SUMMARY:

• Having 8 years of Information Technology experience including Project Management, Systems and Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance, Change Management and Programming.
• Hands - on experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle, including Requirement Gathering, Design, Coding, Integration, Performance Testing, production implementation and Subsequent support.
• Provided both production and development support for several Banking, Telecom and health care, manufacturing applications.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development and Testing.
• Working knowledge on SDLC Waterfall / Agile (Scrum) methodologies.
• Hands on experience Agile Sprint base deliveries.
• Worked on system performance tuning.
• Involved in various Z/OS and CICS up gradation from various versions
• Data mapping and process flow analysis experience.
• Experience in manual testing of online and batch systems.
• Extensive experience in developing scalable and reliable enterprise applications using Mainframe technologies like DB2,COBOL,JCL,VSAM,IDMS,CICS and IMS-DB .
• Expertise in generating the error free code by meeting all the standards and known for becoming subject matter expert through self-study.
• Strong collaborator and communicator with ability to prioritize and meet operational deadlines in demanding+ environments.
• Expertise in using Mainframe tools like CHANGEMAN,PANVALENT,XPEDIDITER,JOB-TRAC,IDCAMS,DSF,RMF,DFSORT,DITTO,DFDSS,DFSMS,MQ,CA7,SAS,FILEAID,QMF,SPUFI,DCLGEN,NDM,XCOM,TSOBMCADM,INFOMEN,REMEDY,CONTROL-M,TTTSand ENDEAVOR.
• Having strong experience in debugging and problem determination.
• Good knowledge on Waterfall, Agile methodologies and the Scrum process.
• Hands on experience on Agile scrum.
• Experience in adhering to coding standards and finishing on time.
• Strong experience and co-ordination skills to lead onsite-offshore teams throughout all phases.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of Queries, indexing to improve Performance and have the ability to code and implement complex business rules in SQL and DB2 Stored Procedures.
• Expertise in writing Database Objects such as Tables, User Defined Data Types, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Views, User Defined Functions, and Cursors.
• Strong Project/technical leadership skills in the areas of mainframe applications and their maintenance projects.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Proactive in learning new technologies and updating my skills including Strong analytical, verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Research-oriented, motivated, proactive, self-starter with strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills, good organizational abilities, good leadership qualities and excellent problem solving skills.
• Have good domain knowledge in Banking, Telecom and Natural resources sector.
• Responsible for Project Management with the offshore team to get the development work scheduled/delivered with high quality. Worked on development activities on timely manner/peer reviewed offshore work before handing over to the client.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe (Z/OS, MVS), Windows 9x/2000/XP, MVS.

Key skills: COBOL, IMS DB, JCL, DB2, CICS, IBM Utilities, SQL.

Access methods: VSAM

Database: DB2, IMS-DB, IDMS.

Mainframe Tools: File aid, ITSM (ticket tracking tool) SPUFI, FTP, QMF, TSO/ISPF, Change Man, Endeavor, Expeditor, Pan Valet tool, Rational Asset Analyzer RAA), IBM Utilities, IBM MQ, HP Service Desk/Service now.

Automation Office: MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook and MS-PowerPoint, Visio.

Sorting techniques: SYNCSORT, DFSSORT

S/W Methodologies: Agile Scrum, Water fall.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arizona

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

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• Resolve the tickets of priority P1, P2, P3, P4 as per the SLA.
• Works on development tickets as well, which involves code changes, unit testing.
• Involve in Analysis, Design and Implementation of User stories.
• Estimates the user stories through development review process.
• Deliver the stories on targeted Sprints.
• Works on VMS operating system for analyzing the COBOL programs and fixing the issues.
• Analyzes the COBOL programs and coding to the requirements by using the Cool Gen tool.
• Create queries to generate reports off peak times for business needs.
• Use of TOAD tool to check the JVM error logs.
• LDAP being used to monitor error logs.
• Monitoring the tickets in Remedy control Tool.
• Works on Change Man version control for versioning.
• Documents the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Reviews components that are to be delivered to the client.
• Provides On call support five days a week.
• Works on performance improvement initiatives.
• Coordinates with the client team during production moves and supports.
• Identifies & fixes bug and maintain software application Quality
• Involves in debugging high severity defects.
• Agile centric development method, sprint base development.
• Maintained the defects for every month and proposed new measures to prevent them in future.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, File Manager, SDSF, Changeman, SAS, Expediator, TWS,SOAP UI.

