SUMMARY

• Having 10 years of experience in IT industry in development and maintenance in Mainframes and worked extensively in COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB and IMS DC, VSAM, CICS and Easytrieve.
• Experience in Banking and Financial Domain in Credit Card, Core & Retail Banking, Payments, Brokerage projects.
• Experience in Insurance domain in Enterprise solutions.
• Acted as Project Technical lead & Developer and supported, mentored my team when they are in need.
• Got Spot Award, Team Award, Star Award for the outstanding performance in the projects.
• Confidential Certificate of Level 2 (SE) Competency Framework Exams for IBM Mainframes.
• Hands on experience in designing components in Changeman, Endevor and RDZ version control tools.
• Worked extensively on both Online and Batch applications.
• Implemented many Online screens in CICS using SDSF and Assembler macros.
• Worked as a Mainframe applications production support and resolve incidents within the given SLAs.
• Worked on REXX to build utilities in the projects for ease to use by customers.
• Worked on MQs to move data from front end applications to back end mainframes.
• Worked on Containers and Channels to get the data from web services applications
• Hands on Experience with Mainframe Testing tools like Expeditor and IBM CADP tool and file operation tools like File - AID and Start-tool.
• Having Good working knowledge on Core Java.
• Good knowledge on IDMS ( Information Distributed Management System).
• Hands on Experience in requirements gathering, design and development, application migration and maintenance phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Adequate knowledge of Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
• Implemented many projects from Scratch onwards.
• Prepare Status report and share it with clients on weekly basis.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and analytical skills coupled with the ability to quickly embrace and understand new technologies.
• Have good knowledge on Hadoop and supported the peer projects members in the Mainframe to big data migration.
• Do Peer reviews for the coding and testing done by the team members in my project and other projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: z/OS, TSO/E, ISPF, MVS,MS-DOS, Windows (2007, XP, Vista)

Languages: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Easytrieve, Rexx, Stored Procs, Java.

Database: DB2, IMS, SQL, Oracle.

Tools: File-Aid, Start-tool, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, Sort card, Control-M, FTP, BMC Db2 load/unload, Expeditor, CADP, Endevor, Changeman, Mercury Quality center, Managenow, Perforce, Mainframe Work Bench, Developer Dialog, Mainframe Express, Source Manager, VM, SCM and MQ Series,TWS,CA7, JIRA, Hp Quality Center, Microsoft word, Excel, Visio, IBM rational tools.

Non Technical Skills: Problem Solving & Debugging skills, Quick Learner, Proven strong leadership skills, team work ability, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, New Jersey

Mainframe Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Business users in all phases of the project from requirements to implementation. Goal was always to meet client expectations.
• Discussion with E2E team and business on requirements and doing feasibility analysis.
• Develop low level design specifying the actual code changes to be carried out. Maintain Component checklist with the list of components being changed along with their location and take care of updating it at every stage of SDLC.
• Writing Technical Specifications in both high level and detailed design preparation in coordination with Distributed environment.
• Designed online CICS screens with in short span of time.
• Project is related to Banking and Financial domain.
• Used JCL for creating batch jobs stream.
• Have experience in Scrum meetings in agile projects.
• Worked on MQs to move data from front end applications to back end mainframes.
• Worked on Containers and Channels to get the data from web services applications
• Hands on Experience with Mainframe Testing tools like Expeditor and IBM CADP tool and file operation tools like File-AID and Start-tool.
• Written many Cobol Db2 programs which will retrieve data from Db2 tables.
• Used IBM CADP for debugging modules both batch and online.
• Worked on DB2, CICS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, MVS and stored procedures.
• Prepare Integration test plan and Integration test cases along with test data and carry out testing and capture the Integration test results.
• Prepare and maintain all the project documents using Microsoft SharePoint. Obtain client signoff at every stage of project during Analysis, Design, coding and Testing.
• Prepare Status report and share it with clients on weekly basis.
• Automation of certain repeated processes using rexx.
• Worked on MQs in mainframes which will get the data from the front end systems.
• Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for both client owned applications and 3rd party applications.
• Coding and doing Technical and implementation walkthrough with counterparts.
• Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence.
• Acted as Scrum Master for implementation of projects using JIRA tool in Agile methodology.
• Involved in preparation of Test Plan, Test cases and execution of the test cases.
• Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Sharing knowledge gained from experience with new team members.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS,VSAM, MQs, MVS, Changeman, Citrix, RDZ,ISPF,CA7,Star-Tool, SDSF, Stored Procedures.

