SUMMARY

• 11+ years of hands on experience in application 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.
• Experience working in the domain of financial and banking applications. Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF, VS COBOL II, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, JCL, DB2 Stored Procedures, VSAM, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, File Aid, Xpeditor, InterTest, Endevor, DB2, IBM Utilities, CHANGEMAN, INFOMAN, SPUFI and QMF.
• Experience in onshore and offshore delivery models.
• Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint(Charts,tables,graphs), Visio(Flowcharts).
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support.
• Ability to multi - task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience in handling projects in various roles as Team Member, Team Lead, Technical Specialist, Programmer and Software Consultant.
• Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.
• Extensive experience working as an onsite coordinator 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.
• Very good experience in troubleshooting and system performance tuning.
• Update QMS (Quality Management System) documents like Project initiation, Project action plan, Detailed Requirements Specifications, Impact Analysis, File Specifications, System Run Chart (flow chart), Data Base Requirements, Program Specifications, Operation Manual, Program Development, Coding, Unit Test Plan, System Test plan, Inter System Test plan, Implementation plan and Post implementation check.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platform: OS/390, Windows

Tracking Tools: Quality Center, Service Center

Workflow Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, MS SharePoint

Tools: /Utilities: MQ, Changeman, EXPEDITOR, EndeavourSMART TEST, CA-INTERTEST, Fileaid, QMF, SPUFI.

Databases: DB2, IMS

Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, VSAM, Ezytreive, JAVA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New Castle, DE

Mainframe Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and design enhancements to the application or new business requirements. Identify and define detailed product functional requirements and use cases, set up and maintain the internal tracking reports/matrix as applicable.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules.
• Development of the new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL and VSAM.
• Created COBOL/DB2 stored procedures for updates to the database.
• Debugging and implementing the system using IBM Debug tools.
• Manage the steady state operations of business applications
• Work closely with business team & technical team.
• Assist in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product and user acceptance testing and participate in transitioning the requirements and use cases to the designers, ensuring a clear and complete understanding of the requirements
• Continually monitor scope, time frame, budget and risk.
• Carry out BAU activities independently of support and development
• Bring in best practices and tools from similar engagements
• Deliver services as per SLA and enhancements as per schedule
• Identify Automation of alert mechanism for monitoring exceptions/faults
• Build the roadmap for automation of manual processes in support and test case execution
• Process standardization

Environment: Mainframe - OS/390, Enterprise COBOL, CICS, DB2, DB2 stored procedures, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, SQL, InterTest, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Changeman, IBM Utilities, SPUFI, QMF, CA-7, HP Quality center, JIRA, Service Manager, MS Share point, MS Visio

Confidential - New York, NY

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manage the steady state operations of business applications
• Analyze and design enhancements to the application or new business requirements. Identify and define detailed product functional requirements and use cases, set up and maintain the internal tracking reports/matrix as applicable.
• Work closely with business team & technical team.
• Assist in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product and user acceptance testing and participate in transitioning the requirements and use cases to the designers, ensuring a clear and complete understanding of the requirements
• Design, Develop COBOL/DB2 programs, Stored Procedures.
• Continually monitor scope, time frame, budget and risk.
• Recognize change management issues and risks; develop recommendations and mitigating strategies.
• Review functional and nonfunctional requirements for applications from migration(SmithBarney Morganstanley Migration), transition and operations perspective.
• Lead new technology integration via requirements analysis, design, and implementation. Make recommendations and support implementations of new tools and technologies.
• Scheduling and monitoring operations
• Coding, testing, analyzing application software

Environment: Mainframe - COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS and Stored procedures

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Incident, problem and change management
• Monitor incidents and assign them to team members
• Contribute to discussions with Change Advisory board to plan for implementations
• Report metrics and status to management.
• Conduct team meetings for casual analysis and provide suggestions for improvement
• Manage project resources to assure maximum efficiency, effectiveness and utilization.
• Manage the steady state operations of business applications.
• Work closely with business team & technical team.
• Continually monitor scope, time frame, budget and risk of all activities carried out by team
• Defining responsibilities and reviewing deliverables
• Tracking and mitigating risks
• Tracking and Analyzing Project metrics
• Mentoring / Leading Team Members for task assignments.
• Ensuring adherence to procedures, standards and practices followed by Confidential / TCS.
• Contribution to Organizational and Center level activities

Environment: Mainframe - COBOL, DB2, JCL

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and preparing High-level design for the new requirement.
• Provided 24X7 Production Support.
• Involved in Design, Development, Testing and Prod support.
• Coordinating in developing test scenarios, test cases for User Acceptance testing (UAT) and cross check the Test results to ensure that these programs are in accordance to requirement.
• Reviewing the Code developed by other team members and ensuring that these programs and jobs are in accordance to coding standards.
• Provide Implementation Support and Post-Implementation Support.
• Prepared Coding Standard checklist, QA checklist, Implementation checklist and process documents

Environment: COBOL, JAVA, JCL, DB2, Endeavor, File Aid.