SUMMARY

• Around 10 years of experience in in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of application software in Mainframe platform.
• Designing the mainframe security via RACF, Vanguard for various Systems/Applications.
• Monitoring and auditing the various activities of the users, developers on LPAR using vanguard, TSS and ACF2 and RACF reports and reporting the same and following up to get the security event resolved.
• Mainframe Tester and developer with progressive experience in application testing, development and support to batch processes hosted on an IBM mainframe.
• Executed the role of a team lead. Involved in testing the batch applications (black box and system testing), analysis, design and coding.
• Establish and maintain Test Plans, Test - Case Designs, Test Scripts, Test data requirements, and Data Conditioning based on user needs and functional specifications on complex problems and requirements
• Maintain accounts to control access to information systems/applications, analyze and resolve problems related to mainframe access control, user administration, and operating level system security.
• Continuously analyze security implementation and processes and identify and correct inconsistencies/inefficiencies.
• Oversee and process daily access/violation reports for mainframe security
• Cross-train team members in processing mainframe access requests and security controls
• Analyze existing procedures for efficiency and effectiveness and formulate logical descriptions of problems and devise solutions for processing requests as well as improving administrative tools used by the team.
• Setting up of new STARTED tasks on RACF and adding them to the STARTED TASK table.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in COBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL,DB2,VSAM,FILE AID TSO/ISPF, Vanguard, IBM UTILITIES.
• Maintain role-based access control environment.
• Analyze application and user related problems to determine appropriate solutions.
• Log and report various attempts of unauthorized access to protected resources, RACF commands issued and profiles modified.
• Performed Data Base verification for z/OS upgrades and DR activities from security perspective.
• Adhoc Scheduling of jobs and processing special run requests using Control - M.
• Coordinating with production team, in case of a job failures in cause of RACF issues.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
• Having knowledge in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Working directly with client and other teams to meet the SLA’s.
• Creating production ids for production environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Language: COBOL, JCL, SQL, CLIST, REXX (TSO, VM and OS/2), EASYTRIEVE, QUIKJOB, PL/I, Pascal.

Databases: DB2,VSAM, CA-INGRES, IMS/DB and DLI, CA-DB, SQL, and QMF, SQL Server 2000.

Operating Systems: IBM z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL/PROCLIB, CICS, VM/SP, OS/2.

Hardware: IBM MAINFRAME 3084/3090, IBM OS/390, IBM RS 6000.

Tools: & Technologies: RACF, ACF2, TSS, CICS, FILE AID, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGEMAN, FTP, INFOMAN, SPUFI, QMF.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New Jersey

Technical Lead & RACF Administrator

Responsibilities:

• User Administration: Creating, resetting, deleting and granting access to User Ids with TSO/ISPF.
• Group Administration: Creating, deleting and granting access to groups.
• Dataset & General Resource Profiles Administration: Creating, deleting and providing access to profiles.
• Performed functional, performance and system tests of IBM’s mainframe and desktop printing application software in MVS, VM, VSE and OS/2 environments.
• Assign the tasks of creating bug reports and performing tracking testing of systems.
• Performed data validation and mainframe testing in interactive mainframe environment.
• Handled the tasks of cross-system testing and prepared test cases for the project team.
• Responsible for executing and maintaining scripts in mainframe applications.
• Assigned responsibilities of planning test strategies and executing test cases in mainframe environment.
• Maintaining and supporting the administration on different Mainframe LPARS of client.
• Providing CICS transaction access to users based on the requests.
• Creating groups, dataset profiles, security rules for dataset profiles and CICS transactions, DB2 groups.
• Running DB2 Utilities like Load, Unload, Re-org, Repair, Rebuild.
• Protecting datasets on DASD and TAPE.
• Granting DB2 group access and resolving abends.
• Granting user's access to various CICS transactions, creating new transactions for CICS via RACF.
• Resolve the RACF /access issues when the production jobs / user face any access issues.
• Executing JCLs for the daily termination jobs and creating new users.
• Manage and participate in projects to implement information security platforms
• Provide support to various security initiatives.
• Controlling RACF through Vanguard tools.

Environment: RACF Administrator: COBOL/CICS/VSAM/DB2, JCL, RACF, ACF2, TSS, Vanguard.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Systems Specialist / Tester

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the LPARS for IPL and then running Pre IPL and Post IPL batches, during the IPL weekends.
• Responsible for creation of daily, weekly and monthly jobs in mainframe and distributed environment using Control-M and OPC.
• Batch processing monitoring via Control-M and OPC to ensure timely completion of batch cycles as per agreed upon SLA.
• Worked closely with application programmers and system support to fix the job abends.
• Played core member role in Requirement Clarification, Impact Analysis, Design, Coding, Code Review, Unit Testing,
• End-to-End testing and support system testing.
• Involved in Creation and review of test cases based on the requirement and design documents.
• Done analysis on the system and identified the job flow for End-to-End testing.
• Maintaining accuracy of change control/production control process documentation
• Fixing the jobs gone down due to system error, space issues or database issues.
• Ensuring that the online come up on time.
• Enabling and disabling Control-M agent nodes
• Rebooting Control-M servers
• Monitoring all the production batch jobs, resolve job failure, investigating long running jobs to ensure a timely batch flow completion.
• Force complete, delete, place jobs on hold/confirm status.
• Sending the Daily report & weekly reports to client.
• Attending Daily Service Review calls with the Client.
• Modifying the daily batch as per requests sent by the user, controlling the Production Batch.
• Fixing the production abends after doing Impact analysis.
• Job and Application runs.
• Database seeding.
• Maintaining the latest version of job codes in their respective environments using Endeavor utility.
• Executing certain batches to keep the regions up to date and perform some housekeeping tasks.
• Make the schedules, modify applications and keep the databases up to date.

Environment: OS 390, z/OS, Control-M, OPC, CICS, DB2, JCL,COBOL, File-aid, File Manager, Endeavor.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis and testing (debugging).
• Code change in Micro Focus Mainframe Express - COBOL.
• Preparing TDD (Technical Design Document).
• Preparing UTR (Unit Test Result document)
• Preparation of Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Preparation of process Documentation
• Participate in Review Activities

Environment: COBOL/LE, JCL, DB2, Endeavor, File-Aid, Micro Focus Enterprises Tools(Micro focus - Mainframe Express).

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analysis on the requirements.
• Preparing the Application Design document.
• Coding and preparing the unit test plans.
• Peer Review and resolving technical issues.
• Performing the unit testing.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM.