SUMMARY

• Have 12 years of IT professional experience with full project lifecycle development in Mainframe technologies, Requirements analysis, and Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and production support of software applications.
• Experience in Analysis, Sizing, Design, Build code, Reviews, Debugging, Testing and Deployment and Production Support.
• Experience in developing, implementing, and managing complex projects within time and budgetary constraints
• Creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), and technical requirement specification for application development.
• Create the technical design document for the requirement in the maintenance document and provide a technical presentation (TDP) to the TDP group to get the approval for project execution.
• Experience as a Business System Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications & Application Design.
• Experience in Healthcare Systems (WGS Claims Adjudication process, Edits, Benefits, Membership & Billing) HIPPA compliance.
• Performed risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risks areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Responsible for tracing project requirements to RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) for all functional and development teams.
• Worked on mainframe and warehouse applications built with COBOL, JCL, DB2, IDMS, CICS, VSAM, SQL, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, IOF, TERADATA, SAS, CLIST, QMF, SPUFI, SFTP, Syncsort, SQl server, Intertest, SharePoint, UNIX.
• Knowledge of end - to-end systems development life cycles (i.e., Waterfall & Agile and other modern approaches to software development).
• Create batch/online programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IMS/DB, DC, DB2, CICS and IDMS.
• Experience in Mainframe testing Involved and support of Unit testing, Shakedown testing, System integration (SIT), User acceptance (UAT).
• Involve in various testing activities like requirements extraction, Test design, Test execution, Defect creation, Defect tracking, Defect Closure and test reporting.
• Experience in Web services, MQ, RPC, SOA, and SOAP UI, UNIX.
• Hands on experience using version control tools like CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, Debugging tools - IBM Debug, XPEDITER, Production tools like CA view, SAR, CA7,Tivoli Workload Schedule CONTROL-M, and File Manager, FILE-AID,FA,SPUFI,QMF,ABENDAID,WORKBENCH,PLATINUMDB2Tools,TERADATA,INFORMATICA .
• Develop program logic for new applications or analyzed and modifies logic in existing applications.
• Prepare Test/Production JCL for the program execution.
• Prepare test plan and executed test cases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe MVS, z/OS, OS/390

Languages/Interface: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS/DC, SQL, JAVA,UNIX

Databases: DB2, IMS/DB, IDMS, Oracle, Teradata

Protocols: SOAP UI, FTP, NDM, SFTP

Services: CICS Web Services, MQ Series

Tools: /Utilities: ISPF, TSO, SDSF, IOF, FILE-AID, FILE MANAGER, CHANGEMAN, WORKBENCH, MKS, SPUFI,QMS,ENDEVOR, IBM DEBUGGER, XPEDITER, CA Intertest, PLATINUM DB2, CA7, CONTROL-M, JIRA, APM, Optima, SYNCSORT, IEBGENR, IEBEDIT, Informatica

SDLC: Waterfall, Agile framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe programmer

Responsibilities:

• Transform complex business requirements into highly scalable technical solutions.
• This includes data modelling, creating new tables and/or modifying existing tables in database, making necessary backend changes.
• Create use cases, workflow, conversion requirements and develop high level (HLD) and low level (LLD) design documents.
• Create program specifications and develop logical flowcharts.
• Developing the mainframe Batch/online applications based on detail design using languages like COBOL, CICS, SQL, VSAM, DB2, IDMS,IMSDB, CICS environments.
• Creating mapping document equivalent IDMS data fields to DB2 fields.
• Debugging the application and performing the Unit testing, regression and parallel testing on the code Tools like XPEDITER are used in debugging when there is a defect in parallel /regression testing to fix the issues.
• Once created DB2 tables, extracting data from IDMS database to DB2 tables in testing environment for test the developing programs.
• Create store procedures to retrieve and update data in database as per business requirement
• Involve in code review process as per project needs.
• Periodically deploying code to dev environment to integrate with other applications.
• Create TFS and Snow tickets to deploy code in Controlled environments like QA and Regression.
• Infogix ACR utility used data reports and Develop automated business rules.

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2,IMDB, IDMS, SORT, WORKBENCH, SOAPUI, MQ SERIES, MKS, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, JIRA, PLATINUM DB2 Tools, CA-7, SPUFI, QMF, JAVA.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe programmer

Responsibilities:

• Transform complex business requirements into highly scalable technical solutions.
• This includes data modelling, creating new tables and/or modifying existing tables in database, making necessary backend changes.
• Create use cases, workflow, conversion requirements and develop high level (HLD) and low level (LLD) design documents
• Create program specifications and develop logical flowcharts.
• Developing the mainframe Batch/online applications based on detail design using languages like COBOL, CICS, SQL, VSAM, DB2, IDMS, CICS environments.
• Creating mapping document equivalent IDMS data fields to DB2 fields.
• Conduct software analysis and develop well designed code using COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method), IDMS and CICS.
• Once created DB2 tables, extracting data from IDMS database to DB2 tables in testing environment for test the developing programs.
• Use IBM Data stage for Extract data from different data sources like DB2, Oracle and other flat files and transform to required form
• Create store procedures to retrieve and update data in database as per business requirement
• Involve in code review process as per project needs.
• Periodically deploying code to dev environment to integrate with other applications.
• Create TFS and Snow tickets to deploy code in Controlled environments like QA and Regression.

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMSDB/IMSDC, DB2, SORT, SOAPUI, MQ SERIES, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, CONTROL-M, JIRA, SPUFI, QMF, FTP, NDM, JAVA.

Confidential

DC Solution Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business requirements & converting to Business Technical requirements (BTRD).
• Responsible for Analysis, Estimation/Sizing, Design, Build, Testing, Deployment & documentation.
• Participate in the Business & Status meetings & code walk-through
• Developing Batch/Online programs using COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, IMS DB/DC, VSAM and CICS.
• Debug and error handling for online transactions and the batch programs
• Conduct code reviews & capture test results
• Prepare root cause analysis(RCA) for Clear quest ticket management for Production errors/defects.
• Involved & support of Unit testing, Shake down testing, System integration (SIT), User acceptance (UAT), Regression testing & Business checkout.
• Run Mainframe/IMS/DB2 database utilities
• Audit Release packages & Prepare Release checklist
• Participate in Project Release coordination working with Business analyst, Architects, DBA’s, Managers and different development teams

Environment: Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMSDB/IMSDC, DB2, SORT, SOAPUI, MQ SERIES, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, CONTROL-M, JIRA, SPUFI, QMF, FTP, NDM, JAVA.