Mainframe Developer Resume

SUMMARY

15 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set Experienced in the analysis, design and development of COBOL,CICS,DB2 and REXX programs, also used tools CHANGEMAN, SYNCSORT, FILE - AID, NDM, XPEDITOR
Experienced in all phases of testing, Extracting data through printing bills, lead the team of six people, Created project plan using Microsoft project for each cycle and implemented in timely manner, co-ordinate meetings to go over defects and improvements during and after the testing.
Experienced in Batch and online programs debugged using Xpeditor, Intertest and File-aid. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture. Worked on some of key concepts of mainframe technologies like Mass inserts and Database triggers
Developed design documents, programming specifications, complex COBOL/CICS/REXX programs using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices.
Strong analytical skills, resolved some production issues efficiently
Experience in analyzing the entire system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems.
Solid communicator with exceptional team-building skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, SQL, Rexx

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, Intertest

Version Control Tools: ChangeMan, Endeover

Operating Systems: Windows XP, MVS (OS/390)Others Tools: File Aid, Spufi, MQ,NDM

Tools Created: Data load/unload utility, Rexx utilities

Project Management/ Communication Tools: MS-Project, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Handle production support as primary contact person for Mainframe related issues
Design and Develop COBOL, CICS and DB2 programs
Modified REXX program as per requirement
Ensure implementation of new programs
Analyze and modified programs based on the requirements
Supported all aspects of disaster recovery testing

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Design of User requirements, Attended Functional requirement meetings and identified impacted Programs, JCL, Procedures, symbolic libraries and tables.
Created project plan for the all the requirements including plan for writing specification, coding, code review and unit test. distributed to the team to stay in tune with the timeline
Involved in coding of new modules from the scratch and coding to implement the new functionality or change the existing functionality of the programs.
Carry out impact analysis to make sure that the existing code is not affected
Carried out the system and Integration testing and prepared the Traceability matrix, coordinate with the users for UAT testing.
Assist in defect resolution process, conducted Root Cause Analysis & Look Ahead Meetings to prevent the defect & to meet the quality goals.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Involved in Coding and Unit Testing a of the impacted COBOL, DB2 and CICS modules
Verified scheduling changes created by production team to make sure all the jobs were schedule to run
Provided support for running system test, parallel test and UAT test and involved in defect and resolution and analysis .
Played active role in version control, comparing code changes and ensure the perfection, Consolidate Documents for impacted recompile modules, and also identified obsolete modules and components.
Provided Production support, resolved the issues in timely manner

MainframeTest Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Led and motivated team of four which resulted in successful implementation.
Led meeting for defect handling between test, programmers and users group.Provided reports for test progress.
Created and implemented Project plan for testing of all the phases of billing cycle which included the extracting data from MQ loading to the data and running all the jobs for billing cycle.
Created and distributed daily status of test to all cross functional application and management team which helped the completion of test cycle ahead of time.
Led meeting for defect handling between test, programmers and users group.

Confidential

Mainframe Tester

Responsibilities:

Created test data for Integration test for requirements and tested online screens. Also created test-data and tested several applications.
Set up test environment for running billing cycle, scheduled Cobol and Linux programs running for billing cycle using Enterprise System Platform
Monitored COBOL, CICS and DB2 jobs running using ESP, Resolved all JCL, SYMLIB, Procedure, BMC Utilities, IDCAMS and sync sort related issues while monitoring Mainframe jobs.
Presented process to the team and upper management, and also teach the process to team members.

Confidential

Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

World class Help desk trouble-shooting software and hardware, scanner, printers, scale, modems.
Worked with beta testing of online software written in Visual Basic and C+ languages.
Documentation specialist for self directed work team
Maintained and log calls using Expert Advisor in OS/2