EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Sr. IBM Mainframe Application Developer, with 14 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.
• 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 financial and banking applications. Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• 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, XML Service Oriented Legacy Architecture templates & CICS BMS Maps.
• Experiences in developing online applications calling JAVA Restful Web Services as well as developing Interactive online programming for CICS Web sphere based applications.
• Ability to multi - task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.
• Excellent strengths are my interpersonal skills by working in well diverse business settings. Experience in handling projects in various roles as Team Member, Team Lead, Technical Specialist, Programmer and Software Consultant.
• Hands on experience with OS/390, Z/OS, ISPF, VS COBOL II, DB2, UDB, CICS, SDF-II, MQ Series, JCL, VSAM, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, File Aid, Xpeditor, Change Man, Endevor, BMC, IBM Utilities, SOLA,CA-7 AND ORACLE 11G, ORACLE PL/SQL
• Involved in delivering multiple projects involving JAVA & ETL Informatica based technologies.
• Excellent Team building, Project management, Analytical, Interpersonal & Communication skills.
• Extensive experience working with Insurance & Health Care; Financial & Banking applications.
• Hands on experience developing COBOL & CICS online programs as well as for XML Service Oriented Legacy Architecture templates
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Extensive experience working as an onsite coordinator attending the project review meetings with Clients gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design(HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
• Hands on experience creating tables and stored procedures.
• Expertise in Technology Consumption Management (TCM) activities which increase the system performance effectively.
• Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Excellent working knowledge in DB2, Stored Procedures & UDB Stored Procedures.
• Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and system performance tuning.
• Update SharePoint & HP ALM documents like Project initiation, Project action plan, Detailed Requirements Specifications, Impact Analysis, File Specifications, System Run Chart (flow chart), Data Base Requirements, Program Specifications, Operation Manual, Program Development, Coding, Unit Test Plan, System Test plan, Inter System Test plan, Implementation plan and Post implementation check.
• Self -motivated, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM OS/390 & Z/OS.

Hardware: IBM Mainframe S390, MVS/ESA, Windows XP/NT/95/98

Languages: COBOL,JCL,SQL Fujitsu COBOL, SAS 9.2

Database: DB2, UDB, STORED PROCEDURES, IMS, Oracle 11G

OLTP: CICS 5.1; 5.2

Tools: FILEAID,FILEDB2,QMF,XPEDITOR,CHANGEMAN,ENDEAVOR,INFOMAN,MANAGENOW,LIBRARIAN, REXX,JES2, CLIST,WLM, HP QC, HP ALM, PAC2000,REMEDY 7.6

Access Method: VSAM

Reporting Tools: INFOPAC, EZYTRIEVE PLUS, MOBIUS

Scheduling: JOBTRAC, CA7, ZEKE, Control: M

Domain Expertise: Insurance; Healthcare; Banking & Financial ; Retail Industries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Execute projects based on the in-house RFS Dashboard process.
• Provide estimation based on the business requirements & priorities.
• Understand RFS and analyze business requirements before development.
• Responsible for all aspects of the Systems Development Life Cycle and will be responsible for both ongoing support and new development
• Create Technical Design documents for themselves or others, from Functional Design documents
• Manages all aspects of testing and verification ensuring all tasks are performed for all interfaces
• Strong program/job development and unit testing
• Coding both batch & online programs using COBOL, JCL,DB2 & CICS BMS Maps.
• Involved in end to end testing(Unit & Application) of Claims process through TIP & RIP process.
• Develops feasibility studies and proposals for senior management and executive decisions on large complex projects

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Xpeditor, VSAM, Panvalet, SPUFI, DB2 Platinum, File-AID, ABEND-AID FILE-AID, A LMtool,SDF-II, WORD AND MS-EXCEL& VISIO.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Service development for Net-Cash subsystem as a part of Commercial Business Area using Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• Analyze Business Requirement and convert the same into technical specifications such as data model and services that are being used.
• Involve in Design and Development of complex business solutions using COBOL, CICS online routines to support the front end JAVA platform.
• Developed Web services call in mainframe to interact with Java Web Services as well as ESB Integration layer.
• Developed CICS programs to call Java RESTful Web services.
• Co-ordinate with other IT teams such as Database, User Interface and Testing teams.
• Take high level direction - bridging over multiple channels/projects
• Analyze Process flows that have been built and suggest how to improve the process, such as fine tuning the code as well as DB2 SQl’s.
• Creating a lot of documents and then have them reviewed by management
• Work on both distributed and mainframe platforms
• Created JSON WSDLS to maintain the communication between Mainframe & Data Power Server.
• Convert ion of JSON WSDLS to Mainframe Copybook layouts.
• Maintained Web Service audit information in DB2 for Web Service Call tracking purpose.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Xpeditor, VSAM, SAS, ChangeMan, SPUFI, DB2 Platinum, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, Remedy 7.6, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Suggested solutions for improving the system performance and executed.
• Involved in the Review of Business Requirements and development of System design documents and Technical Design documents.
• Analyzed existing programs and responsible for preparing Analysis & Design document for the TOPS GAPS for Whole Life Products as well as interface for TOPS Suspense which is MIT.
• Modified existing programs using COBOL, DB2 as per the Requirement and Design specifications of WMA Trad Products.
• Participated and co-ordinate specification reviews, Code reviews and test case walkthrough’s with TOPS Technology team.
• Developed SAS scripts in transforming data from IP01 to IP02 Mainframe systems.
• OLTP legacy System Analysis and data conversion transformation.
• Analyzing medium/complex transformations in ETL using Informatica
• Written/Modified new COBOL - DB2 applications, Stored Procedures to meet the end consumer requirements.
• Participated in Code and test cases reviews.
• Participated in coding and testing online and batch programs.
• Prepared test JCL’s for batch programs.
• Involved in unit testing, System Testing
• Followed the Method one quality procedures for all the deliverables
• Involved in unit testing and system testing and documentation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, UDB, Xpeditor, VSAM, ZEKE, SAS, Endeavor, SPUFI, DB2 Platinum, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, HP Quality Center, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirements with business users through Lotus Notes SR’s.
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Fixing and coding the SR’s using FUJITSU COBOL as well as MS Server 2008 & 2012.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Preparing test cases and test plan and walk them with the business unit
• System testing
• Integration testing
• In depth knowledge of converting the business requirement document to low level business design.
• Excellent exposure to the Insurance Domain
• SQL Server, including DDL and SQL Programming
• Develop SQL Procedures in ORACLE environment.
• Expertise in Source Code Control systems
• Pride in work product and demonstrable organizational and time management skills
• Debug and extend existing applications and codebases

