SUMMARY

• Around 15+ years of IT experience in Analysis, Design, development, Enhancement, Production support, testing and Management of Applications.
• Worked with different clients and expertise in the transportation Industry.
• Expertise with automated billing applications.
• Vast experience with various types of EDI transaction sets, standards and compliance.
• Extensive experience in all SDLC phases such as Requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, Unit, Integration, System Testing, Product Migration, Change Request Management and Production Support.
• Communicate with the Client, understand the Business Requirement specifications and convert them to technical specifications as per client requirements and co - ordinate the work with offshore team.
• Excellent ability with competitive spirit in finding various approaches for problem solving and highly skillful, creative, and innovative in developing efficient logic/code.
• Extensively experienced in all the parts of testing phase. Test Planning, Test Preparation, Test Execution and Reporting.
• Well-developed Interpersonal and Communication skills with excellent Documentation and Presentation skills. Good team player with ability to grasp new concepts quickly and implement them in a productive manner.
• Experience in mainframe technologies specifically with COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, CICS, MQ and Web Services, zos connect.
• Extensively worked on developing new Stored Procedures, Online and Batch programs as per client requirements.
• Worked on IBM Debug tool for debugging the problem request and resolving the problems in Batch and Online programs.
• Involved in coding various Jobs using QUICKJOB, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, JCL and PROC.
• Worked on Performance Tuning, identifying, and resolving performance bottlenecks in various levels like sources, targets, mappings, and sessions.
• Experience in implementing the complex business rules by developing PL/SQL Stored Procedures and Triggers.
• Worked on CA-7 scheduling of mainframe batch jobs and extensively involved in Production Support 24x7 and fixing the problems.
• Possesses strong Commitment, Dedication, and excellent Analytical, Programming, and efficient Problem-Solving skills.
• Strong experience in Onsite-Offshore coordination, product quality standards development & team leadership.
• Knowledge on SAS and FOCUS.
• Knowledge on Maximo and Biztalk and COBOL.
• Experience with CICS, Mainframe modernization.
• Experience with implementing z/OS connect architecture.
• Extensive experience in Mainframe modernization / transformation projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• COBOL
• JCL
• CICS
• QUICKJOB
• Java
• SQL
• PL/SQL
• IMS DB/DC
• DB2
• VSAM
• CA-7
• ZWS
• Change man
• Endevor
• IBM Debug Tool
• File Manager
• File-Aid
• Expeditor TSO/ISPF
• VSAM
• QMF
• SPUFI
• MS Office
• Win SQL
• ESP Job Schedular
• XCOM
• XML.
• IBM OS/390
• Z/OS
• Windows 95/98/2000/XP
• UNIX
• MS-Dos
• Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in regular meetings with Business users to create high-level business mapping documents and convert them to a technical document for the programmers.
• Involved in Design and Development of test plans based on high-level and detailed design Documents.
• Involved in drafting the Test Plan with the BSA’s. Creating test strategy documents, planning the test execution activities and defect reporting & analyzing the test metrics.
• Worked on implementing the new architecture z/OS connect.
• Extensively involved in coding new programs and Jobs using COBOL, JCL, QUICKJOB, and VSAM.
• Worked in converting all the client data received in various formats to Mainframe files using File-Converter and TI-data converter.
• Experience in all Internal TI-Tools Accelerator, All-Table, All-Query, PCKMT and TI-Data Converter.
• Experience in building new REXX screens to build the JCL’s. Worked in creating DB2 Stored procedures and COBOL.
• Worked on loan swaps to copy the loans from client production region to the test region.
• Experience in Data Analysis, CICS, Data Validation and Data Verification. Worked in writing the SQL queries for generating the Static Reports.
• Worked on writing DB2 stored procedures based on the requirements.
• Extensively involved in testing the output data by writing the SQL queries and verifying the expected results and counts from the seller data.
• Extensively used File-Aid in analyzing the data and Expeditor for debugging the programs.
• Created complex test plans, requirements, and design test cases. Managed execution of different testing phases like unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience in various types of testing. Smoke Testing, COBOL, Regression Testing, Positive and Negative scenarios testing.
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments and CICS.
• Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in Version One. Work with component teams to resolve issues.
• Tracking project plans and progress. Keeping and maintaining all the documents in SharePoint site.
• Worked in production support in rotation basis.

Confidential, Florida

Sr Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with clients for requirement gathering and translating the same to High Level Design to low level design documents.
• Translated customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and lead the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results and COBOL.
• Responsible for designed the detailed system specification documents, participation in unit testing and maintenance of planned and unplanned internally developed applications, evaluation, and performance testing of purchased products.
• Senior IT Developers lead efforts, oversee work results, provide training, and serve as a technical resource for other Developers.
• Responsible for development, programming, coding of Information Technology solutions.
• Extensively involved in programming COBOL, JCL, DB2, Stored procedures. Involved in testing using JCL, CICS, Debug tool, TSO/ISPF, FILE-AID and QMF.
• Performing the code migration into the Release packages thru Change man and running the Package level audits.
• Reduce the elapsed processing times and meet required SLAs.
• Actively monitor CPU usage in batch and Online transactions to improve the DB2 queries where performance is not optimal.
• Worked on Performance tuning, CPU reductions and changing the job schedule from prime to non-prime time.
• Responsible for Estimation & Tracking of the Maintenance requests.
• Responsible for Team building, mentoring, and coaching new team members to make them productive in short span of time.
• Conducting Peer reviews, interacting with the team to understand the system & plan for the same to match for time bound quality response.
• Worked in production support in rotation basis and CICS.