SUMMARY

• 11 years of Mainframe coding experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, and SAS with large IT service organizations.
• Experience in designing, programming, testing, deployment, and maintenance in a distributed work environment.
• Experience and domain knowledge in Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing Industries for US based clients.
• Influences, leads, and manage others with sensitivity to meet diverse needs during urgency in business situations.
• Demonstrated ability to work hard with complete determination and dedication to achieve organizational as well as personal goals hence enhancing skills and knowledge.
• Well - versed in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions, and troubleshooting for applications and presentations.
• Possesses excellent interpersonal, communication, and analytical skills with demonstrated abilities in customer relationship management.
• Experience in project executed in AGILE and Scrum methodologies.
• Experience working on MVS platform using TSO.
• Experience working with overseas customers and understanding project requirements before project kickoff.
• Responsible for programming and developing, performing unit tests.
• Strong designing skills with extensive usage and knowledge in SDLC.
• Strong experience in using tools like ENDEVOR (version control), XPEDITOR.
• Mentoring and training new engineers on programming languages for mainframe technology
• Self-motivated, easily adaptable to new environments and ability to work independently as well as in team.
• Experience in efficiently using standard Business Content, extending, and enhancing according to the report requirements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware / Platforms: OS/390

Technology: Mainframe

Programming Languages: COBOL, SAS, JCL

Databases: DB2, VSAM

Tools: and Utilities: Endeavor, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, File Manager and INSYNC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential - OH

Responsibilities:

• Adding Code to the existing COBOL programs to add new functionality
• Coding Test JCL’s were used to test the code.
• Writinh New test plans to test the modified code
• Executing Test plans documenting the test results
• Modifying the JCL jobs to fix tickets/incidents and ABEND in the system.
• Creating and testing the files sent by client.
• Understanding the customer requirements from the requirement documents, developing code and creating test files as per the requirements.
• Review and Implementation of the code and other client specific modules into production

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam/Roscoe/File Manager/SPUFI in the Mainframe Environment.

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing and Implementation of various Projects and Work Requests. Developed the new code or changed the existing code.
• Responsible for creating comprehensive test data, test plan, and test cases for Unit testing, involved in peer code review.
• Have used Quality control for tracking the defects.
• Responsible for planning, tracking, and change control for the Work requests assigned to me.
• Responsible for following the quality process and maintaining proper documentation of the assigned tasks.
• Coordinating with the Testing team and assisting them in creating the test data for system testing and supporting the UAT phase.
• Interact with Onsite team members and discuss technical problems and report bugs.
• Also was part of mentoring, providing knowledge transfer, and performing the code review of Co-developers.

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam /Insync/Endevor/Scrum/Mainframe

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients and designing the requirement.
• Prepared unit test plan.
• COBOL coding for the module and creation of the proc's and JCL's.
• Conducted unit testing on all the modules of the project.
• Prepared unit test report.
• Checking the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company and client Quality guidelines.
• Reviewed deliverables.

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam /Insync/Endevor/Scrum/Mainframe/SAS

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients.
• Prepared unit test plan
• COBOL coding for the module.
• Conducted unit testing on all the modules of the project.
• Prepared unit test report
• Checking the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company and client Quality guidelines
• Monitor jobs running in production as part of on call support.

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam /Insync/Endevor/Scrum/Mainframe/Btrieve Files

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the requirements in BRD documents.
• Coding new COBOL/DB2 programs and changed existing ones as per requirements.
• Unit testing of the programs.
• Checking the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company Quality guidelines.
• Generation of reports and presentation of the project.
• Review of the programs developed by team members.
• Helped in integration of the project.
• Fixed defects and bugs recorded in JIRA.
• Providing knowledge transfer and technical training for new joiners.

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam /Insync/Endevor/Scrum/Mainframe/SAS/ TSO/ISPF/SPUFI/QMF/INSYNC

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the client Requirements given in BRD
• Designing the development process
• Coding new COBOL programs or changed existing programs as per the requirements
• Prepared unit test cases for unit testing
• System Testing
• Reviewed the COBOL/JCL’s and Cobol/Db2 code of the team members.
• Analysed and fixed the defects in JIRA.

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam /Insync/Endevor/Scrum/Mainframe/SAS/ TSO/ISPF

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developing the system of client requirement and standard.
• Coding and implementing the COBOL codes for the programs.
• Changed layout of fields in various reports for reporting in SAS.
• Preparation of test cases and error log for the code.
• Analysed and fixed the defects in JIRA.
• Reviewed the COBOL/JCL’s and Cobol/Db2 code of the team members.

Environment: Cobol/Jcl/Db2/Vsam /Insync/Endevor/Mainframe/SAS/ TSO/ISPF.