SUMMARY

• 8 years’ experience in design, analysis, development, testing and project implementation in Healthcare and Insurance Domains
• Experience in analyzing the entire system and the impact with the other backend and front - end systems
• Experience working with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS and SQL
• Also have experience in PL/1, IMS DB, IMS DC, REXX and MQ Series
• Extensively worked with version controller tool ChangeMan
• Experience in debugging with Xpeditor, Intertest and IBM debugger
• Worked on File Manager, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Platinum, SPUFI, QMF and MAPR
• Good knowledge on Job schedulers such as OPC and JobTrac
• Developed tools using REXX to minimize the routine/redundant activities
• Experience in creation of test cases, developing test plans, strategies, scenarios and execution of test cases
• Comprehensive knowledge of Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing
• Excellent hands on experience with MS Office products such as Excel, Word and Access
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation
• Experience in leading a module, working with clients to gather requirements, scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform: Mainframe

Languages: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, SQL, REXX

DBMS: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB

Online: CICS, IMS DC

Operating System: IBM MVS OS/390 z/OS, Windows

Tools: SPUFI, QMF, ChangeMan, Xpediter, Intertest, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Platinum, File Manager, IBM Debugger, MAPR, HP Quality Center

Domain Expertise: Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Development, Unit Testing and Implementation of various Projects and Work Requests
• Development of new batch/online programs and enhancement to existing codes
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation
• Debugging through Intertest Batch/Online
• Responsible for creating comprehensive test data, test plan and test cases for Unit testing

Environment: Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Interest, Platinum, FileMaster, REXX)

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing and Implementation of various Projects and Work Requests
• Development of new batch/online programs and enhancement to existing codes
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation
• Debugging through IBM debugger
• Creation of new online screens through MAPR and change in existing CICS screens
• Responsible for creating comprehensive test data, test plan and test cases for Unit testing
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements
• Perform Peer review, log any issues and track till it is closed

Environment: Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, MAPR, IBM Debugger, ChangeMan, File Manager, REXX)

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding, Testing for bug fixing, data correction and solving production job abends
• Coordinating with Business / Production Control team on SEV 1-3 tickets
• Handling Ad-hoc requests
• Coordinating Onsite-Offshore activities, Automating tasks frequently requested by customer
• Preparation of test plan for independent unit testing
• Running batch cycles in Test environment
• Responsible for reviewing and delivering codes into Acceptance Test region for testing (Mainframe Release Manager)
• Also involved in monitoring of batch cycle to ensure the batch cycle gets completed on time
• Fixing of issues/queries within the SLA
• Knowledge sharing within the team
• Actively involved in learning the hierarchical database
• Testing the application for business requirements and responsible for delivery from offshore

Environment: Mainframe (PL/1, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, IMS DB, IMS DC, IBM Debugger, File-Manager, MQ Series, JobTrac)

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• Responsible for following quality process and maintaining proper documentation of the tasks in hand
• Interact with client/onsite team members to discuss technical challenges and report bugs
• Was part of mentoring, providing the knowledge transfer and performing the code review of co-developers
• Extensive use of ChangeMan for development and retrofitting of modules
• Optimization of DB2 queries for performance improvement
• Load/Unload tables to recreate production scenarios in testing environment
• Worked on Production fixes
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new request/enhancement
• Documented the flow of Application programs

Environment: Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, Xpediter, ChangeMan, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, REXX, QMF, SPUFI)

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding existing business requirements and providing suitable solutions, Minor/Major enhancement and bug fixing
• Responsible for Analysis, Coding and Unit Testing
• Development of COBOL-DB2 programs and jobs for various reporting purposes
• Impact analysis for requirement changes
• Responsible for following quality process and maintaining proper documentation of the tasks in hand
• Extensive use of ChangeMan for development and retrofitting of modules
• Load/Unload tables to recreate production scenarios in testing environment
• Worked on Production fixes / providing production support
• Debugging through Xpediter
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new request/enhancement
• Status reporting

Environment: Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, CICS, Xpediter, ChangeMan, File-Aid, REXX, OPC)