PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Having 8+ years of experience in System Analysis, Design and Development, Production Support, Maintenance, Migration, Testing of software for large enterprises on IBM Mainframes.
• Good Experience in Healthcare, Finance, Tele - Communications and Automobile domains handling Batch and Online applications.
• Extensive expertise in analysis, design, development and deployment of applications using mainframe software like COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, UNIX,DB2, Stored Procedures and Functions
• Experience in all phases of SDLC, Project Management, Software Practices and Standards.
• Experience includes Gathering requirements, System study, Designing, Programming, Report generation, Production Support, System Testing.
• Having strong experience in DB2 and IMS databases Ability to deliver projects on time with high quality handled Offshore Team in different Projects.
• Having Huge Experience on MMIS (Medicaid Management Information Systems) with the subsystems Claims, Financial, Reference, Member, Provider, and also HIPAA.
• Performed multiple consulting roles during my career including Senior Programmer/Analyst. Specialized in COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, SQL, ENDEVOR, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID, JCL, REXX, MVS and AS400 also TEMPhas substantial experience in healthcare services industry business.
• Worked on IBM Utilities: Dataset utilities (IDCAMS, IEBCOMPR, IEBCOPY), Scheduler utilities (IEFBR14), System utilities (IEHLIST, IEHPROGM) and DFSORT, IEBGENER, DB2 Explain, IKJEFT01, IEBEDIT, etc.
• Hands on experience working on tools like Expeditor, Endeavor, Change Man, File-Aid, Inter Test, Dump Master, Webaware, FTP, HTML, SPUFI, QMF, ISPF/TSO etc.
• Worked on problems involving the evaluation of specifications for complex business Requirements, Processes and developed the solutions as a Systems Analyst.
• Involved in documentation using MS Office tools proven ability to learn and adapt quickly, motivated self starter and enthusiastic team member.
• Excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent team member with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities, Quick Learner, highly motivated.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, C, C++, C#, Java Script, Embedded SQL, QMF, HTML

Software/Databases: MS Office, File- AID, Endeavor, Change man, Expeditor, AbendAid, Inter Test, Easytrieve, COBOL, CICS, DB2, Microfocus, REXX, VSAM, Oracle, IMS DB/DC, SQL, QMF, CLIST, ISPF, I-Series, TSO, Control-M, Panvalet, RACF, IBM Utilities, SPUFI, IMS, IDMS, HIPAA, MMIS

Operating Systems: MS Windows, MVS, UNIX, OS/390, Z/OS

Hardware: AS400, IBM 30XX

Networking: FTP, TCP/IP

Methodologies: SDLC, EDI, Project Management, Agile Scrum

Others: Web Aware, MQ series, Remedy, Eclipse, Dump Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr.Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Commonwealth Coordinated Care (CCC) project, is to update the current VAMMIS to enroll members who are eligible for Medicare and full Medicaid benefits into Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) in order to receive all covered Medicare and Medicaid benefits through one MCO.
• Created COBOL programs for implementing the business process and working with the Batch Jobs and Programs with the subsystems Claims, Financial, Reference, Member, and Provider.
• Worked extensively with Claims Adjudication Life cycle and various types of claims like Professional, Dental & Institutional with EDI interfaces for the EFT Requirements.
• Worked on Claims Adjudication Jobs in detail and supported Claims adjudication Nightly jobs Processes.
• Developed COBOL, REXX, CICS and DB2 Programs for Recipient subsystem.
• Created test case document for performing the Unit testing and System testing for the developed applications.
• Did work with End users in the UAT testing and make sure users understand the changes in the application and did provide knowledge transition to the users as a Systems Analyst.
• Developed new CICS screens for the new application functionality by using COBOL, DB2.

Technologies: COBOL, REXX, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IDMS, Expeditor, Endeavor, EDI, QMF, VSAM, File-Aid, TSO/ISPF.

Confidential

Sr.Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, Testing, Bug Fixing and Production Support of all the modules of FACES.
• Worked in different modules of FACES system like HotLineUnit, Eligibility, Case Management, Financial Management, Investigation and Assessment.
• Worked with several online CICS, COBOL, Webaware Interface programs to communicate between Templates and Mainframe Systems.
• Involved in work with front end templates using HTML, DOM, Java Script, UNIX and AJAX.
• Worked with several online CICS, COBOL Webaware Interface programs to communicate between Templates and Mainframe System.
• Wrote the SQL Queries, to access the DB2 tables and to display the data on the WebPages.
• Involved in DB2 & SQL Performance tuning, rewritten several legacy Systems with Embedded SQL queries to get optimal performance.
• Tested the programs in different testing phases like Unit, Integration and System Testing.
• Involved in Post Production Support and Maintenance.

