SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of professional experience in Mainframe development and maintenance applications.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical specifications and architecture.
• Expertise in the complete SDLC cycle from Software Requirements Elicitation, Analysis, Design and Development to Testing.
• An outstanding team player with good analytical and problem - solving capability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe programmer Analyst

Confidential, Woodland hills, CA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing PCC Home project for implementing the functionalities to meet business requirements. This project is a Marketing initiative to increase Renewal retention rate and to improve the renewal customer Net Promoter Score.
• Analyzed the business requirements from BRD and prepared Solution requirement document (SRS) and provide suitable solution to implement functionality.
• Performed requirement analysis to formulate project objectives and technical requirements and interact with the other IT SME’s and understand the project requirements.
• Prepared a high-level overview document for Auto, Home functionalities.
• Render technical support to team members using the project experience and expertise.
• Conducted code quality audits to make sure application adheres to best practices and defined norms.
• Participated in code and design reviews and test cases reviews.
• Coordinated with multiple vendors from geographically distributed teams for a successful development, testing and deployment of a single project.
• Experience in detailing test-plans/ test-cases, tracking defects and reporting status to various levels.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, CICS, TSO/ISPF, ISM, File Aid, Endevor, Abend Aid, SPUFI, Easytrieve.

UTest Professional Software Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• uTest is the pioneer and leader of In-the-Wild Crowd testing.
• At uTest, testing done by only real people, using real devices, in real locations, under real world scenarios, and are able to provide the customers with the authentic user insights required to build the very best digital experiences.
• Manual - Exploratory Testing of websites and mobile apps
• Usability Testing
• Manual - Test Case Writing
• Manual - Test Case Execution

Senior MAINFRAME system Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Management, Billing and Resource Allocation.
• Prepare the project plan which involves the calculation of hours in each of the phase (Analysis, Coding and Testing phases) and resource Allocation.
• Estimation of Software Development Effort.
• Client interfacing for requirements elicitation and issue clarification.
• Coordinating with Onsite on task assignment and tracking.
• Ensuring Quality in all the deliverables by following Quality process.
• Analyze the business requirements and prepare High Level Documents (HLD)and Low-Level Design Documents (LLD).
• Involve in Requirement, Impact Analysis, Estimation, Designing, Coding, Testing and Deployment.
• Developed new programs, procedures, jobs, for CA Conversion project utilizing COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, File-Aid, Xpediter, OS/MVS, TSO/ISPF, Confidential Mainframe and MS Office.
• Single point of contact (POC) for answering queries from offshore, tracking the schedule, tracking the quality of deliverables and resolving offshore concerns.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, SQL,TSO/ISPF, VSAM, File Aid, NDM, ChangeMan, XPEDITER, Abend Aid, DB2, SPUFI, Easytrieve, FTP, MS OFFICE (MS WORD, MS EXCEL, POWERPOINT)

MAINFRAME DEVELOPER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed JCL-COBOL and DB2-JCL-COBOL programs.
• Create Modify and Execute Production JCL, PROCS, and SYSINS for application development and enhancement.
• Strong experience in testing on Mainframe.
• Experience in detailing test-plans/ test-cases, tracking defects and reporting status to various levels.
• Expertise in SPUFI and FILEAID as testing tools and for D Confidential Manipulation.
• Strong knowledge on Job Scheduling.
• Involved in setting up test d Confidential and jobs to perform different test cycles.
• Documented test results and stated any risks along with their resolutions.
• Ensured all QA control functions are complete and consistently executed.
• Experience on debugging tools Confidential debug and XPEDITER.
• Resolving the production issues in a timely manner to meet the service level agreements.
• Proficient in creating Technical Specification based on Functional Requirements and High-Level Specifications.
• Coding of new programs and maintain the existing programs
• Involved in Unit, Integration, System and Regression testing of batch programs, Implementation and post Implementation support.
• Prepare the Unit Test Plan with the test cases to cover all the new functionality.
• Designed test cases, test d Confidential, executed testing and documented test results.
• Perform end to end system testing in the test environment and make sure that existing functionality does not get impacted

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, VSAM, File Aid, NDM, ChangeMan, XPEDITER, Abend Aid, DB2, SQL,SPUFI, Easytrieve, FTP, MS OFFICE (MS WORD, MS EXCEL, POWERPOINT