SUMMARY

• Dedicated and highly accomplished Information Technology professional with 7.9 + years of hands - on experience in design, development, maintenance and testing of legacy Mainframe and LINUX application programming.
• Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of software applications.
• Extensive experience in developing the application from scratch using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and REXX.
• Strong Experience in developing Test Plans, build Test Conditions and Test Cases, creating test data, analyzing bugs, fixing them and also tracking the defects.
• Extensive experience in training and mentoring team members with technical/system knowledge and business processes.
• Automated the manual processes in mainframe which significantly improved the productivity of the client.
• Strong Knowledge in Travel and Transport domain.
• Strong database skills, Mainframe Programming and development knowledge
• Done Certification in DB2 9,10.1 Fundamentals.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
• Certified Scrum Master

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases: DB2, MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, REXX, C

Data communication systems: CICS, MQ series

File Handler: VSAM

Operating Systems: Z/OS, Windows 95/98/XP/NT, LINUX

Networking Tool: MQ series

Tools: /Utilities: Endeavor, Changeman, Expeditor, Inter Test, Lets MoveISPF, File Aid, QMF, ESP, Ezytrieve, Sort, NDM, Detector, BMC Utilities, RC update, Abend-Aid

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Calculation of hours, Gross, TAX
• Responsible for Wages for all the UPS employees.
• Acknowledgement and invoices: Receives Acknowledgement and invoices from vendors
• Users can correct the hours thru CICS online screen.
• This application includes CICS, DB2 tables and JCL
• Working with business users to understand the business requirements
• Handling the team from Offshore (India).
• Discussing with UPS application team about the understanding of our requirement and Estimation for accomplishing the requirement with quality
• Providing quality deliverables.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Reviewing the deliverables before sharing with clients

Environment: IBM Mainframe TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, REXX, MQ, Easytreive, Expeditor, Intertest, ESP Scheduling, Endeavor, Change Man, NDM, Detector, RC Update, BMC Utilities, Abend Aid

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a project team in delivering solution to our customer in the Logistics sector.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Production Support Lead for ARCS. Coordinating the team if any of the systems Job went down in Production on daily basis
• Provide the solution for the ABENDED Jobs in Production. This needs interaction with Application User as well as Business Infrastructure Group (BIG Team). Need to contact Production Control within 15 minutes.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in Mainframe and other leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.
• Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.
• Responsible for maintaining the metrics of the application and timesheet details.
• Key projects handled so far include AR/ARCS/ALPS/ICOPS and UPS Payroll.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a project team in delivering solution to our customer.
• Have been involved in both Application development and production support.
• Involving in Full-life cycle during an Enterprise Release (Application Development).
• Preparing Design for Business requirement.
• Unit testing the code changes with adequate number of test cases.
• Involving in Integration testing, Test data preparation using ESP, NDM, BMC load, File-Aid, RC-Update.
• Defect raising and resolving
• Participating in Peer review process
• Interacting with the client directly for discussions on the task
• Production Support which includes Bug Fixes (Batch & Online), Technical Initiatives and Adhoc User Query Support
• Production bug fixing using tools such as Expeditor, Intertest, Changeman
• Fixing defects and issues on time and with accuracy.
• Generate Reports using various Eztrieve or REXX or SyncSort or ICETOOL depending on the need & complexity.
• Going forward with Technical initiatives in the application.
• Propose Scope of Performance Improvements wherever or whenever applicable throughout the system.
• Involving in lot of recoveries which help in recovering millions of dollar revenue to the client.
• Developed process automation tools using REXX, Sort.

Environment: IBM Mainframe TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, REXX, MQ, EZetreive, Expeditor, Intertest, ESP Scheduling, Change Man, NDM, Detector, RC Update, BMC Utilities, LINUX, Oracle SQL.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Working with business users to understand the business requirements
• Discussing with UPS application team about the understanding of our requirement and Estimation for accomplishing the requirement with quality
• Providing quality deliverables.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Reviewing the deliverables before sharing with clients
• Sharing Business knowledge to new team members.

Environment: IBM Mainframe TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, REXX, MQ, EZetreive, Expeditor, Intertest, ESP Scheduling, Change Man, NDM, Detector, RC Update, BMC Utilities, LINUX.