SUMMARY:

• Mainframe professional with 10+ years of extensive experience in Analysis, Development, Maintenance, Testing/Debugging, Production Support and Implementation on various projects in the Insurance domain.
• Experience in design, development and testing of legacy systems like mainframes using PL/I, COBOL, CICS, Natural, ADABAS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IDMS, IMS DB/DC, SOAP UI, POSTMAN, SAS, SPUFI(SQL),CA7, Expeditor, Change - Man, FILE-AID, MQ and FTP on IBM z/OS platforms.
• Very good hands on experience on XML methodologies including SOAP & REST Web Services.
• Performed multiple roles including team member, Senior Developer, Module lead and Onshore coordinator with great success.
• Substantial exposure to Software Development Life Cycle in prototyping software applications including Requirements Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Maintenance and Documentation.
• Proven expertise in user requirements gathering, design, development, maintenance, and production support of mainframe applications.
• Undergone Training in Planning & Prioritizing Skills, Team Building, Defect and Problem Prevention, Quality Processes and Metrics.
• Excellent Customer interface, Team Building, Project handling, Analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Handled several techno-functional responsibilities including estimates, identifying functional and technical gaps, requirements gathering, designing solutions, development, developing documentation, and production support.
• Good understanding and experience with Software Development methodologies like Agile and Waterfall.
• Experienced in design, development, Unit testing, integration, debugging and implementation and production support, client interaction and understanding business application, business data flow and data relations from them.
• Proficient experience in traditional Waterfall model and Agile methodologies i.e., Scrum

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: IDMS, ADABAS, DB2, IMS DB/DC

Files: VSAM

Languages: PL/I, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, Natural

Tools: File-Aid, File Manager, Xpeditor, IBM Fault Analyser, SPUFI, QMF, FTP, WinSQL, Visio.

Job Scheduling/Maintained in: CA7, Control-M

Version controllers: ChangeMan, Endevor, Librarian

Web Technologies: SOAP, RESTful Services

API/Webservice testing tools: POSTMAN, SOAP UI

Messaging Servers: IBM Web sphere MQ 6.1/8.0/8,5

Change management: JIRA, HPSM, Cherwell & ServiceNow

Other technologies: Informatica, Data stage, Cognos

Operating System: Windows XP, IBM Z/OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities

• Participating in the business meetings to understand the business/functional requirements of the Projects and convert them into Technical requirements.
• Prepare & present the Technical requirement document and get the approval from the application design team for making necessary system changes.
• Design & developed the application functionalities with different mainframe technologies using COBOL, PL/I, SOAP Webservice, RESTful Service, VSAM, SCOPE Screens, DB2 and IDMS.
• Design and document the test plans and use case specifications for various functionalities.
• Scheduling message queues using WebSphere MQ.
• Developed COBOL-IDMS DB programs for batch report processing
• Support all code deployments into different regions like performance, UAT and Production.
• Perform technical and functional checkouts after each deployment.
• Coordinating with system testing team & resolve the open bugs (if any)
• Prepare & present the working software demo to Product owners & business users and get their approval for production deployment.
• Facilitating the weekly status meetings on project features with the client to track the status & resolve any open issues.
• Monitored several test batch cycles before moving the change into production
• Creating the deployment package using the ChangeMan & submitting the package for approval using Change Request (CR) created by using Cherwell.
• Represent the CR in EDCAB meetings and get the change approval for production deployment
• As part of deployment activities, prepared the Implementation Plan, Back-out plan (if something goes wrong after implementation) & Post production validation plan.
• As part of post production support, monitoring the online logs & Batch cycles to make sure application is running without any issues.
• Responsible to upload all the project artifacts into share point site.
• Gained coordination experience by interacting with multiple scrum teams as part of project dependencies.

Environment COBOL, PL/I, JCL, DB2, Tablebase tables, ChangeMan,CA7,Xpeditor(online and batch), SOAP/REST Webservices, VSAM, File Aid, QMF, IBM Z/OS, IDMS.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities

• Convert the business requirement document into Technical specification document.
• Estimate the effort required and complexity of request.
• Present the Technical document to Lead engineer and get the approval for code changes
• Develop the application using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, SAS and Easytrieve.
• Moving the changes into each test region for each testing phase, i.e., Unit, Integration & Acceptance testing.
• Monitoring the Test batch cycles
• Fixing the batch job issues by making the necessary code changes.
• Provide status updates to clients and coordinate within the team to ensure quality deliverables.
• Developed REXX Macros to automate the daily adhoc reports
• Used SAS procedures such as PRINT, REPORT, SUMMARY for producing customized reports and external files.
• Create and Schedule batch jobs using CA7 and support implementation activities.

Environment COBOL,CICS,DB2,ChangeMan,Xpeditor(online and batch),JCL, VSAM, File Aid, QMF, SAS, REXX, Easytrieve

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities

• Involved in analyzing the existing programs/components where it has the diagnosis code with 9 bytes.
• Prepared the impacted program/components document and get it reviewed from team before making the changes for byte expansion.
• Did the code changes using mainframe technologies like COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL
• Present the technical demo with the team
• Prepare & present the test results walk-through with the business and get the approval for deployment.
• Responsible for deploying the changes into different test environments like Unit, Int & Staging regions.
• Monitor daily test batch cycles

Environment COBOL,JCL,DB2,ChangeMan,Xpeditor(online and batch), VSAM, File Aid, QMF, IBM Z/OS