Environment: FUJITSU COBOL, SQL Server 2008/2012,ORACLE 11G, Beyond Compare Tool, MS Visual Studio, Source Code Control systems

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to lead both onsite and offshore team as part of rollout system.
• A core technical team member
• Involved in the development and testing of a new module for this requirement
• Responsible for reviewing all the tech specs, functional specs and unit test plans to ensure that all the functionalities of an interface has been covered and to make sure that all the standards demanded by the new MQ global architecture has been followed
• Coordinating with the team for successful integration/System testing environment setup
• Responsible for analyzing the impacted system flow and finalizing the list of impacted jobs as well as the changes that have to be done in these jobs which is essential for the final implementation
• Responsible for CR/ Defects and changing and developing programs & JCL’s for the production environment by following Remedy-7 Change Management Procedures.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, UDB, Xpeditor, VSAM, CA7, EASYTRIVE, Librarian, SPUFI, QMF, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, Remedy-7, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL& VISIO.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Design Reviews and in the preparation of high level and Low Level design document.
• Preparation of design documents for each requirement mentioned in the Business System Analysis Report (BSAR).
• Developed Technical Documentation and Technical Training to the end users.
• Interviewed Users and BSA’s (Business System Analysts) to prepare test plans, data flow and interface data flow documents.
• Coordinate with managers to escalate issues, in case of any development/ maintenance problems.
• Coded programs using COBOL, DB2, UDB, VSAM and CICS and testing the same.
• Write complex queries using SPUFI to perform various operations on database
• Used XPEDITOR to debug both online and batch programs.
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Developed conversion strategies from VSAM to DB2
• Worked on DB2 stored procedures for same essential process multiple times as it offload database calls to the database server itself also it minimize the load on DB2 database and processor time.
• Expert knowledge in following the Change Management Process through Change Man &Manage Now.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, UDB, Xpeditor, VSAM, JOBTRAC, EASYTRIVE, Changeman, SPUFI, QMF, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, Mangenowand Assembler, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL& VISIO.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the impact analysis, preparing the high level, low-level design document and identifying data quality issues
• Used TEST to debug both online and batch COBOL programs.
• Maintenance of JCLs, PROCs, PARMs and Loads for application
• Create various VSAM clusters and GDG s using File-Manager
• Developed new and modified existing COBOL-DB2-CICS batch and online programs.
• Expertise in Batch and Online Performance Tuning
• Designed new screens and modified some of the existing screens using SDF
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Loading and unloading the data from/into DB2 tables.
• Developed various programs in converting VSAM to DB2
• Actively involved in the full project life cycle from user requirements to implementation
• Developing interface Application using COBOL-DB2-CICS Batch & Online programs
• Preparation and execution of test plans and test cases
• Preparation and execution of Unit Test Plans, System Test Plan, Unit Test Cases, Integration
• Test cases, Systems Test cases
• Created QMF Procs& Forms for reporting purpose

Environment: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, CICS, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL& VISIO ENDEAVOR, JOBTRAC.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the impact analysis, preparing the high level, low-level design document and identifying data quality issues
• Involved in Coding and testing of the modules using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, and VSAM
• Used Xpeditor to debug both online and batch programs.
• Create various VSAM clusters and GDG s using File-Manager
• Used SPUFI to retrieve, modify and insert data into test database.
• Used Query Management Facility QMF
• Used File-Aid to create, insert data into VSAM files.
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Used File-Aid/DB2 to perform various operations on database
• Actively involved in the full project life cycle from user requirements to implementation
• Moving the modules to different regions in using ENDEVOR
• Used SDSF to view the output of the job
• Used File-Aid/DB2 to perform various operations on database on DB2
• Preparation Unit Test Plans based on the design documents.

Environment: MVS/ESA, OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, SORT, SYNCSORT, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, IBM UTILITIES, XPEDITOR, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL, ENDEAVOR, JOBTRAC.