SUMMARY

• Have 10 Years 2 months of professional programming experience with proven track record for learning different technologies.
• Primary focus is on Mainframe Development and Testing both Online and Batch functionalities. Extensive experience with Insurance, Medicare /Medicaid (Healthcare Domain) and Credit Card Domain Business.
• Extensively worked on COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, SQL, File AID, Eazytrieve, JCL, CA - 7, ZEKE & Abend Aid.
• Worked extensively in all Project Life Cycle phases like Business requirements gathering, Impact Analysis, Detail Design, Development, Integration testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Volume Testing QA Testing, UAT Support, Implementation support and Production Support.
• Have created many DB2/VSAM CICS screens.
• Design and code numerous reports using COBOL & Eazytrieve.
• Very well understanding of Mainframe based scheduling systems CA7. Practical knowledge on writing programs shell script for Linux environment.
• Excellent problem solving, communication, supervision and interpersonal skills.
• Have experience in coding and implementation of DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Extensively worked on performance improvement projects.
• Worked for Onsite / Offshore Model and Lead for an offshore team for more than 8 years.
• Basic knowledge of Salesforce. DEV401 completed. Worked extensively on shell/perl scripting.
• DB2 series 730 certification completed.
• Good understanding on Safe Agile & SDLC methodology.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TECHNOLOGY SKILLSET: Mainframe z/OS-, COBOL,, CICS, JCL, MQ Series, REXX, Eazytrieve, XML, APEX, Visualforce, Unix Shell script, Stored Procedures

DATABASE & FILE MGMT.: DB2, VSAM, SQL, DWH.

TOOLS: USED: File AID, File Manager, SPUFI, DB2 Connect, Expeditor for online and Batch, Debug Tool, DB2 Explain, SORT, REXX, Syncsort, Icetool, IEBGENER, Changeman, Endevor, CList, CA7, FTP, NDM, HP Service manager, CA Service desk, Clarity, Lotus Notes, Control M. Version One, SCLM, Insync, Tracemanster, ISPW, ND Workbench, OnBase Client, Microsoft Project.

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING: COBOL 370, Vision Plus, LEAN, DEV401(CRM) Banking, Cards, DB2 Tuning, Mainframe all levels, Data Warehouses: Modelling and Design, SDLC and Agile modelling, Health care Best Practices

DOMAIN EXPERTISE: Insurance, Core Banking, Cards (Credit, Debit, Reporting).

DIFFERENT ROLES PLAYED: Developer, Analyst, Consultant, Technology Lead, KM Anchor, Configuration Controller, Implementation and Onsite coordinator.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Project Lead my responsibilities are to work closely with Business user, Business Analyst & System Architecture and gather details about the current system and their expected changes.
• Based on database architecture and functional architecture provide solutions to achieve the desired in most efficient way.
• I am required to understand the business requirement and provide solutions which are agreed by Architect, DBA, Product owner and other stake holders.
• I am also responsible to acquire technical knowledge on different proprietary technologies and educate the team so that they can work on those.
• I am also responsible for creating any documentation and repository management required by the client framework.
• As this project works in an offshore-onshore model, I am required to breakdown the requirement to smaller fragments so that offshore teams can pick up and work independently.
• I am responsible for tracking offshore team progress and resolve their queries. Work with them to ensure smooth project progress.
• I am responsible for coding/testing complicated pieces and testing them independently to ensure maximum quality. Also showcase the testing to PO(Product Owner) and End Users.
• I am responsible for ensuring that all the possible test cases are tested and ensure testing coverage is maximum.
• I am responsible provide details to scrum master for tracking purposes.
• I am also responsible to co-ordinate with BA/Tester to ensure he/she has all the required data/component details to conduct QA testing.
• In case of any defect at any stage I am responsible for proper escalations/tracking/closing of the defect/s.
• I am also responsible for any DEMO to PO for final demo and get the approvals.
• I am also responsible for getting all the approvals before time so that migration happens in right time.
• After migration team also needed to provide post-production support.

