Cobol Mainframe Developer/programmer Resume
SUMMARY:
- Programmer/Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst, Software Tester with experience in IT Project Management and the full life cycle development, end - to-end testing, and implementation, of computer systems..
- More than 20 years mainframe experience working with programming languages (COBOL, PL/1, and Assembler), in online and database environments.
- Applications development experience in insurance, billing, payroll, and financial systems.
- Work experience with EDI data transmissions.
- Worked with the Confidential /Expedite product and EDI data formats X12, EDIFACT, UCS, UNTDI on the mainframe, windows, web services, and FTP platforms.
- Using the basic X12 documents like the invoice (810), and the PO (850).
- Actual experience in software testing doing test plans, test estimation, and test case setup, execution, and defect tracking.
- Project development with emphasis on meeting customer expectations on time and within budget.
- I enjoy working with other teams, stakeholders, and users.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Mainframe: MVS/TSO/ISPF
Development Environment: TSO/ISPF JCL, COBOL, PL/1, CICS, VSAM, DB2/SQL, Fileaid,, Confidential Utilities & SYNCSORT.
Also worked with: Assembler, Expeditor (CICS), IMS/batch, Endevor Control-D, SDLC, Easytrieve, Panvalet, Crystal Reports, QMF/SPUFI to extract and verify DB2 and Oracle data, used SAR and web services to view production output and EDI transaction flow..MS Windows, MS Office, SharePoint.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
COBOL Mainframe Developer/Programmer
Responsibilities:
- Work with program development and maintenance group to support system conversion from DB2/Cobol to open source Java environment.
- Work with the offshore team to provide system information to help them develop and test new application.
- Track application defects.
- Determine location of the defect in the source code, and provide a fix. and report status
Confidential
COBOL Mainframe Developer/Programmer
Responsibilities:
- Work with program development and maintenance group to support system conversion from DB2/Cobol to open source Java environment.
- Work with the offshore team to provide system information to help them develop and test the new application.
- Track application defects.
- Determine location of the defect in the source code, and provide a fix. and report status
Confidential, Troy MI
Programmer Developer
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Confidential to track down and repair applications defects using the above mainframe skills.
- Determine location of the defect in the source code, propose a fix.
- Report status through a defect reporting system .
- Prepare project/Implementation and test plans and component specifications based on user requirements and perform testing and implementation according to shop standards and procedures.
Confidential, Lansing, MI
COBOL/Assembler Developer
Responsibilities:
- Document the current COBOL and Assembler mainframe insurance programs to convert to a new technology.
- Translate the existing code into Excel documents so that the end-user and the SME's can decipher what the code is doing.
- Work with the Confidential to track down and repair applications defects reported by the user testing group.
- Basically, determine location of the defect in the source code, and fix it..
- I installed the Confidential COBOL PC/370 workshop and completed 50 workshop assignment.
- I also installed the Qualls Assembler PC/370 workshop and completed all the workshop assignments
Programmer / QA Analyst, EDI Tester, and Project Lead
Confidential, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Responsibilities:
- Review user requirements, develop test plans, prepare and execute test case document test case execution instructions and expected results and report defect status.
- Determine and fix defect root cause in the application which is written in the Confidential PL/1 language.
- Test transmissions of EDI data formats, X12, EDIFACT, UCS, and UNTDI on the MVS, Windows, and FTP platforms with numerous project successes including mailbox acknowledgments, expirations, compressions, and transmission interrupt and recovery.
- Participate in team meetings to assess and evaluate test plans, test cases, and test performance.
- Worked with UNIX, SQL, and Oracle client utilizing SQL queries on Oracle client soft-ware to verify data transmissions and data validity.
- Worked with Microsoft Office products Word, Excel, Outlook, VB.net Visual Basic programming, Crystal Reports XI