SUMMARY:

• Lead Mainframe Developer with 8 years of IT experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Production Support, Testing, Migration, Maintenance and Deployment with proven success in Software Development and Maintenance of IT Solutions.
• Strong expertise in Healthcare, Banking and Telecommunication Systems.
• Experience in entire SDLC and proven skills in mainframe technologies like COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, JCL and VSAM.
• Expertise in XPEDITER, SPUFI, QMF and FILE-AID as testing tools and for data manipulation.
• Expertise in Job Scheduling environments OPC, CA7 and CONTROL M.
• Experience in JAVA, Servlets, JDBC, Webservies, Tomcat, Clearcase, HTML, JavaScript and XML.
• Proficient in IBM utilities and tools like ABEND-AID,, PANVALET, SYNC SORT, DFSORT, IDCAMS, IEBGENER and IEBCOMPR.
• Experience in file transfer using NDM Connect and ECG.
• Experience using ENDEAVOR and CHANGEMAN to compile and update all programs in production.
• Holding good command on structured testing in Integration Merging systems, New developed/Enhancement systems, migrating systems.
• Resolving the production issues in a timely manner.
• Have done documentation like User Requirement spec Document, Impact Analysis document, Technical Design Document, System Test Case document with ISO 9001 and CMM level quality standards.
• Have excellent leadership skills and proactively take the initiative and complete the assignment on time.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills helps contribute to timely completion of project deliverables.
• Extensively worked on different test regions from Unit testing to User acceptance testing of the applications.
• Extensive production support experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Work experience:

Lead Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Confidential Company that provides health insurance to billions of people in . I am currently working on an application which does the entire claim processing for . It is the biggest claim processing application on Mainframe.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Currently I am working as Lead programmer for mainframe system.
• Analysis and Understanding of the Functional Spec Work closely with the Business Area and empathize on the Functional requirements.
• Analyzing the code changes required as per new functionality updates and preparing the Impact Analysis document.
• Prepares high level designing document for service requests and work orders.
• Technical Specification Development based on the requirement.
• Works on storage violations and other memory corruption in CICS.
• Preparing the BMS maps for the new CICS screens and changes to the existing maps.
• Code construction and/or changes to the existing programs for COBOL, COBOL DB2, COBOL CICS, PROC and JCL.
• Provide the user with hands on facility to enter the required information through online screens and preparing the user manual for navigating through CICS screens.
• Extensive usage of DB2 utilities, LOAD, UNLOAD, RUNSTATS, REPAIR, Removing check pending and copy pending states, Performance Tuning and Monitoring.
• Perform unit testing for each component and set up the SIT and UAT regions and running the cycles.
• JOB Scheduling and triggering using OPC Scheduler.
• Writing new and modifying existing programs on DB2 DB for reporting purpose.
• Involving in Data creation by modifying data in VSAM files, GDGs and Flat files using FILE-AID.
• Purging VSAM files and DB2 data.
• Participate actively in system maintenance including bug fixes and enhancements.
• Involve actively in code reviews and test reviews.
• Defect tracking and Analysis and supporting for cycle execution.
• Analyze the Production ABEND and fix it and restart the job to smoothen the production cycle.
• Worked on online support to support 22 claim processing engines and 25 supporting regions.
• Worked on online abends reduction.
• Look out for performance issues in the application and fix the problems.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS, REXX, NDM, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, MQ, OPC, SPUFI, QMF, TMON, EASYTRIEVE.

Technical Mainframe Lead

Confidential

Confidential is one of leading providers of Health Insurance in Confidential Health Care was founded in, is a diversified insurance which is one of the largest investor-owned health and related benefits companies with a comprehensive portfolio of health, pharmacy, behavioral, dental, disability, life, accident and international businesses.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• 837 Compliance Outbound Manual processing with EDI Gateway level corrections and reporting to the business team with the Outbound Tracking sheet.
• 835 Remit file corrections: The retriggered Remits xml files by the HUB Team should be corrected, tested and staged back to the Staging folder for the next batch cycle server process.
• 835 HUB Reporting: All the Compliance / Translation / Soft errors should be reported to the HUB team for corrections.
• Monitoring of the 837, 835, 834 sweep jobs.
• Regular Day to day production job monitoring and fixing the job abends with in the SLA standards so that the sweeps jobs will not be delayed in Claims processing.
• Ensuring that the Inbound, Outbound, 835 Remit Processing sweep jobs runs smoothly.
• Providing support to the customer with the miscellaneous work like Generating the report, Vantive support etc.
• Initiate meetings, Co coordinating and discussion with Business users Internal and External NC , Other Integrated systems, Architects and technical teams.
• Responsible to develop/create, reviews, evaluates project plans and objectives. Tracks and reports progress relative to time, budget, and demonstrated results to Stake holders. Negotiates with clients, Stake holders and vendors. Communicates project status, milestones and issues to the project Stake holders. Applies effective project management methodologies and control techniques.
• Agile project management methodology used in project lifecycle.
• Analysis of Acquisition Bank files, analysis of data, preparing FILE AID/CS copy book layouts.
• Do Initial analysis and provide high-level estimate.
• Discuss the possible deployment date with other team and start work accordingly.
• Delegate some request to offshore team with initial analysis. For these requests, clarify any doubts of offshore team, follow up to complete technical specification, coding, unit testing and Integration testing.
• Complete detail analysis for high priority work and prepare Technical specification document.
• Invite business analyst, tester and any other programmer to participate in technical specification inspection meeting.
• Prepare unit test cases and Integration testing scenarios for the interfaces and complete coding, unit testing and Integration testing for request.
• Participate in Peer review with Quality control team. Give them all necessary instruction regarding the changes.
• Apart from regular business need, try to fix any critical problem in production.
• Do analysis, coding, testing and deploy fix immediately in production.
• Prepare Root- cause-Analysis document.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, XML, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, MQ, OPC, SPUFI.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Confidential is a leading provider of financial services including Insurance products, Mutual Funds, and various retirement products. Worked on multiple projects involving the development and maintenance of various applications

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and co-ordinated with the business and testing teams.
• Prepared program specifications as per the business requirements.
• Coded COBOL/VSAM/CICS programs as per the quality standards.
• Responsible for writing Triggers for maintaining history of DB2 tables.
• Responsible for loading and unloading tables between the regions using Load utility.
• Created necessary libraries, datasets, GDG's, control cards, JCL's, PROC's, copybooks, VSAM files concerned with the project.
• Used TSO/ISPF to create, store, print and delete data sets, and to submit and examine jobs.
• Resolved various Production problems by giving fixes to the existing JCLs and PROCs.
• Used MQ-Series as communication between XML and Mainframe.
• Responsible for the migration of all elements from test to production and scheduling all jobs and was on call immediate production support person.
• Modified existing stored procedure as per client requirement.
• Analyzed the root cause for batch job failures and online application failures and take the appropriate action to avoid the batch delays.
• Responsible for the creation of change requests and taking the approvals incase of modifications to the existing programs or new programs
• Responsible for Code walkthrough to make sure that the code follows the NLG coding standards.
• Involved in UAT User Acceptance Test , documented and maintained Issues log.
• Prepared test plans, test cases, test data for the project releases.
• Responsible for Unit testing/Debugging the online programs using Intertest to fix the bugs in the applications.
• Responsible for the Oncall support for the General Systems applications.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, MVS and OS/390, TSO/ISPF, MQ-Series, Endeavor, HTML, JavaScript, XML, VSAM, File Aid.

Senior Mainframe Developer

Confidential end customer through web services using service oriented Architecture SOA . This projected requirement development on mainframe as well as JAVA platform. HOGAN has multiple modules and project intended to expose customer and card systems to users using web services.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Getting the requirements, designing, coding and testing for new enhancements.
• Do analysis, coding, testing and deploy fix immediately in production.
• Preparation of functional documentation.
• Responsible for analysis of existing system, gathering business requirements, finalize requirements, preparing Tech Specs, Approvals, Project planning, Design, prepare flow charts, Documentation, Coding and testing of application.
• Creation of pipeline, URI maps, TCPIP services and Web services for transactions.
• Creation of an interface between Web services and mainframe application.
• Designing and coding CICS application programs for webservices.
• Designing BPEL flow.
• Created an initial design for proof of concept.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, MQ, CA7, SPUFI, ORACLE, JAVA, Servlets, JDBC, Webservies, Tomcat, Clearcase, HTML, JavaScript and XML.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in enhancement and documentation of online and batch programs.
• Coded new JCLs/PROCs and/or modifying existing JCLs/PROCs.
• Used TSO/ISPF to create, store, print and delete data sets, and to submit and examine jobs.
• Identifying the impacts of changes.
• Coded new COBOL programs and/or modifying existing COBOL programs.
• Identifying priorities in consultation with the client and changing the schedule.
• Reviewed the existing Test Plans, Test Cases and updated the same to meet the requirements.
• Prepared Test Data as per the test cases to avoid sudden surprises.
• Executed the test cases manually as per the test plan before test automation.
• Attended for training sessions in Mainframe Data Base Administration.
• Coordinated with the development team to fix the bugs identified during the test process.
• Acquired the knowledge of the business activities related to a specific telecom project and worked on all kind of fields including activation, billing and dealer commissions.
• Worked on the dockets and CRs received.
• Worked on various COBOL and COOL:Gen programs.
• Handled the SCM on-call support, production support.
• Handled all the generation and compilation related errors.
• Generated proxies for JAVA and C platform.
• Administrator of Host Encyclopedia of All- Fusion.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, MQ, Control M, SPUFI, QMF, UNIX, GuradIEn, JAVA, C, COOL:Gen.