Confidential :COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, CICS, JCL, TSO/ISPF, Eazytrieve, Microsoft Office, Insync, TraceMaster, SCLM.

Confidential, Miami FL

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a Test Lead my responsibilities are to interact with business to understand based which criteria they need to see FBC work type to be populated in iWD.
• I am required to understand the business requirement and provide solutions which are agreed by Architect, DBA, Product owner and other stake holder.
• I am also responsible for creating any documentation and repository management required by the client framework.
• As this project works in an offshore-onshore model, I am required to breakdown the testing requirements to smaller fragments so that offshore teams can pick up and work independently.
• I am responsible for tracking offshore team progress and resolve their queries. Work with them to ensure smooth project progress.
• I am responsible for testing complicated pieces and testing them independently to ensure maximum quality. Also showcase the testing to PO(Product Owner) and End Users.
• I am responsible for ensuring that all the possible test cases are tested and ensure testing coverage is maximum.
• I am responsible provide details to scrum master for tracking purposes.
• I am also responsible to co-ordinate with BA to ensure he/she has all the required data/component details to conduct QA testing.
• In case of any defect at any stage I am responsible for proper escalations/tracking/closing of the defect/s.
• I am also responsible for any DEMO to PO for final demo and get the approvals.
• I am also responsible for getting all the approvals before time so that migration happens in right time.

Confidential, Des Moines IA

Senior Confidential Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a developer for MMIS (Medicaid Management Information System) my job is to work closely with BAs provide efficient and comprehensive solutions to implement new or enhance existing system to stay compliant with federal and State policies.
• My job is to ensure that all the existing processes are working under the set parameters and ensure that the providers are paid correctly.
• I am responsible for Coding, Testing, Peer reviewing and after approvals implementing my codes(Cobol Batch, CICS Online and JCLs) into production.
• MMIS is implementing new system where now Noridian system will not deal directly with the provider management, Member management, other vendors management rather MCO(Managed Care Organization) will take charge of that. My responsibility is to provide IT solutions to upgrade existing system and build it such a way that even after implementation of MCO system will keep working as old as not all the members will be assigned to MCO.
• Noridian will continue to have many existing systems and along with that there is a continuous maintenance and support activity which is handled by me.
• I am responsible for provide IT explanation for different business queries and provide reports and data for issues/queries which is on need basis.
• I am also responsible for all the documentation needed and also business walkthroughs with BAs and PMO teams for my solutions and educate them on how and where the IT solutions are going to impact.
• I am responsible for provide fixes for issues which may occur in the existing system. Also provide emergency solutions to ensure smooth operation for day to day processes.
• I am responsible for executing different processes out of the production cycle for claims, payment and other cycles to provide better understating to BAs about what will happen in production.

Confidential

Mainframe SME Lead

Responsibilities:

• As a senior lead for Mainframe Development project my responsibility is to gather requirements and create clear documentations for the same.
• Evaluate all the possible solutions and provide the best suited & cost effective solution for the project and ensure everyone in the loop is well informed.
• Create High level designs and Low level design once the project outlines are decided
• Co-ordinate with developer and monitor the development process is going as per the design and within the time lines.
• Took care of some coding programs, jobs, and also testing for better turnaround time.
• Work with different tracking tools to keep a track of project pace and cost.
• Create reports as per the client guidelines and share them regularly.
• Conduct meetings with Leaders, Managers, Architectures and BA’s in regular intervals to ensure that project is on track and in no circumstances we are building something which business cannot relate with.
• Conducts walk through & review sessions to ensure coding and testing is following all the guidelines and free from error.
• Ensure overall that all the Quality guidelines are followed diligently across the project.
• Ensure adequate testing is performed and all the required approvals are documented before implementation.
• Ensure post implementation in actual production environment new changes are working as per the functionality. Fix it following the defined process in case anything is broken.
• Create project closure report, Root Cause Analysis documents for defects and other reports.
• Create comprehensive lesson learnt documentation and seek inputs from all the stake holders to ensure complete customer satisfaction.
• Implement those lessons learnt and track them to closure.

