PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of experience in the IT industry in diverse projects - application development, maintenance & enhancements, and production support with primary skillset of IBM Mainframe technologies.
• 11+ years of experience in Insurance domain.
• Have been working as a Lead Analyst for 4+ years.
• Hands on experience with analysis, design, development, customizations, and implementation of software applications using COBOL, JCL, SQL, VSAM, File-aid, OPCB, CHANGEMAN, Endevor, IBM utilities, DB2, DATACOM DB.
• Proficient in translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Good experience with Team Management, Project Tracking, Design, Estimation, Development and Production Support of multiple complex projects in IBM Mainframe technologies.
• Good analytical, creative, strategic, and problem-solving skills.
• Good exposure to onsite-offshore model and demonstrated experience in leading teams both from offshore as well as onsite.
• Conversant in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Mainframe (IBM OS/390 and Z/OS), Windows, Unix, Linux

Programming Language: Cobol, Meta-Cobol, CICS, JCL, CS-IDEAL

Databases: Datacom DB, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, IMS

File Management: VSAM

Transaction Processing: CICS Online

Domain Knowledge: Insurance

Job Output Management: IBM SDSF

Change/Config ManagementCA Endevor, Changeman

Job Management: OPCB

Dump Analysis: Abend-aid, IBM Fault Analyzer

Debugging: OPCB

File/Data Management: File-aid, IBM File Manager

Sort Utilities: IBM DFSORT

Scheduler: CA7

DB2 Utilities: SPUFI

Issue Tracking: JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Mainframe Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work on requirement analysis, project planning and stakeholder management.
• Create Technical Design, Functional Flow Diagrams and Prototypes.
• Create Data migration and System integration plan.
• Code core Mainframe modules to migrate CACS data from VSAM files to PostgreSQL.
• Develop reusable assets, accelerators for Data migration.
• Mentor team and take ownership of technical delivery.
• Responsible for all technical deliveries.
• Executes UAT batches and resolves UAT issues.
• Work on Production Incidents.
• Support Agile ceremonies.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows 10 based PC

Confidential

Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work on requirement analysis, project planning and stakeholder management.
• Create work estimation, perform feasibility analysis, and generate work breakdown schedule.
• Create data migration and system integration plan.
• Create Data Dictionary to understand the source data system for high volume Data Migration (> 10 million policies).
• Create Technical Design, Functional Flow Diagrams and Prototypes.
• Design data model, create database objects and do query tuning.
• Code core Mainframe modules to migrate Health, Term-Life and Whole-Life policies to BaNCS - core baking software suite.
• Develop reusable assets, accelerators for BaNCS migration.
• Mentor team and take ownership of technical delivery.
• Responsible for teams’ technical delivery Work on different Banc’s modules such as Policy Administration, Rule Configuration, Batch Module, Product Configuration and other insurance component of BaNCS.
• Monitor application performance and resolve high priority production issues.
• Create reusable components and provide technical solutions.
• Support Agile ceremonies.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows 10 based PC

Confidential

Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand business requirements, perform impact analysis, and identify redundancies in the Heritage Policy System.
• Provide solutions to business problems and create technical design specifications.
• Work with project stakeholders and create technical delivery plans.
• Adhere to Agile framework, attend Agile ceremonies, and provide updates to stakeholders.
• Identify project risk, rate the risk, and provide mitigation plan.
• Develop redress system for Life Policy and Term Policy.
• Design data model and create database objects.
• Perform design review, code review and test case review.
• Monitor application performance in Production.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis for any major production defect.
• CICS optimization assessments
• Share weekly status report to stakeholders.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows 10 based PC

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work with project stakeholders, create project plan & lead technical delivery.
• Create Technical Design, Data Dictionary, Functional Flow Diagrams and State Diagrams.
• Implement enhancements for Fixed Annuity policy life cycle and do performance optimization for bulk policy processing.
• Support OASys Mainframe batch and online systems.
• Lead data (licensing & commissioning) migration from Confidential ’s legacy system to Callidus.
• Perform root cause analysis for major production defects.
• Mentor team and own technical delivery responsibility. Create reusable components and provide technical solutions.
• Client co-ordination and project status reporting to stakeholders.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows XP based PC

Confidential

Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Business requirements, analyse existing Heritage system applications and identify ineffective /redundant systems to improve existing application performance.
• Creating Business specification documents, technical specs and get approved with Business SME’s.
• Creating Component model, operational model and sequence diagrams.
• Client interfacing, Handle client escalations concerning technical delivery.
• Perform design review, code review and test case review.
• Develop code and implement functionalities using COBOL, METO-COBOL, CA-IDEAL, JCLs.
• Lead offshore team.
• Perform Root cause analysis (RCA) for any major production defect.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows XP based PC

Confidential

Mainframe Analyst, Reviewer, Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Offshore Analyst
• Create estimation for work request and feasibility based on the complexity of modules and get approvals with stakeholders.
• Provide technical solutions to application system problems and design high level and low-level application design.
• Implementing the designed modules in mainframe platform.
• Monitor application performance to detect and resolve problems during implementations.
• Defect analysis and bug fixing.
• Production support based on priority tickets.
• Mentor and lead the offshore team.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows XP based PC

Confidential

Mainframe Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with all project stakeholders for all projects and application plans and implementations.
• Attend Requirement Analysis workshops and create business specification document.
• Translate business requirements to Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Create Technical Design.
• Create Effort Estimate and Work Breakdown Schedule.
• Perform peer review and ensure on time, bug free, quality deliverables.
• Regular status reporting to stakeholders.
• Client interfacing.
• Managing technical delivery and offshore team.
• Implement siftware applications and services to live production.
• UAT / Post IMP Defect Analysis.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows XP based PC

Confidential

Mainframe Analyst, Reviewer, Developer, Tester

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Offshore M/F Developer and take ownership of technical deliveries.
• Develop code and implement functionalities.
• Perform Root cause analysis for production defects.
• Design and implement CRs.
• Production support based on priority tickets.
• Regular status reporting.

Environment: HardwareIBM Mainframe, Windows XP based PC