SUMMARY:

• An industrious and motivated Mainframe Developer with over 9 years of IT Industry experience which includes implementation, development and Production Support projects in telecommunication and BFSI domain.
• Experience in Full Software Development Life Cycle SDLC implementation - including requirement analysis, estimation, planning and tracking, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Good experience in batch and online mainframe programming.
• Expertise in PL/1-IMS-DB2, COBOL-TERADATA-Oracle and Job Control Language JCL .
• Good knowledge of query development and enhancement in Oracle and TERADATA.
• Experience in developing screens in IMS-DC.
• Good at job abend resolution by using ABEND-AID or dump analysis.
• Worked on REXX and SAS tool enhancements, testing for DB2 and SAS upgrade.
• Experience in stored procedures and MQ-Series code enhancements in PL/1 code.
• Experience in file transfer between different mainframe environments using NDM Connect.
• Experience using CHANGEMAN to compile, link, promote and freeze modified and new modules/programs from development to production.
• Experience in taking responsible roles as Module Lead, on-site coordinator, System Analyst and Developer.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills coupled with strong technical and analytic skills.
• Quick learner, adaptive in learning new technologies and skills.
• Proven ability to work as a team player as well as an individual, committed, positive and open-minded.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Title: Team Lead

Role: Help Desk And Support Analyst

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise to the team in preparing estimates, design, code and test plans, testing execution for two major releases in the project.
• To reduce the defect density as compared to the previous releases in the project. This was done by conducting RCA and DPP meetings for the project releases.
• Guide and monitor the team in preparing test plans and executing them successfully for SAS and DB2 version upgrade impact on the mainframe jobs and screens of the application.
• Lead the team for SPI changes which had a major impact on the system requiring testing of almost all the functionality of the application.
• Maintaining monthly time-sheets, metrics preparation, defect tracking during projects defect prevention meetings for the team after releases, tracking of deliverable as per ITUP processes.

Confidential

Title: Senior Technical Associate

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepare estimations, planning and tracking and release plans for projects of 6k hours efforts. Lead the team for SPI changes which had a major impact on the system requiring testing of almost all the functionality of the application.
• Lead offshore team in design, development and unit testing phases.
• Help system testing team in planning and execution of ST of the deliverable of projects.
• Work with client on enhancing existing TERADATA and Oracle queries for Optimization of existing processes.
• Interact with teams from other technologies GUI, BO for testing interfaces.
• Work with production support team to provide guidance on resolving existing production issues.

Skills Used: COBOL, JCL, TERADATA, SQL, PL-SQL.

Confidential

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Key Achievements:

• 'Feather in My Cap' award for quality design and development deliverable.
• Certificate of participation in the CMMI level 5 audits at organization level.
• Star Performer of the Month in Application Support project.
• Cleared Wipro certified technical competency exams of level 2.1 and 2.3.
• Client appreciation at several instances through e-mail for quality deliverable, technical, analytic communication skills in development as well as support projects.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepare order of magnitude cost and effort estimations and detailed designs for enhancement requirements as an SME.
• Provide guidance to the offshore team in understanding the client systems and supporting them from offshore as a senior developer.
• Monitor incident queues, designing and working on permanent solutions for incidents raised by business which were repetitive in nature. This required analysis of the problem record and providing designing approaches to SME and clients from business side.
• Provide regular updates on job failure within response time and fix it within the resolution time based on the SLA specifications and also ensure that the team follows it through.
• Coordinate work between on-site and offshore, scaling up in understanding new systems and taking ownership of supporting these systems as an on-site coordinator.

Skills Used: IMS DB/DC, PL/1, JCL, REXX, SAS

Confidential

Title: Software Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepare low level design and test plan based on the functional specification document provided by SME.
• Develop new online screens, new one-off batch job for production update of IMS database using check-pointing logic, enhance and test existing code and impacted jobs based on the high level design and functional specification provided by SME.
• Discuss and review the high level design document, send queries based on inputs from team and follow up on response from the SME.
• Walk-through of all the deliverable with the team and clients.
• Execute unit, system test cases as per the test plan and also coordinate with clients for the acceptance testing.
• Enhance the existing impact code to resolve conflicts and coordinate with change management for successful release.

Skills Used: IMS DB/DC, PL/1, JCL