SUMMARY:

• 7 Years of progressive experience in Business Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance, Production Support, Coding, Testing, Documentation, Quality Assurance and Implementation on IBM Mainframe platform using COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, VSAM, CICS, FTP.
• Worked extensively on COBOL , DB2, JCL, VSAM, Net Express and Good hands on Easytrieve, Rexx, and CICS.
• Worked on Vantage and wMA product i.e. A CSC's product use to administer Life insurance and Annuity policies , Business Rules tables, Product wizard , Allowable value management AVM , XML gateway.
• Worked on Life Insurance and Annuities domain for big Insurance players such as Ameriprise Financial Services , Met life, American General AIG , Foresters , Pacific life, Phoenix insurance, Global Atlantic and American Family for P C Property and Casualty insurance.
• Good knowledge on Waterfall model ,RUP Rational Unified process Agile methodology.
• Strong experience on co-ordination skills to lead onsite-offshore teams throughout all phases.
• Worked on entire Software Development Cycle right from Requirement Gathering, Converting Business requirements into technical specifications, Impact Analysis, Root cause Analysis for problems or incidents, Estimation, Design High Level and Detail, Coding, Maintenance, and production support, Unit testing and Integration Testing.
• Have an experience in Data mapping and process flow analysis .
• Worked on system performance tuning.
• Very energetic, hardworking, highly self-motivated team player with strong problem solving skills.

Technical Skills

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Confidential

Role : Mainframe Developer

Confidential uses Vantage-one admin system to administer its Life insurance and Annuities policies. We developed new product for annuities policies called Point in time annuitant change in which for owner-driven contracts the user will be allowed to change an annuitant at any time within the life cycle of the contract. This project involves development, enhancement and maintenance.

Responsibilities: -

• Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC Software Development Life Cycle which is a Water fall methodology starting from high level design to system/integration testing.
• Prepared High level and Low Technical Design Doc as per Business design doc provided by Business system analyst.
• Review the tech specs and participate in the tech spec meeting.
• Perform Impact analysis of system to identifying code changes.
• Coding Cobol-DB2 modules
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Maintenance of JCLs, PROCs, PARMs and Loads for application.
• Write complex queries using SPUFI to perform various operations on database .
• Create unit test plan and execute Unit Testing.
• Provide root cause analysis of defect and resolution of it in System testing phase.
• Used XPEDITOR to debug both online and batch programs.
• Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
• Live movement of project into production with version control tool Endevor.
• Providing Fix in case of abends or defects.
• Post production warranty support.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, DB2, TSO, ISPF, COBOL, Xpeditor, Endevor, Fileaid-DB2, File-aid, IBM Utilities with Waterfall Methodology

Confidential

Role : Mainframe Developer and Onsite Coordinator

• Confidential uses Vantage and wMA to administer its insurance products. We developed a new product called preferred loan in which it will charge less interest rate 4 usually it is 6 to a portion of loan called Preferred loan after 10th policy anniversary. This portion of the loan is 10 or less of Maximum loan amount available on contract. This project involves development, enhancement and maintenance.
• Other than above, worked on small-small enhancements and production issues provided by Confidential.

Responsibilities: -

• Participated in a kick off meeting which officially initiates the project.
• Participate in JAD Joint Application Design and discuss the project requirement in detail with the impacted stakeholders.
• Acted as a single point of contact for offshore and onshore team member.
• Worked closely with functional and technical project leads, subject Matter Experts SMEs and other business groups to identify, analyze Business requirements
• Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC Software Development Life Cycle which is a Water fall methodology starting from high level design to system/integration testing.
• Prepared Technical Design Doc as per Business design doc provided by Business system analyst
• Review the tech specs and participate in the tech spec meeting.
• Perform Impact analysis of system
• Coding Cobol-DB2 modules.
• Create unit test plan and execute Unit Testing.
• Coordinating with Business analyst and project team member in System testing phase.
• Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
• Live movement of project into production with version control tool Endevor
• Providing Fix in case of abends or defects.
• Post production warranty support.
• Providing On call support five days a week.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, DB2, TSO, ISPF and IBM Mainframe Rational tools ,Endevor, IBM Utilities with Waterfall Methodology

Confidential

Role :Mainframe Programmer

• Confidential uses Vantage system to administer its insurance products. We introduced new Universal life product called NTGA Non Transferable General Account . Confidential is basically a Rider benefit which can be exercised to UL contracts on or after the 15th policy anniversary. This rider would allow permanent transfer of all policy value and assign all premium payments to Non Transferable general Account. The election in NTGA rider will be done with an objective to secure guarantees of principal and minimum future credited interest rates.
• Other than above, worked on small-small enhancements , Business ticket bug fixing and production support provided by Confidential .

Responsibilities: -

• Worked as core technical team member
• Prepared Technical Design Doc as per Business need in enhancement and developement of projects
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Provided Fix in case of defects or change control in system testing and UAT phase
• Worked with Business system analyst in case of new change control is raised to understand of need of it. Implemented Code in Production using version control tools.
• Implemented the code in production with Endevor
• Monitoring Batch cycle execution.
• Handled tickets on basis of their Severity and meating the SLAs
• Created Business Checkouts which required Sending Daily Reports to business
• Handled Abends occurred during Jobs execution and giving the temporary solution to the problem

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IBM Utilities , Endevor, Xpeditor , Abend aid,Jobtrac, File Manager with Waterfall and Agile Methodology

Confidential

Role :Mainframe Programmer

• Confidential Family uses Vantage System to administer its insurance products. This project involves upgrade of Vantage system 15.16 version to Wealth Management Accelerator wmA 9.2.0 version . We converted American Family source code in Vantage to wmA , now the insurance transaction which we use to do from Vantage online screens , can be done from wmA screen which is JAVA screen GUI , back-end is mainframe and XML gateway is used to exchange data between these two systems.
• The purpose of converting Vantage to wmA is to make the system more user friendly.We did this development for all the system of insurance Annuity , Universal life and Tradition life.

Responsibilities: -

• Analysed Vantage code version 15.16 to upgrade it to wMA 9.2.0 version
• Prepared code modification log for every system Annuity , UL and TRAD to keep track of Mod
• Impact analysis of New modification provided by American Family
• Performed Retrofittig and Coding
• Prepared Unit test plan for Online Vantage screens vs wMA screens and perfomed Unit Testing.
• Provided Fix in case of abends or defects with defects estimation
• Coordinated with Business analyst in System testing phase
• Participated in UAT testing performed by American family and Live production move.
• Working on performance improvement initiatives

Environment: Cobol, JCL, DB2, CICS, IBM Utilities ,Endevor, Xpeditor,Fileaid-DB2 with Waterfall Methodology

Other than above got opportunity to work on Property and Casualty P C insurance in American Family.

Confidential

Role : Associate

Confidential offers financial planning, brokerage services, mutual funds, insurance and other investment products. Confidential uses Vantage system to administer its insurance products. Project involves enhancement and maintenance, complex Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc. for Metlife insurance.

Responsibilities: -

• Work with business user to get the requirements on production issues
• Worked on the root cause analysis and share with the business users
• Preparing Technical Design Doc as per root cause and resolution
• Participated in technical design walkthrough meetings
• Working on performance improvement initiatives
• Implementing Code in Production using version control tools.
• Providing Fix in case of abends or defects.
• Maintained the defects for every month and proposed new measures to prevent them in future.
• Monitoring the tickets in Remedy control Tool

Environment: Cobol, JCL, DB2, IBM Utilities , Changeman, Xpeditor,Fileaid-DB2, File-Aid, Abend aid with Agile Methodology

Confidential

Role : Analyst programmer

I was involved in four different projects since the time I have joined Ameriprise Financial in last two and half years

403 B

Project involves applying new rules on the 403 B Qualified annuities accounts, providing new business to the Ameriprise insurance Company. 403 B is Qualified annuity under which taxable compensation is provided to Plan participant of School , Colleges and Govt. organization .In the project we applied new rules on Loan accounts for 403 B policies.Also, project involves waving of Admin fee charges on the organization like some schools and charity org. It provided relief to these organization for paying any admin fee which is charged as 30 each policy anniversary.

Secondary project involves waving of Admin fee charges on the organization like some schools and charity org. which provide relief to this organization for paying any admin fee which is charged as 30 each policy anniversary.

Business as usual BAU

Project involves enhancement and maintenance, Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc. for Ameriprice insurance. Worked on complex Business tickets to provide root cause analysis of problem and resolution of it.

ICE-2008 Contracts

Projects involves generating Insurance Contracts letters for the Ameriprise insurance company . Contract is basically a legal document that the policy holder gets from the insurance company to buy the product . It outlines the rights and responsibilities of Ameriprise and their customers.

Production support

• Project involves Maintenance and production support of Life Annuity Products
• Vantage UL
• Vantage FA FD
• Vantage RPS
• TRAD

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Preparing Technical Design Doc as per Business design doc
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Coordinating with Business analyst in System testing phase
• Implementing Code in Production using version control tools.
• Production support Responsibilities:
• Monitored Job Cycles and Managenow Problem Management Tool
• Handled Sev-1 and Sev-2 Managenow Tickets
• Created Business Checkouts which required Sending Daily Reports to business
• Handled Abends occurred during Jobs execution and giving the temporary solution to the problem
• Solved complex SEV-3 tickets which included finding Root Cause Analysis RCA of problem and providing solution to the business users and implementing code as per fix after execution of testing.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, REXX, IBM Utilities , Changeman, Xpeditor,Fileaid-DB2, File-Aid, Abend aid, Jobtrac, Managenow with Waterfall Methodology.