SUMMARY

• 5 years of solid experience in IBM Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, DB2, IMS DC, CICS, VSAM, SQL, Control - M, REXX, DPS, TSO/ISPF and mainframe tools File-AID, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, QMF, ENDEVOR, SCLM and File manager.
• Creative, accomplished, and innovative technical developer with 5 years of experience in the IT industry. A talented individual who knows how to motivate others and has the ability to communicate thoughts, ideas and plans extremely well. Offering fantastic leadership and critical thinking process as well as extensive experience successfully leading the projects. Seeking a challenging opportunity where skills could be utilized.
• Expertise in working with scheduling tools.
• Expertise in creating jobs on Control-M windows.
• Successfully lead and managed critical banking and health services projects.
• Strong understanding of various SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall/ Agile/Scrum Methodology/ Safe with hands-on experience in all of them and the ability to lead in all steps of the SDLC.
• Effective communicator who can fluently speak the languages of both people and technology, blending technical expertise with effective interpersonal skills during interactions with customers, leadership, and technical/engineering teams.
• Worked extensively in all Project Life Cycle phases like Business requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Parallel testing, Configuration management, UAT Support and Implementation support.
• Performed backend database testing on Oracle and MS SQL Server databases and used SQL, PL/SQL queries, triggers, & procedures.
• Possesses good domain knowledge in banking services.
• Possess excellent interpersonal and team building, leadership skills. Strong organization, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent analytical, de-bugging skills and documentation skills.
• Proactive self-starter with a proven track record of initiating process and system improvements to increase system stability, performance and productivity.
• Good understanding on agile methodology.
• Quick learner and keen observer, determining external & internal customer needs and well versed in internal & external relationship building. Good team worker and like to be part of a team, which always tries to explore out of box.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: z/OS, MVS, Windows XP, WinNT, Windows 2000

Languages: COBOL, JCL, REXX

Mainframe Applications: DB2, IMS-DB

Online: IMS DC, CICS

Tools: & Utilities: File-Aid, VSAM, ISPF/TSO, QMF, SPUFI, CHANGE MANXPEDITER, DEBUGGER, FILE Manager, Fault Analyzer, SORTIDCAMS, ICETOOL, FTP

Domain Knowledge: Banking, Social and Health Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Olympia, WA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and technical experience in legacy applications and other leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to Confidential .
• Analyze user needs and create and/or modify the design documents using the IBM Requirements Management Tool (Rational Doors Next Generation) to exactly meet the requirements for Confidential .
• Apply in-depth knowledge and technical experience of COBOL, VSAM, IMS, DB2, CICS, and MVS JCL to design and write new computer programs.
• Perform impact analysis of coding changes and track source code versions and changes by utilizing knowledge of Software Configuration Lifecycle Management.
• Perform review of design, source code and related artifacts for the various development activities being handled by team members.
• Using technical experience and knowledge of the Confidential applications, prepare test plans for independent unit, end-to-end integration and system testing.
• Assure quality in the deliverables by performing unit, end-to-end integration & system testing for the various coding activities and resolving defects as identified.
• Use in-depth knowledge and experience with IBM tools (such as Fault Analyzer, File Manager for Z/OS, IMS and DB2) used by Confidential, to perform debugging activities and ensure that coding deliverables exactly meet the requirements for Confidential .
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of Confidential applications to perform production support activities, including On-call support for nightly batch cycles, to meet the defined service level agreement (SLA).

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements.
• Work with Control-M scheduler in Mainframe and UNIX environments.
• Monitor, research, analyze and report problems to programmer.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Hands on experience in technical development of mainframe application components.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Involved in many project level activities like documentation of few process involved in the project.
• Understanding the requirements as per Business Requirements Design document (BRD)
• Communicating and coordinating with the Team Member for technical, functional and task related activities.
• Worked with Project Management team to make code changes regarding client specific changes to COBOL applications.
• Performed UAT, regression and integration testing for various functionalities.
• Implementing new components & code fixes into production.
• Scheduling & Monitoring the Batch Cycles.
• Worked with users to define program features, input and output requirements.
• Defined and document program requirements, designed screen layouts, coding of programs in NATURAL, ADABAS and COBOL.
• Planned and worked flexibly to deadlines.
• Created test strategies, test plans, and execute automated test scripts via web-based simulation tool.
• Created test plans and works diligently to ensure projects are ready for QA entry.
• Frequently interfaces with Development, Project Managers and Business Analysts team members.
• Defined, developed, reviewed and executed test plans, test scenarios and test scripts based on software project specifications.
• Managed the technical and business aspects of client and network certifications
• Performed defect testing of production support or project issues corrected by the development team
• Managed and performed major client conversions and upgrades into the live production environment

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, FILE-AID, File manager, ABEND AID,ENDEVOR, SPUFI, QMF, Control M, SPUFI, IMS DB, IMS DC, Debugger.