SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in Development, Maintenance, Production Support and Retirement projects of IBM MAINFRAME environment.
• Strong Skills in Mainframes Tools & Technologies - COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, IMS DC, IBM DB2, CICS, VSAM, ISPW, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER PLUS, FILE MASTER IMS, EASYTRIEVE.
• Good skills in creating Mainframe Macros and Scripts to automate the manual activities.
• Good team player and have experience of leading the team having multiple Applications.
• Worked in Onsite-Offshore model and having good Client interaction skills.
• Good work experience in SDLC process, Waterfall and Agile methodology delivery.
• Basic domain knowledge of Healthcare & Logistics.

TECHNICAL EXPOSURE:

IBM Technology: JCL, COBOL, IMS-DB, IMS DC, EASYTRIEVE, VSAM, IBM DB2, CICS

Mainframe Tools: ISPW, CA7, CHGMAN, CONTROL-M, $AVRS, DEBUG TOOL and FILE MANAGER.

Databases: IMS DB, DB2

Operating Systems: OS/390

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technology / Tools used: JCL, COBOL, IMS DB, IMS DC, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER IMS, DUMPS

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Business Requirement Specifications (BRS) for any Work requests provided by Business team and participate in preparing the corresponding Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Perform the impact analysis, inform all other Applications/Teams impacted and provide estimation of efforts for the requirements development work.
• Prepare the Detailed Design document, Test plan strategy, Assumptions and Risk mitigation plan.
• Perform Coding for the new feature/functionality or for modifying existing feature/functionality.
• Participate in the Technical review meetings and adhere to Confidential technical standards in design/coding.
• Execute unit testing in L1 test level for all the system changes and Promote the code to next testing levels.
• Work on Support Requests and Support testing team during L2/L3/L4/L5 testing for test data creation, resolve any issues / abends and make sure all test cycles complete successfully. Work on any defects raised in test Cycles and fix them properly so that the issue shouldn’t happen in Production.
• Prepare and upload all Compliance related documents and with proper Reviews & Approvals from Managers and Business.
• Work on Deployment Activities of code into Production and perform post production validations and Application Checkout.
• Conduct knowledge transfer to other team members and update application documents with details of latest enhancements to the Application and any lessons learned.
• Analyze and Resolve Production abends/issues/defects/Support Requests, Provide Work Around/Temporary fix, Perform Root Cause Analysis and provide Permanent fix.
• Participate in bridge calls with other teams in case of any Production issues and to make sure Application is Up and running fine.
• Work on Adhoc tasks given by Clients or Business such as analyzing on any issues or existing work flow/logic of applications.
• Interact with Business team and users for future enhancement planning.
• Prepare and share Weekly Status reports to Confidential and Confidential Management.
• Update Production Issue log with all details of Production issues with clear reason and resolutions.
• Participate in PI (Program Increment) Planning to represent DEV team.
• Discuss and provide info about the work and help in creating User Stories for that PI.
• Participate in Sprint Planning and help in distributing the work (User Stories) to the team.
• Participate in Daily stand up calls and update the status of the user story to Scrum master.
• Demo the work done to the entire Agile Release train at the end of the Sprint.

Confidential

Technology / Tools used: JCL, COBOL, IMS DB, IMS DC, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER IMS, DUMPS

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements provided and Perform the impact analysis for the requirements.
• Participate in preparing the Detailed Design document.
• Perform Coding for the new feature/functionality or for modifying existing feature/functionality.
• Participate in the Technical review meetings and adhere to Confidential technical standards in design/coding.
• Execute unit testing in L1 test level for all the system changes and Promote the code to next testing levels.
• Work on Support Requests and Support testing team during L2/L3/L4/L5 testing for test data creation, resolve any issues / abends and make sure all test cycles complete successfully. Work on any defects raised in test Cycles and fix them properly.
• Participate in Agile daily standup calls with Scrum master and all other stakeholders to update the status of user stories assigned.
• Prepare and upload all Compliance related documents and with proper Reviews & Approvals from Managers and Business.
• Analyze and Resolve Production abends/issues/defects/Support Requests, Provide Work Around/Temporary fix, Perform Root Cause Analysis and provide Permanent fix.
• Participate in bridge calls with other teams in case of any Production issues and to make sure Application is Up and running fine.
• Prepare and share Weekly Status reports to Confidential and Confidential Management.
• Update Production Issue log with all details of Production issues with clear reason and resolutions.

