SUMMARY

• A Self - motivated and result-oriented IT professional with 7 years of extensive experience in IT software development life cycle (SDLC) with a strong emphasis on developing, maintain and supporting telecom and payments projects using IBM Mainframe technologies.
• Led projects at various levels and mentored new hires in mainframe technologies.
• An expert in IBM Mainframe technologies with 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.
• Hands on experience of debugging tools such as Xpeditor & IBM debugger and configuration management tools including Changeman, Endevor and Panvalet.
• 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 with excellent technical and interpersonal skills and equally strong written and oral communication.
• Extremely well organized, with proven ability to collaborate, multitask and prioritize workload with 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 with minimal supervision.
• Proficient in English and Hindi.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 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.
• 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 the project specifications provided by the onsite team members.
• Coordinating with onsite members and arranging calls to clarify the requirements in case needed.
• Development & Testing (unit testing and integration testing) of the impacted modules.
• Organizing and participating in design and code walkthrough calls.
• Coordinating with ST team to get the code thoroughly tested.
• Actively participating in daily scrum call with onsite team to discuss issues and roadblocks.
• Creating the code migration form and getting them approved within timelines.
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
• 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 authenticating the jobs and data.
• Report generation as per different stakeholder needs. This 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 the app growth and take necessary action if the 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 the technical & functional specifications of the 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 within strict timelines.
• Coordinating via the onshore Tech lead with 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 within team to support the mission critical application.
• Involvement in peer Review process.
• Responsible for performing impact analysis post receiving the client requirements.
• Supported the SR team by providing answers to adhoc queries post code analysis for one of the 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 the defects (during ST, UAT or post deployment phase) if any within the strict timelines assigned based on the severity of the defect.
• Uploading all the project artifacts in TDP as part of Confidential process.
• Creating status report of the project and report these to project manager & client at regular intervals.
• Active involvement in the Defect prevention (DP) & RCA meetings with 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 the flow.
• Development of the assigned module and performing unit testing and integration testing.
• Reporting to client about the successfully run nightly batch process on daily basis.
• Handling data conditioning requests from System Testing team.
• Participated in the weekly status calls with client to provide updates of the 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 (with team members) and external (with clients).
• Strictly adhered to SLA while performing above tasks.