Technologies: COBOL, CICS, Webaware, MQ, JCL, Embedded SQL, VSAM, DB2, UNIX, IDMS, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, VB.Net, ASP.Net, EASYTRIEVE, Dump Master, TSO/ISPF

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation and modification of the existing applications including coding, testing using COBOL, DB2, JCL and VSAM.
• Involved in migrating the developed code from Non-Production region to the Production region using the change management tool ENDEVOR.
• Involved in Coding and testing of the modules CRIS, BART, ARMS, LATIS, SSW and BROAD BAND for the Revenue Journals System of the Qwest using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM JAVA, UNIX and Embedded SQL.
• Debugging the COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs which used in batch cycle by using the Expeditor.
• Used QMF to retrieve, modify and insert data into Test, QA Database and executed SQL Queries in QMF.
• Responsible for evaluating Business Requirements, Functional Specs, TDD, Designing, Creating, executing test plans and business process components for the Qwest merger with the Confidential which involved lot of Code changes and debugging.
• Implemented Quality Assurance by TEMPeffectively handling Code Reviews and Peer reviews and following Coding and Naming Standards
• Prepare estimates for Analysis, design, test case preparation and QA and UAT process tasks.
• Developed Test Plans using Business requirements, Use Cases and Functional Design Documents.
• Involved in review High level design and LLD documents for the system.
• Involved in Quality test process - Active participation in Write and execute test plan and unit test cases.
• Reviewed functional and Program Specifications, Analysis of the work requests, code reviews, functional testing and delivery of work.

Technologies: OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, Control-M, JAVA, UNIX, Embedded SQL, CICS, DB2, ENDEAVOR, EXPEDITOR, QMF, VSAM, FILE-AID

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of the new programs and modification of the existing applications including coding, testing using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL and VSAM.
• Used IBM utility IDCAMS in JCL to create, merge and copy GDG and files.
• Involved in migrating the developed code from Non-Production region to the Production region using the change management tool CHANGEMAN.
• Documented job flows using Microsoft Visio for user community.
• Used CHANGEMAN utility to build, checkout, stage & promote packages after code changes.
• Debugging the COBOL/DB2/VSAM programs which used in batch cycle by using the Expeditor.
• Used SPUFI to retrieve, modify and insert data into Test, QA Database.
• Responsible for evaluating Business Requirements, Functional Specs, TDD, Designing, Creating, executing test plans and business process components.
• Implemented Quality Assurance by TEMPeffectively handling Code Reviews and Peer reviews and following Coding and Naming Standards
• Prepare estimates for Analysis, design, test case preparation and QA and UAT process tasks.
• Developed Test Plans using Business requirements, Use Cases and Functional Design Documents.
• Involved in review High level design and LLD documents for the system.
• Involved in Quality test process - Active participation in Write and execute test plan and unit test cases.
• Reviewed functional and Program Specifications, Analysis of the work requests, code reviews, functional testing and delivery of work.
• Extensively worked with the CA7 Scheduler and executed SQL Queries in SPUFI.
• Involved in Error Analysis and Abend analysis.
• Adhered to SLA in supporting SLA 1 to SLA 3 applications.

Technologies: OS/390, AS400, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, JCL, I-Series, CICS, Embedded SQL, DB2, CA7, Expeditor, Remedy, Change man, SPUFI, VSAM, File-Aid

Confidential, AZ

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Plan-N: Plan-N is a new feature to enable payments via installments for corporate Card members. The Plan N feature is a strategic offering in the Argentina market. This project TEMPhas been developed to implement a product which allows Card Members to pay for purchases by installments over a predefined period of time in Argentina region.
• As a member of the programming team, the responsibilities are included as to requirements gathering understand the requirements and developing and testing of the application. As a Programmer involved in the following activities:
• Responsible for the impact analysis, preparing the high level, low-level design document and identifying data quality issues.
• Involved in Coding and testing of the modules using COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and SQL.
• Prepare estimates for Analysis, design, test case preparation and QA process tasks.
• Involved in review High level design and LLD documents for the system.
• Analyzed the abends, captured the dump of the failing programs using DumpMaster and worked with Web-aware application Programs to interact with the Web Server and used InterTest to debug them.
• Reviewed functional and Program Specifications, Analysis of the work requests, code reviews, functional testing and delivery of work.
• Used File-Aid to create, insert data into VSAM files.
• FTP various files from mainframe modify/send it to Client as per the request.
• Used File-Aid/DB2 to perform various operations on database.

Technologies: OS/390, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, CICS, Embedded SQL, Easytrieve, INTERTEST, ENDEVOR, QMF, VSAM, XML.