SUMMARY

• Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive noledge COBOL, CICS, DB2,JCL, VSAM, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, VSAM, ABENDAID and other Mainframe Systems.
• Demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst in various domains like Financial Services, Banking, and Insurance.
• Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment
• Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation.
• Talented communicator, able to build working relationships with wide range of coworkers in team environment.
• Extremely well organized, with proven ability to multi - task and prioritize workload.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MS Windows, Z/OS, OS 390

Languages Database and Tools: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, CHANGEMAN, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, RDz, CA-7 OPC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Mainframe Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, JCL, ABENDAID, CHANGEMAN, EZTRIEVE, OPC (TIVOLI Operations, Planning and Control)

Responsibilities:

• As a Project lead, managed a team that varied in size from 30 to 7 over 10 years.
• Managed all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Coded, modified and tested programs in primarily in Relationsip Management (RM Version 202.00), Savings and Time (ST Version 203.00) and IMPACS (IM Version 203.00) usingCOBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM.
• Resolved Abends and provided fix for the various bugs for the SI nightly batch cycle
• Provided support for User Acceptance Testing with UAT cases and resolving any issues with the users and performed UAT and participated in writing test plans
• Provide metrics to upper management on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Data Masking of Production data to be migrated to test regions
• Refresh test database with masked data
• Maintain BCR dates and run BCR patching jobs in order to skip the posting dates beyond the system imposed limit to facilitate testing.
• Train the team on approach to be followed when an abend happens, simulate abend resolution and provide best solution for the abend.
• Provided permanent Solutions to avoid frequently occurring abends. Resolved trouble tickets and updated problem resolution Repository

Confidential

Mainframe Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, JCL, ABENDAID, CHANGEMAN, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, OPC (TIVOLI Operations, Planning and Control)

Responsibilities:

• As a project lead, led a team of three.
• Prepared and presented Business Requirement Document (BRD), System Requirement Specification (SRS) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD) and involved in sign-off process.
• Created the project plan and the technical specs to extract and mask the relevant data.
• Coded JCL and program to extract the data from production DB2 database and manipulate the data to put them in the format required by datamasking engine.
• Coded XML cards to be used by datamasking Engine to identify the fields that need to be replaced by fake data and the manner in which to interpret the fields that need to be masked.
• Created detailed test plans and testing strategies and ensure these are executed extensively with referring Data with application of SQL queries to retrieve data and test.
• Responsibilities included over-looking Test Planning, Test Case development and test script execution for Integration, Regression, Performance, Functional and System Testing.
• Provided support for User Acceptance Testing with UAT cases and resolving any issues with the users and performed UAT and participated in writing test plans.

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Business Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, JCL, ABENDAID, CHANGEMAN, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Worked with internal and external users to define requirements and coordinated user management and developer expectations.
• Analyzed and designed various parts of the CIS phase me system in order to provide Enhancements to the system Interact extensively with the users and design the support system in order to meet their needs
• Maintained proper communication with developers making sure modifications and requirements were addressed
• Assisted in UAT and in developing user manuals
• Gatheird business requirements and created Used Case Diagrams using Power Designer and closely working in areas such as change management and Traceability Matrix
• Created detailed test plans and testing strategies and ensure these are executed extensively with referring Data with application of SQL queries to retrieve data and test.
• Assigned tasks to offshore personnel.
• Provided support for the Nightly Batch Cycle, Resolved Abends and provided fix for the various bugs in CIS phase me systems.

Confidential, New York, NY

Project Manager

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird requirement by interviewing the various stake holders and by Bank Manual references.
• Created the project plan and the technical specs to extract Extract Legacy data and migrate the data to an Oracle database via ROMA, MQ series channels for the Reinsurance Project .
• Recognized the business logic, User Requirements and Test Objectives to develop Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Interacted with business and third party agents to resolve any problems they has in areas of data transmission.
• Coded programs to automate the date card generation for the cycle date for the Life70 cycle.
• Captured system performance Data and generated LIFE 70 status report, market timing report and various other weekly and monthly reports for the senior management.
• Reviewed daily FTP processes to ensure trouble free run.

Confidential, Olean, NY

Programmer Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the billing system and developed Request for Information and request for quotes.
• Developed CICS and Batch programs using stored procedures to migrate key DB2 data from legacy system to Oracle server via a MQ series protocol,
• Developed test scenarios for the software for system and regression tests
• Logged defects and tracked the progression from fixing,v erification and closure
• Reviewed daily FTP processes to ensure trouble free run.
• Prepared Technical Documents and User Manual of the software and also ensured proper documentation in all SDLC phases .

Confidential, New York, NY

Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Performed GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements.
• Studied the flowcharts and internal and external interface details to capture gap information in system interfaces
• Prepared the project plan for level 2 testing (for internal interface) & point to point testing (for external interface).
• Created matrices to identify the system gaps & uploaded an access database that was used to create reports.
• Interacted with internal and external stake holders to resolve the issues identified in the gap analysis.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Programmer Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Gatheird requirements and Documented the System Delivery Specification & Technical System Design
• Actively interacted with the users & other members of the team in implementing & testing of the changes specified in the TSD.
• Coded batch programs to convert the VSAM data to the online format & upload the data to a CICS region.
• Designed & modified the CICS maps to accommodate new online fields.
• Maintained test database. This role involved activities such as creation & maintenance of TERASAM files, specify index & allocate space for each TERASAM segment & granting access privileges to the users.
• Extracted data from historic backups. Reformatted the extracted data and migrated the data to a new database.

Confidential, Manchester, NH

Analysis Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Y2K impact analysis. Programs and JCL’s were analyzed using a utility called ADPAC. The output from the utility was manually screened to identify the code segments and variables that were likely to be impacted by the Y2K problem. Used windowing techniques to minimize file expansion and suggested test strategies for the modified code.

Confidential, Concord, NH

System Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with users and captured business requirements.
• Created program change design document.
• Implemented the design, unit tested the program.
• Involved in the system and acceptance test on software developed

Confidential, Houston, TX

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the maintenance of database component table.
• Coded programs and did, unit and integration testing.
• Drew up test plans for integration testing and unit testing for the tasks assigned.
• Maintained the CICS files in the test region for system tests and acceptance tests.

Confidential, Boston, MA

System Analyst

Environment: COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SYNC SORT, FILEAID, ENDEVOR, JCL, ABENDAID, EZTRIEVE, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Developed a batch process to update, create, maintain & print merchandising transfers from warehouse to warehouse, stores to stores, warehouse to stores & stores to warehouse.
• Coded programs to keep track of stock, supplies & pricing of various products, which is dependent upon various factors like size, color, material, style & type.
• Involved in unit and acceptance tests