SUMMARY

• Sr. IBM Mainframe Application developer, with 17+ 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 Health care and Auto insurance applications. Extensive hands-on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support.
• Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
• 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.
• Excellent working knowledge in COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, PL1, JCL, Endevor
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.
• Extensive experience in UAT testing and Production Checkouts
• Strong working experience in sitting JAD discussions & writing the business requirements.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience including Requirements, Specifications Analysis/Design and Testing as per the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Experience in creating Stored Procedures, IMS Transaction programs, and Packages using SQL.
• Extensive experience in Property & Casualty Insurance and Health Insurance
• Ability to coordinate with Tech Lead, DBA's, Developers, QA/QC Analysts during the design phase.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: UNIX (Linux), Windows, Z/OS

Databases: SQL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM

Programming Languages: COBOL, PL1, JCL

Tools: /IDE Xpeditor, File-Manger, Abend-aid, Eazytrieve, Control-M, MS-VISO, ACCESS, Connect Direct, VSAM, RMS, Endevor

Business Domains: Property & Casualty Insurance and Health Insurance s / Recognitions: INS 21

AHM250: Confidential DB2 UDB Family Fundamentals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the Business Team for requirement gathering on business data.
• Perform impact analysis on the requirements and prepare Use Cases and Business Process Artifacts
• Attending High level and low-level design reviews, to arrive at design patterns/solutions and reviewing artifacts created by team members.
• Involved in reviewing test plan and test cases, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for both New Requirements as well as Enhancements
• Coordinating with Business Team, Sales Team, QA Team and Vendors team to achieve successful construction and completion of project.
• Translating business requirements of business users / bureau needs into software requirements specs and design, develop, test and implement program changes to achieve the business goals of the users.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, VS COBOL II, VSAM, DB2.
• Testing the code changes to in corporate the business rules and specifications.
• Creating effective test cases to perform Unit testing and Integration testing with constructed deliverable.
• Involved in System test, performance test and attending to the trackers raised and resolving them in time.
• Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the packages to production.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering on business data.
• Perform impact analysis on the requirements and prepare Use Cases and Business Process Artifacts
• Attending High level and low-level design reviews, to arrive at design patterns/solutions and reviewing artifacts created by team members.
• Involved in reviewing test plan and test cases, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for both New
• Requirements as well as Enhancements
• Communicating design decisions and details to offshore, clarification of issues reported from offshore.
• Coordinating with offshore team and status reporting to achieve successful construction and completion of project.
• Translating business requirements of business users / bureau needs into software requirements specs and design, develop, test and implement program changes to achieve the business goals of the users.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, PL1, VS COBOL II, VSAM, DB2.
• Develop reusable components to access DB2 and IMS Databases for CRUD(Create/Read/Updae/Delete) functions.
• Testing the code changes to in corporate the business rules and specifications.
• Creating effective test cases to perform Unit testing and Integration testing with constructed deliverable.
• Involved in System test, performance test, Implementation test and attending to the trackers raised and resolving them in time.
• Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the packages using RMS.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and business-related clarifications.
• Assigning the work to the team.
• Resolving the Production tickets/Issues.
• Doing mentoring and SME (Subject Matter Expert) work.
• Preparation of Estimations and Technical Design documents based on High
• Level Requirement documents for CSRs.
• Coding of programs as per the Business requirement.
• Preparation of Unit test plan specification and Unit test matrix.
• Preparation of the Unit test data according to the code changes.
• Unit testing of the programs.
• Interacting with the Business people (SME’s) for clarification of the work details.
• Attending the Con-calls with the customers for the clarification of work.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and business-related clarifications.
• Participated actively in Transition phase.
• Resolving the Production tickets/Issues.
• Doing mentoring and SME (Subject Matter Expert) work.
• Preparation of Estimations and Technical Design documents based on High
• Level Requirement documents for CSRs.
• Coding of programs as per the Business requirement.
• Preparation of Unit test plan specification and Unit test matrix.
• Preparation of the Unit test data according to the code changes.
• Unit testing of the programs.
• Interacting with the Business people (SME’s) for clarification of the work details.
• Attending the Con-calls with the customers for the clarification of work.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS