SUMMARY:

• Sr. Mainframe Developer having 14+ years of extensive experience in application design, software development, Unit/Integration/System /Regression testing, Production support, implementation, and maintenance of various projects.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ISO 9001, CMM Level 5 Methodologies.
• Excellent in creating/executing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Reports and documentation for various types of testing like - Functional, Integration, System, System Integration, Performance, Interface, Stress, User Acceptance, Regression Testing.
• Experience in reviewing and analyzing the Business requirements, Application Designs and functional specifications including Resource and Risk management
• Experience in Business Requirement Specification Analysis, Preparing System Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Execution
• Excellent in Test data preparation, User Acceptance Test Plan, User Acceptance Criteria and setting up the Test Environment.
• Experienced in Data Migration from VSAM to DB2 tables.
• Good functional knowledge in Finance, Claims Processing, Life Insurance, Health insurance, Annuities and Home Mortgage. FLMI (Fellow Life Management Institute) Insurance from LOMA.
• Hardworking individual with ability to tackle and provide solutions to complex problems.
• Good team player with excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Experienced in analyzing business requirements, creating test data and test scripts.
• Highly skilled in Z/OS, OS/390, MVS/ESA, COBOL, PL/1, IMS DB/DC, DB2, SQL, JCL, CICS, MQ-Series, XML, SOA, Easytrieve and VSAM.
• Tools Known: Confidential -Quality Center, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, SYNCSORT, Xpediter, InterTest, Endevor, NDM, Dump/Restore and MS-Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented and Analysed Requirements, Created High Level Designs, Test Cases.
• Prepared Test Bed Data based on NCH History, Medicare Claims.
• Prepared Unit Test Data and created Batch Jobs to test Vendor response files.
• Evaluated Vendor Response Data to determine score and rank them based on documented criteria.
• Created various summary and detail reports using Easytrieve and COBOL like total daily claims report by claim type, edit codes, error code etc.
• Used InterTest to debug programs to fix bugs and used Endevor for Configuration Management.
• Setup/Testing of NDM connectivity with the Confidential .
• Project Data backup to Tape using ADRDSSU utility in single job step.

Environment: Z/OS, VS-COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, InterTest, Endevor, NDM and Easytrieve.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Requirements and Prepared Conversion jobs for NCH(National Claims History) data from 1991 onwards because of implementing HIPAA-5010/ICD-10 changes which resulted in claims format change from Version I to Version J.
• Prepared MEDPAR(Medicare Provider Analysis and Review) Jobs for incoming NCH data which was converted from Version I to Version J format.
• Used InterTest to debug programs to fix bugs and used Endevor for Configuration Management.
• Documented and tracked defects using Confidential -Quality Center.
• Prepared unit test data, Unit/Regression tested the code changes and promoted the code to Production.

Environment: Z/OS, VS-COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, Confidential -Quality Center, InterTest, Endevor.

Confidential, Newark, DE

Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the state requirements to identify the impacted/new programs to fix the existing functionality or enhance it and document MF-COBOL/DB2 code changes required in design specification document.
• Documented business design, technical design, code changes and test scripts in different stages of the Software development life cycle as per the existing standards.
• Prepared unit test data, Unit/Regression tested the code changes and promoted the code to Production.
• Documented and tracked defects using Confidential -Quality Center.

Environment: UNIX, MF-COBOL, DB2, SQL, Xpeditor, Confidential -Quality Center, UNIX shell commands.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the benefit requirements to identify the impacted programs and documenting the COBOL/CICS/DB2/IMS code changes required in design specification document after thorough analysis.
• Documented the designs, code changes, test scripts in the Software development life cycle as per the standards.
• Worked with Web front end system to transfer data from mainframe using MQ-Series, XML and SOA.
• Used Endevor for Configuration Management and InterTest to debug programs to fix bugs.
• Prepared unit test data using claims in EDI/837 format.
• Involved in Unit/Regression/System Testing of the code changes.
• Created ad hoc reports using COBOL.

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS-COBOL II, JCL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, IMS, MQ-Series, XML, SOA, File Manager, Dialog Manager, File-Aid, Abend-AID, InterTest and Endevor.

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attended review sessions with business users and requirements analysts to understand the requirements
• Ensured that the incoming loan applications contain the sufficient data required for the Servicing systems.
• Worked with Web front end system to transfer data from mainframe using MQ-Series, XML and SOA.
• Developed interface programs using PL/1,COBOL II, CICS, SQL, IMS and DB2.
• Production Support activities that include monitoring batch jobs written in JCL and solving abends/errors.
• Involved with Data teams in creation of Data Mapping Docs of DB2 tables for the interfaces.
• Involved in String Testing for the designed interface.

Environment: Z/OS, VS COBOL II, PL/1, CICS, DB2, IMS, SQL, MQ-Series, XML, SOA, JCL, CICS, File-Aid, Abend-AID, Syncsort, Endevor

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Programmer Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Adhoc report generation based on customer requirements using SQL, COBOL II and Easytrieve programs.
• Modification/Enhancement of various interface programs written in PL/1,COBOL II/CICS/IMS/DB2/SQL.
• Loading and unloading of DB2 data. Migrated the data from VSAM to DB2 tables.
• Production Support activities that include monitoring batch jobs written in JCL and solving abends/errors.
• Conducted peer reviews for the project deliverables such as modified/enhanced COBOL II/DB2/SQL/CICS programs.
• Documenting the designs, code changes, test scripts in the Software development life cycle as per CMM-Level 5 standards.

Environment: OS/390 TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, PL/1, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS, SQL, JCL, XML,, MQ-Series, Easytrieve, CA-7, File-Aid, Abend-AID, Syncsort andEndevor

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Programmer Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed project document templates based on SDLC methodology.
• Conducted meetings within the team and also with the Business Analysts to collect Requirements for the change requests/modifications to the existing functionalities.
• Conducted an Impact Analysis on the system for various changes to the existing functionalities and prepared reports for impacted PL/1,COBOL II/VSAM/CICS programs, copybooks, screens etc.
• Worked with the QA team to come up with Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts for the information technology service requests (ITSRs).
• Conducted peer reviews for the project deliverables.
• Adhoc report generation based on customer requirements using Easytrieve/COBOL II programs.
• Production Support activities include monitoring batch jobs written in JCL.
• Documenting the changes, test scripts in the Software development life cycle as per CMM-Level 3 standards.

Environment: OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, PL/1, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS, JCL, MQ-Series, Easytrieve, Endevor, File-Aid, Abend-AID, Syncsort and Xpediter.

Confidential, Carmel, IN

Programmer Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Extracts and Reports for the existing policies.
• Conversion of normal programs to make them works in batch.
• Modification to issue new product with Variable Death Benefit Guarantee Premiums for Universal Life Policies.
• Support for Policy Pages maintenance work.

Environment: AIX, MF COBOL, Confidential and Xpediter.