SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience in Mainframe, 3+ Years’ experience in VAX/VMS COBOL, 2 - year experience in D2K, and over three-year experience in UNIX/Cobol. Which also include the area of design, development, support and managing business applications in addition, extensively involved in study of existing system, Knowledge Transfer (KAP), analysis, Coding etc
• Worked on several projects including saving bank account system, healthcare system, payroll system and Manufacturing and Energy & Utilities etc.
• Has complete knowledge of SDLC and Agile Methodlogy.
• Experience in system Analysis, design andapplication development, flowcharting, unit and system testing, performancetesting, test plan preparation, testing validations, program debugging.
• Experience of high-level Design, Functional Analysis, Impact Analysis, Low level Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation, Validation and Verification of results.
• Proficient in IBM
• Mainframe Technologies such Cobol, FoxPro, Vax / Cobol, Unix / Cobol, Developer 2000, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, SPUFI, QMF, XPEDITOR, SAS, Store Procedure.
• Knowledge of IMS DB.
• Responsible to check for bugs and issues logged and work with team to provide support to resolve issues immediately or as per the priority so that the application functioning and business users are not impacted.
• Responsible for interfacing with the Business and Subject Matter Expert (SME) team for understanding system functionality.
• Requirement gathering & analysis for the enhancements and modifications required in the existing system.
• Code Walkthrough and review of Test Cases and Test Results before giving review sign off to ensure adherence to the standards and requirements.
• Impact Analysis and fixing of the defects.
• Scheduling, estimating, coordinating, and communicating tasks to the offshore team
• Working closely with business teams and ensure implementation in an accurate manner with Backward compatibility as required by business for smooth transition and functioning.
• Expertise in obtaining project requirements from user and manager, formulating the requirements into functional and technical specifications.
• Having versatile experience in resource handling, team mentoring, task estimation- scheduling- tracking,
• Full understanding of all phases of Project LifeCycle/SDLC including Requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing, Software quality standards and configuration management and change management and Quality procedures.
• Writing Easytrieve/COBOL/JCL programs forgenerating adhoc reports and extracts for the businesspersons for importantaudits and also for other business improvements purposes.
• Good Programming and Communication Skills withexcellent work ethics, easy adaptability to demanding time schedules coupledwith positive user interaction and excellent team spirit.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master newconcepts.
• Excellent ability to determine appropriate systemtest scenarios, create end-user Business procedure guides, and provide hands-onguidance and training where necessary.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Development Tools: File Aid, Xpeditor, Change man, Endeavor, SPUFI, QMF etc.

Languages: IBM Mainframe COBOL, FoxPro, Vax / COBOL, UNIX / COBOL, Developer 2000, JCL, DB2, CICS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Sr.Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Involve in analysis, design, development, customizations, and implementation of mainframe applications.
• Hands on development with CICS, DB2, and Cobol Stored Procedures
• Attend the day-to-days client meeting and riase the concern and issue related to the requirement.
• Transfer the knowledge to the offshore team with respect to avoid any gap analysis and requirement.
• Support the team member related to technical issue as and when require.
• Responsible for data construction and data insertion into the DB2 tables using stored procedures and SQL statements to set up the test environment.
• Involved in establishing Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitored and audited to ensure team meets quality goals.
• Setup the meeting with the client related to issue and concerns as and when require.

Environment: IBM MAIN FRAME COBOL, JCL, DB2, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, ONLINE Screen Handling

Confidential, Syracuse, NY

Sr. Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the Clients to understand the business requirements, analyze the technical feasibility of the requirements and creating the system requirements and design.
• To deploy the new application developments and enhancements as the support for the existing applications of the client.
• Attend the day-to-days client meeting and riase the concern and issue related to the requirement.
• Transfer the knowledge to the offshore team with respect to avoid any gap analysis and requirement.
• Involved in establishing Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitored and audited to ensure that team meets the quality goals.
• Setup the call with the clients as and when require and raise the issue/concerns in a proactivily manner.
• Scheduling the meeting with the offshore, discuss the technical issue/concern and provide the solution to the problem as and when required.
• Review the coding, Test Cases and Test Results before giving review sign off to ensure adherence to the standards and requirements. Moreover, work with other system areas and follow up to ensure smooth functioning of work without any stagnation.
• Develop implementation and test plans, build software acceptance criteria, coordinate, and work with clients to oversee the acceptance and dissemination process.

Environment: VAX/VMS, DTR and DCL, VAX/VMS COBOL, IBM MAIN FRAME COBOL, JCL, DB2, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, BEYOND COMPARE TOOL, RELATIVITY, Change man, Store Procedure.

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, Inc. is one of the largest PBM companies in North America, providing PBM services to thousands of client groups, including managed-care organizations, insurance carriers, employers, third-party administrators, public sector, workers' compensation, and union-sponsored benefit plans. In addition, it provides network-pharmacy claims processing, home delivery services, benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary management, disease management, and medical-and drug-data analysis services. The Company also distributes a full range of biopharmaceutical products directly to patients or their physicians and provides extensive cost-management and patient-care services.
• There are number of applications falls in this project, out of which HDS and N1N2, p2p4 are among of them.
• HDS system is used to enter and maintain mail order prescription information.
• An N1 is defined as a Supplemental Reporting Transaction. ESI will use these transactions to update and maintain accurate TrOOP balances for Medicare Part D beneficiaries. An N1 transaction is designed to give a beneficiary’s TrOOP information to a Primary Payer after a supplemental payer has paid. N2 transactions are reversals of an N1.
• P2P4
• Job responsibility included: Gathered the requirement, preparation of SRS, Preformed the impact analysis, Send the weekly status report related to this project, Preparation of Design document based on SRS, transfer the knowledge to offshore team on a day-to-day basis in order to avoid the knowledge gap, interaction with the client, Responsible for tracking the project deliverables.

Environment: VAX/VMS, DTR and DCL, VAX/VMS COBOL, IBM MAIN FRAME COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, XPEDITOR, ENDEVOR, MFE, BEYOND COMPARE TOOL, RELATIVITY, Change man

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tracking project deliverables and participating on UAT with business group.
• Responsible for fixing emergency production problem.
• Responsible for offshore and onsite co-ordination.
• Responsible for tracking Maintenance and enhancement ticket status. And provide update in governance meeting, Bug Fixing in existing application.
• Assisting offshore team members to resolve critical problems.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, File Aid, XPEDITOR, SAS, CHANGEMAN, VSAM, CICS VAX COBOL, DCL

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interactions with Client.
• Allocation of work to Team Members.
• Ensuring timely delivery of the work request.
• Providing technical support to Team Members.
• Work as a Reviewer.
• Sending the status of work to Client (on-site) on Weekly basis.
• Production Implementation.

Environment: COBOL, DCL (VAX/VMS)