Mainframe Production Support Resume
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Lewisville, TexaS
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Vsam
- tso/ispf
- cics
- cobol
- ca - 7
- db2
- racf
- jcl
- sql
- expeditor
- IBM z/OS
- SME/P
- QA
- REXX
- JES2
- API
- IDMS
- ASSEMBLY
- MQ.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, LeWISVILLE, tEXAS
MAINFRAME production support
Responsibilities:
- Performs performance tuning to improve performance across multiple systems.
- Manages all aspects of joint development and assists with vendor negotiations.
- Develops feasibility studies and proposals for senior management and executive decisions on large complex projects.
- Manages all aspects of testing and verification ensuring all tasks are performed for all interfaces
- This is a first shift position working with a team of co-developers
- Create Technical Design documents for themselves or others, from Functional Design documents. Strong program/job development and unit testing Ensure development is performed to the specifications
- Develop test plans, perform unit and integration testing of software
- Work closely with development teams in EMEA and US to ensure project timelines are met.
- Hands on technical development of mainframe application components
- Drive back-to-front development of application components
- Competent to work on complex programming and analysis projects with limited direction.
- Develop thorough test cases (normal and exception) and fully test programs using standard accepted practices for unit testing and system testing.
- Ensure that the system is updated with the most accurate information.
- Experience in STLC using Mainframe technology
- Testing JCL, write SQL queries, and debug the COBOL programs with Expeditor.
- Extracting the business logic from these programs and framing test scenarios and test cases as per requirement for existing programs written in Cobol/CICS/DB2.
- Test Automation using UFT including Framework development, Framework maintenance, Framework Optimization, Automation Strategizing, Automation Planning and Automation Test Execution.
- Testing (participate with the users in the system testing of programs.
Confidential, addisson, texas
MAINFRAME DEVELOPER/support
Responsibilities:
- Work on enhancements and new IBM Mainframe development projects (30% to 40% Development, 700% Maintenance).
- Make sure the application development work is in compliance with the security policy.
- Provides project management, programming, and systems leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
- Create good practices and propose improvements.
- Responsible for all aspects of the Systems Development Life Cycle and will be responsible for both ongoing support and new development.
- Working in a sourced environment and working efficiently with team members across multiple geographical locations.
- Demonstrable experience of being able to work to very tight timelines on multiple detailed activities simultaneously.
- Have good working knowledge of testing tools e.g., Quality Centre.
- Ability to coordinate activities of less experienced or less knowledgeable team members
- Understand the necessity and value of accuracy and attention to detail ability to process information with high levels of accuracy
- Knowledge of data handling methods and development techniques. The ability to store and retrieve data using efficient SQL commands.
- Strong knowledge of Object/Interface/Aspect oriented programming
- Fully knowledgeable of related infrastructure components and/or operating environment.
- Excellent problem-solving skills have vision and innovative approach to computer-based solutions and ability to convey these ideas
- Mainframe JCL and CA-7 Command knowledge / Scheduler Skills and good team player.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in COBOL, CICS, TSO, JCL, VSAM, ISPF, RACF and DB2 and good maintenance/development knowledge.