PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Total 12+ Years of IT experience on Mainframes.
• Proficient in IBM Mainframe technologies with experience in SDLC, project management, process improvements.
• Worked on Telecom, Payroll, Insurance, Health care domains.
• Very strong in Analysis, Design, Coding, ProductionSupport, Testing of Mainframe Applications.
• Extensive knowledge and work experience in COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, JCL, CICS, and VSAM.
• Worked on various IBM utilities like SYNCSORT, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, IEBCOMPR, IEFBR14 etc.
• Excellent knowledge of both Batch and Online systems running on Mainframes.
• Extensively used debugging tools such as XPEDITOR and IBM Debugger.
• Hands on experience on DB2 tools such as QMF, SPUFI, FILE - AID, DB2 Platinum.
• Expertize in configuration management tools like CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR and PANVALET.
• Expertize in using scheduling tool CA-7.
• Good exposure on Analysis and Designing of Documents like Software requirement specifications (SRS) and Specification Design documents (HLD and LLD).
• Strong experience in relational database DB2 & expert in COBOL-DB2 application programming with exposure to DB2 Utilities.
• Strong experience in impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Received R&R Outstanding performance ( Confidential internal) for the efforts contributed to critical projects SPI.
• Experience in adhering to coding standards and finishing on time, Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning and trouble shooting.
• Worked on all phases of project development life cycle right from Feasibility study to post-implementation support.
• Self-motivated and ability to meet operational deadlines in a demanding fast paced environment and capable of working independently as well as in a team.
• Generate, Understand, build, maintain professional customer and stake holder relationship.
• Creation of technical specifications, technical design documents, test plans, test cases coding with functional specification as input.
• Proficient in handling production abends.
• Capable of understanding the business and data challenges of client's organization and industry in minimal time.
• Status reporting with business and involving in various business calls with client.
• Provided technical support and co-coordinated with colleagues and business partners on testing of applications developed and processes as and when required.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Platforms: Mainframes, UNIX, Windows

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL

Tools: /Software: Xpeditor, Endevor, File-Aid, SPUFI, QMF, PLATINUM, CA-7, Control-M.

Databases: DB2, IMS DB

Office Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Confidential, MIDDLE TOWN, NJ

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Mentor team members towards project and organizational goals.
• Work closely with client to understand the project requirement and perform analysis based on the project scope.
• Provide inputs to business analyst in preparing business requirement document.
• Preparing system requirement document and detailed design for RAMP Applications based on business requirements.
• Providing the estimates.
• Perform coding using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 and IMS DB.
• Responsible for development activities and on-call for Production support.
• Designing, development, testing, troubleshooting, root cause analysis and debugging of applications.
• Developed and tested batch jobs.
• Handling Adhoc requests from clients by developing new batch programs according to requirements.
• Impact Analysis and estimation for requirement sent by the client.
• Test Case Preparation Unit Testing Integration testing and System Testing.
• Adept Confidential gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation.
• Create problem tickets in AOTS as input and schedule change in production.
• Handling the project in Application level rather than component level or individual programming.
• Helping team members resolving tickets on time and keep tracking of all daily tickets and new changes implemented in production.
• Participating dynamically in teams various phases of application development and maintenance.
• Creating status reports of the projects and report these to project manager and client Confidential regular intervals.
• Responsible for fixing abends in applications during batch cycles.
• Responsible for preparing the test environments.
• 24/7 Oncall support for production batch cycle and run test support cycles in different environments and resolving batch abends in both cycles.
• Understand the application thoroughly in order to solve customer issues.
• Doing RCA of production abends and giving solution for the same.
• Coordinate with the CBIFT testing team and be responsible the components are loaded for system, integration testing.
• Validate the jobs in the CBIFT environment based on the System and integration test scenarios.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, JCL, CICS, and VSAM, XPEDITOR, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID, DB2 Platinum, ENDEVOR, CA-7

Confidential, MIDDLE TOWN, NJ

Test Specialist Mainframe/Mainframe testing

Responsibilities:

• Testing the application for the functionality or the change mentioned in the requirement document.
• Testing the whole process or other application which receive or send data to the affected application. Regression Testing is the primary focus of this testing activity.
• As a tester have to perform several testing for the application’s which are coded to move into production environment based on the business requirements.
• Requirement Testing: Understand the business needs for the application using Requirement document created by the business people, which are helpful to continue with testing procedures with complete knowledge on the package.
• Regression Testing: Test the application functionality with different set of specs and other inputs as defined separately.
• Knowledge of software testing and SDLC.
• Resolving the abends that occurs while executing the jobs.
• CICS Online Screens: Checking the transaction screens by providing several kinds of inputs and checking it’s functionality against the inputs and recording the same.
• Participate in design meetings scheduled by development and business teams to understand the requirements so that the testing is done effectively.
• Having knowledge on mainframe development is helping to complete the testing sooner and the full understanding of the package has to be delivered.
• Ensure the test schedules are followed for test design, data setup and execution.
• Batch testing and online testing should be done effectively without missing any functionality mentioned on Requirement document, and no Test Case should be spared.
• Perform all Pre-system test activities related to the project
• Calculate and submit time estimate Confidential &C 2's
• Provide cycle schedule and testing milestones to the SR Project Team
• Requesting and reporting on environment needs for the project like link compares to ensure the latest release components are loaded in the test environment.
• Ensure the required tables are taken backup.
• Create Test Plan and conduct formal review
• Coordinating the creation and/or consolidation of test cases and approval of test cases
• Coordinate data setup between partnering organizations.
• Assist offshore team to ensure that the jobs are executed successfully and without any compliance.
• Work closely with the Data team to make sure the data has been setup as per the test case requirements.
• Ensure that the 100% is received before the deadlines of the cycles.
• Attending go-no-go call to inform the test status of the release.
• Tracking release progress with offshore / onshore and ensuring risks are highlighted in delivery with business.
• Resolving production failures within the timeframe which adheres to the service level agreement SLA .
• Perform the cycle activities for each cycle in the bundle
• Ensure Provision local or outside biller account
• Collect Stops and Holds, including reason and time-frame, and communicate to Execution Team
• Coordinate interface file creation/validation
• Support test case validation and as defined by the project team
• Testing the online screens functionality of existing screens and the new screens.
• Facilitate resolution of Execution and Environment issues as necessary
• Ensure cycle deliverables are received (bills, invoices, reports)
• Log all testing defects in Defect Tracking Log
• Validate the bills format once bills are loaded
• Validate Bill Format

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, SORT, VSAM, DB2, Xpeditor, Endeavor, File-Aid, SPUFI, QMF.

Responsibilities:

• Worked for complete cycles of Development, Testing and Release to live. Responsible for Software Development Cycle and agile methodologies.
• Analysis of the Statutory Tax rules and applying the new stat rules to the system and thus calculating the Net pay of the Employee per payroll.
• Preparing Detailed Designs, Specification Documentation for the work request
• Developing the Code as per the Program specifications and conducting Code reviews along with Client. Unit Testing and evaluating the test results for test plans and test cases and prepare the test result summary report.
• Experience in preparing the monthly and weekly status reports to the clients and project office.
• Finding the database production issues and fixing them using the restart logic using one-shot programs to maintain the consistent data in the database.
• Provide support to the team and interaction with the Designer’s.
• Work with Delivery manager on defect resolutions for a future release.
• Worked in Real Time Payroll Project which is responsible for generating the payroll in 6 seconds.
• Loading and unloading of the data using various DB2 utilities from Databases to extract files.
• Provided support for the data preparation. Analyzing data requirements for system interfaces
• Analysis of the data dictionary and data fields required for the application programs.

Confidential, Raleigh

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the High-level Analysis Design document and Technical Requirements.
• Preparing Detailed design and Specification documents for business requirements.
• Conducting reviews on High level design, Detailed designs, UTCs and UTRs along with client.
• Developed COBOL Code and SQL scripts to fetch Claim details from the database and insert new Claim transactions into the database.
• Loading the data which is required for testing the complex functionality of generating the Health Statements using JCLs.
• Enhanced the process of generating the Health Statements.
• Adjudication of Posted Claims, and calculating the necessary amounts in the POST process.
• Documentation of the designs adhering to CMMI-5 standards.
• Coding and development as Per the Detailed design.
• Conducting code walkthroughs on deliverables along with client and offshore team.
• Root cause analysis of system test and production abends and Responsible for defect closure and sign off for the defects.
• Prepared the test JCL’S required for QA team to test and arranged them in a logical sequence with proper documentation.
• Extensively worked on SYNCSORT and ICETOOL.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SORT, File Aid, SPUFI, QMF, Xpeditor, Endeavor.

Confidential

Mainframe QA

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements and preparing estimates.
• Preparing test sets and test cases in HP quality center according to the requirements.
• Perform system and integration testing which involves quarterly reports.
• Executing test cases, logging and validating test cases in HP quality center.
• Analyzing the data from EDI gateways for different heath claims submitted from gateways.
• Coordinating with Onsite counterpart and development team for quality deliverables.
• Involved in implementing Lean management in the module.
• Used the JCL’s provided by the dev teams for various releases.
• Extensively worked on symbolic parameters, Procedure modification and GDG’s.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SORT, TRACEMASTER, File Aid, SPUFI, QMF, Xpeditor, Endeavor.