Confidential, San Antonio, Texas

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on MQs in mainframes which will get the data from the front end systems.
• Perform impact analysis to finalize the list of impacted.
• Team mentoring and imparting business and technical knowledge.
• Preparing Unit test plans and Unit testing at the component level.
• Create implementation plan and CMRs, SSRs for the components to deploy into production.
• Used Agile methodology in developing the application, which included iterative application development, weekly Sprints, stand up meetings and customer reporting backlogs.
• Designed online CICS screens with in short span of time.
• Used JCL for creating batch jobs stream.
• Written many Cobol Db2 programs which will retrieve data from Db2 tables.
• Used Expeditor for debugging modules both batch and online.
• Used EZtrieve routines to generate reports.
• Provide support to the project until warranty.
• Technical Assistance and Technical Review of the Artifacts and deliveries made by the team members.
• Created front end screens in CICS using Assembler macros which is used to adjust customer details in Db2 tables.
• Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for both client owned applications and 3rd party applications.
• Coordinating with vendors during integrating testing and User acceptance testing while working with 3rd party application.
• Coding and doing Technical and implementation walkthrough with counterparts.
• Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence.
• Preparation of Test Plan, Test cases and execution of the test cases.
• Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS,VSAM,MQs, Endeavor, SPUFI, File-aid.

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements and come up with the solutions for the tasks.
• Responsible for preparing technical specification document for the respective tasks.
• Involved in Sprint planning, daily standup and user story grooming meetings.
• Responsible to lead the offshore team.
• Responsible for analysis of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.
• Creation of SPUFIs, JCLs, PROCs.
• Written many Cobol IMS programs within given time frame.
• Responsible to verify data base using QMF to cross check the SQL Query results.
• Code Review of team member's modules to check the format and coding standards and update the Review logs.
• Making presentations and knowledge transfer sessions to professionals as required.
• Involved in preparing test plans, test cases, execution of test cases and test results validation.
• Provide assistance todevelopersand support personnel as needed to determine system problems.
• Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for both client owned applications and 3rd party applications.
• Coding and doing Technical and implementation walkthrough with counterparts.
• Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence.
• Preparation of Test Plan, Test cases and execution of the test cases.
• Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Sharing knowledge gained from experience with new team members.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB and DC, CICS, VSAM, MQs, Endeavor, Manage now, Perforce, Eclipse, File-Aid.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Complete Software Development Life Cycle of the project.
• Coded new programs using COBOL & DB2 as per the functional & requirements specifications.
• Worked on Enhancement of the system as per requirements and/or Change requests
• Responsible for creation of online maps with CICS.
• Performed Unit, Functional and Regression Testing.
• Good experience of version control tools like Endeavour.
• Developed and maintained batch/online systems.
• Used waterfall model for developing the project.
• Used Eclipse to write mainframe programs in Java Environment.
• Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for both client owned applications and 3rd party applications.
• Coordinating with vendors during integrating testing and User acceptance testing.
• Coding and doing Technical and implementation walkthrough with counterparts.
• Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence.
• Preparation of Test Plan, Test cases and execution of the test cases.
• Supporting System and User Acceptance Testing.
• Sharing knowledge gained from experience with new team members.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS,VSAM,MQs, Endeavor, File-aid, Java.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Used Agile methodology in developing the application, which included iterative application development, weekly Sprints, stand up meetings and customer reporting backlogs.
• Worked on MQs in mainframes which will get the data from the front end systems.
• Created front end screens in IMS which is used to adjust customer details in IMS DB tables.
• Impact analysis, requirement clarification, and designing new modules as part of developing new applications or maintaining existing applications for both client owned applications and 3rd party applications.
• Involved in integration and User acceptance testing.
• Coding and doing Technical and implementation walkthrough with counterparts.
• Review of team deliverables ensuring process and quality adherence.
• Preparation of Test Plan, Test cases and execution of the test cases.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, MQs, Changeman, File-Aid