SUMMARY

• 11+ years of experience in Design, Analysis, Development, Documentation, Testing, Implementation, Training and Production support of Mainframe hosted Application Systems.
• Extensively involved in developing application software on the IBM Mainframes in Z/OS using COBOL, DB2, Stored Procedures, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DFSORT, ICETOOL, EZTRIEVE
• Expertise in DB2 V10 Utitilities (Load, image copy, reorg, runstats, repair etc.)
• Experience in review of Business Functional Specifications and impact analysis.
• Experience in creating Functional Design Specifications and Technical Design Specifications.
• Participated in Requirement gathering, Effort estimation and preparation of Application flow diagrams, High Level and Low Level Designs throughout the Software Development Life Cycle using Microsoft Office & Microsoft Visio.
• Involved in client meetings to study and analyze the requirements for the new requests, coordinating with the offshore team members.
• Expertise with interaction with Business Analysts, Managers, Developers, Testers and End Users.
• Experience in working L1 Support, L2 Support, Analytics Support (Mainframe, Teradata SQL Assistant, SQL Server, MS Access, Excel) projects.
• Had minor experience in developing Qlikview Dashboards (Data Visualization tool) and CIA Report Manager (Reporting Tool).
• Handled Unit, Functional, System Integration and Regression, supported for UAT and Production Install.
• Developed New programs (DB2 and Non DB2), JCL’s/PROC’s to run the batch programs.
• Good knowledge and experience in automating processes and cost - cutting methods.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills that help contribute to timely completion of project deliverables well short of schedule
• Strong technical and analytical skills, problem solving, communication and work ethics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Z/OS, IBM 390 series, MVS, Windows-NT/2K/XP, MS DOS.

Languages/Front End: COBOL, JCL, SQL, EASYTRIEVE, REXX, CICS

Version Control: CHANGEMAN

Databases: DB2, SQL Server, Teradata

Tools: /Utilities: TSO/ISPF, FILE-AID, DFSORT, ICETOOL, IBM DataStudio, Omegamon, ABEND-AID, IBM Utilities, MS- Office, REXX and MS Visio, Teradata SQL Assistant, Qlikview

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Mainframe Developer and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Onshore Lead and Coordination for the team of 8 members
• Involved in discussions with Source and Confidential application business and IT Teams in understanding the overall requirements.
• Preparation and Maintenance of the Queries and Assumptions documents for the received requirement
• Involved in doing technical analysis and provide effort (time and cost) estimation for each phase like analysis, design, development, unit/integration/regression/performance testing, implementation and support.
• Involved in Development/Coding of the requirements
• Status reporting to highlight the progress and raise any issues.
• Involved in preparation of Unit Test Plans
• Involved in Unit testing of the Changes and preparation of Unit Test results document and debugging in case of any Abend(s)
• Co-ordinate with offshore during every phase of the project.
• Review of all Offshore Deliveries (Test Results document and the Coding) using the standard checklist to maintain the Firm Standards
• Involved in preparation and maintenance of Review logs for Monthly Metrics
• Involved in QA regions Monitoring and Batch Support
• Preparing and Maintenance of QA Abend logs
• Preparing implementation plans and assign ownership for each task.
• Involved in implementation and prod support.
• Application/System Induction for New Team members

Environment: MVS, COBOL, DB2, Easytrieve, Stored procedures, JCL, Changeman, QMF, File Manager, File-Aid, Fault Analyser, REXX, CICS, VSAM, ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, Quality Centre, TOM, TWS, DataStudio, Omegamon

Confidential

Mainframe Developer/ Offshore Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in discussions with Source and Confidential application IT Teams in understanding the overall requirements.
• Coordinate across Wealth Management applications in meeting the objectives
• Involved in designing and development of Data conversion process on the Confidential application system
• Validation and Testing of Data mapping from Source to Confidential
• Analysis and Validation of Business data received from Source to Confidential
• Executing the Data conversion and Reconciliation reports
• Implementation the process in Production and Support in case of Abends/Issues.

Environment: MVS, COBOL, DB2, Easytrieve, Stored procedures, JCL, Changeman, QMF, File Manager, File-Aid, Fault Analyser, REXX, CICS, VSAM, ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, Quality Centre, TOM, TWS, DataStudio, Omegamon

Confidential

Mainframe developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering the requirements from the Onsite lead and Client manager.
• Analysis, Time Estimation, Coding, Testing, Implementation of the Customer supplied requirement
• Involved in Preparing Unit Test plans and Integration Test plans
• Involved in Unit Testing and Integration Testing
• QC - Quality Controller of the project - Ensure that there is quality in product deliverable using proper checklists and standards.
• Developing QA test cases and creation of test scripts
• Log the Bugs through Spreadsheet & Analyzing test result using QC

Environment: MVS, COBOL, DB2, PL/1, IMSDB/DC, Easytrieve, Stored procedures, CICS, JCL, Changeman, QMF, File Manager, File-Aid, Fault Analyser, VSAM, ISPF and MVS, SPUFI, QMF, Quality Centre, TOM, TWS, DataStudio, REXX