SUMMARY

• More than 7+ years of experience as a Mainframe developer.
• Worked on entire Software Development Cycle from Requirement Gathering, converting Business requirements into technical specifications, Impact Analysis, Root cause Analysis for problems or incidents, Estimation, Design High Level and Detail, Coding, Maintenance, and production support, Unit testing and Integration Testing.
• Worked on IBM Mainframe development using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS.
• Extensive knowledge of application development using REXX, IMS, Assembler, Change man.
• Experience in using IBM mainframe tools, utilities, and technologies like TSO/ ISPF Xpeditor, File - aid, Endevor, SPUFI, CA-7 etc.
• Ability tomulti-taskwork across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience working in the domain ofLife Insurance and Annuities applications. Extensive hands-on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Good knowledge on Waterfall model, RUP Rational Unified process Agile methodology. Participate in Agile sprint estimations/planning, refinements, and retrospect meetings.
• Ability to write/modify existing assembler programs to enhance speed, performance optimization, and ensure reliability of various computing devices
• Designing and coding short assembler programs for proper functioning of Central Processing Unit of systems
• On-call support by ability to quickly resolve production abends with 100 accuracies.
• Good exposure to Mainframe Systems and knowledge in handling COBOL files.
• Proficient in preparing SIT and UAT test plan preparation and its execution.
• Experience with writing and debugging Assembler system programs
• Involved in Co-ordination with offshore team and review of deliverables.
• Scheduled Jobs, Prepared Job flows, System, and Integration test plans.
• Strong knowledge in production support, batch processing in CONTROL-M, CA-7 & ESP schedulers.
• Prepared automated scripts for Maintenance and Regression testing using QTP/UFT.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology and water fall model. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.
• Experience in developing modules involving Stored Procedure calls.
• Experience in Restart logic to update the Database.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: OS/390 V2R10, Z/OS Windows, MS DOS.

Hardware: IBM Mainframe S390, Windows NT.

Software products: MVS/ESA-Version 5.2.2, VS COBOL-II, IBM MQ Series 5.3. SQL, JCL, REXX, CICS V4.1.0, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities, Cocoa Touch Framework, Cocoapods, Google Tesseract.

Tools: / Technologies: COBOL, VSAM, CICS, ISPF, IDCAMS, File AID for DB2, QMF, IMS, SPUFI, File AID, Change man, Xpeditor, EzTriever, BMC, Platinum tool for DB2, Assembler SOLA, XCode, Simulators.

Domain Expertise: Life Insurance, Healthcare Insurance, banking, and Retirement Financial Services.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Indianapolis

Mainframe Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation, and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Knowledge of REXX.
• Participated in 24X7 Production Support, along with on-call support with ability to quickly resolve production abends. Installation of test jobs.
• Worked on Service Requests: Preparing the scope document to implementation.
• Cycle time optimization: Annual, Half-Yearly, Quarterly, Bi-weekly, and Weekly jobs. Weekly/Monthly Status reporting. Also involved in monitoring the Batch Cycles.
• Project involves Maintenance and production support ofLife Annuity Products
• Implemented requirements gathering of UL, VUL and Annuity products.
• Involved in preparation of test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Performed Peer reviews and log any issues. Log JIRA for testing defects identified.
• Received training for requirement gathering and functional analysis of different domains: Life Insurance, Healthcare Insurance and Retirement Financial Services Industry.
• Coding and development/enhancement/modification of new/existing programs following the standards.
• Ability to develop and maintain customer relationships. Ability to interact diplomatically with a variety of individuals on all levels
• Received Agile training. Involved in organizing Sprint events: estimations, planning, retrospectives.
• Debugging of the programs.
• Involved in production support activities. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Also involved in monitoring the Batch Cycle.

Confidential, Illinois

Mainframe Cobol Developer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Development, Testing, Maintenance, and support of business application software as Software Engineer.
• Extensive exposure to Mainframe legacy system and working knowledge ofSDLC process in both Agile and waterfall methodology.
• Having hands-on experience in Card Payment processing with in-depth technical and business knowledge.
• Experience in End-to-End analysis, Validation, Planning, Coding, System.
• Testing and project execution for IT systems in CICS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, File-aid, Endevor, HP ALM Tool, HP Manager Tool.
• Result oriented, Customer focused with healthy relationship with Team Members.
• Experience in understanding the business flow and providing resolutions.
• Knowledge in JCL, PROC, CARD changes as part of creating new monthly, weekly, daily jobs and scheduling it as per requirement.
• Primary participant in large projects setup, full cycle testing and implementation of multi
• Phase conversions of over 800,000 third party Life and Annuity policies performing all
• Testing and actual implementation.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Develop the code as per technical specification.
• Experience in development and maintenance of code, unit testing and documenting the results.
• Prepared high level Functional, Technical and Detail design documentation based on business requirements.
• Created SQL Stored Procedures for jobs that ran on the IBM Z/OS Mainframe system.
• Developed and integrated complex application code to meet the design specifications for moderate to complex enhancements or change requests.
• Developed software solutions by studying information needs, confer with users, study systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigate problem areas and follow the software development lifecycle.
• Work involves fixing abends such as Space abends, File contention errors, VSAM space abends and DB2 abends.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a Team member at offshore: analyze and understand the functionality of the system and estimate the factors for impacted components.
• Involved team’s planning and organizing for the applications development and enhancements.
• Prepared test plans for the developed snippet and responsible to do unit testing & integration testing.
• Documented and shared the details of the problem and resolution for all the issues faced, throughout the development cycle and shared with the team.
• Analyzed Business product requirements, SLA, and designed QA - functional and performance requirements.
• Defined Test strategy and evaluated the potential risks.
• Involved support activities in handling priority tickets, fixing real time production issues, maintaining the UAT data daily for Business.
• Participated in weekly status calls and updating status of the project.
• Involved in monitoring the Batch Cycles.
• Knowledge Transfer to the team with business functionality and the new requirements.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with Business Analyst to define requirements, analyze business needs and validated solutions with client.
• Experience with code review and peer review and knowledge sharing with the Team.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Prepared code documentation for future reference and upgrades.
• Participated in weekly status calls and updating status of the project.
• Monitored the Batch Cycles. Provided solutions on different issues to the customer.
• Understanding the existing functions and designing the system for the enhancements.
• Planning, size and effort estimation, project status tracking and reporting.
• Project metrics collection and analysis, identification of training needs, plan & drive trainings for the team.
• Participated in task allocation, monitoring and control, reviews.