SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ Years of experience as Mainframe Developer and COBOL development.
• Experience working on COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM,REXX,VBScript,Xaml
• Development experience using PL/I, IMS DB/DC, COBOL and JCL.
• Involved in Troubleshooting, Debugging and Performance Tuning of code and supporting users by incorporating specific requests.
• Experience in HealthCare domain especially in design and development
• Experience Gathering the business Requirement from the client and Writing Specifications.
• Experience in Code fixing, Data fixing, on call support.
• Worked as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Aetna Government programs(Medicare and Medicaid)
• Worked in Mainframe - Development and Support and Maintenance teams
• In-depth understanding of business practices in Health Care Industry and their HIPAA rules.
• Possess a wide knowledge in developing Detailed Design Document
• Well versed in full Software development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience in preparing Monthly Metrics.
• Worked as an application leader for a Confidential
• Worked in both Support and maintenance and Development projects.
• Experience in Interacting with the clients and get necessary information in solving the incidents at onsite (US).
• Experience in Preparing Resource and cost estimate for project request Aetna as well as in Confidential
• Facilitated System transition and helped in building offshore team
• Experience includes System study, Programming, Report generation, Production Support, System Testing, Integration Testing, User Testing support and system implementation.
• Excellent experience in handling the On Call Production Support 24 X 7.
• Delivered 100% of Incidents and Task Estimates within the SLA Period.
• Have been involved in solving most of the production issues, and production failure

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages & Technologies: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM,REXX,VBScript,Xaml

Operating System: MVS

Databases: DB2,IDMS

Scheduler: Zeke,OPC

Problem logging tool: Clear case

Version control: Endevor,Changeman

Dump Analysis & other tools: File-Aid,Startool,SPUFI,DCLGEN

Developer Testing Tool: Xpeditor

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential Responsibilities:

• As an Onshore coordinator, coordinated an 8 member team and delivered the components in accordance with Cognizant quality control standards and business practices and procedures.
• Played a key role in requirement elicitation.
• Conducted numerous impact studies to identify downstream and upstream impacts due to the changes in Government Programs and facilitated meetings to ensure proper understanding of Requirements and the associated impacts to the system design.
• Served as the Cognizant point of contact for the project and facilitated the communication between Offshore Application development team and Onshore Development leads
• Conducted periodic team meetings to track the Project progress. Ensured proper deployment of various components and tracked the Project to completion.
• Resolved all the technical and Business issues on time to ensure a smooth and defect-free delivery.
• Prepared the following various technical and functional documents (where applicable depending on the request types) Requirement Specification document, High Level Analysis and Approach document, High Level Design Document, test procedure document and implementation plans.
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite
• Post production support and post production validation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Government programs system is an application that actually helps Aetna in managing the Medicare members enrolled in to Aetna Medicare Plans. Government program acts as a medium for Aetna and CMS (Centre of Medicare and Medicaid Services) to communicate with each other. Based on the rules and regulations laid down by CMS,
• Aetna has to carry out certain processes. GPS application works in that front and helps Aetna adhere to the CMS Compliance requirements. The work pattern in Government programs includes the online screen design and generation of report and creation of input files for various systems to address the changes driven by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Team lead and responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Application Design Specification creation, Design Review, Code Review, Test case review thereby ensuring project meets the business requirements
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite
• Post production support and post production validation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creating the Requirement Document for the project/SR.
• Played the role of a Team lead and responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Application Design Specification creation, Design Review, Code Review, Test case review thereby ensuring project meets the business requirements
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite
• Post production support and post production validation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Team lead and responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Application Design Specification creation, Design Review, Code Review, Test case review thereby ensuring project meets the business requirements
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite
• Post production support and post production validation

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Senior developer and responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Component Design Specification creation, test scripts creation, execution and testing thereby ensuring that program meets the business requirements
• As a SQL Server DBA, Understanding the Business knowledge and analyzing the requirement.
• Creating the Requirement Document for the project/SR
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a Lead developer and his responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Component Design Specification creation, test scripts creation, execution and testing thereby ensuring that program meets the business requirements
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a developer and his responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Component Design Specification creation, test scripts creation, execution and testing thereby ensuring that program meets the business requirements.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a developer and his responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Component Design Specification creation, test scripts creation, execution and testing thereby ensuring that program meets the business requirements
• Providing support to the regression testing.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played the role of a developer and his responsibilities include analysis of the requirement, Component Design Specification creation, test scripts creation, execution and testing thereby ensuring that program meets the business requirements

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Developer, my responsibilities include Application Design, Coding, testing, review of developed code, Unit testing, Documentation, Implementation and providing support to the System testing.
• Assuring high quality deliverables, coordinating with the offshore team and acting as a liaison between offshore and onsite
• I have been the reviewer for most of the deliverables in the project and thus ensure very high quality.
• As a SCM co-coordinator, my responsibilities include the maintenance of the design document, preparing the quality documents, preparing the Metrics plan, Project Plan.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Developer, my responsibilities include Application Design, Coding, and testing, self review of developed code, Unit testing, Documentation, Implementation and providing support to the System testing.
• Assuring high quality deliverables
• Single handedly worked on Opening balance module (Most critical Part of the Billing) and obtained achiever of the month.