SUMMARY

• Ten years of IT experience in Mainframe based applications involving Software Development Life Cycle activities like requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, testing, process control and implementation phases.
• Extensive working experience on Mainframe related skills such as COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, TSO, IMS DB/DC, CICS, Sort, Icetool, MQ
• Worked on tools like Changeman, Endevor, Xpeditor, QMF, SPUFI, File - aid, Abend-aid, TELON, Service manager, File manager for IMS and DB2, Debug tool, Fault Analyzer, IBM Rational Clear Case and IBM Rational Clear Quest, Jira, Service now
• Interact with clients to get business requirements and system requirements.
• Conduct meetings with clients, business analysts and participating teams to discuss design solutions and prepare requirement specifications and project plans.
• SME (Subject Matter Expert) for assigned projects and applications.
• Perform thorough impact analysis and provide project estimation and scheduling.
• Analyze and provide business and technical solutions for critical components and applications and high priority business issues.
• Develop requirement documents, design documents, identify test cases and develop test plan for unit, integration and system testing.
• Perform coding, testing and fixing bugs. Interact with onsite and offshore teams for resolution of development issues. Perform review of all deliverables and ensure defect free project delivery.
• Extensively involved in code review, test plan review and test results review in mainframe applications.
• 24/7 Production Support and Maintenance for Mainframe business critical and complex applications involving identification of production issues, providing solutions and deployment into production for the gold application
• Proactively handled the Preventive, Corrective, and Perfective tickets in production support environment
• Adhered to 100% SLA of client and delivered projects within the schedule.
• Reporting and sharing project status and project health to management team, development team and related users on a regular basis. Reporting current tickets status for effective tracking and closure with proper resolution
• Excellent Team player with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the development process.
• Experience in working with multiple vendors and geographically distributed teams with Onsite/Offshore team structure.
• Ability to communicate ideas and concepts clearly and concisely while maintaining a professional and positive conduct, personal and business integrity

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe, MS Windows

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, IMS, CICS

Database: DB2, IMS DB/DC

Tools: & Utilities: File-aid, Abend-aid, QMF, SPUFI, Icetool, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IBM Rational Clear Quest / Case, TELONService manager, Sort, File manager for IMS and DB2, VSAM, XpeditorDebug tool, Fault Analyzer, Changeman, Endevor.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working on projects, major and minor enhancements to the system to support business growth
• Provided 24/7 support to all applications under the project portfolio
• Take on call responsibility on a rotation basis within team
• Meet with business teams to understand the business change required, perform impact analysis of existing process and provide optimal solutions
• Prepare requirements document, impact analysis, detail and technical documents, test plans and project presentations
• Walk thru the design and unit test results with peers, business team and application users for review and approval
• Adherence to client’s coding standards and process standards
• Reviewing code, test results and documents
• Perform system integration testing, and user acceptance testing, and prepare the changes for implementation
• Planning and implementation of code fixes

Environment: IBM mainframes, COBOL, TSO, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, Sort, TELON, File manager for IMS and DB2, FTP, Fault Analyser, Service Manager.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on projects, major and minor enhancements to the system which support business growth
• Provided 24/7 support to business critical and complex applications
• Effectively managed teams at onsite and offsite to complete tasks on time for delivery
• Reported and published the status of all handled tasks to peers and managers for tracking
• Handled business user queries and other application user raised tickets of all severity - from low to high
• Adherence to SLA as per client guidelines.
• Adherence to client’s coding standards and process standards
• Applications monitoring, backlog reduction and application simplification by code complexity reduction for better application maintenance
• Proactively provided permanent solution for job abends.
• Reviewing code, test results and documents
• Proactively involved in helping the team during crisis situation
• Involved in requirement gathering phase and coordinated with offshore to create design documents, coding, reviewing, test plan and results documentation and Implementation of changes into production.
• Planning and implementation of code fixes

Environment: IBM mainframes, COBOL, TSO, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, CICS, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL, FTP, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, IBM Rational Clear Quest, IBM Rational Clear Case.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided 24/7 support to a business critical and complex application
• Handled business user queries and other application user raised tickets of all severity - from low to high
• Adherence to SLA as per client guidelines.
• Proactively handled the Preventive, Corrective, and Perfective tickets in support.
• Adherence to client’s coding standards and process standards
• Applications monitoring, backlog reduction and application simplification by code complexity reduction for better application maintenance
• Proactively provided permanent solution for job abends.
• Reviewing code, test results and documents
• Proactively involved in helping the team during crisis.
• Involved in requirement gathering phase and coordinated with offshore to create design documents, coding, reviewing, test plan and results documentation and Implementation of changes into production.
• Planning and implementation of code fixes

Environment: IBM mainframes, COBOL, TSO, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, CICS, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL, FTP, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, IBM Rational Clear Quest, IBM Rational Clear Case.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supported TTMS ( Confidential Transportation Management System) application which is highly business critical
• Worked on multiple enhancements across different applications within Confidential for almost 2 years, delivering zero defect code and complete documentations
• Understanding the high-level design, preparing detailed business and technical design, providing time and effort estimations for the enhancements
• Analysing the impact on the overall applications, developing new code in IBM-mainframe which uses IMS and DB2 databases, and performing unit and integration testing
• Performed End-End system testing which involves multiple platforms like OTM, BDM, and Mainframe.
• Performed the Message Queue monitoring which involves huge data flow across platforms.
• Did Root cause analysis, provided assistance in resolving issues and retesting the application performance.

Environment: IBM mainframes, COBOL, TSO, JCL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, MQ, CICS, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL, FTP, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, IBM Rational Clear Quest, IBM Rational Clear Case.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance for a huge application - MMS (Material Management System)
• Provided resolutions to client's application or business flow related queries
• Break-fixes and new code development in Unisys-mainframes which uses DMS database
• Enhancing existing applications to handle the newly identified business requirements
• Preparing detailed design, test results for the enhancements
• Improvising the System Appreciation document for easier application understanding and maintenance
• Involved in knowledge transition activities, prepared documents and presentations describing the business flow and technical details of the application

Environment: IBM mainframes, COBOL, JCL, and DB2 databases, UNISYS mainframes, ECL and DMS database