SUMMARY

• 10.11 years of progressive experience as an Application Developer in Mainframe technologies of encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.
• Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of software applications including ERP applications.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills COBOL, JCL, DB2, Natural, CICS SPUFI, TSO / ISPF, Db2 File - Manager, Endeavor, File aid, MVS OS/390 and Confidential Debugger,CA-7 Omegamon.
• Worked extensively with the Onsite - Offshore model, Co-ordination with clients/users, understanding of client requirements, provide estimations and cost-effective solutions.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
• Executed software projects for Banking and Insurance domain.
• Strong experience with using Analytical Tools quality center to create Test plans, test case and Use Case Analysis.
• Provided 24/7 production support to Mainframe system, which includes support during night batch run, providing temporary fix to JCL's during batch abends to avoid delay
• Experience in all phases of SDLC, Project Management, Software Practices and Standards.
• Hands on experience on the stored procedures.
• Debugging batch and online programs using Confidential Debugger tool.
• Knowledge of CONTROL-M/CA-7 scheduling tools
• Worked on Development and Maintenance, Production support, Issue Resolution, Implementations, Tuning and Cost saving activities
• Ability to rapidly learn and be productive in new areas.
• Established the system to easily maintain for future usages.
• Set up the effort to train and coordinate with 6 offshore resources, did hiring at onsite as needed.
• Worked on System testing and get the approvals from Business/and teams.
• Introduced Business Analyst as billable role in fixed price projects delivered from offshore. It resulted in quick identification of functional defects and/or gaps in client requirements
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.
• Strong planning, scheduling, and coordinating work assignments to meet project milestones.
• Ability to lead the team and gathering of requirements, design, testing and deployment of systems.
• Self-motivate and Ability to take initiatives and willing to learn to new technologies.
• Having a good knowledge on Duck creek policy system, Teradata, SAS and C language.
• Hands on experience in Example Author and debugging tools Trace Monitor and Data tester
• Working 30 percent of time on Duck creek Application tool for Policy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, SAS

Database & File system: DB2, VSAM,IDMS, Natural adabas,NETEZZA

Operating Systems: z/OS/390, MVS, UNIX, Windows

Bug Tracking Tools: HP Quality Center 10.0.

Versioning Tools: Endevor, Changeman

Reporting & Ticketing Tools: Quality Center, Easy vista

Debugging tools: Expeditor, Confidential debugger tool for z/OS COBOL

DB2 tools: QMF, FILE-AID, SPUFI, File Manager for DB2

Other Tools: File-Aid, File Manager, CA7, ISPF, SAR, Abend-Aid, Microsoft Office, MS Access, iQMS, TSO/ISPF, Changeman, Contol-M

Confidential utilities: SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, ICEMAN, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY

FIS Applications exposure: IMPACS/ST applications by Systematics/Alltel

Testing Skills: Mainframes, Manual Testing, Test /Plan/Design, Defect Tracking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared High level and Low Technical Design Doc as per Business design document provided by Business system analyst.
• Participate in SCRUM meetings as a part of Agile development.
• Supporting the Cycle base test cycle for Month end.
• Month end reports test validation against the Netezza data base.
• Running the parallel production vs Test jobs.
• Preparing Schedule plan for each Sprint.
• Coordinating with offshore team to explain the requirements and help them in their tasks
• Review the deliverables sent by offshore.
• Perform unit testing, integration testing and system testing.
• Balancing rule set validation and updating the field definition for Duck creek system.
• Analyzing and providing optimize solutions to fix defects.
• Responsible for deploying the code Integration testing & fix post-delivery issues.
• Attending Scrum calls to provide the Development updates on day-to-day basis to Scrum Master and Product owner.
• To work the Month end reports designed/Coded new Program using COBOL Language and created job cards in JCL for Duck creek system.
• Writing new programs for the policy extraction from legacy system to Duck creek system.
• Created system Flowcharts using VISIO.
• Creating Manuscripts with public and private fields.
• Creating Manuscripts using Inheritance.
• Creating the Rules to implement the business logic and workflow.
• Importing the fields and Groups into Manuscripts.
• Debugging tools using the Data Tester and Trace Monitor.
• Deploying the Non-production environments integration and UAT regions.
• Understanding the business needs and translate them into ManuScript Inheritance Structures and Rules .
• Responsible for end to end workflow from Frond end (Duck creek Express) through the Downstream Month end Application.

Onsite coordinator/Application Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathering information from client for the development or enhancements requirements
• Detailed analysis of the requirements and creation of the component specifications
• Calculate estimation in hours for the project
• Prepare Schedule plan for each phase of the project
• Coordinating with offshore team to explain the requirements and help them in their tasks
• Review the deliverables sent by offshore
• Perform unit testing, integration testing and system testing
• Documentation of the test results
• Providing the test results to the Business Analyst and Business Partners for sign off.
• Responsible for Production and test support of multiple test and development regions, analyzing and resolving batch errors within the stipulated time as mentioned in the service level agreement.
• Analyzing and providing optimize solutions to fix incidents and defects.
• Performance tuning of the existing application.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Setting up Process to be followed from Offshore.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery to the client.
• Conducting code walkthroughs on deliverables along with client and offshore team.
• Used COBOL programs to produce reports.
• Ftp'd the files to the financial reporting, ISO team and Iso Verisk for DMV reporting.
• Updating the GTAMs for Catastrophe losses.
• Closing the Change order, incidents and request on time and reassigning to the concern team through easy vista tool.
• Designed/Coded new Program using COBOL Language and created job cards in JCL to run batch jobs.
• Investigated the code for the Business Solutions Design (BSD) Queries and giving them solutions for fixing the code to get rid of defects
• Preparing Detailed Designs, Specification Documentation for the work request

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Debugging and diagnostic skills in batch processing.
• Coded the programs from scratch level.
• Responsible for coding, component integration testing and unit testing.
• Implemented the SPICE logic and Dynamic Cursors in Programs
• Coding according to the Defects
• Preparation of unit test plans
• Preparation of technical specifications and program specifications
• Experienced in writing complex SQL statements
• Created COBOL stored procedures for updates to the database
• Provided assistance for optimization and performance tuning of DB2 SQL and stored procedures.
• Expertise in using utilities like Endevor and CA-7
• Supported technical teams in database administration and distributed implementation along with proper documents.
• Preparing and reviewing of unit test results and testing of programs
• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM .
• Responsible for tracking key project milestones and meet the project deadlines.
• Responsible for teamwork assignments, directing and monitoring work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review; and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately.
• Perform Impact analysis through Endeavor scans and identify impacted elements.
• Tested the online programs through MQ shooter.
• Monitor the jobs in omegamon tool.
• Prepared Deployment Plan, Location document for the Releases.
• Identify solution and prepare design documents.
• Supporting for batch processing in SIT level
• Resolving the defects in time which are present in QC