SUMMARY:

• Mainframe Developer with 8 Years of experience in all facets of software development.
• Extensive experience in development, enhancement and production support activities in Agile environment using IBM Mainframe technologies.
• Expertise in COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2.
• Have good experience in SAS, Eazytrieve, IBM Utilities, DFSORT, Changeman, Endevor, Zeke, CA7.
• Have good experience in Insurance and Retail domain.
• Proven ability to learn and apply new systems, technologies, and applications and share the knowledge with other team members.
• Strong communicator and a very good team player. Well organized, with excellence in multi - tasking and prioritizing the work.

SKILL:

• COBOL
• JCL
• VSAM
• DB2
• CICS
• Endevor
• Fileaid
• Expeditor
• Abend aid
• TSO/ISPF
• Eazytrieve
• SAS
• ZEKE
• CA-7
• CHANGEMAN
• Remedy
• SAFE
• HP Quality Center

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, Connecticut

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, Endevor, Filemaster, CA7, Rally and Remedy

Responsibilities:

• As an onsite lead for 4 applications, responsible for Client delivery in terms of enhancement, Incident tickets resolution, upgrades and SOX activities
• Interact with business to understand the requirements and coordinate with offshore to complete the requirement
• Coordinating with Offshore team to allocate the task and get things done
• Providing technical guidance to the team
• Attending daily status call with offshore.

Confidential

Environment: PL1, DB2, JCL, Windows SAS, Changeman, FileAid, CA7, JIRA, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• The objective of this project includes maintenance and bug-fix of the existing applications and to perform enhancements based on the business requirements.
• Interact with business analyst to learn more about the requirements.
• Estimate the effort for the requirements.
• Analysis and designing of technical specs.
• Developing new PL1 programs or modify the existing code for new requirements
• Checking the quality of the programs and determining its degree of compliance to standards, monitoring performance continuously and look out for channels of improvement and cost-cutting.
• Release management activity of the deliverables.
• Review the Offshore deliverables.
• Preparing Status reports
• Involved in Agile activities like Sprint planning, Retrospection
• Trained new joiners in the team to improve their business & technical skills

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, REXX, Easytrieve, Endevor, FileAid, Xpeditor, ZEKE, ZZ1, Abend aid, Quality Center, SAFE.

Responsibilities:

• Received Knowledge Transition from Business Analyst at Client Site (USA), understood the application and business & transferred the knowledge to offshore team along with detailed documentation
• Analyse the changes with respect to Requirements given in Business Requirement and Functional Specifications documents
• Documented the system for better understanding of the business
• Design, Coding and Unit testing
• Preparation of Estimation for new ITSR’s
• Coordinating with the Client/BA/Onsite for Estimations
• Route cause Analysis of identified problem in the given system and its subsystems or interfaces
• SME for the CDS system
• 24/7 Production Support for solving production abends and production issues
• Solving Service desk tickets
• Trained new joiners in the team to improve their business & technical skills

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, SAS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, REXX, Changeman, FileAid, OPCE, Abendaid, Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Interact with clients/LOB on business requirements changes/requirements clarifications.
• Analysis and design of the project requirements.
• Technical design documents presentation to the project team.
• Coding of the impacted and new modules.
• Testing and preparing the unit test plans.
• Verification of test cycles results.
• Review of design, code and testing for defect free deliverables.
• Project implementation and production support.
• Supporting production jobs for any abend.
• Conducting knowledge sharing sessions on various processes and technologies used in the project to other team members.
• Code migration from one environment to another.

Confidential

Environment: Objectstar, JCL, COBOL, Remedy

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing 24x7 Support for the Application as First Line Support.
• Fixing recurring job failures.
• Service Improvements which automate the Manual process and scheduled it with the existing schedule to reduce huge Manual Efforts and to make the data available on time to the users.
• Responsible for smooth running of all business function while ensuring a Service Level Agreement of 2Hrs for severity 1 batch failures
• Performance tuning of jobs
• Providing the efficient support to customers in solving their issues across 24x7
• Coordinated with client Customers for resolving critical issues
• Train new joiners in the team to improve their business & technical skills
• Adhering to documentation process to keep requirements and changes documented as well as keep knowledge repository updated
• Identifying opportunities for changes in the system for improved performance (service improvements) and raise the change request accordingly