SUMMARY:

• Sr. IBM Mainframe Technical Lead, 7 + years of hands on experience in application development. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC with Citi Bank.
• Strong working knowledge in AGILE/Lean Methodology in AMEX Checkout.
• Great experience in agile tools like JIRA and attends Sprint planning calls with Scrum Master
• Experience in Credit card Processing, Fraud check and Risk analysis
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Experience working in the domain of Retail and Banking applications. Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Strong experience with JAVA, OOPS,COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, PL/1, SYNSORT, ISPF, BMC, CHANGEMAN, INTERTEST, File Aid, File Manager, INSYNC, MVS, SDSF, NDM, IBM utilities, TWS, CA - 7, Oracle SQL.
• Experience in Design and architecture review.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support. Developed programs which deal with MQ’s. Experience working on developing DB2 Stored Procedures, online CICS tools.
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Performs Off-shift Pager Support
• Capable team player and works with Onshore/Offshore model
• Experience in RCA(Root Cause Analysis) for production issues
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal/oral communication skills.
• Rich project management experience clubbed with extensive industry experience in retail credit cards portfolio.
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Provide support for Overnight Batch Failures, Christmas Holiday freeze support - 24/7

TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE:

Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, PL/1, SYNCSORT, JAVA

Database: DB2

Tools: VSAM,SDM,CHANGEMAN, ICETOOL, INSYNC, Intertest, ISPF, BMCDFSORT, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, TWS Scheduler, QMF, SPUFI, IDCAMSSYNCSORT,SAR,SDM/SCM, HP Quality Center, SAVERS, Abend-Aid, RMFConnect Direct, WebSphere MQ,IBM Utilities - IEBGENER, IEFBR14,etc

OS: Windows, Z/OS, iOS

Domain Expertise: Retail & Banking Credit Card Portfolios

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Attending Stand-up meetings to share daily status of the Sprint tasks
• Responsible to interact with business during sprint planning meeting to gather requirements, finalize design specifications
• Used TWS tool to schedule the mainframe jobs.
• Involved in Unit testing, functional, integration and regression testing.
• Used HP Quality center to write test cases and also used as a repository to store all the Test documentation and Test cases.
• Writing the SQL queries against the database using QMF, SPUFI and File Manager.
• Prepared Program hierarchy flow-charts by using VISIO tool.
• Prepared Impact Analysis and development using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and CICS.
• Used CHANGEMAN Tool to work with Production and Test environments.

Confidential, Elk Grove Village, IL

Lead Developer/ Production Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to interact with business to gather requirements, finalize design specifications
• Single point of contact for all production support queries.
• Involve in the preparation of high level/low level design documents
• Ensure the overall quality of the project by conducting Reviews, code walkthroughs
• Co-ordinate with offshore for all project deliverables
• Responsible for Day light time changes, Overnight batch failures ( 24/7) and Thanks Giving day holiday freeze support
• Identifying Unloading and Loading Test data from Production to Test regions.
• Used TWS tool to schedule the mainframe jobs.
• Involved in Unit testing, functional, integration and regression testing.
• Used HP Quality center to write test cases and also used as a repository to store all the Test documentation and Test cases.
• Took initiatives in process improvement ideas, revised support strategies, resiliency ideas and provided solutions for technology refresh
• Writing the SQL queries against the database using QMF, SPUFI and File Manager.
• Prepared Program hierarchy flow-charts by using VISIO tool.
• Prepared Impact Analysis and development using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and CICS.
• Used CHANGEMAN Tool to work with Production and Test environments.
• Used INTERTEST tool to check the flow of the programs after code change.

Confidential

Developer/Senior lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to interact with business to gather requirements, finalize design specifications
• In charge of having the cycle completed within the specified SLA (Service Level Agreement).
• Responsible for Accepting the Service requests (SRs) and providing the solution for the SRs.
• Prepare Test plan and test results and get the technical and business approval.
• Monitoring the Batch jobs and providing remittance support.
• Used NDM (Connect Direct) for transferring the data across the regions.
• Used CA-7 tool to schedule the mainframe jobs.
• Generating various ad-hoc and critical reports as per requirement of the business.
• Used CHANGEMAN Tool to work with Production and Test environments.
• Used INTERTEST tool to check the flow of the programs after code change.
• Writing the SQL queries against the database using QMF and SPUFI.
• Involved in SIT Testing and preparing Unit Test Cases as per the new code.
• Comparing the test results before performing the test and after performing the test.
• Code review, Test results review and documentation.
• Program development using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS.

Confidential

Developer/Production Support

Responsibilities:

• Write CICS programs to simulate middleware transactions coming from the WEB, to process on CICS and post the trades to customers account.
• Setup mix jobs for performance reports on CICS.
• Used Strobe for online transactions looking for bottlenecks
• Install of CICS & batch programs for Inquiry/Update/Add.
• Created REXX Programs to automate conversion of data.
• Handled the task of creating impact document for the requirements including identifying impacted CICS, COBOL and DB2 programs as well as JCL and impacted SQL