.
• Developed New JCL’s and Proc’s.
• Enhancement of programs using COBOL,DB2
• Involved in system integration test paln Execution for Interface jobs.
• Worked on Scheduling of jobs in CA-7 for a complete Batch Cycle.
• Deployment of Application code on Test and Production Server.
• Monitoring System and Integration batch cycle and fixing the issues.
• Involved in Pre Production and Post Production Implemenation activies.
• Monitoring production batch after the Post Production implemenmtation.
• Involved in Preparing weekly status reports.
• Creating Packages in Changeman for production deployment.
• Working on the Defects and update the defect details in HP Quality Center.