Confidential, Colorado Springs

Technology / Tools used: JCL, COBOL, IMS DB, IMS DC, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER IMS, DUMPS

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the Business Requirement Specifications (BRS) for any Work requests provided by Business team and participate in preparing the corresponding Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).
• Perform the impact analysis, inform all other Applications/Teams impacted and provide estimation of efforts for the requirements development work.
• Prepare the Detailed Design document, Test plan strategy, Assumptions and Risk mitigation plan.
• Perform Coding for the new feature/functionality or for modifying existing feature/functionality.
• Participate in the Technical review meetings and adhere to Confidential technical standards in design/coding.
• Execute unit testing in L1 test level for all the system changes and Promote the code to next testing levels.
• Work on Support Requests and Support testing team during L2/L3/L4/L5 testing for test data creation, resolve any issues / abends and make sure all test cycles complete successfully. Work on any defects raised in test Cycles and fix them properly so that the issue shouldn’t happen in Production.
• Prepare and upload all Compliance related documents and with proper Reviews & Approvals from Managers and Business.
• Work on Deployment Activities of code into Production and perform post production validations and Application Checkout.
• Conduct knowledge transfer to other team members and update application documents with details of latest enhancements to the Application and any lessons learned.
• Analyze and Resolve Production abends/issues/defects/Support Requests, Provide Work Around/Temporary fix, Perform Root Cause Analysis and provide Permanent fix.
• Participate in bridge calls with other teams in case of any Production issues and to make sure Application is Up and running fine.
• Work on Adhoc tasks given by Clients or Business such as analyzing on any issues or existing work flow/logic of applications.
• Interact with Business team and users for future enhancement planning.
• Prepare and share Weekly Status reports to Confidential and Confidential Management.
• Update Production Issue log with all details of Production issues with clear reason and resolutions.

Confidential

Technology / Tools used: JCL, COBOL, IMS DB, IMS DC, IBM DB2, VSAM, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER IMS, DUMPS

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Requirements, Design document and Perform Coding for the new feature/functionality or for modifying existing feature/functionality.
• Participate in the Technical review meetings and adhere to Confidential technical standards in coding.
• Execute unit testing in L1 test level for all the system changes and Promote the code to next testing levels.
• Support testing team during L2/L3/L4/L5 testing for test data creation, resolve any issues / abends and make sure all test cycles complete successfully.
• Work on any defects raised in test Cycles and fix them properly so that the issue shouldn’t happen in Production.
• Prepare and upload all Compliance related documents and with proper Reviews & Approvals.
• Analyze and Resolve Production abends, Provide Work Around/Temporary fix, Perform Root Cause Analysis and provide Permanent fix.
• Update application documents with details of latest enhancements to the Application and any lessons learned.
• Prepare and share Weekly Status reports to Client and Confidential Management.
• Work on the Adhoc tasks given by Onsite Team Lead / FTEs.

Confidential

Technology / Tools used: JCL, COBOL, IBM DB2, VSAM, CICS, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER IMS, DUMPS

Responsibilities:

• Monitor scheduled Production jobs.
• Analyze and Resolve Production abends within specified SLA time, Provide Work Around/Temporary fix, Perform Root Cause Analysis and provide Permanent fix.
• Work on any Production issues/defects/Support Requests.
• Participate in bridge calls with other teams in case of any Production issues and to make sure Application is Up and running fine.
• Schedule and monitor special runs and Capitation runs.
• Update Abend log with all details of Production issues with clear reason and resolutions.
• Prepare and Send Daily Load status to Customer.

Confidential

Technology / Tools used: JCL, COBOL, IBM DB2, VSAM, CICS, INTER TEST, FILE MASTER IMS, DUMPS

Responsibilities:

• Perform Coding for the new feature/functionality or for modifying existing feature/functionality as per the detailed design document.
• Participate in the Technical review meetings and adhere to Confidential technical standards in coding.
• Execute unit testing in L1 test level for all the system changes and Promote the code to next testing levels.
• Support testing team during L2/L3/L4/L5 testing for test data creation, resolve any issues / abends and make sure all test cycles complete successfully.
• Work on any defects raised in test Cycles and fix them properly so that the issue shouldn’t happen in Production.