SUMMARY

• Senior Mainframe Application Developer with 12+ years of hands on experience in software development. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Strong experience working in the domain of Pharmacy, Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, Cards Industry for Leading US clients.
• Strong background in SDLC methodologies such as the Traditional Waterfall Model as well as iterative approach to software development such as Agile, Scrum.
• Excellent experience in Mainframe Application design, Development, Testing and Production support projects. Developed programs which deal with DATACOM, DB2 and IMS.
• Hands on experience with MVS/OS390, Z/OS, OS/400, COBOL,CICS,DB2, JCL, IDEAL, UNIX,IMS DB, ADABAS, ASSEMBLER, MQ, DATACOM, TSO/ISPF, Changeman, EDI, File - Aid, Xpeditor, Table base, Control-M, SAR, IOF, Clist, Abend-Aid, SUPERCE, EZYEDIT, SPUFI, DCLGEN, BMC, Fault Analyzer, File Manager, VSAM, REXX,SORT Utilities and SEARCH Utilities.
• Extensive experience in attending the project review meetings with Clients gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design(HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.
• Excellent Team building, Project management, Analytical, Interpersonal and Communication skills, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of Data warehousing, ETL and Oracle Business Intelligence enterprise Edition(OBIEE 10g/11g)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MVS/OS390, Z/OS, OS/400, WINDOWS 98/NT

Languages: COBOL, JCL, IDEAL, ASSEMBLER, REXX, CLIST, UNIX, Easytrieve

Database: IMS DB, DB2, DATACOM

Tools: TSO/ISPF, Changeman, File-Aid, Xpeditor, Table base, Control-M, SAR, IOF, Abend-Aid, SUPERCE, EZYEDIT, SPUFI, DCLGEN, BMC, Fault Analyzer, File Manager.

Others: VSAM, SORT Utilities, SEARCH Utilities, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEFBR14, IEBCOMPR.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with clients to discuss business requirements.
• Understand the requirements/enhancements, analyze the existing functionality.
• Organizing meetings to discuss design solutions.
• Preparing High level design specifications and reviewing low-level specification document
• Provide inputs for project Estimations; doing impact analysis.
• Extensively worked with DB2 database Teams. New tables were created/old were modified to include some additional fields.
• Developed COBOL, DB2, CICS programs.
• Prepare scripts, test plans & test data, Conduct unit, integration and regression testing.
• Participating discussions with QA regarding test cycles and providing inputs to QA.
• Monitoring the production batch cycle and required to fix the abends and make sure that cycle completes within the timeframe.
• Responsible for Defect tracking and resolutions.
• Release support and release scheduling review.
• Participate in daily offshore/Onsite status call.

Environment: Z/OS, DB2, JCL, Cobol, CICS, MVS, VSAM, IBM Debugger, File Manager, CLIST.

Confidential, Pittsfield, MA

Mainframe Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed Release management plan, Configuration management plan.
• Analyzed the entire Agent Distribution system flow and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems and documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Prepared the HLD and LLDs for all the functional requirements
• Involved in the year end activities like preparing the system for yearend batch processing, special batch cycles, On-request batch processing, preparing the system for the new year processing
• Handled the decommissioning of obsolete Mainframe jobs/ applications in Agent distribution systems.
• Involved in Development and Integration of application modules.
• Production Support for all production issues within defined SLA.
• Design and code Easytrieve reports based on User’s requirements
• Maintained all the Business requests in rational Clearquest and tracked them to closure.
• Prioritized, scheduled and provided effort estimates for the accepted requests.
• Monitored the Cost and schedule variation on a monthly basis and prepared the Project Status Report.
• Presented the Project status report at the Project Management Review meetings to the Management Prepared and communicated the release notes for the Business users for all the Major releases.
• Planned and managed the resources working on multiple projects.

Environment: Agile, Scrum, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, NATURAL, ASSEMBLER, IDEAL, DATACOM, CICS, JCL, VSAM, REXX, DB2, ADABAS, SQL, VSAM and Utilities such as CHANGEMAN, XPEDITER, CONTROL-M, Abend-Aid, Sort and Search Utilities, JCL Utilities like IEBGENER,IEBCOPY,IEFBR14,IDCAMS,IEBCOMPR.

