SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in Software industry in the field of Development, Testing and implementation with substantial experience in Insurance and banking industry business process.
• Highly organized and detail - focused Software Professional with an exceptional track record of accurately handling projects in deadline-oriented environments.
• Having good experience in Water fall and Agile Methodologies.
• Skilled in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle from systems analysis, requirement gathering, business analysis, documentation and implementation of business centric software applications.
• Good knowledge in developing and testing Batch/Online (CICS) applications. Involved in test and production support activities as well.
• Expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, TSO, ISPF, VSAM; SQL tools including SPUFI and FILEAID for data manipulation & data cleansing; CHANGEMAN for configuration management; XPEDITOR for debugging.
• Expertise in grasping new ideas and integrating them into desired results.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work effectively in teams as well independently.
• Implemented and supported various major projects and enhancements.
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients and providing Co-ordination between onsite and offshore.
• Expertise in obtaining the project requirements from user, writing system specifications, translating user requirements into technical specifications, preparation of requirements documents, formulating the requirements into design specifications and tracking project progress.
• Proficient in documenting all the phases of project from the Requirement analysis to Maintenance.
• Effective in cross-functional & global environments to manage multiple tasks & assignments concurrently.
• Adept at Team Management & Leadership skill like tasking, delegation, monitoring, feedback, skill upgrade, competence management, career planning, motivation & mentoring of the team.
• Cohesive Team Player with Fast Learning Curve along with strong estimation skill, analytical, problem solving, innovation, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to identify and implement improvements to streamline processes and increase efficiency and productivity.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a keen understanding of business applications, their Integration and a proven ability to adapt to new areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL,EASYTRIVE,REXX,CICS,C,C++,UNIX,.Net

Database: DB2,IMS DB, COBOL, stored procedure, SQL

Access Methods: VSAM

Hardware: IBM 3270,Z/OS

Tools: QMF, SPUFI, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, ENDEAVOR, ChangeMan, ABEND-AID, XPEDITOR, SAR, CA7,IDCAMS, IBM Fault Analyzer, IBM File Manager, FILE-AID, MQ-SERIES, Quality Center, TSO/ISPF

Network/Protocols: TCP/IP,FTP,HTTP

Operating Systems: Z/OS (IBM Mainframe)

File Management and DB Tools: Fileaid, SPUFI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing programs in COBOL, VSAM, CICS and DB2 to resolve technical issues
• Modifying existing programs for any fixes, if needed.
• Providing functional/technical knowledge to team members.
• Providing Technical Assistance and Error Resolving.
• Responsible for on call support and addressing the production issues reported by business users as per agreed SLA norms.
• Take ownership of technical issues and collaborate with business team to resolve the issues.
• Resolving different type of issues interrelated to test support and production support.
• Day-To-Day operational activities support in Test and Prod Environment.
• Tracked all the statuses of the projects, and provided Status to Application Manager.

Environment: COBOL,DB2,JCL,CICS,VSAM,SPUFI,DFSORT,ICETOOL

Confidential

Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing and developing new programs in COBOL, VSAM, CICS and DB2 or modifying existing programs as per requirement.
• Worked extensively on the Infrastructure and Enhancement projects.
• Providing functional/technical knowledge to team members.
• Providing Technical Assistance and Error Resolving.
• Segregating existing batch processes into sub-processes for faster and clean processing.
• Responsible for on call support and addressing the production issues reported by business users as per agreed SLA norms.
• Take ownership of technical issues and collaborate with business team to resolve the issues.
• Performed the Code walkthrough and Unit test scripts review for all projects and also ensured that review is done for all the deliverables.
• Ensured the proper documentation (like high/low level design, BLD, test plan, test scripts, project overview document, etc) is created for all SDLC phases for the projects.
• Performed Work and Resource allocation for the projects.
• Tracked all the statuses of the projects, conducted team meetings and provided Status to Application Manager.
• Identified and communicated project issues / risks to higher management.

Environment: COBOL,DB2,JCL,CICS,VSAM,SPUFI,DFSORT,ICETOOL

Confidential

Software Engineer/ Mainframe Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Batch Cycle monitoring and supporting Production Batch.
• Creating and delivering the adhoc reports based on user requirements.
• Understanding the new requirements.
• Analyzing the impact of the existing system for the new requirement.
• Designing the work flow or job flow for the requirement.
• Coding, Unit testing and production implementation of batch and Online (CICS) applications in Mainframe environment.
• Carrying out Impact analysis and research on the affected system
• In charge of having the cycle completed within the specified SLA.
• Ensure the problem get fixed and enhanced of the system based on the business needs.
• Have good experience using DOS commands in file transfer and interacting to other systems.
• Good coordination with onsite and offshore team members.
• Involved in data conversion that includes extracting full data from system.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, VSAM, DB2, Changeman, CICS, DOS

Confidential

Intern - system analyst(Part-time)

Responsibilities:

• Developed new JCLs for new programs written.
• Fixed job abends in test environment and providing permanent fix by doing RCA.
• Member of Tech efficiency team that monitors various test environments and sets up Test environment for Code releases. Also involved in Periodic monitoring of Production region and Storage space.
• Document Best Practices and Lessons Learnt and prepare action Items based on these points
• Created unit test cases and performed unit testing.
• Documenting programs analyzed.
• Hands on experience on unix systems.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2,REXX,CICS, Unix.