SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience in IT industries and 9+ years of experience in Mainframe development and maintenance of the software for various business applications.
• Extensive experience in Mainframe Involved in development, testing and debugging of Applications.
• Proficient in COBOL, Customer Information Control System (CICS), Database2 (DB2), File management (VSAM), JCL
• Extensive Experience in writing up Queries on IBM - DB2.
• Extensive Experience on practical concepts in Release co-ordination for Database changes, Development and Test Environment maintenance.
• Proficient in tools OPC scheduler, SPUFI, ENDEAVOR, MQ Series, File Manager (Equivalent to File-Aid), SAR and Debugger
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication, and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Effective team working skills. Able to work both as an individual and as a team member within multi-disciplinary team.
• Hands on experience on all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) of mainframe applications, including requirement gathering from business users, analysis, design, creation of mapping documents, specification writing, development, testing, and implementation.
• Extensive experience on working with MS-Office applications such as Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and VISIO.
• Excellent oral/written/interpersonal communication skills, quick learner, willing to adapt to the team/organizational environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mainframe Skills: COBOL, JCL,DB2,SQL,CICS, Endevor, TSO,OPC Scheduler, File-Aid, File Manager, MQ Series, SAS, Intertest, CICS Webservices, CA7

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, OS/390. Windows NT/2000/XP/2007

Programming Languages: COBOL

Control Languages: JCL

Database Packages: DB2

OLTP: CICS

File System: VSAM

Mainframe Tools: SPUFI, ENDEVOR, SMARTTEST, FILE MANEGER, SAR, Change Man, NDM

CA7, Intertest:

Database Tools, Utilities: DB2 Load and Unload, Reorg, Runstats

Packages: MS-Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Software Engineer developer at Confidential
• Closely working with Business Analysis team and gathering and understanding the requirements.
• Documenting functional requirements and preparing the functional and technical specification documents
• Retrieve Production components using Production Endeavor.
• Involved in coding and Unit testing
• Using MAUI Web services test the elements in different environments
• Coding Changes based on Complexity of Incidents/Service Calls using COBOL, DB2, CICS and MQ Series.
• Utilized SDLC, CICS, MAUI View, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, MQ-SERIES, SPUFI, JCL, File-Aid, TSO/ISPF, ENDEAVOR, MS-EXCEL, MS-SHAREPOINT for the Client in Common and Group Filtering Project
• Ensured that Alerts generated from programs were sent to the Distributed Client Group using MQ-Web service
• Supporting System testing, Integration testing and also like pilot proving
• Tracking of deliverables and assisting creating of Project Plans and Issues Log.
• Status Reporting, Tracking and seeking Resolutions to issues.
• Preparing Implementation support documents and updating Troubleshoot Guides.
• Involved in implementation and post implementation support activities
• Hand averring the new batch process to Production support team and supporting Production support teams in fixing the issues on call supports.

Environment: Mainframe - COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, ZOS/390, Endevor, Panvalet, CA7, MAUI Web services, MQ Queues, Intertest, HP Service Manager, Windows 7.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Closely working with Business Analysis team and gathering and understanding the requirements.
• Documenting functional requirements and preparing the functional and technical specification documents
• Helping the Team in understanding the requirements
• Retrieve Production components using Production Endeavor.
• Involved in coding and Unit testing
• Coding Changes based on Complexity of Incidents/Service Calls using COBOL, Easytrieve, DB2, JCL, CICS and MQ Queues.
• Reviewing Peers Designs, codes and testing results.
• Supporting System testing, Integration testing and also like pilot proving
• Used OPC Scheduler to schedule the job flows in UAT testing and verifying the results after its execution.
• Co-ordinate deliverables, provide SME support and track progress of requirements with application service groups
• Participate in internal change control process and scope changes, release management.
• Assist in Test Strategy and planning integration testing for Business SRs.
• Create, review and perform Integration Test Scenarios, Test Cases and validation points.
• Tracking of deliverables and assisting creating of Project Plans and Issues Log.
• Status Reporting, Tracking and seeking Resolutions to issues.
• Preparing Implementation support documents and updating Troubleshoot Guides.
• Involved in implementation and post implementation support activities
• Hand averring the new batch process to Production support team and supporting Production support teams in fixing the issues on call supports.

Environment: Mainframe - COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, ZOS/390, Endevor, Smartest, File manager, MQ series, SAR, OPC scheduler Windows 7.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of application programs and various business scenarios, helping the System analyst in preparing the Design documents
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs
• Preparing detailed technical document for the listed application design for better understanding
• Preparing the DDD’s (Detail Design Document) & DOU (document of understanding).
• Coding Changes based on Complexity of Incidents/Service Calls using COBOL, VSAM, SAS, DB2, JCL
• Reviewing the code changes and Technical documents
• Review the program changes/test cases/test plans done by peers
• Involved in all phases of testing (Unit test, System Test and OAT test)
• Verify the test results by written the compare SAS codes
• Assisting the release management team in release activities
• Doing the Technical checkout of release after the implementation
• Creating the change orders and CRSs to implement the elements in production
• Participated in implementation support and resolved the issues occurred in post implementation phase.
• Prepared and circulated the weekly status reports to offshore and onsite teams

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SAS, ZOS/390, ChangeMan, Debugger, Filemanager, CA7 Windows XP.