Confidential, Cincinnatti, Ohio

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented program changes, prepared systems documentation and status reports as requested to development manager.
• Understands business requirements, proposes flexible solutions, and provides specifications and designs in support of application development
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Involved in generating reports using SAS.
• Responsible for creating Work orders and Change request.
• Responsible for leading a project team in delivering solution to our customer in the Banking sector especially in the collection division.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements. Automate customer’s pain points and repeated works.
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project and 24/7 supporting specific application
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in M/F and other leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.
• Responsible for Project Management with the offshore team to get the development work scheduled/delivered with high quality. Worked on development activities on timely manner/peer reviewed offshore work before handing over to the client.
• Estimation of the software development effort.
• Establish Quality Procedure for the team, continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

Environment: Cobol,JCL,VSAM,DB2,CICS,File Manager,SDSF,Changeman,SAS,Expediator,TWS,SOAP UI.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) which is a Agile methodology starting from high level design to system/integration testing.
• Worked in all phases of development and review teams for SDS (system detail specifications), TSD(Technical specification documents),coding, test cases/test plans, unit testing/system testing/integration testing.
• Worked closely with functional and technical project leads, Finance, Sales, Marketing subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and other business groups to identify, analyze and document Business requirements.
• Interacted with business analysts and data architects to develop a data model.
• Coordinated with the front end teams in regression testing the Applications.
• Actively involved in end user and support.
• Worked on IDMS databases for retrieval and updating of data.
• Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
• Maintained the defects for every month and proposed new measures to prevent them in future.
• Preparation and execution of test plans and test cases based on the Requirement specifications for Regression, Functional testing.
• Worked under adhoc situation and helped other applications within the project and among projects.
• Understands business requirements, proposes flexible solutions, and provides specifications and designs in support of application development.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of assigned job ensuring quality.
• Documenting and Reviewing components that are to be delivered to the client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS/DB, IDMS, Change man, Expeditor and IBM Mainframe MVS.

Confidential, Miamisburg, Ohio

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Resolving the tickets of priority P1, P2, P3, P4 as per the SLA.
• Worked as IBM Mainframe Admin where i was involved in making changes and maintenance of the IBM Mainframe in an Agile SDLC environment.
• Worked on VMS operating system for analyzing the COBOL programs and fixing the issues.
• Analyzing the COBOL programs and coding to the requirements by using the Cool Gen tool.
• Monitoring the tickets in Remedy control Tool.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Reviewing components that are to be delivered to the client.
• Providing On call support five days a week.
• Working on performance improvement initiatives.
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Identifying & fixed bug and maintain software application Quality
• Involved in debugging high severity defects.
• Maintained the defects for every month and proposed new measures to prevent them in future.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VMS OS, DB2, Change Man, Rational Asset Analyzer, SQl and CICS with an Agile SDLC

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the source code provided using static source code analysis techniques to enable the cataloguing of the source component.
• Document any areas of provided source code that could not be analyzed
• Checking the applications to find out the interfaces.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of assigned job ensuring quality.
• Coordination with Team members.
• Interacting with the onsite counterpart.
• Preparation and execution of test cases based on the Requirement Specifications for Regression, Functional testing.
• Reviewing components that are to be delivered to the client.
• Generating client reports.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, Change Man, MVS and File Aid.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed project plan to gather the business requirements and prepared Detail Design document from the requirement specification.
• Resolving defect within stipulated time.
• Coding, testing, Documentation and implementation of complex software modules.
• Resolving the abends in time.
• Working on performance improvement initiatives
• Identifying and fixing the bugs and maintain software application quality.
• Providing support during the go live of the project.
• Fixing the issues during the production.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File Aid, MVS, CICS.