Mainframe Test Coordinator and Consultant Resume

SUMMARY

7 Years of experience in the Mainframe Technology under Healthcare and Banking Domain spreading over Testing, Developing and Quality control.
Job Duties involved preparing test cases, reviewing the test cases, executing the manual test cases as well as using Stored Procedures and tracking defects using HP ALM.
Experience in Conducting Unit, Integration, Functional, Validation, Regression, and System Testing.
Good exposure to Quality Procedures with loads of design, code and test reviews.
Strong Skillset in analyzing Business Requirements and develop code and test specifications for execution.
Extensive experience in development, enhancement, maintenance and support of mainframe applications under Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) & Software Testing Life cycle (STLC) process
Acted as Onsite coordinator of the team of Ten, Working closely with the clients to study and analyze the requirements for the new requests as well as coordinating the deliverable with the offshore team members.
Excellent Communication, Presentation and Leadership skills to project, lead and execute a deliverable within allocated time and budget.
Excellent Technical skills with ability to work independently as a team member.
Extensive experience on Mainframe related skills such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, ISPF and TSO.
Worked on tools like CHANGEMAN, ENDEAVOR, XPEDITER, FILE AID, CONTROL - M, CA7, $AVRS, EASYTRIEVE, File Manager, Fault Analyzer, Debug tool and SPUFI.
Worked on IBM Rational tools like Clear quest, RequisitePro and Clear Case.
Knowledge on Test Automation through Selenium.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Test Coordinator and Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Set up and organize the Pre-UAT meeting with whole group impacted by the change to outline the test plan and timeline needed to complete testing.
Update the outcome of the meeting in the minutes document, splitting the tasks and the responsible person and send out the minutes.
Identify the jobs that support the program changes, run the test jobs and do the validations as per the Test plan document.
Coordinate Test Plan walk through meetings.
Ensure the test execution plan should mirror the expected order code will migrate to production.
Obtain the sign off from all required impacted applications and confirm the same in the Go /No Go meeting
Create QA board request (internal tool) before every change moving to next environment.
Prepare copies of what our coding changes look like from the customers perspective (reports, screen shots, etc.) to send to Product at all times.
Participate in Code review and Install script meetings.
Using HP-ALM tool for doing Requirement Traceability, Test Plan creation, Test Lab (Select test cases and execution) and to Log the defect.
Ensure environment readiness before the start of the testing.
Follow Waterfall and Agile methodology
Involved in Smoke testing, Integration testing, End to end testing, Regression testing, Retesting.

Tools: Stored procedures(Eclipse), Pac 2000, COBOL, JCL, DB2, File Manager, Debug tool, CA- 7, MQ series, HP ALM, WICE, AES, UAM, and CEO Portal.

Mainframe Test Coordinator and Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Acted as Project lead which involved resource handling, quality and on-time delivery commitments. Gather requirement from the business users and create technical specification for each CQ tickets.
Analysis of batch and report and impacted programs.
Met 100% Service level agreements towards responding, assessment of the ticket and resolving the tickets.
Involved in Onsite/Offshore Coordination with Offshore team in India to get the low-end development work.
Created production JCLs installed and scheduled them.
Involved in 24X7 Production support.
Involved in fixing abends and giving recommendations to resolve potential problems.
Preparing coding involved in setting up the test environment, test execution. This ensures that software components run end and meet the technical requirements and standards.
Prepare Adhoc reports per user’s request. This involved extracting data from DB2 tables to running On- request jobs.
Coded SQL statements to generate reports and check the optimization of SQL queries using SPUFI.
Modifying the impacted programs wherever required and write new programs.
Support the Unit, Integration and system testing and resolving technical issues
Assist offshore team in the deployment of code to Production environment and provided support for the code thereafter.
Review and delivery of the requests.
Adhere to the Quality procedures related to the project.
Performed other functions such as systems analysis, documentation and technical research.

Tools: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, ChangeMan, FILEAID, XPEDITOR, Control-M, MQ series, CICS, DB2.

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