Objective

• Seeking challenging assignments as Senior Mainframe Developer to contribute my best towards world - class products & services, and to exceed clients & employers’ expectations through my knowledge, skills and optimum use of Information Technology.

SUMMARY

• Responsible and committed Sr. Mainframe Developer with 11 years of IT experience in Insurance(Property & Causality).
• Reviews and analyzes change requests to determine the scope of work and estimate the level of effort for application changes. Writes detailed technical specifications for changing application components based on business requirements and high level designs.
• Follows Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in all application development. Designs, codes, unit tests, unit integration tests, and maintains application components based on detailed design specifications solutions to meet user requirements.
• Analyzed, designed and created new JCL JOBs, PROCs for daily, monthly & yearly Reporting purposes.
• Perform requirement analysis and create the business requirement document and to perform analysis of the as-is state to define the Tobe state in the tech spec document by using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CA-7,DB2,easytrieve technologies.
• Coordinate with various scrum teams to establish acceptance criteria and confirm capability delivery meets criteria.
• Act as a liaison between users of the software and the production support teams to address questions/issues, by performing root cause analysis and formulating a solution.
• Created dashboard designing with effective data visualization of large data volumes from various data sources (SQL server, oracle, spreadsheets etc) using Tableau.
• Expose to Cloud technologies in AWS and Azure. Worked in creating AWS S3 storage files.
• Ability to translate traditional IT infrastructures to global cloud deployments.
• Excellent working experience in Waterfall, Agile methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Mainframe, Talend, Unix

Domains: Insurance (Auto and Home).

Languages/Utilities: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, MQ, SQL, PL/SQL, Unix shell scripts, XML.

Database: DB2, PostGreSQL, SQL.

Operating Systems: UNIX(Sun Solaris, LINUX, HP UNIX, AIX), Windows NT/98/95/2000 & Windows XP.

Reporting Tools: Tableau.

Other Tools: CA-7, Changeman, Xpeditor, Compuware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Mainframe Developer

Confidential - Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirement and perform analysis for various enhancements, perform impact analysis to find out systems/programs that could be affected by processing changes, coding and testing and implementation changes.
• Being subject matter expert provide technical consultancy to client’s expense/disbursement business for upgrading/enhancing the system to meet the future business and security needs.
• Analyzing the client’s product or tools and customizing to client specific requirement and implementation new functionalities and enhancements to the system.
• Perform requirement analysis and create the business requirement document and to perform analysis of the as-is state to define the Tobe state in the tech spec document by using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CA-7,DB2,easytrieve technologies.
• Code the changes using a single or a combination of above technologies as per the enterprise approved standards to build modules and system coding rules and test the changes to ensure compliance with the requirements.
• Collaborate with security teams for implementing new security protocols(FTP, SFTP, SSL, MFT), encryption mechanism to comply/integrate with various internal and external application/third party interface and maintain security compliance.
• Conduct code/test plan walkthrough with the different stakeholders and pursue signoff from them.
• Support and perform testing, fix defects and provide clarifications on questions arising out of testing output.

Senior Mainframe Developer

Confidential - State Auto insurance, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Support production releases for the expenses suite of applications and perform validations/testing to confirm a successful deployment into production.
• Follows Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in all application development. Designs, codes, unit tests, unit integration tests, and maintains application components based on detailed design specifications solutions to meet user requirements.
• Hands on SME for customer specific applications and act as liaison between onshore and offshore project development activities.
• Involved in requirement analysis for major enhancements, which includes analyzing requirements proposed by the client and preparing understanding technical design documents. Involved in code review, testing reviews and conducted code walk through meetings.
• Performed extensive impact analysis to understand and document modules affected by project change. Modified impacted JCLs, created procedures and performed integration testing. Involved in new VSAM file creation, job scheduling and prepared implementation plans.
• Maintain all the documents related to each Incident/request in the project sharepoint.

Mainframe developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interface with business users to gather requirements, prepare and update Business Requirements documents.
• Prepared high level and low level design document for change request provided by the business team for every release.
• Reviewed Business requirements, IT Design documents and prepared impact analysis document. Adding to the above involved in coding, testing and Implementation of change request.
• Managed all phases of development for assigned change request ensuring coding and implementation are completed and meet business requirements and have also received QA Sign off for the projects and
• Reviewed requirements for unit testing, consulted QA staff with regards to system test cases and have also performed KT to the new team members on new functionalities.
• Coordinated with developers, Offshore/Onsite coordinators and other individuals involved in the project on a daily basis to resolve any identified issues.
• Involved in Pre-install and Post Install Activity and completed various Adhoc request includes business queries, vendor change request and queries from other teams.