SUMMARY

• Mainframe developer having over 6+ years of experience in IT Industry, including experience in software design, development, deployment, support and maintenance of Mainframes in Health Care domain.
• Strong knowledge of COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SQL and EasyRetrieve.
• Extensive experience on various Mainframe Application Development Testing Tools and Utilities: ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, FILE - AID for MVS/DB2, SYNCSORT, QMF, NDM, FTP, CA-7 and SPUFI.
• Good experience with relational databases DB2 and Load/Unload process.
• IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 V8 700.
• Extensive Experience with all phases of Project Life cycle including Requirement Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Production Support, Maintenance and Documentation.
• Experience in analyzing the entire system and the impact with other backend and front - end systems.
• Experience in Preparing the High Level Design, Low Level Design and Detailed Design Specifications for a Project.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Involved in writing test plans and developed test scenarios and test cases.
• Develop, review, and execute test plans and test scripts (manual and automated) from requirements and other sources that can be understood and easily followed by other quality associates.
• Experience in Query optimization and Performance tuning.
• Good knowledge in Insurance Billing & Banking Applications.
• Good knowledge in Healthcare domain.
• Good experience with daily, weekly and monthly CA7 Batch job scheduling, monitoring and optimization.
• Has good exposure in company’s quality process and methodologies.
• Good Business Acumen, Team player, Mentor, fast learner, Independent worker.
• Flexible to work at any capacity (Developer thru Project Management) in a Notes/Domino environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL and EasyRetrieve.

Databases: DB2 V8&V9, VSAM and IMS(Beginner).

OLTP: CICS.

Tools: ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN, TSO/ISPF, PANVALET, FILE-AID, DB2-ADMIN, SYNCSORT, NDM, FTP, QMF, SPUFI, CA-7& MS Visio.

Operating Systems: Windows NT, 95, XP and MVS OS/390 & Z/OS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CT

Lead Consultant

Environment: OS: Z/OS Language and tools: COBOL, VSAM, DB2,TSO, JCL, CICS, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the business requirements based on the existing assembly level programs and sub routines and preparing the high level business documents for the enhancement requests.
• Prepare testing scripts, participate in project planning, provide consultation to business analysts and lead quality assurance of key deliverables throughout the project life cycle.
• Analyzed the existing environment which includes COBOL programs, CICS screens and VSAM files for the purpose of mapping to DB2 tables.
• Designed development plan by outlining steps required to develop programs using structured analysis and design.
• Development and deployment of programs using COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM & Easytrieve.
• Converted VSAM files to DB2 tables.
• Development of jobs using JCL.
• Identify long run Queries for Query Optimization and performance tuning.
• Support in different phases of implementation like System, Acceptance, Integration and warranty period.
• Assisted in post-implementation maintenance and enhancement efforts and recommend process improvements for the organization that will increase efficiency and productivity.
• Analyzing existing programs as per client requirement and identifying the impacted programs and was involved in estimations as per each Function Points.
• Preparation of design documents as per the functional requirements and coding of new subroutines, changes in existing online components, Batch components and JCLs as per the requirement and reviewing the changes.
• Followed and prepared all the Quality process documents throughout the Project.
• Conducted Knowledge Dissemination sessions.

Confidential, CT

Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Environment: OS: Z/OS Language and tools: COBOL, VSAM, DB2,TSO, JCL, CICS, EasyRetrieve, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, QMF, SPUFI, FILE-AID,CA-7 and MS-Visio.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Business requirements and conduced High level design phases, documenting the same.
• Worked on project documents like, release document, project plan, estimations and issue tracking.
• Conducted ADS walkthrough to Client and Team.
• Development and deployment of programs using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS & Easytrieve.
• Development of jobs using JCL.
• Designed the Batch Job Schedule using MS-Visio.
• Automated Batch Cycle using CA-7 Scheduler.
• Performed review on technical documents and code and share comments.
• Participated in creation of Test Plan and Test Strategy, procedures and reports.
• Prepare estimates for Analysis, design, test case preparation and QA process tasks.
• Developed Test Plans using Business requirements, Use Cases and Functional Design Documents (FDN).
• Setup the environments for QA’s and coordinate in testing.
• Walkthrough of developed Test Plans and test scripts were given to business managers.
• Responsible for version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Reviewed functional and Program Specifications, Analysis of the work requests, code reviews, functional testing and delivery of work.

Confidential, CT

Mainframe Developer

Environment: OS: OS/390 Language and Tools: COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, DB2, File-Aid, VSAM, QMF, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, PANVALET, Microsoft Office Suite, XPEDITOR and OMEGAMON.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in high level and low level design phases.
• Conducted ADS walkthrough to Onsite & Offshore Team.
• Preparing Detail Design Documents.
• Development and deployment of programs using COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM & Easytrieve.
• Development of jobs using JCL.
• Preparing Unit Test plans and executing Unit Test cases.
• Query Optimization and performance tuning.
• Creating packages to move code from one region to other in Endeavor.
• Resolving defects.
• Status Updates to Onsite Team.
• Knowledge Acquisition of the Application.
• Knowledge Transition of the application to the newly inducted Team members.
• Allocating work to Team.
• Followed and prepared all the Quality process documents throughout the Project.
• Support in different phases of implementation like System, Acceptance, Integration and warranty period.
• Prepared technical documents on applications of the project for future reference.

Confidential

Techincal Engineer

Environment: OS: OS/390 Language: COBOL, DB2, JCL, SQL, DB2, SPUFI, QMF, FILE -AID, ENDEVOR, NDM and FTP

Responsibilities:

• Executed Batch Job cycles for systems and acceptance test cycles.
• Coded JCL ‘S, PROC, NDM.
• Prepared Technical Services Cycle request work log.
• Loads and Unloads of data from one region to another region.
• Status updates to stakeholders.
• Attend status meetings.
• Prepared Cycle Flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio.