SUMMARY

• 9+ years of total experience in IT Industry.
• Developed projects following the SDLC for 9 years - including Estimations, Specification, Design, Coding, Testing, Documentation, and Deployment - till client testing & sign off and Warranty support.
• Developed projects in Waterfall model as well as Agile methodology.
• Proficiency in technical and management skill, to deliver quality products within specified timeframe with overall business perspective and sense of responsibility.
• Involved in day-to-day meetings to gather information and requirements from the clients, and capture non-functional requirements.
• Estimated projects in quick-size level as well as detail level.
• Experience in managing and guiding a team of 5 members, to come up with high level design flow for projects and conducted review sessions with tech leads to approve the design approach.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to quickly understand client’s business need, transform them into Technical Design.
• Conducted Design Review Meetings with Project Managers, Business stake holders, Business Analysts, Tech leads and Quality analysts.
• Developed projects using COBOL, JCL, CICS and database DB2, IDMS, VSAM-basics, Stored Procedure.
• Involved in Performance tuning of DB2 queries in various projects.
• Hands on experience in different tools including Expeditor, Debugger, File aid, platinum, IBM File manager, Endevor, Changeman, ALTAI, ZEKE, CA7, SPUFI, MQ Manager etc.
• Hands on experience in project management tools like Rational Clear case and Clear Quest.
• Worked with Project Manager, tech leads and BA’s to identify and track project issues as and when they arise.
• Coordinated work with offshore team members; educated them on requirements and high level design, clarified their queries and guided them throughout the project life cycle.
• Worked as Defect Prevention Co-ordinator
• Worked as Implementation Coordinator and involved in activities like creating implementation plan /Back-out plan, co-ordination with upstream /downstream applications on the install activities and install plan walkthrough meetings with larger crowd including all project managers, business stakeholders, development and testing teams from all applications.
• Research-oriented, motivated, proactive, self-starter with strong technical, analytical and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MS-DOS, Windows 9x/2000/XP

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, C++

Databases & Tools: VSAM, DB2, IDMS, Sort utilities

Other Utilities: TSO/ISPF, IBM File Manager, File-aid, DB2 fileaid, Expeditor, DebuggerChange man, Endeavor, SDSF, ALTAI, ZEKE, SPUFI, MQ, CA7Platinum, Rational Clear Case, Rumba.

Defect Management Tool: IBM Clear Quest

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Onsite Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a lead mainframe developer of this ongoing project, involved in detail design of the project.
• Actively involved in developing new COBOL-DB2 modules for the project.
• Co-ordinating the work with offshore team of 6 members and guiding them to understand the business requirement and come up with high quality deliverables.

Confidential

Offshore Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As one of the lead member for this project, involved in meetings with client to come up with detailed requirements.
• As an ongoing project, actively involved in creating high level design approach and guiding the team on coming up with deliverables
• Programming Languages and Tools Used:
• COBOL, JCL, DB2
• File Manager, CA7, Platinum, Endevor, SDSF, SPUFI, MQ, Rational Clear case, Rumba Mainframe.

Confidential, Bluebell, PA

Onsite Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As one of the lead member for this project, conducted meetings with CVS Caremark team on identifying the requirements and come up with design and code to find the coverage gap members, their demographic details and corresponding claim details.
• Worked to create a new DB on STARS data engine to hold this data.
• Also created reports out of this data to business regarding information on Coverage Gap members.

Confidential, Bluebell, PA

Onsite Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved from requirement phase of the project along with business to come up with a clear requirements.
• Involved in the high level as well as detailed design of complex functionalities of the project like finding associated members, checking for member accumulator limits and process to update accumulators for all associated members.
• Involved in the development of all major modules of this project. All the functionalities were entirely new and new modules were built in IBM DB2 and CICS. New Stored procedure were also developed.
• Actively involved in coordinating work with offshore team members, educate them on requirements and high level design, clarifying their queries and monitoring and guiding them through the project.
• Conducted peer reviews to make sure all the products were delivered with high quality without errors.
• Responsible for creating implementation plan and Back-out plan and perform the role of Implementation coordinator.

Confidential, Bluebell, PA

Onsite Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented batch and online programs to calculate NYHCRA payments and to populate NYHCRA corresponding remit codes in the claims.
• Implemented Report programs for NYHCRA Auditing purpose.
• Developed Online CICS Screen for providing NYHCRA payment information.
• Involved in the development of all major modules of this project. All the new modules built used databases IBM DB2, IDMS and CICS.
• Responsible for creating implementation plan and Back-out plan and perform the role of Implementation coordinator.

Confidential, Bluebell, PA

Onsite Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• This project was a high visibility and critical project to Confidential in terms of ERA compliance to central government. The project was of 15K hours and acted a module lead for this project.
• Developed new complex DB2 programs to convert claims to an ERA compliance form.
• Involved in DB2 performance tuning as part of this project.
• Involved in the design and development of all major modules of this project. All the new modules were built in IBM DB2. And existing Stored procedure components were modified to accommodate new requirements.

Confidential

Offshore Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Taken the offshore lead role for this project and managed offshore team of 5 members.
• This was one-of the largest project the team has worked with, and is involved in end to end phases of the project starting from requirement discussion to implementation.
• The entire process was new and developed more than 12 new DB2 programs for obtaining and storing MLR information of claims.
• Developed a history enrichment process for claims- to obtain the MLR data for history claims. This process was huge and developed nearly 150 new jobs for the same.
• Involved in discussions with performance manager and disk/tape management system to allocate files for this History enrichment process.

Confidential

Offshore Lead Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for participating in requirement gathering and come up with the Technical specifications
• Responsible for creating Estimation of Effort for the business requirements
• Responsible for creating the Application and technical design specification documents
• Responsible for the application’s Development and testing path support activities.
• Have taken up Analysis Review and Code review for the projects and service requests undertaken and ensured that quality deliverables are sent to the clients.
• Responsible for the project monitoring and tracking activities including Cognizant2.0.
• Performed the role of Defect prevention coordinator.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Software Developer in ICD10
• As a member of long running project ICD10 which is in its initial phase, handled impact analysis and delivering of different analysis documents.
• Conducted reviews in order to ensure the impact analysis is done appropriately and deliverables are of high quality.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a Software Developer for SSCR project, involved in below activities.
• Planning, estimating, scheduling and execution of work.
• Quality assurance related activities.
• Exposure to the entire Software life cycle starting from Estimation, planning, Design, coding, Unit testing, SIT and user testing support and finally to implementation support.
• Handled report issues by creating new jobs and programs.
• As part of Requirement Management, involved in below activities.
• Analysis of requirement document and finding out the business gaps in the requirement.
• Intimating the client about this and giving them business support to recreate the requirements document.
• Design and development of UTP’s and UTR’s.
• As part of Quality Assurance, involved in below activities.
• Definition and documentation of processes for the team.
• Reviews for Design, code and test cases as part of Quality Assurance.
• Suggested new templates and created checklists for effective review in project.
• As part of Testing Support, involved in below activities.
• Plan and develop scenarios for testing new business functionalities in the requirement.
• Support for System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)