SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of IT industry experience in Insurance, Payroll, Manufacturing and Finance Cards business domains.
• Requirement Analysis, design, development, testing and deployment of mission critical software applications using DB2, Mainframe.
• Involved in functional and technical system analysis & Design, System Architectural design, Presentation, process data flow design, system impact analysis, Gap analysis and documentation.
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration testing and Performance Testing.
• Experienced in interacting with Business users, Business Analysts, IT leads and developers in analyzing business requirements and translating requirements into functional and technical design specifications.
• Has very good analytical, communication and inter - personnel skill.
• Hand’s on experience in creating Online Screens using CICS for the new products and for the changes in existing screens.
• Proficient using TOAD for system testing of the reports.
• Experience in the development of new products with multi database transactional models.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, interpersonal skills, and possesses good work ethics. A dynamic team player that is constantly striving to extend himself in order to learn and grow.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98, MS DOS, Z/OS, MVS/ESA, Z/VM, Unix

DBMS: DB2, VSAM, IDMS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, EASYTRIEVE, ADS/O

Tools: APC, File aid, Xpeditor, In sync, CA1, CA7, MS-office, SharePoint, TOAD 4.7, QMF, SPUFI, Interest, MQ Series, Sync sort, INSYNC, Quick Job, Rexx, NDM, Informatica, Panvalet

Certification: IBM DB2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Greensboro, North Carolina

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Requirements gathering, function/technical specification, development, deploying and testing.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Coordinating with Offshore, to get the tasks completed on time with proper communication.
• Test case preparation and execution activity. Status Reporting.
• Prepared test cases, test scripts & test data.
• Reviewing the modules developed and tested by the team to confirm with standards
• Conduct status meetings with team members and resolve their issues.
• Design the checklist and update the checklist as needed
• Mentoring the team members.
• Provide assistance to the production support during Implementation.
• Resolving project related issues and problems and providing better solutions if possible.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, FILEAID, Intertest, IBM Utilities, SDSF, IBM Utilities, IDMS, ADS/O & DB2.

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Requirements gathering, function/technical specification, development, deploying and testing.
• Validating the issues reported by my team during execution and logged the defects into quality center, this avoided logging of invalid defects.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Coordinating with Offshore, to get the tasks completed on time with proper communication.
• Test case preparation and execution activity. Status Reporting.
• Prepared test cases, test scripts & test data.
• Reviewing the modules developed and tested by the team to confirm with standards
• Conduct status meetings with team members and resolve their issues.
• Design the checklist and update the checklist as needed
• Mentoring the team members.
• Provide assistance to the production support during Implementation.
• Resolving project related issues and problems and providing better solutions if possible.

Environment: Z/OS, EASYTRIEVE, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, FILEAID, XPEDITOR, IBM Utilities, SPUFI, QMF, SDSF, IBM Utilities, Informatica, Unix.

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Requirements gathering, function/technical specification, development, deploying and testing.
• Coding as per the requirement.
• Test case preparation which includes unit testing.
• Involved in Production Support changes and any special requests.
• Weekly Status meeting to update the regular tasks with the status.
• Involved in Production Deployment and Support.

Environment: Z/OS, EASYTRIEVE, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, FILEAID, XPEDITOR

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the system for the enhancement and modifications
• Preparation of test cases and unit test plans.
• Used TSO/ISPF to create, edit and manage datasets.
• Coded new programs and modified existing programs in COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.
• Designed new and modified existing screens using CICS BMS.
• Created VSAM files and DB2 tables to store and access data.
• Oversee the integration of the off-site developed deliverables into the on-site technical environment, including placement of source code in appropriate development libraries, execution of clean host compiles and DB2 binds, and successful re-execution of unit tests originally conducted off-site.
• Used Query Management Facility (QMF) and SPUFI utilities to extract data from DB2 subsystem.
• Tested the project using.
• Reports are generated for summarizing daily transactions for each branch.
• Involved in On-Call Production Support 24x7, Problem solving, small enhancements, Performance monitoring, and interacting with users
• Report generation using Easytrieve.

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, Easytrieve, Intertest, JCL, CA7, File Aid, ftp, SPUFI, QMF, SDSF, IDMS & ADS/O.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a team member in the Cards system.
• Involved in Analysis.
• Detail Design and Coding.
• Test case preparation for unit testing and integration testing.
• Implementation of elements into production.
• Understanding the requirements as per the business and technical need
• Developing the code and testing the same for meeting the requirement
• Handling maintenance and support for the production environment
• Guiding new trainees on the maintaining the system.

Environment: MVS/ESA, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, ADS/O, CICS, FILEAID, XPEDITOR, APC, Intertest, MQ Series, SDSF.