PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Mainframe Developer with 14 years of experience which involves working on various phases of SDLC having expertise on Development, Enhancement, Maintenance & Production support projects.
• Medicaid, Healthcare domain expertise of 3.5 years working with the Confidential .
• Worked extensively on domains relating to Health Care, Insurance, Finance, Telecom (BFSI) & Retail.
• Technical Expertise working on Mainframe technologies: COBOL, CICS, TSO, MVS JCL, ENDEVOR, CA Tools, SQL, DB2, IMS, VSAM etc.
• Possesses Excellent Analytical, Verbal & Written communication skills.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Emulators: Quick 3270, P Com, Xtra: Personal, Rumba, Chamelion, Passport, Reflections.

Software Products: COBOL, CICS, JCL, MVS, Unix

Database: VSAM, DB2, IMS DB

Tools: Jira, Intellisys, MQ, Q Replication, Change Man, Endevor, Program styr, Panvalet, Librarian, ESP, Control - M, Spool.

Inter: test, Expeditor, IBM Debugger, IBM fault Analyzer.TSO/ISPF, Platinum tools for db2, INSYNC, File-aid for VSAM, IMS DB & DB2, SQL, QMF, Stored procedures, SAR, Easytrieve, SDF II, Spufi, Command Editor, Abend Aid, Librarian, Dump master, Test director, Working knowledge of Web Services, SOAP UI, WSDL.HP Quality center, RTC, RRC, Remedy, SDLC, Expertise on Agile methodology & Version One.

Hardware: IBMOS/390, IBM Z/OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Work on Mainframe technologies such as JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Refletions, z/OS on IBM Mainframes, ESP, TSO/ISPF, Endeavor, File manager, Jira etc.
• Working on Jira's which are Mainframe tickets on Claims modules.
• As part of Legacy modernization, day to day work includes working on Intellisys tool and analyzing Legacy modules thoroughly and documenting the Business rules involved.
• Prepare and Represent the Technical Design document.
• Analyze/Review the complete architecture of the Claims application.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Working on Mainframe Technologies such as Cobol, VSAM, JCL, CICS, DB2, Changeman, ESP, SOAP UI, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, Passport 3270 as Emulator, Agile Methodology, RTC etc.
• Working on Agile Methodology model which comprises of biweekly iterations, sprints etc.
• Working on Story cards and Technical cards which involves, impact analysis, high level design preparation, coordinating with stake holders, presentations, coding, testing and supporting the application.
• Conduct Retrospective meetings and Daily stand up meetings to understand, analyze and provide solutions for blockers, defects & persistent issues in project.
• Providing Legacy modernization solution plan where ever required.
• Being a part of Project planning, Reports and representation at Stake holder meetings.
• Providing daily status updates in scrum meetings.
• Responsible for planning and prioritizing multitude of tasks.
• Prepare documentation for moving project modules to production environment.
• Identify customer's business flow, gap analysis and provide recommendations in application performance improvements.
• Coordinating testing efforts with UAT (User Acceptance Testing) teams.
• Responsible for Design, Coding, Testing and Implementing of the project.

Confidential, Medicaid

Project Lead (Mainframe)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Mainframe technologies such as JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Spufi, Quick 3270, z/OS on IBM Mainframes, ESP, TSO/ISPF, Endeavor, Abend Aid, Xpeditor etc.
• Working on Jira's which are Mainframe tickets that span various applications on Medicaid like TPL, Adjudication, History, Disbursements, Claims, Billing, Enrollment etc.
• Day to day works include Requirement gathering, Impact analysis, High level design preparation, Development, status reviews, Unit & Parallel testing, etc.
• Prepare and Represent the Technical Design document in order to get approval from Customer.
• Responsible for Development and Reviewing of the Integration design of the project.
• Analyze/Review the complete architecture of the application periodically.
• Acting as an SME for the application MMIS.
• Involve in Project planning, Reports and representation at meetings.
• Responsible for Design, Coding, Testing and Implementing of the project.
• Supporting the Customer for Project Implementation, Code movement and providing Post-validation support.
• Sending daily & weekly Status reports.
• Design Technical Specification documents and take ownership of them.
• Perform Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Analyze new requirements or change requests on the existing programs initiated by the client.

Confidential

Team Lead (Mainframe)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, VISION PLUS, ENDEVOUR, FILEAID, XPEDITOR, ABEND EASYTRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, 3270 TERMINAL, MAINFRAME Z/OS etc.
• Analyze Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Additional Design Specifications (ADS) with business Stake holder.
• To Create and provide Legacy modernization solution architect plan
• To Create architecture documents wherever required.
• Prepare and represent the Technical Design document and procure approval from Customer.
• Develop/Review the Integration design of the project.
• Acting as a SME for the application.
• Involve in Project planning, Reports and representation at meetings.
• Work on performance tuning on DB2 stored procedure and Mainframe jobs.
• Design new Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.
• Perform/Review unit testing for batch and online programs using DB2 load/Unload utility.
• Schedule and set up in conditions/Out conditions in job using Control - M.
• Responsible for Project Planning and prioritizing the tasks.
• Responsible for supporting all the production support with Sev1, Sev2, Sev3 and Sev 4 issues.
• Providing the daily status updates in scrum meeting.

Confidential

Analyst - Applications Programmer (Mainframe)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, INTERTEST, WSDL, WEB SERVICES, STORED PROCEDURES, FILEAID, ABEND EASYTRIEVE, TSO/ISPF, 3270 TERMINAL, MAINFRAME Z/OS etc.
• Perform Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Prepare and represent the Technical Design document in order to get approval from Customer.
• Performed functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using Intertest set up.
• Responsible for architecture review for the application and project.
• Analyze and debug the production issues.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Involved in support for the bi-weekly and bi-monthly releases.
• Send weekly status reports to customer.
• Monitor and review the offshore deliverables on a daily basis.
• Responsible for planning and prioritizing the task.
• Develop and review new Cobol-DB2 components.

Confidential, CA

Senior Software Engineer (Mainframe)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, FILEAID, ABEND AID, INTERTEST, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOUR, TSO/ISPF, 3270 TERMINAL, MAINFRAME Z/OS etc.
• Designed the Technical Specification documents.
• Reviewed coding and testing for offshore team
• Managed the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis.
• Involved in Environment set up for Customer for User testing.
• To set up new jobs using Tivoli Work scheduler.
• Monitor and Review the deliverables on a daily basis.
• Monitor specifications to find any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness.