SUMMARY

• Over 13 Years of IT experience on Mainframe Technologies including different Platform (OS), Languages, Databases and Tools with special expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, CICS, Oracle, Easytrieve, CMAN, XML, File - Aid,MQSeries,RDZ,RTC,DB2 Stored Procedure, Python, Java, AWS, which includes an Application design, Programming, Trouble Shooting and Testing.
• An Innovative professional with over 7 years of experience in Vision Plus and Dispute System processing. Extensively worked on Credit card transaction posting, Software engineering, Designing, Developing, Programming and Testing of Vision Plus software applications with emphasis on Credit card services in IBM Mainframes & MQ Series.
• Extensively Worked on utilities and software like TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, SQL, Platinum, SYNCSORT, REXX, Quality Center, FTP, SAR, NDM, Insync, Intertest, CA7 & CA11 and IBM utilities.
• Experienced in developing and testing Batch/Online (CICS) applications. Involved in test and production support activities as well.
• Expertise with Relation Databases Oracle, DB2 and NoSQL databases.
• Detailed understanding of data flow from Mainframes to Data Warehouse and generating reporting using BI Visualization tools such as Tableau and Splunk.
• Detailed understanding of Hadoop MapReduce Programming, Hive, PIG, HBASE, Tableau, Splunk and generating reports using Python Matplotlib.
• Have extensive experience and knowledge in Development and Customization of Vision PLUS 8.X (Credit cards management application developed in mainframes) sub systems such as: CMS (Credit Management System-Interest processing, Annual Fee Charging), FAS (Financial authorization System).
• Detailed knowledge on SOAP UI, REST Assurance Framework and Restful WebService testing.
• Strong Experience in Agile process with JIRA.
• Having good experience on MS Office products like Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Extensive experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, and responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining and supporting applications software.
• Extensively involved in Management and lead roles in various implementations and worked on various RFP’s proposals, requirement specification, customization and integration.
• People and process simplification, Onsite and offshore co-ordination and team setup, team building.
• Effective Leader, Motivator, Decision Maker, Problem Solver and Team Player with excellent Planning, Coordination, Time Management, Supervision and Organizational Skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, REXX, Java, Python, C, Shell scripting and SQL.

Databases: DB2, DB2 Version 9/9.5/10/10.5 , IMS-DB, VSAM, DBase and Oracle8i/9i/10g.

Middleware Technologies: MQ Series, WS02.

Operating Systems: MVS, OS/390, Z/OS and Windows.

OLTP: CICS, IMS-DC.

Schedulers: Control-M, CA7.

Tools: File Aid, Xpeditor, Endevor, CMS, File Master, Intertest, RDz, RTC, Change-man, QMF.

Cloud Technologies: AWS Services, EC2, S3, SQS, SWF, SNS, ELB, Dynamo DB, VPC, ASG, CloudFront, CloudWatch and IAM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Mainframe Programmer Analyst/ Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyze therequirementsand preparing technicaldocumentation.
• Preparing impact analysis document before changing the existing programs.
• Preparation of High level and Detail Design documentation based on Business requirement.
• Provides application software development services or technical support.
• Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications.
• Program development using COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2 in Mainframe environment.
• Responsible for the batch cycle completed within the specified SLA.
• Ensures the problem get fixed and enhanced of the system based on the business needs.
• Implementing the user stories using Agile methodology.
• Good coordination with onsite and offshore team members.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, File-AID, Platinum, MS VISIO, SharePoint, IDCAMS, Splunk, AngularJS.

Confidential

Lead Mainframe Programmer Analyst/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understand business needs, identify gaps, propose & develop technical solutions for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participate in Requirement gathering meetings involving multiple stakeholders such as Business sponsors, 3rd party vendors, customers.
• Interacting with various interface teams for data transmission requirements: Pershing, Bank Custody (SunGard) & 3rd party systems.
• Responsible for getting sign-off on Architecture design approach from various project stakeholders such as ARB (Architecture Review Board), Front End team, Back End team, QA team, Business users, Project Sponsors.
• Impact analysis & creating high level design, low level design in accordance to the requirements.
• Coding, Testing (UT, IT, UAT), Implementation and post implementation activities.
• Estimation and project planning & tracking.
• Responsible for the quality compliance.
• Project Status reporting to various stakeholders.
• Resolution of test bugs uncovered during all phases of testing.
• Preparing and documenting various deliveries (All phases of project).

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, File-Aid, MQ Series,WSO2, ENDEVOR, FTBINSYNC, BMC Catalogue, MS VISIO, Sharepoint.

Confidential

Mainframe Project Lead/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing therequirementsand preparing technicaldocumentation and LLD.
• Preparation of High level and Detail Design documentation based on Business requirement.
• Prepared impact analysis document before changing the existing programs.
• Lead Engineer will be responsible for below responsibilities.
• Understanding the Business requirements and Solution design thoroughly and mapping these requirements to the Test cases.
• Adhoc letter generation as per Client request.
• Monitoring of overall quality and timeliness of testing deliverables.
• Provide communication to project management on the overall status of testing - Test preparation and execution.
• Review a static testing of the business requirements and solution design
• Customization of various applications / reports and implementation of selected business model.
• Functional analysis of specifications, tracking tickets arise from customers and resolving problems.
• Identify customer access business flow and gap analysis, provide recommendations in key strategic are as involving competitor performance.
• Attending weekly customer meeting and internal team meetings.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS,IMS DB, VSAM, JCL, File-Aid, ENDEVOR, FTB, Intertest.

Confidential

Mainframe Tech Lead/Project Lead/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with business team to do Requirement Analysis.
• Preparing Impact Assessment, Estimation, Functional/High Level Design/Low Level Design, Coding/Testing, Implementation.
• 24/7 Batch support for ADS (ITS) Prod and UAT jobs that run as part of batch.
• Impact analysis & design in accordance to the change request from client.
• UAT & Post production support.
• Analyzed and implemented G2C Global countries batch process and converted batch process as common for all countries.
• Consolidated batch jobs of Global countries and made unified for all countries.
• Batch jobs common to for all Global countries will run together.
• Country specific batch jobs aligned to run individually.
• Analyzed and implemented common code as unified for all Global countries by control record driven.
• Coordinating different interface teams and associations (VISA, Master card and Dinners) as part of resolving monetary disputes.
• Responsible for the quality compliance

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS,IMS DB, VSAM, JCL, File-Aid, ENDEVOR, FTB, Intertest, RDz, RTC.

Confidential

Mainframe Team Lead/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Project planning, scheduling, execution and control with strict adherence to bank’s SDLC standards.
• Conduct project progress reviews, coordinate with SIT / UAT teams and stakeholder management.
• Resolving and managing all the defects in the system integration testing phase. Most of the defects worked up on are on the authorizations that usually are the showstoppers.
• Tracking of Requirement gathering, scoping, design, development and implementation of customizations for Latin American banks mainly in VisionPLUS subsystems: CMS, FAS and WSS. Few of the functionalities customized are FAS Custom Batch Interface, FAS Special handling, FAS Acquiring Warning Bulletin Changes, CMS Fee Changes, CMS Card Spending Limit Updates and WSS Sign on parameters to name a few.
• Liaise with infra group for project requirements;
• Manage, mentor and motivate resources, resolve conflicts and increase efficiency / productivity; Managed 25 members team.
• Responsible for the quality compliance.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, JCL, File Master, MQ Series, ENDEVOR, FTB, INSYNC, BMC Catalogue, MS VISIO, Sharepoint.

Confidential

Mainframe Team Lead/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Involved from Scoping, Design, and Development.
• Implementation included online screen design with new parameters set-up
• Tracking module health and team motivation activates.
• Attending weekly status calls with clients and sending status reports.
• Sharing the acquired business and technical knowledge through various knowledge. sharing sessions and seminars, thus helping out the team members to achieve high productivity.
• Doing review across the team.
• SIT/UAT facilitation, coordination and support.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Oracle,JCL, File Master, MQ SeriesENDEVOR, FTB, INSYNC, Unix, MS VISIO, Sharepoint.