SUMMARY

• Sr. Mainframe Application developer, with 14 yrs of experience in application development. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle.
• Extensive Knowledge in understanding the requirements, analysis, design, coding, development, implementation, testing, integration/UAT deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Experience working in the domain of Telecom & Insurance applications.
• Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support.
• Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF, COBOL, DB2, NSP, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IMSDB/DC, SYNCSORT, EZtrieve, Control - M, File Aid DB2, Xpeditor, InterTest, Endeavor, MQ Series, IBM Utilities, Changeman, MQ series and CA-7, SPUFI, ABEND-AID, TMS, FTP, SRC4GL, SQL, Endeavor, IBM RDz Datastudio, JIRA.
• Experience in creating Native Stored Procedures (NSP’s)
• Worked in Conversion projects from IMS DB to DB2 & IMS DC to CICS.
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development, Maintenance including Production Support activities.
• Involved in Primary Data technical documentation (BRD's) that comprises of comprehensive in detail explanation about major release/project.
• Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and kickoff meetings during different phases of project execution.
• Possess excellent interpersonal and team building, leadership and good coordination skills.
• Experience in handling projects in various roles as Team Member, Team Lead.
• Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.
• Expertise in trouble shooting & defects fixing.
• On call 24/7 support for 2 cross system applications.
• Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Participated in project review meetings with Clients understanding the requirements, preparing High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to team for the Build activity.
• Excellent working knowledge in SYNCSORT used for quick validation, creating reports, converted lot of COBOL code to SYNCSORT in production too.
• Beginner level knowledge on Core Java, Cassandra.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: OS/390 V2R10, Z/OS, Windows, MS DOS

HARDWARE: IBM Mainframe S390.

SOFTWARE PRODUCTS: MVS/ESA, VS COBOL-II, IBM MQ Series, SQL, JCL, Eazytrieve, CICS, CA7, TSO/ISPF, SYNCSORT, REXX, UNIX, Splunk

Databases: DB2, NSP, VSAM, IMSDB/DC, mySQL.

Tools: / Technologies: ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID for DB2, QMF, SPUFI,FileAid, Endeavor, Xpeditor, AbendAid, TMS, SRC4GL, Eztrieve, Cassandra.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior Developer

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, CICS, DB2, IBM RDz, Stored Procedures, JCL, MQ Series, VSAM, Syncsort, CA7, AbendAid, Xpediter, FileAid, SPUFI, Cassandra

Responsibilities:

• Working in Onlines & Batch environments that includes Online Service Orders Systems, Core Billing and Invoicing systems and point of contact for all type of investigations & development projects.
• Knowledge in business and technical analysis, design documentation, code standards and guidelines, and system testing skills and interacting with users.
• Documents the technical design, translating the logical flow of Business process into programmable solutions.
• Implement solutions using established tools and standards.
• Perform testing of code and documents test results.
• Presents completed work at design and code reviews.
• Ability to identify and resolve issues, works independently.
• Extensively worked in Root cause analysis and stopped the Revenue leakages.
• Worked with Revenue Assurance teams to credit/debit charges towards customers when there was a billing error.
• During credits/debits engages all the teams to let customer know what’s going on the bill.
• Live troubleshooting in fixing the Sev2, Sev3 issues that needs active participation from end to end business systems that involves to expedite through through XML’s, code, database.
• Actively participated and engaged with Business Analysts to understand the application that will help us resolving the users tickets.
• Gained functional knowledge in Wireless Ordering System.
• Working experience on Legacy migration from Mainframe to Java.
• Hands on experience on Cassandra, IBM RDz.
• Gained knowledge of multiple applications including distributed Systems and SOA.
• Worked closely with users who assist customers while placing/purchasing Orders that includes equipment upgrades, plan changes, feature changes, suspend, disconnects and Reactivations.
• Adherence to standard and flexibility.
• Provide on-call support and support Production implementations.
• Undergone situations where to make decisions to go/no go.

Confidential, OH

Sr Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked in Onlines & Batch an environment that includes Online Service Orders Systems, Core Billing and Invoicing systems and point of contact for all type of investigations & development projects.
• Changed the Cobol/DB2 programs to NSP’s.
• Worked in Conversion projects from IMS DB to DB2 & IMS DC to CICS & NSP’s.
• Planning and estimating the projects, keeping the plan up to date by providing the weekly status to the onshore.
• Involved in minor to major project releases that comprises of Coding, Testing, defect fixing in Integration, UAT & Post Production.
• Thoroughly monitored and recommended the QC check for monthly postpaid bill cycles.
• Cover all the benchmarks & milestones for a month.
• Involved in metrics report.
• 24/7 on call support for all 2 modules.
• Developed and implemented cost saving activities.
• Proactively researched and stop the revenue leakages by doing the quality controls/checks.
• Developed as SME in Online, Billings & Invoicing modules.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Conduct meetings at offshore/onshore teams to understand the requirements.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules.
• Worked closely with the Data Ware housing team for developing new files as needed by Web from mainframe for the reports to be displayed in the front end.
• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, NSP.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Prepare turnover elements check list to make the turnover process is seamless.

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, MQ Series, VSAM, Eztrieve, Sync sort, CA7, UNIX, AbendAid, Xpediter, FileAid, SPUFI, SRC4GL, mySQL.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Heavily worked in Onlines & Batch an environment that includes Core Billing, Taxing and Invoicing systems.
• Majorly involved in Coding, Testing, Reporting and post production implementation activities.
• Reporting project status to PM and customer.
• Developed and handover the code to IT/UAT testing.
• Planning and Monitoring Defect Prevention Activities
• Co-ordinate with offshore team for development of software products.
• As part of the major development projects, had extensive meetings with both the Business and Users teams to gather requirements.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Conduct meetings at offshore/onshore teams to understand the requirements.
• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, IMSDB, CICS.
• Debugging and implementing the system using IBM Debug tools.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Setting up Process to be followed from Offshore.

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, IMSDB, MQ Series, VSAM, Eztrieve, Sync sort, CA7, UNIX, AbendAid, Xpediter, FileAid, SPUFI, SRC4GL, mySQL.

Confidential, VT, NewYork

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Receives the business requirements from the client / Onsite.
• Participated in JAD Sessions with team members by interacting with SME’s of the application.
• Analyzing the functional and Detailed Design specification.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, VS COBOL II, VSAM, DB2.
• Knowledge sharing within the team and actively involved in learning the Application.
• Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time.
• Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Analyzing modifications, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and Work package testing.
• Testing the Applications for the business requirement and responsible for delivery from offshore.
• Involved in System testing and attending to the trackers raised and resolving them on time and ITO Testing activities.

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, IMSDB, JCL, Insync, Syncsort, CA7, Endeavor, Xpediter.

Confidential, NY

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis to the programs to be modified according to the business requirements and analysis of Functional Specification document.
• Study of the requirements and getting clarifications for the change requests and Enhancements.
• Involved in Impact Analysis, preparing the test cases and Technical system design documents.
• Involved in Coding and Testing.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of work requests.
• Created NSPs for easy & fast retrievals and send it to FEs.

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, FileAid-DB2/VSAM, Syncsort, Changeman, Xpediter, Abend-Aid, SPUFI, NSP