SUMMARY

• An astute planner & implementer with exemplary communication, relationship management, analytical and organizational skills and leader to manage a team and maintain the project and team logistics.
• Total 14+ years of comprehensive experience in IT industry with experience in Development, Maintenance and Production support in Mainframe technology using Software Development Life Cycles (SDLC).
• Experienced knowledge of platform delivery methodology (Agile Scrum, Kanban, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Waterfall).
• 8+ years of comprehensive experience in leading the team from different geographical locations like onshore - offshore with different technology stacks.
• AWS Certified Associate & trained on Bigdata & Hadoop.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum alliance & Scrum Master Accredited Certification from International Scrum Institute.
• Expert knowledge & implemented cloud migration from DB2 to AWS Dynamodb using data replication tool-Attinuty and AWS services like Kinesis stream, Lambda, SQS, S3 Bucket, cloudwatch etc.
• Good working knowledge on Microfocus (MF)-COBOL, Microfocus Server Enterprise Server, IMS-DB. Worked on the DB2 Performance Tuning and Optimization of the existing mainframe Online and Batch systems. Identified the necessary changes required in the System Parameters and Design, which will enhance the performance of the system.
• Expertise in performing the Unit testing, System Integration testing, User Acceptance testing, Functional, Integration and, Regression Testingby setting up the test data and prepared the relevant Test Scenarios and Cases documents using a QC/HP ALM. Followed Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) process.
• In-depth knowledge in managing projects for Mortgage-Securities, Banking and finance, Custodian & Auto-MFG domain.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines. Ability to analyse existing systems, conceptualize new ones, design systems integration with various LPAR environment, and deploying innovative business solutions using the highest standards of quality control.
• Experience in Requirement gathering, Business/System Analysis, Test Analysis (QA), Designing the system using extensive use of Microsoft office tools (VISIO, EXCEL, WORD etc.,) and HP ALM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mainframe Skills: Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IBM z/OS (MVS), VSAM, SQLDB2, Stored Procedures, Easytrieve, SAS, VSAM (ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LDS), IMS-DB and DB2 v9.1 v10, MS SQL

Mainframe Tools: ZEKE/ZEBB, CA-7, JOBTRACK & ESP Scheduler, QMF/SPUFI, Sysview, Insync, File-Aid, FSA, Rapid SQL, Microfocus-Revolve, Microfocus-Enterprise Analyzer 3.3, FTP/SFTP, SDSF, IBM Utilities, IDCAMS, Syncsort, $avers, CA-View (SAR) report, MQ Series, HP Quality Center, Endavour, Infoman, DATAVAN, SMART TEST by ASG, QED, Change-man, VC4U, ISPW, Visual Safe Source 6, Tortoise SVN, Incident & Problem Management Tool- Service Now /HEAT.

Amazon Web Services: Identity Access Management (IAM), AWS Object Storage and CDN - S3, Glacier and CloudFront, Amazon-EC2, Route53, DynamoDB, RedShift, Elasticache, Aurora, VPC, Application Services like SQS, SNS, SWF, Elastic Transcoder, API Gateway, Kinesis.

Python: Python 3.6,Jupyter notebooks, Anaconda 3, Visual Studio.

Big Data & Hadoop: MapReduce, HDFS, Pig, Hive, HBase, Flume, Scoop, Spark.

CI/CD and repository tools: Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket (code repository), Bamboo, Version one, Mural.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Project lead

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, DB2-SQL, IMS-DB, JCL, VSAM, File-Aid, IDCAMS, SORT, ISPW, $aves, JiraMural.

Responsibilities:

