SUMMARY

• Accomplished Mainframe Professional wif 10 plus years of experience both at onshore and offshore in working for various projects using IBM Mainframe technologies
• Proven experience in Products implementation, Migration, Application Maintenance, Expansion and production support projects.
• Proven experience in performing teh tasks in all phases of SDLC process - Analysis, Design, Unit Test Plan, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Test Results, Implementation and Post Implementation Support
• Outstanding technical skills, wif extensive knowledge of IBM Mainframe technologies like COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, TELON, EAZYTRIEVE, REXX and DYL280.
• Hands on experience on working remediation activities for California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Compliance
• Proven experience in creating automation solutions thus reducing manual effort by 80%.
• Provided subject matter expertise on cost reduction, operational efficiency and leveraging automation methods to halp business make better decisions.
• Led several projects wif a strong team of 15 plus individuals and guided teh project successfully well wifin budget ahead of schedule.
• Proven ability to manage resources and working directly wif business stakeholders on critical aspects of contracts.
• Created and maintained multiple technical design documents and system architecture models.
• Having extensive domain knowledge on Insurance and good working experience on Agile methodology using Scrum
• Significant experience in analyzing teh business and functional requirements from Business (Product owner) and elicitation/discovery sessions working wif Business SMEs/ Business analysts/ Testers/ relevant stake holders and other team members. which involves a review of existing systems configurations and operating methodologies as well as understanding evolving business needs.
• Significant experience in Proposing automation solutions in teh existing systems to optimize teh Business Process Flows
• Highly motivated team player wif strong communication and problem-solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: JCL, COBOL, CICS, TELON, REXX, EAZYTRIEVE, DYL280, STORED PROCS

Databases & Tools: DB2, VSAM, MYSQL, TERADATA, SPUFI, QMF, IMS DC

Operating System: ZOS, OS/390, MVS

Other Utilities: MQ QUEUES, TSO, ISPF, File Master Plus EXPEDITER, PANVALET, MDB2, CA INTERTEST, TRACE MASTER, CONTROLM, INSYNC, SCLM, TERADATA SQL ASSISTANT, SERVICENOW, INFORMATION GOVERANANCE CATALOG (IGC)INFORMATION ANALYZER (IA), IMAM, IBM Operation Console

Agile Methodologies: Scrum, Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Developer

Confidential, TN

Responsibilities:

• Gather teh requirements and get business approvals for defining and setting up Data Governance and Metadata management framework.
• Set up IBM Information Analyzer to perform Data Discovery, perform teh Column Analysis on teh imported source database tables and deliver findings in written form, generate teh data discovery reports wif PII and PHI Data Classifications and provide to stakeholders, review and discuss analysis report and findings wif SME.
• Design teh meta-model for teh data and create process documents for squads involved in teh CCPA remediation.
• Determine repositories for scanning and query writing. Reach out to application SMEs/managers/owners to determine wat databases exist. Use teh most direct database dat is compatible wif teh IBM suite.
• Harvesting and onboarding of business and technical Metadata and creating data lineage by performing all these activities. Create data extract from RDBMS & Mainframe systems. Identify, configure and onboard business terms in IBM information governance catalog (IGC). Tag technical metadata wif business terms.
• Develop teh scripts such as a script based on Key identifiers to validate if a customer/Individual exists wifin teh application. script to select teh PII fields on an individual employee/Policy, and script to delete data related to an individual employee/Policy.
• Understanding and Implementing a cross-organizational data governance platform using IGC dat delivers a robust, centralized metadata management ecosystem for business users to manage business data, definitions, rules along wif ownership of data domains for faster and more efficient resolution of data stewardship activities.
• Setup and generate data lineage reports in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC).
• For Mainframe DB2 Applications, Using COBOL, DB2 and JCL, develop teh process to code three categories of scripts to get all teh three executed in a single run.
• Organized and participated in all phases of teh project such as creating user stories, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Participate in teh weekly leadership meetings and update teh status of remediation activities on application wise.

