Senior Mainframe Developer Resume

SUMMARY

10+ years of IT industry experience in mainframe application development, maintenance and production support activities.
Proficient in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS DB and VSAM.
Good Knowledge on RDz (Rational Developer for System Z).
Good Experience in Agile development & water fall methodology.
Hands on experience in designing, architectural analysis and decision making.
Highly experienced in various domains like health care, insurance and tele communications.
Expertise in development, enhancement, maintenance projects and production support.
Adept in onsite - offshore model and with team located in multiple locations and time zones.
Hands on experience in all phases of SDLC.
Experienced in providing 24/7 Production Support for mainframe applications
Developed many tools & utilities using REXX to automate manual process and provide self-serve facility to users to perform adhoc data setup / data extract requests.
Experienced in Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, and very good team player
Well experienced in trouble shooting and played vital role in project for fixing production issues, monitoring cycle, fixing job ABEND.
Maintaining SharePoint site contents for the team to manage the internal process and Project activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Programming: Mainframe JCL, COBOL, REXX, SQL, VSAM, CICS

Tools: Service help desk, Abend-Aid, SharePoint, IBM Utilities, RDz.

Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SORT, ICETOOL, PANVALET, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, FILE MANAGER, CA7, CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, DB2 FILE MANAGER, QMF, CITRIX, MQ

Database: DB2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Understand and Analyze business requirements
Preparing the High Level Design and Low Level Design for the Requirement
Enhancing the system based on the requirement provided by client
Coding the components
Application Maintenance - Responsible for providing Application maintenance and to track the batch completions, act on the abends and issues and solve the problems with proper resolution preventing it from further issues and ensuring system availability according to SLA
Performing configuration management and process improvement - Responsible for finding areas and provide enhancements to those areas related to the project that will add value to the process and will improve performance.
Track project plans and progress.
Reviewed the test results.
Managing the Knowledge base activities.
Preparing System Documents.
Part of Disaster recovery team
Keeping and maintaining all the documents in the project discovery and SharePoint sites.
Creating or Maintaining SharePoint site for team by creating required lists/Pages.

Special Software: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, VSAM, File-Aid, XPEDITER, and PANVALET

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Special Software: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, VSAM, File-Aid, XPEDITER, and ENDEVOR

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Understand and Analyze business requirements
Involved in preparing the High Level & Low Level Design (HLD, LLD) for the Requirements
Involved in Coding and Testing
Prepared and reviewed the test plan and test results
Prepared test data and executed test cases
Performed Disaster Recovery exercises
Preparations of Pre-delivery & Post-delivery follow up documents