SUMMARY

• An expert in IBM Mainframe technologies wif experience in SDLC.
• Strong in Analysis, Design, coding, production support, Testing, Quality assurance and documentation of applications under IBM mainframe system.
• Extensive knowledge & experience in COBOL, JCL, Procedures, DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, VSAM, SQL, ISPF, TSO and working knowledge of MQ.
• Exposure and knowledge of Telecom and Payments (credit card) domain.
• Excellent knowledge of both Batch & Online systems running on mainframes.
• Expertise in DB2 tools such as QMF & File manager.
• Exposure of both waterfall and Agile (Scrum) model.
• Active involvement in Analysis and designing of documents including System requirement specifications (SRS), and specification design documents (HLD and LLD)
• Good team player wif excellent technical and interpersonal skills and equally strong written and oral communication.
• Extremely well organized, wif proven ability to collaborate, multitask and prioritize workload wif a positive attitude.
• Readiness and motivation to address and resolve complex issues, support clients and project teams, often working on multiple medium - to-large sized projects wif minimal supervision.
• Proficient in English and Hindi.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

IBM Mainframes: Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, CICS, CA-7, JES, Xpeditor, NDM (Connect Direct), FTP, Changeman, Endeavor, Panvalet, File manager, Fault Analyzer, QMF, RACF, MQ, SORT, TSO/ISPF, MVS OS/390 and Z/OS and Omegamon.

Knowledge of IBM utilities tools: including IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEBCOMPR, SORT etc.

Microsoft word: Microsoft Power point, Microsoft Excel & Microsoft office outlook.

HP Quality Centre (QC), Incident management tool: (JIRA) & TDP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Programmer Analyst Senior

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of teh project specifications provided by teh onsite team members.
• Coordinating wif onsite members and arranging calls to clarify teh requirements in case needed.
• Development & Testing (unit testing and integration testing) of teh impacted modules.
• Organizing and participating in design and code walkthrough calls.
• Coordinating wif ST team to get teh code thoroughly tested.
• Actively participating in daily scrum call wif onsite team to discuss issues and roadblocks.
• Creating teh code migration form and getting them approved wifin timelines.
• Responsible for overseeing teh Quality procedures related to teh project.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling trouble tickets raised by various application teams of TS2.
• Adhoc COBOL program development which included, IMS databases scan programs, data extraction from DB2 table based on different criteria and writing to output files etc.
• Q region maintenance includes monitoring, configuring, taking back-up and autanticating teh jobs and data.
• Report generation as per different stakeholder needs. dis included reports containing data of all accounts under a certain banking client.
• New client setup in Q region
• New job setup for Q region to monitor teh app growth and take necessary action if teh frequency of new account addition is higher than usual, also to maintain certain IMS database fields and setting them to default values based on eligibility conditions of those.
• Worked on COBOL upgrade project (from version 4.2 to 6.1).

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for understanding teh technical & functional specifications of teh system and developing applications using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 & IMS
• Client interaction for requirement analysis and high level design creation.
• Designing, developing, testing, troubleshooting & debugging of application.
• Providing implementation support and post implementation support to client.
• Providing support for business acceptance testing and production acceptance testing and resolving ST defects & live defects wifin strict timelines.
• Coordinating via teh onshore Tech lead wif third party vendors for resolving issues and developing common interfaces.
• Mentoring SORD applications to new team members.
• Responsibility of Adhoc work requests like job abends, system down issues or certain DB issues.
• 24/7 on call support on rotation basis wifin team to support teh mission critical application.
• Involvement in peer Review process.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing impact analysis post receiving teh client requirements.
• Supported teh SR team by providing answers to adhoc queries post code analysis for one of teh critical projects.
• Creation of various design documents like HLD, AID (Application Interface document), AD, Dev package, Test package and release forms as well.
• Support system testing team in case of any issues related to environmental or data.
• Troubleshoot and resolve teh defects (during ST, UAT or post deployment phase) if any wifin teh strict timelines assigned based on teh severity of teh defect.
• Uploading all teh project artifacts in TDP as part of Confidential process.
• Creating status report of teh project and report these to project manager & client Confidential regular intervals.
• Active involvement in teh Defect prevention (DP) & RCA meetings wif team.

Confidential

Associate Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for INEXS System monitoring which involved end to end batch cycle monitoring and issue resolving in case of any job failures in teh flow.
• Development of teh assigned module and performing unit testing and integration testing.
• Reporting to client about teh successfully run nightly batch process on daily basis.
• Handling data conditioning requests from System Testing team.
• Participated in teh weekly status calls wif client to provide updates of teh projects being handled.
• Planning & performing Disaster recovery exercise.
• Active involvement in peer review process of design package, development package and test package as well.
• Also handled development walkthrough meetings both internal (wif team members) and external (wif clients).
• Strictly adhered to SLA while performing above tasks.