SUMMARY

• Having overall 11 years of experience in Mainframe platform including cards (vision plus) domain.
• Exposure to all phases of software development life cycle, currently working in agile which includes analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, and documentation.
• Good Knowledge in core banking, Vision plus FAS, and Fraud prevention Raptor system.
• Expertise in JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2, Easytrieves and VSAM.
• Worked extensively on tools like TWS(Tivoli Workload Scheduler), X - Matters (Monitoring Tool)., Change Man, Endeavor, File manager, File aid, Expeditor, Debug and Fault Analyzer.
• Good experience in solving UAT defects.
• Experience in taking sessions on mainframe languages, tools and FAS concepts.
• Worked extensively in Agile model projects.
• Having good interpersonal skills and strong analytical & problem solving skills.
• Expertise in Project Management processes and Quality Management processes.
• Experience in Performance Appraisal, Goal Setting, Periodic Monitoring and Feedback for Team.
• Good Knowledge of Process Improvement Models.
• Have experience in Process oriented with high emphasis on Documentations and Reviews during the project life cycle.
• Good knowledge on Preparing of Pre & Post implementation plan (micro level planning).
• Guided the offshore team during various phases of the project life cycle.
• Having good Management skills and Co-ordination with the development team at Offshore.
• Having good experience on Acquire approvals & sign-offs from stakeholders for Production Release.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: OS/390, Windows 2000,2008/XP

Environment: Mainframe, Client/Server

Database: DB2, VSAM, and Non-VSAM

Tools: X-Matters Monitoring Tool, QMF, TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler), Endeavor, Expeditor, SAR, Change Man, File Manager, Ice tool, File Aid.

Languages: JCL, COBOL, Easytrieves

Other: CICS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked under EU (Brazil, Mexico) BU.
• Attending articles discussion with business.
• Retrofitted the Code in the global, region and custom layer as applicable.
• Coded conversion and verification programs and tested them. (ITS, TRAMS).
• Syncing up of the code.
• Peer Code review & Unit Test review for the impacted module.
• Responsible for test scripts and pass those scripts from dev team.
• Verified which Testing the newly synced up code as per the requirement of Business and Technology.
• Analysing defects coming in after the sync up is done.
• Responsible for late fixes and their test results.
• Did verification ATTD, ATPT and SAFE validations.
• Responsible for production Equalance test (PVT) and AUTH’s verification test (AVT).
• Responsible for pre and post Implementation tasks.
• Responsible for verifying file conversions after SIT/UAT and Production.
• Responsible for code movement from lower level to upper level.
• Take prod incidents which were raised by L1 team (production team) and provide the solutions in on-time.

Environment: VISION PLUS ( ITS, TRAMS, FAS ), COBOL, MVS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, EASYTRIEVES.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the requirements and discuss with Business in case of any queries or clarifications.
• Preparing Functional Spec, Technical Spec for every Release and share the details with the Business and get the confirmation.
• Developing the code, creating, testing the files and sending the files to UAT
• Extracting raw data and creating SAS data sets that are required for the project analysis.
• Extensively used procedures like PROC FREQ, PROC MEANS, PROC SORT, PROC PRINT,PROC Summary and PROC REPORT.
• Creating permanent formatted SAS data sets and developed reports using PROC REPORT AND DATA NULL for analysis.
• Used data step options like KEEP, DROP, and RENAME as a part of storage efficiencies.
• Data set options IF, where, missover, truncover etc. were used in reading raw data files

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Retrofitted the Code in the global, region and custom layer as applicable.
• Coded conversion and verification programs and tested them. (ITS, TRAMS)
• Did ATTD, ATPT and SAFE validations.
• Testing the newly synced up code as per the requirement of Business and Technology.
• Analyzing defects coming in after the sync up is done.
• Responsible for verifying file conversions after SIT/UAT.

Confidential

Mainframes Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided status update to onsite at a daily basis for the project ongoing/completed tasks performed at offshore.
• Creating JCL, PROC and CCARDs required for project.
• Performing Unit testing and creating Unit test results documentation.
• Analyzing and fixing UAT defects and also raising the CPR requests for TWS changes.
• Doing regression testing.
• Supporting UAT and Development batches and online regions.
• Creating different tools using easytrieves for implementation and production support.
• Supporting Dress Rehearsals and project implementation.
• Showcase knowledge sharing sessions and making the new team members productive in few weeks.

Confidential

Mainframes Developer

Responsibilities:

• Handling Core banking Development and Testing, co-coordinating supports teams for project delivery which includes WSS (Security Subsystem), TRAMS and Transaction Posting Modules.
• Provided status update to onsite at a daily basis for the project ongoing/completed tasks performed at offshore.
• Pitching to each of the team members’ problems and actually helping them to solve the issues they encounter.
• Showcase knowledge sharing sessions and making the new team members productive in few weeks.