SUMMARY

• Sr. Mainframe application developer with over 13+ years of extensive experience in Mainframe application development involving in complete software development life cycle.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of Mainframe applications.
• Has extensive knowledge and experience in coding/developing programs in COBOL, Eztrieve
• Has very good knowledge, experience in coding JCL and usage of different utilities (SORT, IEFBR14, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS etc.) in JCL.
• Experienced in preparing test plans and testing batch programs using JCL and testing online programs using transactions in CICS screens.
• Has extensive experience in production support such as analysing production problems/job abends to find root cause and fixing the problems.
• Experienced in debugging COBOL programs using IBM DEBUG tool to find root cause of batch job abend or online transaction failure in CICS.
• Experienced in accessing/updating DB2 by writing queries in SPUFI/AQT/programs and have good experience in accessing/updating VSAM files in programs/JCLs.
• Implemented many complex projects within given time and without any defects and got customer appreciations.
• Hands - on experience in COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL and VSAM
• In-depth experience in the design and development of online (CICS-DB2) and batch (COBOL-DB2) database system.
• Good Experience in the database migration from IMS to DB2 Tables, DMS-II to DB2 Tables, VSAM files to DB2 Tables.
• Possesses excellent skills to analyse complex applications, improve software component designs to get benefits in terms of process effectiveness
• Experienced with Offshore centric working model and worked as onsite technical lead.
• Led a team and played a major role in its growth by drastically reducing customer escalations/ complaints and acquiring customer confidence.
• Possesses excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills.
• Extremely well disciplined, organized, with ability to multi-task and prioritize workload.
• Expertise in comprehensive policy administration, customer service and producer management systems
• Experience in Vantage-One and Wealth Management Accelerator (wmA) - DXC's Annuity and Life insurance Admin system.
• Experience in Customer Service Accelerator (csA) - DXC’s customer service system
• Experience in Distribution Support System (DSS) /PPLUS - DXC’s agent commission system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, Eztrieve

Databases: DB2, VSAM

Tools:, Utilities and Other Software: TSO/ISPF, IMS, ENDEVOR, IBM DEBUG, XPEDITER, FileAdd, SPUFI, EASYTRIEVE, MS OFFICE, WINDOWS OS, IBM SYSTEM Z/OS

Domain Knowledge: Annuity Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Carmel, Indiana

Mainframe Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle
• Gather requirements from clients and converting business requirements into technical specifications.
• Coding COBOL programs in different transaction processing application programs based on requirements
• Coding JCL to execute programs and for different data handling purposes
• Code to access/update VSAM, DB2 in programs/JCLs based on requirements
• Review code changes and compile the programs and fix compilation errors if any
• Prepare test plan and test programs using test JCLs for unit, integration, and system testing
• Implement changes using CCF with all necessary approvals from change implementation board.
• Perform post implementation validation by checking results of program/job run in production.
• Support and monitor critical applications involving transaction processing, such as Electronic Fund Transfer, merchant and financial institution settlement, card extracts and card production. These are crucial and core applications of Vantiv.
• Analyze/debug production job abends/incidents by using IBM DEBUG tool and resolve them within defined SLAs
• Provide permanent fixes to recurring production problems by doing appropriate coding changes and testing them and implement the changes in production through internal change management process
• Perform quality assurance activities to ensure no change rejections or bad fixes.
• Monitor and validate the implemented fixes in production, are working as expected.
• Interface with the requestor to gather the information about any production problem and research, provide appropriate solutions.
• Research and provide requested data/information to customer and answer their questions related to production process
• Recreate and resend activity, posting files to financial institutions for their transaction processing.
• Regularly update status of production incidents, service requests to customers by documenting progress in internal tool IRIS and deliver results within defined SLAs
• Generate ideas for automation of the existing applications/processes to reduce time/manual efforts and execute them with the consultation of clients.

Skills: COBOL, JCL, SQL, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, TWS, RMS, IBM DEBUG, FAULT ANALYZER, FILE MANAGER, CICS, ROSCOE, CCF, SAS, CA1, MS OFFICE, WINDOWS OS, IBM SYSTEM Z/OS

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of software development life cycle
• Gather requirements from clients and converting business requirements into technical specifications.
• Coding COBOL, programs in different transaction processing application programs based on requirements
• Coding JCL to execute programs and for different data handling purposes
• Code to access/update VSAM, DB2 in programs/JCLs based on requirements
• Review code changes and compile the programs and fix compilation errors if any
• Prepare test plan and test programs using test JCLs for unit, integration, and system testing
• Implement changes using Endevor with all necessary approvals from change implementation board.
• Perform post implementation validation by checking results of program/job run in production.
• Contracted under Avanade/Accenture at Chubb Insurance as a COBOL/IMS Developer
• Created Financial and Claim extracts from Legacy DB2 and IMS databases using COBOL for outsourcing to a Third-Party Administrator TPA
• Good Experience in the database migration from IMS to DB2 Tables, DMS-II to DB2 Tables, VSAM files to DB2 Tables.
• Support and monitor critical applications involving transaction processing, such as Electronic Fund Transfer, payment, payout, and all anniversary transactions.
• Analyze/debug production job abends/incidents by using IBM DEBUG tool and resolve them within defined SLAs
• Provide permanent fixes to recurring production problems by doing appropriate coding changes and testing them and implement the changes in production through internal change management process
• Responsible to replace all IMS calls into DB2 calls
• Perform quality assurance activities to ensure no change rejections or bad fixes.
• Monitor and validate the implemented fixes in production, are working as expected.
• Interface with the requestor to gather the information about any production problem and research, provide appropriate solutions.
• Research and provide requested data/information to customer and answer their questions related to production process
• Recreate and resend activity, posting files to financial institutions for their transaction processing.
• Regularly update status of production incidents, service requests to customers by documenting progress in internal tool IRIS and deliver results within defined SLAs
• Generate ideas for automation of the existing applications/processes to reduce time/manual efforts and execute them with the consultation of clients.
• Requirement gathering from user and other stakeholder by using different techniques like document analysis, use cases, interview, and focus group in the precise manner
• Preparation of business specification to elaborate the solution, impact and changes required in existing system.
• Partner with the QA team and product owner to ensure adequate test coverage and perform functional/scenario testing using Quality Center.
• Facilitated GAP Analysis, Impact Analysis (Business/Technical), SWOT Analysis, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Root Cause Analysis and Risk Analysis along with conducting Feasibility Study and creating As-Is and To-Be Business Models.
• Manage Staffing. Schedule work items with delivery dates, allocate resources and monitor progress to arrest variances

Skills: COBOL, JCL, SQL, DB2, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, TWS, RMS, IBM DEBUG, CICS, FileAdd, MS OFFICE, WINDOWS OS, IBM SYSTEM Z/OS