System Analysist/Mainframe Application Developer Resume

SUMMARY

Detail oriented IT professional with 9+ years of extensive and progressive experience in application development in IBM Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, DB2 and CICS.
Experience in Design, Development, Debugging, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance of software systems with excellent knowledge in Health care, Energy and utilities domains.
Deep knowledge in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Endeavor, File - Aid, SPUFI, QMF, Intertest, ZEKE and CODE370.
Experience in Waterfall model, Optimized Waterfall model and agile methodologies.
Involved in various stages of SDLC process right from requirements phase to delivery phase in development and enhancements.
Involved in analysis phase for impacted elements and prepared impact analysis document.
Experience as a Team/Development Lead with complete ownership of end to end team’s deliverables including requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, launch and post production support.
Assisting junior resources as a mentor to understand the business and providing technical support to learn the mainframe technology.
Self-starter and team player. Highly organized and dedicated, with a positive attitude and risk taking mentality of challenging assignments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: MVS, Z/OS

File Management: VSAM, DB2

Languages: COBOL, JCL

OLTP: CICS

Tools: SPUFI, QMF, File-Aid, Xpeditor, CODE370, Abend-Aid, ZEKE Intertest, Endeavor, BMC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

System Analysist/Mainframe Application Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS

Responsibilities:

Have been working in agile mode of delivery.
Been part of all agile ceremonies like daily stand up calls, sprint planning, demo, retrospective meetings.
Having regular connect with the business analyst and program delivery specialist with regards to backlog and user story grooming meetings.
Using tools like JIRA for requirements management and Pointing Poker for user story estimation.
Along with the above, primary responsibilities include gathering, understanding the requirements, review, analyze and modify programming systems inclusive of build, debugging, testing, installing and documenting programs.
Performing Impact analysis for any proposed code change.
Developing the COBOL, CICS and DB2 Modules based on the requirements drafted by the business team.
Perform unit testing for the programs developed, performing peer review within the team for quality deliverables and extending help to the peers.
Participating in any quality assurance work required to ensure the delivered products are truly fit for purpose.
Supporting QAs for the System and User Acceptance testing phases and in post-Production implementation support.
Responsible to provide solution for performance related issues in PROD environment.
Recommend changes to improve established system application processes.
Create Continuous Integration tools to automate the manual work and improvise the system functionalities.
Support to the Customers for existing releases by fixing the issues facing by them. Responsible for handling most of the critical issues related to batch and online system.
Prepared presentations and given demos/training to QA teams.
Manage team deliverables and overall status of the project.
Conducting weekly status meeting and report to stakeholders.

Confidential

Application Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM

Responsibilities:

Analysis and understand the program functionality.
Involved actively in the system analysis, design, coding, unit, regression, integration testing, and implementation of various modules.
Involved in the preparation of technical specifications and test plan documents for the development of new programs.
Analyzing and identifying the Root Cause for failures.
Used CODE370 for unit testing the source components created/modified.
Preparing the UTP and UTR with all supporting documents.
Worked as an Infoman specialist and lead developer for Release.

Confidential

Application Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS

Responsibilities:

Involved in the entire life cycle, right from the requirements phase to delivery phase in the Releases/enhancements.
Involved in the Analysis phase and prepared the Impact analysis documents and the estimates for the enhancements and bug fixes.
Involved in the design phase and prepared the required documents such as DD.
Analysis and understand the program functionality.
Assist SIT, UAT testers for test data preparation.
Working on AD-HOC and FILE-FIX request to update the production data on error records.
Actively participated in RELEASE-REQUESTS.
Involved in preparing the UTP and in the unit testing.
Performed self-review and peer reviews.
Participating code migration till the production through test, SIT and UAT

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