SUMMARY

• Over 9 Years IT experience as Mainframe Consultant worked in Development, Maintenance, Testing, Support and Analyst of application software on IBM Mainframe Systems. Worked in Banking and Telecom Domain.
• Good experience in Mainframe technologies, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 and CICS.
• Extensive experience with TSO/ISPF, FILEAID, SPUFI, ABENDAID and DFSORT, SFTP, FTP and NDM transmissions.
• Scheduled Jobs, Prepared Job flows, System and Integration test plans. Involved in Co - ordination with offshore team and review of deliverables.
• Proficiency with coding and implementation of Components using JCL, COBOL, DB2, and VSAM.
• Very good exposure in COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, IOF, NDM, SERVICENOW, CHANGEMAN, INFOMAN(TSO-12), INTERTEST, Endevor, CA7, IDMS, DFSORT, SYNCSORT¸ MQ, OPC, FILEAID, SPUFI.
• Hands on experience working on tools like Xpeditor, Endevor, CA7, CFI, FTP, NDM, ISPF/TSO etc.
• Excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills
• Multitasking and the ability to prioritize goals that help organizations to reach their desired goals.
• Consistently commended for ability to work as a team member or independently while achieving critical deadlines. Strong team player.
• Recognized for performance and project contributions. Consistently achieved highest rating in annual evaluations. Experience in interacting with teams from multiple geographies.
• Excellent communication.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, OS/390, Z/OS,TSO/ISPF.

Languages: COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, Proc, CICS.

Tools: File-AID, ICETOOL, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, IDCAMS, DFSORT, IBM Debugger, SPUFI, File Aid, IDMS, DFSORT, SYNCSORT¸ MQ, TSO-ISPF, IOF, NDM, SERVICE NOW, INTERTEST, OPC, PROC, Table base, PRO JCL, SAR, SYNCSORT.

Databases DB2, VSAM.

Configuration Mgmt. Tools: Change-Man, INFO MAN (TSO12), Endevor, CA7.

Hardware: IBM Mainframe.

Software Application: Rumba, RDZ, BlueZone

Environment: IBM 3090, Windows, Microsoft Office, MS Visio.

Methods: SDLC and Agile Software Methodology.

Testing: Manual Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Discussing on the requirements, to understand them better and provide an optimized approach.
• Provide estimate - the amount of effort in hours required for the project based on the requirements on different phases.
• Preparing the design document based on the finalized requirements and presenting to the project team which includes all impacted groups for the approval over the design and approach.
• Developing new modules and modifying the existing modules based on the requirement change.
• Scheduling the new jobs in UAT and in production.
• Reviewing the developed components.
• Deploy the modules into testing region through Endevor.
• Supporting Test batches and fixing the job abends if any.
• Tracking the Test Plan/Test Specification vs. Requirements.
• Approving the test plan created by testing team after confirming that all positive and negative scenarios are covered in test plan based on the requirement change.
• Testing the changes in test environment and make sure the deliveries are defect less and are with good standards. Fixing the defects if any.
• Sharing the knowledge with the team members.
• Co-ordinating and getting the modules implemented to production on time.
• Supporting the application after the changes are installed in production and making sure the changes are working as expected.
• Working on various process improvement areas, where we could achieve performance improvement and dollar savings for Confidential .

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, File Aid, Joblog, SAR, ABENDAID, Xpeditor, Endevor, CA7, JIRA.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Discussing on the requirements, to understand them better and provide an optimized approach.
• Provide three level of estimate E0, E1 and E2 - the amount of effort in hours required for the project based on the requirements on different phases.
• Accepting and approving PCR’s for the TPR’s worked upon with additional estimate if required.
• Preparing the design document based on the finalized requirements and presenting to the project team which includes all impacted groups for the approval over the design and approach.
• Developing new modules and modifying the existing modules based on the requirement change.
• Scheduling the new jobs in UAT and in production.
• Reviewing the developed components.
• Deploy the modules into testing region through Version control tool, CMAN and RTM.
• Supporting UAT batches and fixing the job abends if any.
• Tracking the Test Plan/Test Specification vs. Requirements.
• Approving the test plan created by testing team after confirming that all positive and negative scenarios are covered in test plan based on the requirement change.
• Testing the changes in test environment and make sure the deliveries are defect less and are with good standards. Fixing the defects if any.
• Sharing the knowledge with the team members.
• Co-ordinating and getting the modules implemented to production on time.
• Supporting the application after the changes are installed in production and making sure the changes are working as expected.
• Working on various process improvement areas, where we could achieve performance improvement and dollar savings for the Citi.

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, EasyTrieve Plus, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, File Aid, Joblog, SAR, ABENDAID, SQL, DB2, Xpeditor, Changeman, OPC, MQ, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, IDMS, HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Discussing on the requirements, to understand them better and provide an optimized approach.
• Provide three level of estimate E0, E1 and E2 - the amount of effort in hours required for the project based on the requirements on different phases.
• Accepting and approving PCR’s for the TPR’s worked upon with additional estimate if required.
• Preparing the design document based on the finalized requirements and presenting to the project team which includes all impacted groups for the approval over the design and approach.
• Developing new modules and modifying the existing modules based on the requirement change.
• Scheduling the new jobs in UAT and in production.
• Reviewing the developed components.
• Deploy the modules into testing region through Version control tool, CMAN and RTM.
• Supporting UAT batches and fixing the job abends if any.
• Tracking the Test Plan/Test Specification vs. Requirements.
• Approving the test plan created by testing team after confirming that all positive and negative scenarios are covered in test plan based on the requirement change.
• Testing the changes in test environment and make sure the deliveries are defect less and are with good standards. Fixing the defects if any.
• Sharing the knowledge with the team members.
• Co-ordinating and getting the modules implemented to production on time.
• Supporting the application after the changes are installed in production and making sure the changes are working as expected.
• Working on various process improvement areas, where we could achieve performance improvement and dollar savings for the Citi.

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, EasyTrieve, DB2, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, File Aid, Joblog, SAR, ABENDAID, SQL, DB2, Changeman, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, OPC, HP Quality Center.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Business Requirements and System Specifications to understand the application.
• Proposing new Solutions to Clients for the improvement of the System and the for High performance of the system
• Involved in preparation of Effort estimation for the activity based on the requirement and design document
• Involved in System test plan creation based on the requirement and design document
• Involved in Creation and review of test Scenario and test Case based on requirement and design document
• Tracking the Test Plan/Test Specification vs. Requirements
• Interacting with onsite coordinators and clients.
• Code fixing and testing
• Capturing of requirements for enhancement projects, coding, Unit testing and regression testing of the modules.
• Monitoring and tracking the project
• System Study

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, EasyTrieve, DB2, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, File Aid, Joblog, SAR, ABENDAID, SQL, DB2, Changeman, OPC, HP Quality Center.