CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To excel in the field of information technology, to stay and progress with the growing and ever - changing trends in the industry and to utilize my experience and towards the progress of the organization in the market competition.

SUMMARY:

• IT professional with more than 12 years of extensive and progressive experience in Mainframe technologies.
• In-depth expertise in COBOL, MVS, JCL, DB2, CICS, PL1, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, SOA.
• In-depth expertise in tools and utility like File-Aid, INTERTEST, XPEDITOR, Star Tool, Endevor, Changeman, RDz(Rational Developer for Mainframes), RTC(Rational Team Concert), Toad, Quality Center, Service center, Service Now, CA7 etc.
• Excellent knowledge and experience in DB2.
• In depth knowledge of ITSM (Information Technology Service Management) processes.
• Exposure to diverse business domains like Banking and Finance, Capital marketing services, Retail and Manufacturing for some of the fortune 500 clients like Confidential, General Motors, Confidential, P&G (Procter and Gamble), Lowe’s etc.
• Hands-on experience across all stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including business requirement analysis, design, development, data mapping, testing, implementation, install and post install support.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.
• Possesses in-depth knowledge of Agile SCRUM methodologies and CMMI level 5 processes.
• Quick learner with an ability to rapidly achieve organizational goals.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive and analysis skills.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: DB2

Languages: COBOL, JCL, PL1

OLTP: CICS

Others: File-Aid, INTERTEST, XPEDITOR, VIASOFT, Star Tool, Endevor, Changeman, VSAMToad, MQ, SPUFI, OPTIM, TSO/ISPF, MVS, SCOUT, Quality Center, Service center, Service NowCA7, Web services, SOA, RDz, RTC, Agile framework.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, PL1, CICS, File Aid, MQ, RDz, RTC, Agile framework, SPUFI, Stored procs, IBM datastudio, Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and system implementation.
• Understanding the technical and business requirements of the project.
• Involving in technical discussion on various requests for the project.
• Application design, development and Unit testing.
• Using Rational Developer for Mainframes(RDz) for development of Mainframe online applications and batch processes leveraging PL1,DB2,CICS,JCL etc.
• Coordinating with relevant stake holders such as other development teams, testing team during the development process.
• Providing SQA support and supporting bug fixes and issues reported.
• Participating in deployment activities and post deployment support.
• Coordinating on all the technical aspects of work for a successful completion of the project.

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, File Aid, JEM, VIASOFT, ENDEVOR, OPTIM, SPUFI, Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and system implementation.
• Understanding the technical and business requirements of the project.
• Involving in technical discussion on various requests for the project.
• Application development and Unit testing.
• Coordinating with relevant stake holders such as other development teams, testing team, environment support group during the development process.
• Providing support for QA and User Acceptance Testing.
• Supporting bug fixes and issues reported.
• Participating in installation and post install support and obtain business signoff.
• Coordinating on all the technical aspects of work for a successful completion of the project.

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Web services, SOA, GCB, File Aid, EJCK, XPEDITOR, Changeman, Toad,Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and system implementation.
• Preparing Software Technical Specification (STS) as appropriate for the project request.
• Understanding the technical and business requirements of the project.
• Involving in technical discussion on various requests for the project.
• Estimating effort for the assigned project.
• Application development and Unit testing.
• Coordinating with the offshore team.
• Performing design, code and test result reviews.
• Coordinating with relevant stake holders such as other development teams, Quality Assurance group, environment support group and business group during the development process.
• Providing support for QA and User Acceptance Testing.
• Supporting bug fixes and issues reported.
• Performance tuning and job monitoring
• Preparing implementation plan for the project.
• Participating in installation support and obtain business signoff.
• Providing post implementation support.
• Coordinating on all the technical aspects of work for a successful completion of the project.
• Preparing weekly status and monthly presentations.
• Regular communication with Internal & Customer Teams

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, File-Aid, EJCK, CICS, CA7, Toad, Star tool, VSAM, MVS, TSO/ISPF, Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and system implementation.
• Involved in the preparation of Unit test cases and unit testing of the code and provided system testing and UAT support.
• Monitoring the batch jobs and working on job abends/issues, tickets.
• Performing unix server and online health checks, monitoring oracle job runs.
• Preparing weekly status presentation and presenting the weekly meetings.
• Used CA7, Service center, Service now, toad.

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, File Aid, EJCK, CICS, Pacbase, MVS, TSO/ISPF,Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of the Application test script document
• Analysis of requirements and system implementation(coding).
• Involved in the unit testing and preparation of UTR.
• Involved in unit test reviews

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, File Aid, CICS, MVS, TSO/ISPF,Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the preparation of the high level and low level design document from the functional specification document.
• Involved in the preparation of unit test script and system test cases.
• Analysis of requirements and system implementation(coding).
• Involved in code reviews and unit test reviews.
• Involved in the preparation of Unit test cases and unit testing and system testing of the code.
• Played the role of SQA(Software quality analyst) and CM(Configuration management) auditor.
• Used tools like INTERTEST for unit testing and ENDEVOR for configuration management.

Confidential

Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, File Aid, QC,CICS, MVS, TSO/ISPF,Z/OS.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirements and system implementation(coding).
• Involved in code reviews and unit test reviews.
• Involved in the preparation of Unit test cases and unit testing of the code.
• Preparation of the unit testing and quality documents like code and unit test result checklists, traceability matrix etc.
• Used tools like Quality Center for testing.
• Preparing weekly status and monthly presentations.
• Regular communication with Internal & Customer Teams