SUMMARY

• Having 9.7 years of professional experience in Information Technology with focus on development, support, testing, conversion and Enhancement of the systems in IBM Mainframe Environment.
• Good knowledge in developing and maintaining batch applications. Involved in test and production support activities as well.
• Worked in Insurance, Telecom, Securities and Retail domains.
• Extensive experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, from requirement to implementation of Mainframe based enterprise level solutions.
• Similar experience of Application Support Services Delivery including Change Review, Impact Analysis, Change Management, Implementation as well as Incident/Problem management.
• Proficient in Change Management involving Review of Change Requests (CR), Study & Impact Analysis of CR on present system, Finalization of enhancement, enhancement Design & Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Strong Technical Knowledge on Mainframe Technologies including Platform (OS), Languages, Databases and Tools with special expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, CMAN, File - Aid and Endevor.
• Worked with utilities and software like TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, JCL, NDM, Ftp, and IBM utilities.
• Adept at Team Management & Leadership skill like tasking, delegation, monitoring, feedback, skill upgrade, competence management, career planning, motivation & mentoring of the team
• Hands-on experience inanalyzing functional business specifications, creating high & low level design documents.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs)to support system replacement project in User acceptance test (UAT) and Production environments.
• Done the impact analysis to identify the impacted components that are required to change as per the new business request.
• Prepared the Design Document for the impacted components.
• Involved in Coding, Unit testing and system testing of the change request as part of project enhancements.
• Ability to learn new technologies and processes rapidly and implement them in the project.
• Provided Implementation and Post-Implementation support for the implemented project.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines and set priorities without close supervision.
• Pro- active, flexible, enthusiastic, and results driven.
• Cohesive Team Player with Fast Learning Curve along with strong analytical, problem solving, innovation, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills.
• Have given Knowledge Transfer to new joiners in the team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: OS/390, Z/OS

Programming Languages: COBOL,JCL,SQL

Databases: DB2, IMS and VSAM

Tools: /Utilities: TSO, ISPF, File-Aid, Change man, Xpeditor, Endeavor, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT, SPOOL, SPUFI, IBM Utilities and HP QC ALM

Business Process Tools: MS Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing therequirementsand discussing with clients for any clarifications.
• Based on the requirement document, Performs impact analysis, provide the target completion date.
• Attended the Daily calls and weekly calls with onshore teams to discuss the ongoing projects and tasks assignments.
• Raised the defects during testing when the results are unpredicted or not matched.
• Preparing and documenting various deliveries (All phases of project).
• Working on Enhancementsof the existing codes by adding new functionality to it.
• Program development using COBOL,CICS,JCL,IMS, DB2
• Maintain documentations for all work done.
• Co-coordinating the activities with other team members and offshore.

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing therequirementsand prepared technicaldocumentation and LLD.
• Preparation of High level and Detail Design documentation based on Business requirement.
• Prepared impact analysis document before changing the existing programs.
• Program development using COBOL,CICS,JCL,IMS, DB2
• Used ENDEVOR tool to work with production and test environments.
• Used FTP and NDM for transferring the files from one region to another region.
• Preparing Unit test cases as per the new code.
• Involved in code review, Unit testing and documentation.
• Prepared jobs hierarchy flow-charts using Visio tool.
• Estimated time and efforts for the enhancement.
• Involved in internal reviews like code walkthroughs, unit-test review of new programs, copybooks and JCL’s etc. and quality control documents.
• Based on the requirement document, Performs impact analysis, provide the target completion date.
• Attended the Daily calls and weekly calls with onshore teams to discuss the ongoing projects and tasks assignments.
• Resolution of test bugs uncovered during all phases of testing.
• Preparing and documenting various deliveries (All phases of project).
• Working on Enhancementsof the existing codes by adding new functionality to it.
• Creation of test data & test plan for various scenarios.
• Providing solutions to issues raised in System Testing (SIT) and User acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used ITSP for scheduling and FTP requests.
• Monitoring the Batch jobs and fixed the bugs immediately if any ABEND occurs.
• Execution of regression test cycles.
• Maintain documentations for all work done.
• Co-coordinating the activities with other team members and reporting to the onsite POC.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, IMS, CICS, JCL, ENDEVOR, SQL, InSync, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT.

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing therequirementsand prepared technicaldocumentation and LLD.
• Preparation of High level and Detail Design documentation based on Business requirement.
• Prepared impact analysis document before changing the existing programs.
• Inform team members and client of key developments, decisions, issues, and changes to the project and the project plan.
• Managing and tracking the delivery of multiple development project and production issues on contractually agreed SLAS & performance parameters Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress to client and onsite manger.
• Working closely with onsite Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery phase.
• Understanding and gathering information from client SME's for problems and enhancements.
• Need to participate in Application design, development, testing and maintenance.
• Performing coding, unit test data for changed modules. Outlining and confirming client expectations and major milestones i.e. project completion.
• Handling production incidents and enhancements and resolve user's queries and issues.
• JCL and CICS knowledge to identify and resolve issues in batch and online.
• Facilitating peer reviews and quality control at various stages of SDLC. Provide production support for smooth running of online and batch application. Reporting to upper management regarding project status on daily and weekly basis. Handling of team members at different locations and co-ordination between them.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Resolving Venice calls and incidents by providing solution for the same within predefined SLA.
• Monitoring the Batch jobs with Scheduler Control-M.
• Scheduling of the batch jobs as per the business users requests.
• Resolving the abends encountered during the shifts.
• Interaction with clients and customers.
• Participated in reviews and to provide technical guidance.
• Make sure that delivering the deliverables on time.
• Involved in solving user requests.
• Delivering the reports which are useful inside the project.

Environment: JCL, DB2, COBOL, IMS, CICS, CHANGE MAN, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, HP Quality control.

Confidential

AIP Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Resolving tickets related to code changes.
• Monitoring the Batch jobs in Scheduler Control-M and performs restart, rerun, force complete and hold on the jobs as per requirements.
• Scheduling of the batch jobs as per the requirements.
• Resolving the abends and worked on JCL as encountered during the shifts.
• Worked on the release that happens in every six weeks.
• Interaction with clients and customers.
• Coordinating with team, assigning tasks to team members, Planning and Estimation of the effort.
• Responsible for interacting with Clients and gathering requirements.
• Conducting environment requirements gathering meeting to collect the information from the project, required to build the test environment
• Make sure that delivering the deliverables on time.
• Responsible for effective communication between the team and the Onsite Coordinators.
• Involved in Knowledge sharing &Knowledge repository development.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CHANGE MAN, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, SYNCSORT, IBM Utilities.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing to develop the modules.
• Took part in writing technical specifications and test cases for the products developed.
• Involved in reviewing of technical specifications, code and test cases.
• Regular status reporting to onsite.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS