SUMMARY:

• IBM Mainframe professional with 6+ years of IT experience as Mainframe Developer in Analysis, technical design, development, Integration, testing and project management, production support and maintenance of several mainframe applications.
• Experienced in business application development with 5 years of Systems Analysis, Application Design, Development, and Maintenance with COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, and MVS.
• Have a strong experience in software design, analysis, and development, maintenance, testing and troubleshooting on IBM Mainframes.
• Good understanding of SDLC life cycle and performed activities end to end in all phases.
• Expertise in the Mainframe tools like TSO, ISPF, File - Aid, File Manager, Expeditor, Endeavor, FTP, SPUFI, QMF etc.
• Experienced in creating JCL using various JCL utilities like DFSORT, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, ICETOOL and DB2 utilities.
• Planning deliverables timelines & coordinate with Change management/release management for release schedule.
• Experienced in creating High Level Design, Detailed Design and Functional Requirement documents.
• Proficient in documenting all the phases of project from the Requirement analysis to Maintenance.
• Excellent Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new Tools & Software quickly as required.
• Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills help contribute to timely completion of project Deliverables well short of schedule.
• Strong ability to understand issues of clients and act quickly to resolve issues with client.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: IBM Mainframes Z/OS, MVS 370/390, Windows XP/2000/2007.

Technology: Mainframe

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, REXX, C, C++, Java

Databases: VSAM, DB2

Tools: JOBTRACK, CA-7, NDM, TRACEMASTER, QMF, Easytrieve,COBOL LE,,CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, FILE MANAGER, FILE MASTER, MQ,IMS, TSO, ISPF,SPUFI,UNITECH, GEAC,OPC,SYNCSORT/DFSORT/ICETOOL utilities.

Version Control: ENDEVOR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• I have done Reject Recapture processing. (To recapture all the transaction which got rejected and reprocess them).
• Code changes for the Existing Batch programs in COBOL.
• Analyzed, designed and created new JCL, JOBs, PROCs .
• Developed/Designed new batch programs in COBOL.
• Coded COBOL and COBOL DB2 programs and tested them thoroughly.
• Developed High complex SQL queries to fetch data from database to validate the data for testing.
• Requirement Analysis, from the Business Requirement Document received
• Impact Analysis, after building the Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Follow up with Compliance, Business and Peer groups to ensure that net outcome is as expected
• Coding and Unit Testing
• Integration and System Testing
• Sharing functional knowledge, both Domain and Stream, to team members to bring them up to pace with the requirement and delivery
• Peer review the changes in a timely manner to ensure that no requirement is missed.
• Implementation and Maintenance of the changed Module
• Provide immediate on-time support as primary point of contact on a 24x7 basis for technical issues through situation analysis.
• Resolve everyday online and batch Abends. Monitor batch jobs and ensure timely completion in Accordance with SLA.
• Adherence to Quality Control procedures to ensure full compliance with company policies and procedures.

Technology and Tools: COBOL,JCL,VSAM,CICS,DB2,File- MANAGER,CA7,ENDEVOR

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development of both online and batch programs with database connectivity like CICS-DB2 and COBOL-DB2.
• Querying data from database (SQL) for creating data for unit testing using QMF, SPUFI.
• Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2.
• Worked in QA methodologies such as Agile, Iterative, Waterfall.
• Involved in the sprint planning, backlog review meetings
• Part of the daily scrum meetings
• Detailed analysis of the client requirements for change requests (CR), development and enhancement.
• Also specialized in analysis of production problems for bug fixing.
• Designing optimum and efficient solutions for software requirements and bug fix.
• Writing bug-free codes with strict adherence to quality standards Unit testing to test that the requirement has been fulfilled,
• System Testing to test that the entire application behaves normally with the new changes, regression testing to test that the existing functionality of the application is intact,
• User Acceptance testing which in turn involves supporting the enhancement and answering the queries of the users and implementation of the enhancement.
• Documentation of the development and enhancement tasks and preparing and maintaining technical and documents for Confidential Knowledge Repository.
• Preparing various quality documents like Code review sheet, EBR (Enhancement and Bug Fix Reports), Test Review, and Test Logs. Coordination with the onsite team in tune with Confidential ’s onsite/offshore model.

Technology and Tools: COBOL,JCL,,CICS,DB2,File- AID, JOB-TRAC, SQL,ENDEVOUR

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Understanding the business requirement document
• Prepare the Detail level design document
• Participate in peer review
• Developing new modules to setup the monthly extract reports, as per new requirement of the Client
• Unit Testing.
• Requirement Analysis for employee details
• Detailed description explanation
• Employee profile information for various transactions.
• Report generation for various support groups.

Environment: Core Java, Jdk1.6,, JSP,JDBC, Web services, Apache