SUMMARY

• 8 years and 9 months of professional experience in Software Development Life Cycle (Waterfall and Agile methodologies) with iSeries (AS400) development and maintenance projects involving multiple clients in different business domains such as Healthcare (PBM), Retail & Supply Chain Management.
• Working as a Technical lead:
• Requirement gathering and query resolution, Involved interaction with client/ business users/ Test leads
• Preparing and reviewing Technical and functional requirements
• Construction: Coding and Unit Testing
• Expertise in: Review and Preparing functional and technical specifications, coding and testing. Delivered big projects having a team of more than 6 members. Documenting unit test plans and test scripts.
• Experience of working on: Synon Cool: 2E, RPG, RPGLE, worked in ILE concepts.
• Expertise in:
• AS400 Full Development life cycle and maintenance projects that includes business process prototyping, configuration, testing and validation, go live, production verification, production support and training. Proficient in analysis, Synon/ RPG and CL coding.
• Customer communication and Business requirements gathering and transforming into functional and technical specs.
• Delivering large and complex projects individually and by managing team also. Worked on projects having multiple interfaces with the application.
• Post production support for various AS400 change request projects.
• Change management control tools like Aldon and Implementer.
• Project lead: Responsible for
• All interactions/communications with the client, getting the requirements, preparing and reviewing test inventory, resource allocation, estimation, scheduling. Coding and reviewed code, test cases, and deliverables before submitting to client, preparing status reports for users and client.
• Demonstrating the various application features among the team members and brainstorming ideas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: OS400

Languages: Synon Cool:2E, RPG, RPGLE, CL, CLLE, COBOL/400 (Analyzing code only), Free format RPG, ILE Concepts.Secondary: C code, Embedded SQL, Dynamic and Static SQL.

Databases: DB2/400, MS - Access

Tools: & Techniques: SQL, Static and Dynamic SQL, IBM Client Access, SQL/400, Query/400, SDA, DBU, RLU, ALDON, Implementer, SEU, STRDBG/ ISDB, Advantage 2E (Synon/COOL 2E), IFS, FTP, sFTP, Visio, IFS (Integrated File System), Stored Procedures, Triggers implementation, ERD, DBCR, Familiar with TCP/IP socket programming.

Workshops Attended: Estimation Techniques, Configuration Management, Lean Six Sigma - Green belt training, Defect Prevention and Causal Analysis, Management, Quality Management system, Reviews, walkthrough and Inspections, Communication Skills for Leadership, The Enabling Leader (Internal trainings), Six Sigma - DMAIC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Onsite and Offshore Senior Team member

Responsibilities:

• Gather Requirements - Analysis and Estimation, Test Specs, unit/system testing, QA testing, user acceptance testing to Implementation and Rollout. Manage and coordinate with onsite-offshore
• Estimation of Work Requests.
• Preparation of functional and high level technical documents from requirements
• Coding and testing the work request.
• Reviewing & Preparing Unit Test plan and review Unit test results.
• Task assignment and monitoring.
• Packaging loads for implementation using Implementer.
• Ensuring quality and timely deliveries.
• Reviews and QA activities.
• Preparation of Unit Test cases.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, SYNON/COOL: 2E, RPGLE, C, SDA, RPG/400, CLP/400, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM and Implementer.

Confidential, Illinois

Onsite Team Lead and Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Validation of Business requirement gathering. Studying existing system for understanding upon the requirement, analyzing and extracting business rules to be implemented. Mostly, did one-to-one meetings, prototyping, Use cases, RTM’s and Brainstorming for collecting the requirements. Then, analyzing and extracting business rules of an existing system.
• Providing Estimation of Work Requests using ‘4 x 4 Matrix’ estimation methodology or ROME (Rough Order Magnitude Estimate).
• Design Use Cases and get them reviewed by client for any defects/queries. Also an impact analysis is done to see if existing programs need to be modified. This is done using SYNON Case Tool.
• The methodology ‘ANALYSE/400’ is used to create database relationship diagram. Also, Generation of ERD Diagram methodology used to identify parent - child relationship between different files and to create ERD diagram in VISIO.
• Preparation of functional requirements, process flow diagrams/ charts, high level technical documents from requirements.
• Coding and testing the work request. Preparation of Unit Test cases.
• Task assignment for offshore and monitoring.
• Ensuring quality and timely deliveries for I got appreciations.
• Reviews offshore deliveries, team member’s work and QA activities.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, SYNON/COOL: 2E, RPG/400, CLP/400, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM and IMPLEMENTOR.

Confidential, Texas

Offshore Senior Team member

Responsibilities:

• Providing production support services by resolving IMR’s, supporting enhancements and job monitoring.
• Analyzing issues received from the user and proposing/suggesting possible and potential solutions.
• Client communication for IMR resolution.
• Coding and Testing
• Handled maintenance and enhancements done in GMAX.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, Windows 95/NT/2000/XP, RPG/400, CLP/400, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, IMPLEMENTOR, CM.

Confidential

Offshore Developer/ Team member

Responsibilities:

• Performed all the SDLC activitesof AS400 as mentioned in above projects.
• My role in this project was similar to analyzing and coding.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, ILE Concepts, RPGLE, CLLE, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, ALDON, CM.

Confidential, AZ

Offshore Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed all the SDLC of AS400 as mentioned in above projects.
• My role in this project was similar to analyzing and coding.

Environment: IBM AS/400, OS/400, RPG, CL, SQL/400, SDA, SEU, DFU, RLU, PDM, ALDON, CM.

Confidential

Offshore Trainee/ Developer

Responsibilities:

• Learned basic programming concepts
• Operating system concepts
• System programming
• SDLC cycle
• Basic of VB .Net, ASP .Net and PL SQL
• For short duration of 5 months, I was involved in a Sales Force Automation project from .
• Created reports, screens using RLU and SDA
• Created screen validation programs
• Created report generation programs