SUMMARY

• Mainframes Consultant with 8+ years of experience in designing and delivering medium to complex large scale applications.
• 3 years of experience in Healthcare - Claims Adjudication (Anthem, UHG).
• 5 years of experience in Banking - Credit & Charge Cards Authorization, Risk & Fraud Management (AMEX, RBS).
• Strong Analytical skills. Excellent Communication, Presentation and Documentation skills.
• Good Leadership and Conflict Resolution skills.
• Demonstrated ability in driving multiple teams (Dev, Test, Release teams), collaborating with multiple Application Systems to achieve desired results.
• Proficient in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Built and led a team. Mentored many juniors.
• Good at conducting & driving meetings ( Requirement Gathering, Design Solution Sessions, HLD walkthrough, Design and Code Review, End-to-End Test Management, SIT, UAT, Defect Triage, Status Review).
• Proficient in Designing System Flows, Data Mapping, Data Profiling, Interface Mapping.
• Good at RCA of SIT, UAT defects and PROD bugs.
• Experience of Healthcare Claims Lifecycle, Claims Adjudication, EDI transaction Formats (X12, 837 I & P, 276 & 277).
• Experience and Knowledge of Credit Card and Charge Card line of Business, Authorization, Risk Management, Fraud Detection and Prevention.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Technology Tools: MAINFRAMES - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, TSO, ISPF, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, CONTROL-M, ZEKE Scheduler, CA-JOBTRAC

Database: IBM DB2, PL SQL

Environment: / OS: z/OS, Windows

TOOLS: IBM Data Studio, HP ALM, JIRA, SQL Developer MS VISIO, MS Excel, Ms Power Point, MS Word

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Plan Connection area for BCBSA that handles all the US-NA BCBSA Plan to Plan interactions.
• Worked on Root Cause Analysis for PROD Bugs, Proposed Technical Design Solution for BCBSA Plans.
• Delivered Tech-Specs and Code Development, Testing and Implementation for Semi-Agile Projects.
• Performed Design Review, Code Review, Test Results Review for the team.
• COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, ZEKE Scheduler, JIRA, MS VISIO, MS Excel.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Requirement Gathering, Impact Analysis, Design Solutioning.
• Delivered High Level Design, Created User Stories, Code Development for AGILE and Waterfall Projects.
• Performed Design Review, Code Review, Test Results Review.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis of production issues.
• Analysed the Production Claims statistics for Manually Adjudicated Claims using MS EXCEL MACROS and proposed design solution to increase the Auto Adjudication(AA rate) rate of the Claims. This brought dollar saves for client.
• Performed Analysis of vast number of application programs in the system and Prepared Detailed Documentation of numerous types of ‘Edits on the Claims’.
• Mentored and led a team in code development, test and implementation activities.
• COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, JIRA, MS VISIO, MS Excel.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis for Medium to Complex projects.
• Delivered FRD, SRS, Requirements Traceability Matrices and High Level Design.
• Delivered Data Dictionary for the Application System Database, Data Mapping sheets, Change Request Forms, System Flow Diagrams and Traceability Matrices.
• Performed deep-dive analysis of existing Production issues (extensive Data-Profiling using IBM Data Studio and MS Excel) and proposed design solutions for the same.
• Proposed optimized DB2 queries for existing PROD modules as a value add to the project.
• Drove SIT and UAT End-to-End Test Management.
• Performed RCA of Defects during SIT, UAT. Performed defect Triaging. Proposed defect resolutions.
• Reviewed LLD Walkthroughs by Developers, High Level and Detailed Test Plan walkthroughs by Test team.
• Regular involvement in Design Solution meetings with Solution Architects and Technical Design meetings with Development team.
• Drove the meetings with Dev, Test, Release Management & Prod Support teams.
• Tracked the Portfolio level QA metrics like Cost of Quality, Effort and Schedule Variance, Defect Density, Defect Removal Density etc.
• COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, FILEAID, QMF, CICS, MQ, Web Services, SOAP UI, ENDEVOR, IBM DATA STUDIO, HP ALM, MS VISIO, MS Excel, Ms Power Point.

Confidential

Developer, Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively on all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Conducted meetings with clients for chalking out the Requirements maintaining direct interaction with the clients.
• Performed extensive Impact Analysis for project requirements.
• Prepared HLD, LLD.
• Performed Code Development, Unit Test, SIT, Documentation, Pre-Implementation activities & successful Implementation of the code in production.
• Single handedly delivered multiple projects as well as led juniors in the team for complex projects.
• Worked on re-engineering ideas for Cobol modules that brought annual savings of $20,000 for the client.
• Mentored new joiners in the team.
• Held technical as well as application knowledge sharing sessions.
• COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, FILEAID, CHANGEMAN, SPUFI, CONTROL-M, JOBTRAC, HP ALM.