SUMMARY:

• Senior programmer Analyst with over all 10 Years of IT Industry experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of software applications using IBM Mainframes Technologies.
• Experienced working on Mainframe Development, Enhancement, Production Support and Migration projects.
• Involved in complete Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) projects in Healthcare and Airlines domains.
• Handled multiple roles - Technical Lead, Application Developer with work experience on COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS and CICS.
• Onshore experience - Worked at Client site working closely with business stakeholders and handling technical leadership for the delivery in USA for 4 years.
• Understanding of strong Database Fundamentals and good at SQL Queries with extensive experience on structured programming and development skills.
• Created program and system test data, test procedures and test scenarios in order to perform and/or coordinate Unit testing, Model office testing, Regression testing, Benchmark testing and User Acceptance testing of new/existing features of the Systems.
• Participated in Business Requirement Gathering and Analysis, System Specification Analysis, Technical Design Document, Incident and Defect Management.
• Works well in a team environment or independently with minimal supervision.
• Outstanding analytical and logical troubleshooting activities, Great aptitude for analytical thinking and strategic problem solving.
• Enjoy problem solving and interaction with customers/colleagues to utilize and further develop my technical, business and communication skills.
• Proficient at handling multiple tasks across platforms with various priorities, Quick learner and excellent team player, ability to meet tight deadlines and work under pressure.
• Practicing and preparing Knowledge Over ‘Mainframe meets Machine Learning’ in order to thrive current and feature possibilities to bring Machine Learning on IBM ZoS Mainframe to meet customer needs.

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Operating System: MVS OS/390, Z/OS, Windows 7/10.

Technology: IBM Mainframes.

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL.

Databases: DB2 (on Z/OS), IMS DB.

File Access Methods: VSAM

OLTP: CICS, IMS-DC

Configuration Tools: ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN.

Debugging Tools: XPEDITOR.

File Management Tools: FILE-AID

Job Schedulers: TWS, ESP

Job monitoring: JOBTRAC management (CA-7), Ctrl-M

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Team Lead - Mainframes

Responsibilities :

• Onshore Technical lead and Coordinator.
• Code enhancement and developing new module for client change and new functionality Included.
• Tech spec preparation, Unit testing and debugging on enhanced/developed module.
• Providing high level & detail level estimates for the development and enhancement projects and service requests.
• Coordinating with the client SMEs and offshore business analysts to review and analyse the business requirements and propose business solutions using the mainframes technical expertise and skills.
• Designing and reviewing functional and technical specifications for the projects by considering the business requirements & complexity. Designing solution for a Service Request or a Trouble Ticket.
• Preparing a Detailed Technical Design Document (TDD) for full development cycle projects.
• Developing and unit testing the code as per project requirements. Providing permanent fix recommendations for repetitive failures in applications & make sure applications work smoothly.
• Assisting the team in Test case / test data preparation, execution and verification of the test results in the Unit, System, Integration and Regression testing.
• Conducting code review, test case review and test results review for development projects.
• Assisting the users to carry out User Acceptance Testing (UAT), resolve issues and queries if any and conduct UAT review meetings with business owners.
• Production Support and test data refresh. Loading production data into different test environments using jobs.
• Creating and changing the procs and JCL for regular releases and production incidents.
• Working with offshore team lead to maintain steady flow of work from customer, workload balancing & identifying resources for the assignments.
• Providing technical assistance to offshore team members, carry out time to time knowledge transfer and mentoring junior team members.
• Provided knowledge transfer sessions to migration team on FIA, FIDO and AROS HI apps.
• Sent source code to third party: Blu Age thru SharePoint.
• Written test cases for all the batch jobs involved in FFA apps.
• Parsing incoming MQ messages in FIDO and AROS HI apps and passed to Blu Age for their conversion tool.
• Responded to all the queries related to FFA applications from Blu Age technical team.
• Data extraction from database for FIA, FIDO, AROS HI applications.
• Data replication on test regions from production region.
• Actively involving in all the issues that are raised during migration project.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Developer - Mainframes

Responsibilities :

• Coordinate discussions with different stakeholders and understand their need.
• Design, Development and Maintenance of applications using Mainframe hardware platform.
• Used COBOL and JCL programming languages during my projects.
• Used IBM DB2 database and VSAM files during the projects.
• Used Endevor as the version control tool.
• Used HPSM for tracking defects and update the status of development in the various environments.
• Arrange design review meetings and peer reviews of deliverables.
• Worked on fixes to production issues and new enhancements to application.
• Engage with customer to carry out User Acceptance testing (UAT) smoothly.
• Work with customer to look out for opportunities of process improvement in various applications.
• Handle client technical queries and provide the best fit solution using Mainframe and windows technologies that fulfils client's needs.
• Communicate activities/progress to project manager and business analysts.
• Prepare various quality reports and metrics for the project.

Confidential

Application developer - Mainframes

Responsibilities :

• Involved in enhancement, Coding (as per Confidential Standards), Preparation of test cases (Unit and system test case), and Unit testing of applications and final Implementation and deployment of the deliverables.
• Also worked for solving high severity production defects which helped to gain extensive knowledge about the overall system process.
• Design level document preparation (LLD and HLD)
• Unit / Regression testing on developed code.
• Involved in code packaging.
• Always identify the problem, understand its nature, component parts and the relation between them and generate timely and well-developed solution to address the problem in production.
• Prepares On-call documents which consists SIT, UAT, and Production ABEND details. This document will be discussed during weekly status call with business.
• Prepares the Holiday calendars which consists the list of tasks that will be performed during the holidays in US.
• Excellent analytical and programming abilities in using technology to create elegant, flexible and maintainable solutions for complex development problems.
• Possess strong work ethic and team spirit.

Confidential

Application developer - Mainframes

Responsibilities :

• Analysis of the requirements for the production and maintenance request.
• Requirement analysis, impact analysis and feasibility study of the code changes for CQs every month.
• Resolving issues or tickets within agreed SLA.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans and Results.
• Reviews, Documentation and Communication as per Quality standards
• Preparing Weekly/Monthly Batch reports.