Confidential, FL

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Receives the task assigned by the Client lead and depending upon the priority assigns it to different team members and plan the completion of the work.
• Design and code a program to select data from DB2 database and VSAM dataset and send data via MQ to the Front end (Java Based application) to publish Agency related information. If frontend system was not responding the program would put the data into a db2 table for later processing online; this program was called by many batch application programs.
• Handled the task of creating impact document for the requirements including identifying impacted CICS, COBOL and DB2 programs as well as JCL and impacted SQL
• Supports the Team Technically and functionally to complete the work
• Coordinate with Confidential on-site team for escalation and/or resolution of technical issues.
• Manage Confidential off-shore team on day-to-day basis.
• Monitor project progress and performance.
• Ensure quality of all deliverables.
• Collect measures for SLA compliance
• Report on SLA adherence

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2,MQ Series, Intertest, Changeman, FileAid, QMF, SPUFI and IBM Utilities

Confidential

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the validation of the estimates provided by the client
• Renegotiating the estimates and delivery date if required
• Understanding the design, raising the queries and clarifying with Clients
• Impact analysis
• HLD/LLD Review, Conducts reviews of the Test Plan and Test Data
• Preparing Test plan and Coding of complex programs by referring various standard and guidelines document provided by the Client
• Checking the quality of the program using tools
• Rectifying quality defects
• Ensuring an extensive Unit Testing by the team(Covering all possible test cases)
• Assigning and tracking the work request with the team
• Mentoring and supporting the team members
• Review of deliverables and involved in delivery activities
• Takes care of performance appraisals to the team members
• Involved in the Review of deliverables (Code review, Test plan and Test result review, Delivery Checklist) done by other teams,
• Performing delivery product Audits.
• Takes care of process implementation
• Collects, analyses the status and prepares weekly status reports
• Helps DM in metrics collection with respect to the team
• Performing the adhoc work request, same day delivery request, and Post-delivery support.
• Responsible for maintaining all project related artifacts such as Requirements documents, Meeting Minutes, Test Plans, checklist, training Etc.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, Easytrieve, Changeman, Expeditor, FileAid, AbendAid, Interest, QMF, SPUFI, CA-7 and IBM Utilities.

Confidential, CA

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering and analysis of requirements from the users and preparing Functional Requirement, Technical requirement and Mapping documents.
• Worked as a key resource in the development of CMWS project for Lloyds TSB Bank. Involved in the preparation of Technical Specifications, Coding, Testing (Unit testing, System Integration testing) and Defect support for CMWS project.
• Involved in Release 8.04/9.01 as a work package owner, and coordinating and leading the work with a team of 8.
• Involved in the Testing and Defect Support phases of Vision PLUS 8.01/8.04/9.01 Release for Confidential EMEA.
• Involves in the coding and testing of Non-Vision PLUS Cobol-CICS and Cobol-DB2 programs to act as an interface between Vision PLUS and Non-Vision PLUS platforms.
• Worked with Production support team to analyze and fix the day-to-day issues.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, VisionPlus, Changeman, MQ Series, Expeditor, FTP, FileAid and IBM Utilities.

Confidential, NY

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop in house application and provide support for them.
• Mentor the final and pre-final year students of Computer Science Engineering Students for their real time projects.
• Involved in Development, Integration and Testing of application modules.
• Developed the application using Eclipse Galileo
• Developed Ant scripts to build the application.
• Involved in testing, debugging, bug fixing and documentation of the system

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, VisionPlus, Expeditor, FileAid and IBM Utilities.

Confidential

Mainframe Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering the requirements from ICFS Call Centre, Operation and Marketing departments.
• Interacted with the Business users to identify the impact analysis
• Involved in the validation of the estimates provided by the client
• HLD/LLD Review, Conducts reviews of the Test Plan and Test Data
• Preparing Test plan and Coding of complex programs by referring various standard and guidelines document provided by the Client
• Checking the quality of the program using tools
• Rectifying quality defects
• Ensuring an extensive Unit Testing by the team(Covering all possible test cases)

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Changeman, Expeditor, FileAid, AbendAid, Interest, QMF, SPUFI and IBM Utilities

Confidential

SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in Requirements review
• Developed the SQL queries to create tables and Views.
• Developed SQL procedures, functions using TOAD.
• Loaded Data using SQL loader and developed the control files for the same.
• Developed custom reports using SQL*Plus.
• Wrote and executed test plans, maintained versions of change components to ensure accuracy and update.
• Tested the software using many methodologies like Functional Testing, Load testing, and Regression Testing. Tuned few queries to resolve Performance issues.

Environment: TOAD, SQL Loader, SQL server 2000,Windows

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Creating Entire Development Life Cycle of Project (Analysis, Design, Development and Testing) of the Product System.
• Used Vb as the front-end with sqlserver as a back end through SQL connection
• Designed pages using framework tools and some are used controller tools
• Extensively used ADO for data retrieval and database updates for the application.
• Involved in the unit testing and the documentation of the project.

Environment: VB6.0, Sql Server 2000, HTML, Java Script.