SUMMARY

• Around 10 years of professional experience in IT field including analysis and design, implementation and process integration on mainframe applications.
• Exposure in various domains like Health Care (Claims & EDI), Retail, Insurance and Banking domains.
• Experience in creating EDI 834 files for enrollment processing
• Expertise in EDI transactions used inhealthcareindustry and good knowledge ofHIPAA X12.
• Experience of high level Design, Functional Analysis, Impact Analysis, Low level Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation, Validation and Verification of results.
• Good team player having excellent problem solving skills and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent understanding of product lifecycles (PLC) with primary focus on requirements definition, documentation and systems design validation to ensure that the project deliverables are implemented
• Worked in all areas of project execution including planning, requirement analysis, development, testing and SLA based on production support & maintenance.
• Proficient in analyzing the Business Requirement documents and preparing the Test plans, Test cases and executing the Test cases.
• Leadership roles in creation and execution of testing processes, requirement mapping, test execution and defect tracking & documentation.
• Proficient with Mainframe tools such as FILE - AID-DB2, ENDEVOR, REMEDY, SPUFI and Expediter
• Versatile experience in providing 24X7 on call support
• Strong technical and working experience with COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2.
• Experience with testing tools such as SOAP UI, RQM, CQ and HP ALM.
• Extensive experience in projectCoordination, Leadership, Planning, Management, Onshore Offshore Coordination.
• Proficient in doing data validation using SQL queries.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts
• Excellent exposure in working on severity defects and resolving them without missing SLAs
• Having good exposure on Agile and Waterfall model.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP

Defect Tracking Tools: Clear Quest, HP ALM

RDBMS/Database: DB2, SQL, VSAM

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL

Scripting Languages: HTML, XML

Web Applications: FED BUY, LOG PORTAL, DATA LOAD

Mainframe tools: Endeavor, File-aid, Changeman, Expeditor, Spufi, QMF and Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Duluth, Georgia

Mainframe Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the business requirements and prepare the test cases/scripts based on requirements
• Interacting with client groups to build knowledge base for the system architecture, component interfaces and data flows for the existing systems
• Responsible for analyzing BRD’s and User Specifications and creating and modifying COBOL programs for data manipulation, I/O files and reports.
• Test the batch application to verify whether the changes meet the new business requirements
• Validate the web application by accessing the log portal
• Processing Batch procedure jobs for testing and production environment
• Created jobs to copy production files at specific checkpoints while running schedule jobs in prod. Environment
• Involved in preparing the Test plan andcommunicated to the users
• Involved in test case walkthrough with the users and getting signoff from them
• Hold defect review meetings with the concerned development and support teams
• Interact with offshore team on regular basis and provide the review comments for their deliverables
• Perform the smoke and sanity test on any deployed build
• Collect metric reports from offshore
• Loading the data into the test files, and keeping the record counts for respective files
• Extracting the data from the tables and uploaded into flat files with the help of utilities
• Involved in running batch jobs with the help of Job scheduler
• Modified existing programs to compare the record counts from the prod and test environment
• Assisted Team Members under my supervision in the resolution to technical issues
• Do the modifications in JCL’s according to the requirement and run jobs as per sequence
• Run the Shell scripts and validate the Oracle tables as per the requirement
• Worked closely with users and program developers to ensure application development meets with the user expectations

Environment: HP ALM, DB2, DATACOM, FILE-ID, COBOL, JCL, TSO, ISPF, SPUFI, DATA LOAD, FED BUY, UNIX, ORACLE SQL SERVER

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Sr Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with client groups to build knowledge base for the system architecture, component interfaces and data flows for the existing systems
• Involved in analysis, design and development of Claims.
• Involved in preparation of Technical design documents.
• Responsible for developing batch programs using COBOL, DB2.
• Involved in creating Unit Test and Integration test Plans for batch testing.
• Involved in creating the acceptance package and setting up the User Acceptance Test environment and prepare the Test plan and Test Cases for UAT.
• Involved in Generating Reports.
• Responsible for Code review and Test review.
• Involved in Technical documentation.
• Involved in on call production support.
• Involved in reviewing and delivering the artifacts to the team
• Hands on experience in manual testing of the application on mainframes for claims processing
• Uploading status report to share points by coordinating with the team
• Involved in running batch jobs with the help of Job scheduler
• Involved in writing of modification reports for errors identified in testing and clearly communicated with development via defect tracking system
• Extracting the data from the tables and uploaded into flat files with the help of utilities
• Daily interact with the offshore team and guide them

Environment: Endeavor, Clear Quest, DB2, COBOL, JCL, TSO, ISPF, QMF, Job scheduler, WINSCP, EDI X12N 5010

Confidential, St Louis, Missouri

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Developer to enhance and modify program according to the requirements. Programs were tested thru UNIT and integration process.
• Used TSO/SDSF for the all the functionality of the applications such as Copying, editing and allocating PDS and for batch and VSAM data sets.
• Created Job-flow thru Visio and created new batch job procedure
• Creating system test plans for the development environment and program transfer in the test region for the new claim system
• Created data and tailored JCL, control cards, and parameters. Prepared batch test procedures and reviewed them with the related Development team.
• Involved in code walk-thru, design, unit and integration testing and end results confirmations
• Provide solution to the defects raised by the testing team
• Extracting the data from the tables and uploaded into flat files with the help of utilities
• Responsible for attending the defect triage calls and make sure clarify the doubts raised by the concerned test teams

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID, Changeman, HP ALM

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile methodology (Scrum) to ensure the new features meet the customer requirements and acceptable quality assurance standards.
• Analyzed user requirements and developed test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality
• Determine the job flow, creating the transaction data thru File-Aid, using Microsoft Access for the Queries of DB2 databases.
• The data was created using the extraction of IMS data bases, and modification to the production files. Setting up the environment, JCL and PROC creation and modification of COBOL/DB2/VSAM Programs.
• Used Endeavor to create, stage, and deploy COBOL packages in to production site
• JCL job creationto compile and run COBOL db2 programs.
• Creating similar test environments as production baseline for testing JCLs, which included Subroutines and source code of VS- COBOL II program transfers in the test region
• Heavy use of SPUFI & QMF SQL. Created JCL for Loading DB2 Tables Using IBM Utilities.
• Creating GDG, overriding symbolic, and execution and processing of the Jobs for output results.
• Participated in the meetings, prepared reports and other supportive documentation to contribute to establishment of standards and procedures for software testing
• Extensively used SQL queries to check storage and accuracy of data in database tables.
• Responsible for collecting the test data in the pre-testing phase for positive and negative scenarios

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID, Endeavor, HP ALM, Expeditor

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supporting, Maintaining and Fixing the issues in the Merchandise related applications
• Analyzing the issue mentioned in Ticket and applying appropriate solution
• Monitoring the Error events and resolving them
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members
• Provide technical assistance to the team for solving abends

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, ESP SCHEDULER

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, included setting up of meetings with the Onsite coordinator.
• Identifying Impacted Components based on CR document.
• Prepared the Design documents as per the HLD.
• Involved in Coding and Testing.
• Responsible for providing the system knowledge for the new comers in the team.
• Involved in Test case/test scenario review during design phase.
• Responsible to attend the Weekly Status calls from offshore.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, QMF, SuperC, TSO

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed functional specification and business requirement
• Identifying Impacted Components based on CR document
• To change the code in online programs, according to the Change request made by the onsite Coordinator
• Unit Testing and Posting the Defects
• Use to create the maps in online based on requirements
• Output Testing and Report Generation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, QMF, SuperC, TSO