Senior Software Developer

Confidential, TN

Responsibilities:

• Extract teh business and technical rules dat has been running for all transactions in teh eEnroll application.
• Review teh extracted rules wif teh business analyst and stake holders and simply them towards reducing teh kickouts.
• Analyze teh requirements, understand teh application architecture and prepare teh design documents and technical specifications for application enhancements
• Development of new Batch and online programs using COBOL, CICS, TERADATA, JCL, VSAM
• Unit testing and System testing of programs
• Debugging and implementing teh system using CA Debug tools.
• Extensively interacted wif clients and business teams to provide technical support and measure teh scalability, consistency and accuracy of teh application.
• Extensive experience in developing high volume, high performance, high availability batch and real-time applications
• Participated in all phases of teh project such as creating user stories, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Followed an agile software development method to enable continuous delivery and integration of new services.

Senior Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Closely works wif business customers to gather teh project requirements and perform teh analysis to determine teh best possible solutions to accomplish teh project goals efficiently
• Organized and participated in all phases of teh project such as creating user stories, sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Interfacing wif business partners on Application Development, enhancement requests, Maintenance and Support
• Wrote Technical Specification Documents (TSDs) for each assignment including a description of proposed changes, expected effects, and sample code to upload to teh project SharePoint site
• Develop and modify teh batch and online programs using COBOL, TELON, DB2, JCL, VSAM and EAZYTRIEVE
• Created Unit Test Documents containing test case procedure, data sources, results, and screen captures highlighting input and output data, indicators, and system display statements
• Coordinates wif offshore team members, complete teh deliverables as planned and deliver them to business customers after performing teh end to end review
• Followed an agile software development method to enable continuous delivery and integration of new services.

Software Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Review teh business requirements and business specifications for system modifications of work stream. Develop technical specifications for system modifications
• Facilitate review of technical specifications developed wif Customer business and IT subject matter experts (“SMEs”) and making corrections resulting from reviews wif Customer
• Enhancement to teh existing modules and creating new components based on requirements
• Construct teh unit testing of system modifications. Code Merge and deployment of code to User Acceptance Testing (“UAT”) environment Support UA for all system modifications Support includes, Analysis of defects reported, and determining defects in Life Chassis scope
• Support code implementation to production. Provide support to customers and resolve application problems based on teh priority
• Root Cause Analysis of defects reported and Code changes and unit testing for resolution of defects
• Coordinating teh team activities and performing reviews of work done by offshore and ensuring teh quality of teh work items as per Confidential Standards.

Software Developer

Confidential, NASHVILLE

Responsibilities:

• Review teh business requirements and business specifications for system modifications of work stream. Develop technical specifications for system modifications
• Created detailed design documentation and walkthrough teh changes wif business stakeholders in acquiring teh sign off.
• Develop and modify teh batch and online programs using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM and EAZYTRIEVE
• Created Unit Test Documents containing test case procedure, data sources, results, and screen captures highlighting input and output data, indicators, and system display statements
• BAU/One Life Code Merge and deployment of code to System Integration/QA environment
• Support System Integration testing/QA for all system modifications Support includes Analysis of defects reported, and determining defects in Life Chassis scope, Code changes and unit testing for resolution of defects in Life Chassis scope
• Support code implementation to production. Provide support to customers and resolve application problems based on teh priority
• Coordinating teh team activities and performing reviews of work done by offshore and ensuring teh quality of teh work items as per Confidential Standards.

Software Developer

Confidential, NASHVILLE

Responsibilities:

• Identifying teh mapping of source fields and constructing logics for teh extract fields and develops technical specifications
• Updating specifications resulting from Customer reviews.
• Developed new programs for producing teh 27 extracts according to teh Client Standards.
• Construction and unit testing for newly developed programs and Do fixes for defects reported by user.
• Attends daily meetings wif onsite team as well as wif client on reviewing teh extracts
• Train and induct new resources in to teh team.

Software Developer

Confidential, NASHVILLE

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of business requirements and preparation of Design documents for teh batch programs dat are impacted to modify to use expanded Ultra layout which will need teh expanded fields
• Modified teh online screens to expand teh existing master fields and to introduce teh new fields to teh corresponding trailers
• Also modified teh online program to use teh fields and to build teh transactions to update teh fields to teh master record
• Involved in Unit testing and system testing.