• Analysing Business scope and requirements for the migration of legacy TPS (Transaction
• Processing System - Mainframe) of Confidential into Transaction Generation Modernization (TGM - .net based) onto cloud premise. dis includes both Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
• Partner with Scrum team members, provide technical guidance and work closely with QA Automation teams to create agile test automation solutions.
• Organize regular sync-up with business partners and the project team to discuss the enhancements on and its implementation.
• Implementing BDD (Behavior Driven Development) process in the project using Cucumber tool.
• Involve in and halp the BSA’s convert test cases into Gherkin files in the Given, When, Then format.
• Validating and creation of test data in various environments including IBM DB2, Mongo DB
• When applicable, preparation of the testing artifacts in the standard Schwab development model (for example ambiguity review, test evaluation summary, test plan, requirement traceability matrix).
• Prepare End to End (E2E) test plan, review E2E documents and formulate E2E test scenarios with the halp of up and down stream project partners.
• Organize status meetings and publish status reports (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the stake holders.
• Closely work with business teams on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test plan and halp them with their validation.
• Aid the business users/ product owners in UAT environment setup and test data for UAT.
• Execute assigned test cases and run test automation suites and maintenance of tests suites
• Prepare RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for production and UAT bugs with short- and long-term mitigation plan in order to improve the process and prevent repeat productions bugs.
• Send daily/weekly status report to the project stakeholders.
• Provide project release sign-off to the stakeholders, once the Development and Quality Assurance activity is complete.
• Post sign-off activities - customizations of various applications/reports and implementation of selected Business model.
• Aiding the Wipro project managers in calling out Risks, Business Opportunities and possible attrition to halp plan for the future
• Mentor on QA, network with other Automation teams within Schwab and derive automation best practices for continuous improvement for .net stack
• Prepare functional specification review, technical specification, Test Approach and innovative test solutions for CICD

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Tech Lead

Environment: AWS Dynamodb, Attinuty Kinesis stream S3, IAM, Lambda, cloudwatch, Python, Jupyter notebookBitbucket, OS/390, COBOL, DB2-SQL, IMS-DB, JCL, VSAM, File-Aid, IDCAMS, SORT, ISPW, $aves, JiraMural.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in data migration from Mainframe DB2 table to DynamoDB table using AWS services. Used data replication tool-Attinuty and AWS services like Kinesis stream, Lambda, SQS, S3 Bucket, cloudwatch etc.
• Worked as a Tech lead and worked closely with Business, Senior tech leads and architect’s for table attributes mapping, data migration issues etc
• Create, review and approve business, functional and technical design specifications for new or an existing application. Development of new Applications or Enhancement of existing applications.
• Mentor and support other members of the team (both on-shore and off-shore) to assist in completing tasks and meet objectives.
• Helping to create stories and backlogs in Jira. Estimation and code reviews as per standard.
• Monitor upcoming new development activity for potential impact to overall environment.
• Identifying, analysing defects (If any) in software program functions, outputs, online screens and content.
• Depending on Complexity, responsibility involved is to create a Test data, Test files, table setups, Test environment Set-up.
• Involved in Unit Testing, System Integration (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT). Followed Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Tech Lead and Lead Application Developer

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, DB2-SQL, IMS-DB, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, File-Aid, IDCAMS, SORT, ISPW, Jobtrac, Rapid SQL.

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with client for application information gathering.
• Requirement Analysis, preparation of Business requirement Documents, Functional Requirement specification documents and Data mapping documents. Creation of the detailed design document to cover all the Business requirements.
• Estimation and code reviews as per standard
• Development of new Applications or Enhancement of existing applications as per requirements document.
• Identifying, analysing defects (If any) in software program functions, outputs, online screens and content.
• Depending on Complexity, responsibility involved is to create a Test data, Test files, table setups, Test environment Set-up.
• Involved in Unit Testing, System Integration (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT). Followed Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Involved to create the new Packages and turnover control to move the components to production as per standard checklists.
• Participation in Quality Assurance Program in the organization.

Confidential

Project Lead

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, DB2-SQL, JCL, VSAM, File-Aid, IDCAMS, SORT, QMF, SMART TEST, Endevor, Jobtrac and ESP scheduler.

Responsibilities:

• Onsite Coordinator by handling the team with onsite offshore module.
• Interaction with client for application information gathering.
• Estimation and code reviews as per standard
• Requirement Analysis, preparation of Business requirement Documents, Functional Requirement specification documents and Data mapping documents. Creation of the Detailed design document to cover all the Business requirements.
• Development of new batch and online(real time-CICS)Applications or Enhancement of an existing applications.
• 24X7 Support to Confidential 's critical applications which is used in Confidential manufacturing process.
• Identifying, analyzing defects (If any) in software program functions, outputs, online screens and content.
• Depending on Complexity, responsibility involved is to create a Test data, Test files, table setups, Test environment Set-up.
• Involved in Unit Testing, System Integration (SIT) & User Acceptance testing (UAT). Followed Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Involved to create the new Packages and turnover control to move the components to production as per standard checklists.
• Participation in Quality Assurance Program in the organization.
• Achieved high customer satisfaction Index (CSI) for all service quality norms and built the brand image by exceeding customer expectations.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery procedures