Mainframe Developer & Tester Resume Columbus, Ohio - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Highly seasoned and skilled Mainframe Developer with 6 years of hands on experience in all the stages of SDLC. Adept at troubleshooting and ensuring quality control at every stage of management process. Able to function independently or as part of a team.
Excellent knowledge of software construction and programming
Strong experience in Mainframe Development and Testing
Profound ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems
Superior proficiency with mainframe application built with JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2 and CICS
Good familiarity with MQ Series and IMS
Strong experience in Insurance industry
Experience of working in fast - paced, deadline-oriented environment covering development, enhancement, support and maintenance projects.
Exceptional presentation and organizational skills
High written and oral communication skills
Sound problem solving and analytical skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: IBM Mainframe (S/390)

Operating System: MVS(OS/390), Z/OS, Z/VSE, Windows 95/98/NT

Programming Languages: VS-COBOLII, JCL, CICS, C, JAVA

Databases & Tools: VSAM, DB2

Other Utilities: IBM Utilities, Changeman, X-pediter, File-aid, File Manager, OPCE, CVF, WS FTP, AQT, BMC Remedy, Service Now

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Developer & Tester

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

Provide 24*7 production support for Mainframe applications and flexible to take on calls.
Production support being the highest priority, the main focus is to resolve abends/outages independently within stringent timeline.
Develop, test and support with sole ownership.
Requirement gathering from business, develop codes, preparation of unit test, functional test cases.
Also to resolve non-production issues reported by Business very efficiently by interacting with users.
Responsible for identification of opportunities for automating manual tasks and fixing repetitive issues.
Performance tuning of jobs in order to minimize the CPU time consumed by job
Preparation of reusable documents like Interface Analysis diagrams, Feed file analysis and Application Support Handbook for future reference.
Sending consolidated status reports with all the updates of open production issues/delays to client, handling critical and high priority production issues by coordinating with various teams across the location.
Being the onshore lead, I am responsible for dispatching tasks to my offshore team members, guide them towards the resolution, co-ordinate between different vendors, Consolidate deliverables and deliver them within SLA.

Mainframe Developer & Tester

Confidential, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

Requirement gathering, understanding and converting the same into technical functionalities.
Development of modules using COBOL, DB2, VSAM and JCL within stringent timeline.
Preparation of use cases and performing the unit and integration testing.
Analyzing, fixing of critical issues and Change Requests within stipulated timeline.
Creation of complex & critical reports based on business requirement.
Preparation of Release specific documentations, checklists.
Co-ordination with vendors, peers to get all information and deliverables on time and send status report to client.
Consolidation of all modules and convert that into a packaged software for client use.