Confidential, KY

Mainframe SME Lead

Responsibilities:

• As an onsite co-ordinator on the Duals project, provided solution to create a new process to cater the Long term care & Behavioural health members.
• Along with this created the design for important Eligibility feed process to outside vendors, which ensured timely communication of the member details to vendors for various reconciliation.
• Designed a new screen for this Long term member details maintenance.
• Worked with various Business team, IT teams & vendor in order to gather details for Interface contracts(IC).
• Worked on the key business projects like Service Fund feed, LTSS feed to PARIS (Monitory reconciliation)/EDW (Enterprise Data warehouse), DON (Determination of need) file from State processing.
• Worked on the implementation of all of the above mentioned. This includes creation of HLD co-ordination with offshore team for LLD, Coding, Testing and SIT.
• The LLD comprises of writing lines of code and designing SQL queries as per the requirement and based on the Database structure to attain maximum efficiency with minimum table joins. Then testing them separately to ensure that when they run in the code they run perfectly and most efficiently.
• Worked on the letter process improvement. It removed more than 80% of the manual effort from business end. Streamlined the letter generation process with proper notification system with Email and Report so that respective business team get notified on time in case any manual intervention required.
• Analysed numerous existing embedded SQL queries(Batch & Online Codes) to ensure that they are most efficient and updated them wherever found that they can yield better result with ever changing system & business requirements.
• Provided solution and implemented many efficiency improvements in existing processes. This includes updating the SQL queries, Proper reporting, reduction of IT intervention(Automation) & proper JOB dependencies and trigger time so that only important JOBs gets most of the mainframe resources.
• As a key player for these projects, analysed and suggested the impacts on more than 200 Jobs & 150 programs.
• Created additional documents on these already existing processes so that in future analysis activity starts from where I left. This greatly reduced design time for future enhancements in these processes.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• As an offshore Lead on this E2E project, proactively reach out to architecture & Onshore leads to gather the required information for the new projects.
• Worked on project timelines and resources allocation. Tracked and facilitate the team members for timely delivery of the modules assigned.
• Conducted many Design walkthrough meetings.
• Being a completely new and very complex piece, I provided my suggestion to how to create a tracking system which can be used across plat forms different teams, and that is accepted. This system is mainframe based but final interface is on Microsoft BAM platform.
• Provided solution and implemented many complex SQL queries which reduced the requrce overhead and helped in better integration with BAM changes.
• Worked on the analysis & designs on the pieces assigned to team. The biggest challenge was creating a process on the top of all the critical process without impacting any of them with minimal change in the current execution time.
• Wrote business documents so that business understands that how the changes are going to impact them.
• Addressing all Service Level Agreements (SLA(s)) with no violations.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering requirement for Automated Yearly plan load process and Auto & facilitated enrolment process.
• Created IC and other design documents (LLD) for coding.
• Prepare test cases, unit testing and a to z testing.
• Worked on various code changes & testing
• Took SIT runs and help tester to set up data and close the test cases
• Created the turns and reviewed changes & test details
• Support the initial executions & fix defects if any

Confidential, Louisville KY

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Get details of the requirement and HLD
• Create the low level design, document and get approvals
• Co-ordinate for the coding and testing
• Review & document the testing details
• Execute the SIT and UAT cycles
• Fix defects and provide RCA details

Confidential, KY

Sr.Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Get details of the requirement and HLD
• Create the low level design, document and get approvals
• Coding and Testing
• Execution of the SIT and UAT cycles

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities

• Requirement Analysis Documentation
• Build & Enhancement
• Testing
• Defect fixing

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities

• Requirement Analysis Documentation
• Build & Enhancement
• Testing
• Defect fixing