SUMMARY

• 8 years of experience in analysis, design, coding, testing, Implementation, documentation, online and learning support of IBM Mainframe Applications in Insurance and financial services.
• Having experience in Development, Maintenance and production support of Applications in IBM Mainframe related functional areas such as COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM and Easytrieve.
• Hands on experience on IBM tools like File Manager, Fault analyzer, Xpediter IBM debugging tool (both online and batch).
• Extensive work experience in COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL and DB2.
• Excellent understanding and work experience in DB2 stored procedures.
• Involved in the migration of native SQL stored procedures from COBOL stored procedures.
• Extensive work experience in developing real time CICS applications.
• Involved in Enhancements, Maintenance and Development, support projects.
• Extensively used tools like Xpediter to interactively analyze the programs and debug the issues.
• Documented the functionalities of the complex projects with flow diagrams and functional specifications.
• Provided technical trainings onmainframefor college recruited new resources.
• Work involves developing Technical Design documents, Analysis documents, Coding to accomplish the requirements, Developing and Executing Unit Test Plan and Developing Unit Test Results.
• Good analytical, communication skills with the ability to interact with end users.
• Excellently productive both as a team player as well as an individual.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines, and set priorities without close supervision.
• Involved in Disaster recovery, Release management process and integration cycle support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL

Reporting: Easy Trieve

Database: DB2, IMS

File Management: VSAM

OLTP: CICS

Operating System: MVS

Tools: Endeavor, File Manager, IBM Debug Tool, Fault Analyzer, OPC, WSF/EOS, Service Center, QMF HP Quality Center, Lotus Notes, ServiceNow.

Other Skills: Java, SQL, Python, AWS, Docker, Chef, Puppet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business concepts and implemented the new fee algorithms as part of new product change and maintenance.
• Involved in offshore - onshore coordination and effectively organized the triage meetings.
• Responsible for meeting development schedules and ensuring the delivered solution meets the technical specifications and design requirements by following SDLC 2.0.
• Interaction with business/users as part of requirement gathering and due diligence.
• Experience with Change man for creating and promoting the changes to various development regions.
• Coordinated with UAT testing teams to support the mainframe, web services related issues.
• Perform project level work and time effort estimations.
• Interact with front end applications to come up with a high level design
• Thoroughly understand the Requirements and develop detailed design
• Create system flowcharts using Visio
• Create change man package and develop code in mainframe technologies - COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS
• Performed thorough unit testing and documented the test results.
• Maintain high team morale, mentor new team members and bring them to speed in creating deliverables
• Promptly escalate issues, which affect product delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence and report same to reporting manager.
• Conduct project risk identification and mitigation action planning with the project manager.
• Attend Review and status meeting with all stakes holders of the project.
• Conduct lead reviews and provide feedback. Provide accurate and detailed weekly task reports
• Interact with interfacing teams to complete SIT, UAT and regression testing of whole system
• Install code into production and perform functional validation
• Provide warranty support after implementation of code in production.

Confidential, Worcester, MA

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop/Modify complex programs with mainframe technologies COBOL, CICS, IMS and DB2.
• Involved in the data architecture meetings to create physical data models and worked extensively with DBA teams. Involved in the optimization of DB2 queries.
• Executing Work requests which involves analysis, coding, testing, and implementation.
• Worked on Production support issues (P1, P2 and P3) and User Support Logs (USL's) and delivered within SLA.
• Hands on experience with Endeavour tool to manage the source code.
• Able to write sort JCL’s based on the requirement.
• Able to write Easytrieve programming based on client requirement.
• Involved in high level sizings and estimates to complete work assignments.
• Involved in Disaster recovery, Release management process and integration cycle support.
• Able to analyze the issues based on dump available in Fault Analyzer.
• Able to work independently on any escalated/critical production issues.
• Performed unit testing, Integration, UAT testing for developed source code.
• Hands on experience on IBM tools like File Manager, Fault analyzer, Xpediter IBM debugging tool (both online and batch).
• Working as onsite technical lead in onsite-offshore development model. Responsible for coordinating between onsite client team and offshore development team.
• Responsible for gathering business requirements from business users and attending business requirement walkthrough meetings.
• Involved in the coordination of all phases of software development. Involved right from the requirement gathering of a project thru the technical design, coding, testing and till the implementation and implementation support.
• Acts as a technical analyst to create detailed system requirements based on the business requirements. Communicates extensively with the business analysts to understand the business needs and converts them into system requirements.
• Responsible for resolving the defects during the Quality Assurance (QA) testing by interacting with QA testing team and development team.
• Implemented complex projects successfully by interacting with different infrastructure teams like DBA, CICS management team and Configuration management.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Endevor, File Manager, Fault analyzer, Xpediter, Service now, HP Quality Center, QMF, Easytrieve, EOS.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed account profile functionality using COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS and VSAM.
• Analyzed and Implemented changes related to the customization of Sate Farm Small Cash management account.
• Monitored and ran batch jobs on request for rollover of accounts.
• Prepared design review document and implemented program to communicate between two servers using FTP.
• Customized COBOL programs and DB2 database for integration of insurance policies and trading accounts for customer index functionality.
• Performed UAT, regression and integration testing for various functionalities.
• Prepared technical specification and unit specification document based client business requirement.
• Designed, developed and enhanced batch and online programs in COBOL/ CICS.
• Performed debugging, unit testing, Integration testing and system testing for the developed components.
• Involved in defect prevention and quality assurance for both development and testing.
• Analyzed root cause of recurring issues and take measured steps to proactively manage the resolution.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Endevor, File Manager, Fault analyzer, Xpediter, Service now, HP Quality Center, QMF, Easytrieve.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Design, development, unit testing, supporting system testing, resolving production issues and post production support ofmainframehost batch / online processing of integrated customer platform applications using COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS, DB2.
• Used Xpediter provided debugging tools for COBOL, CICS and DB2.
• Prepared Unit Test Plans for these programs and Unit testing the programs.
• Involved in creating packages and web forms for requesting for execute the UAT/Stage packages with Endeavor source code management tool.
• Involved in defect management process with HP Quality Center.
• Code walk-through of the programs as per the standards.
• Involved in IMS to DB2 migration process.
• Wrote reports using Easytrieve programming as per the client request.
• Co-ordinate with the Share point team to review the flow and processing of the term reinstatement policies.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS, VSAM, Endevor, File Manager, Fault analyzer, Xpediter, Service now, HP Quality Center, QMF, Easytrieve.