SUMMARY

• 9+ Years of progressive experience in Business Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance, Production Support, Coding, Testing, Documentation, Quality Assurance and Implementation on IBM Mainframe platform using COBOL. JCL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, CICS, FTP.
• Worked extensively on COBOL, DB2, JCL VSAM, Net Express and Good hands on Easytrieve, Rexx and CICS,
• Comprehensive understanding in Insurance & Banking domains.
• Have rich experience in implementing projects in WATERFALL and AGILE project methodologies.
• Worked on entire Software Development Cycle right from Requirement Gathering, Converting Business requirements into technical specifications, Impact Analysis, Root Cause Analysis for problems or incidents, Estimation, Design High Level Details, Coding, Maintenance and production support. Unit testing and integration Testing
• Excellent working knowledge in COBOL, PLI, DB2, JCL, IMS DB/DC, MFS, CICS, Natural, ADABAS, Easytrieve and TSO commands.
• Excellent working knowledge in job scheduling tool like CA7 and code management tools like SCM and SCLM
• Excellent working experience in data quality and data integration.
• Worked on system performance tuning.
• Hands - on Experience in the issue tracking, bug tracking and agile project management using the tools like Confluence and JIRA.
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• Proficient in Incident, problem and task management using ServiceNow.
• Possess excellent interpersonal, team building, and leadership skills. Strong organization, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated and Team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Key Skills: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IBM utilities, SQL Rexx, CICS

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe, Z/OS, MVS, Windows 9x/2000/XP, MVS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL

Database: DB2

Tools: TSO, ISPF, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, FILEAID, File Manager, FILEDB2, QMF, XPEDITOR, MANAGENOW, REXX, JHS, JOBTRAC, CA-7. CA-11, INTERTEST, BRIAN MAN, SOURCE CONTROL SYSTEM SCS, Abend-AID, QMF, IBM SPUFI, VIDD, MS access, JIRA, Micro Focus, Beyond Compare, Net Express.

Access Method: VSAM

Automation Office: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Office and MS Project

Products: Vantage, Wealth Management Accelerator WMA, Product wizard, Allowable Value Management AVM.

Sorting technique: SYNCSORT, DFSSORT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the client to gather the requirement.
• Connect with corresponding application SMEs to understand the application architecture, data flow and create functional specification documents.
• Understanding the requirements by participating in the walkthrough call arranged by the DBS SME’S. Raising the queries and concerns with the SME’S and getting clarified before starting with preparing the Design documents
• Preparing the detail design document with the basic logic required for the request.
• Coded new programs and decommissioned existing programs as per the requirement
• Move the changed and new programs to Changeman development so that the new change can be tested
• Created Test plan which tests existing and new functionalities.
• Tested the basic and critical scenarios.
• Used Endeavor to maintain and track versions
• For complex defects efficiently used Expediter as a Debugging tool.
• Given KT to the testers and trained them on how to do the regression testing for the new added functionality.
• Deployed from one environment to another environment.
• Tracked the progress of the work regularly and supported the team technically
• Resolving the Production abends and Test and Dev regions in shortest span to make the system stable.
• Create SORT cards using IBM Mainframe SORT utilities to sort the output data in required formats.
• Prepare SQL queries to do database testing for IBM DB2 databases and tables.
• Create IBM Mainframe compare jobs to compare the output files of Baseline and Test line runs.
• Removing duplicate records during output records validation.
• Created and modified test and production JCLs/ Procs / Params as per the requirements
• Establish the connectivity between Mainframe batch and online applications thru FTP/SFTP connection for data transfer and real-time processing.
• Perform data refresh from production to preprod region.

Environment: IBM Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, Control-M scheduler, SORT Utilities, JHS, IBM SPUFI, SDSF, BMC, DB2, SQL, NDM, FTP, JIRA, ServiceNow

Confidential, Malvern PA

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring batch jobs in all the environments and resolve job abends.
• Creating business note for the nightly batch abends.
• Recreating the issues in prod parallel region which caused in nightly batch.
• Performing the analysis and debug the issues.
• Implement the resolution through IBM Spufi or through code changes.
• Getting the business signoff for the issues resolved in prod parallel and implement in prod region.
• Maintenance of the DB2 environment.
• Work on Adhoc requests like Zero funds removal, extract the data based on business need.
• Creating and closing the tickets in Service now.
• Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC Software Development Life Cycle which is a Water fall methodology starting from high level design to system/integration test in.
• Prepared High level and Low Technical Design Doc as per Business design doc provided by Business system analyst.
• Review the tech specs and participate in the tech spec meeting.
• Perform Impact analysis of system to identifying code changes.
• Coding Cobol-DB2 modules
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Maintenance of JCLS. PROCS, PARMS and Loads for application.
• Write complex queries using IBM SPUFI to perform various operations on database.
• Create unit test plan and execute Unit Testing.
• Provide root cause analysis of defect and resolution of it in System testing phase.
• Used XPEDITOR to debug both online and batch programs.
• Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
• Live movement of project into production with version control tool Endevor.
• Providing Fix in case of abends or defects.
• Post production warranty support.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, DB2, TSO, ISPF, COBOL, Xpeditor. Endevor, Fileaid-DB2, File-aid, File Manager, OPC.IBM Utilities

Confidential

Mainframe Developer and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring batch jobs in all the environments and resolve job abends.
• Running the Adhoc jobs based on project / testing requirement.
• Setup and execution of batches in different environments.
• Providing data sets access to users in different environments based on user request.
• Proactively Monitoring the high CPU taking jobs and inform users.
• Sending alert emails to application owners for the jobs having performance issues in daily batch.
• Maintenance of the DB2 environment.
• Creating Jira story for the jobs which have performance issues
• Participated in a kick off meeting which officially initiates the project.
• Participate in JAD Joint Application Design and discuss the project requirement in detail with the impacted stakeholders.
• Acted as a single point of contact for offshore and onshore team member.
• Worked closely with functional and technical project leads, subject Matter Experts SMES and other business groups to identify, analyze Business requirements
• Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC Software Development Life Cycle which is a Water fall methodology starting from high level design to system/integration testing.
• Prepared Technical Design Doc as per Business design doc provided by Business system analyst
• Review the tech specs and participate in the tech spec meeting.
• Perform Impact analysis of system
• Coding Cobol-D82 modules.
• Create unit test plan and execute Unit Testing
• Coordinating with Business analyst and project team member in System testing phase.
• Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
• Live movement of project into production with version control tool Endevor
• Providing Fix in case of abends or defects.
• Post production warranty support.
• Providing On call support five days a week.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, DB2, TSO, File-Aid, OPC, NDM. ISPF and IBM Mainframe Rational Tools Endeavor, IBM Utilities.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Coding & code reviews as per the Client standards.
• Performing impact analysis.
• Test data preparation for unit and system testing.
• Performing the unit testing.
• Performing the System Testing support.
• Executing daily, weekly and monthly jobs in Prelim Cycle.
• Worked as core technical team member
• Prepared Technical Design Doc as per Business need in enhancement and development of projects
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Provided Fix in case of defects or change control in system testing and UAT phase
• Worked with Business system analyst in case of new change control is raised to understand of need of it. Implemented Code in Production using version control tools
• Implemented the code in production with Endevor
• Monitoring Batch cycle execution.
• Handled tickets on basis of their Severity and Meating the SLAS
• Created Business Checkouts which required Sending Daily Reports to business
• Handled Abends occurred during Jobs execution and giving the temporary solution to the problem

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IBM Utilities, Endevor, Xpeditor, OPC, Fileaid-DB2, JobTrac, File Manager, Changeman