Career Synopsis

• Over 8 years of Mainframe experience and worked as a Developer and Technical Analyst.
• Involved in Analysis, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance activities. Worked widely in COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, DB2, REXX etc.
• Over 3 years of experience in Software Testing.
• As a QC professional written test cases, performed Unit testing, System testing, Integration testing and Regression testing. Also worked as part of Standards and Process review group.

• Strong programming skills in COBOL, good experience in Easytrieve, JCL and DB2.
• Good understanding of objected oriented technologies and Relational database management systems.
• Highly detail oriented and skilled problem solver.
• Good experience in testing methodologies using various testing tools.
• Excellent team player and quick learning capabilities.
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills.

Operating systems: DOS, Windows 2000, Windows XP, IBM OS/390, MVS/ESA
Packages: MS Office
Databases: DB2, IMS DB and Oracle
Programming languages: Cobol, JCL, Easytrieve, C and REXX
Testing Tools: QTP, Silk Test, Rational Robot, Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director
Tools/Utilities: TSO/ISPF, VSAM, File-AID for MVS, Endevor, Expediter and Changeman, Panvalet
GUI: SQL Windows

September 2011 - Till Date: Confidential, Hartford, CT
Working as a Mainframe Technical Analyst

Project: Application Configuration Support

Description:One of the leading insurance providers at Hartford offers a range of products on the financial and insurance markets to a wide range of customers including AARP.
Application Configuration Support (ACS) is a centralized organization responsible for a wide array of application support services. The core services that ACS provides include incident support, lights on support, build, deploy and consulting support. ACS provides these services for development teams, business customers, IBM and vendor partners.

Technology: COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, File-aid and IMS DB.

Responsibilities:

• Personal Insurance recovery to correct data in the database after schedule release. This involves analysis, coding, testing and implementation of data corrections through ADM.
• Identify and error reporting in Sales and Operations
• Holiday schedule planning
• Policy recreation activity
• OA Forms release and Rule base changes for different Line of Business

May 2007 - October 2010, Confidential, Chennai, India
Worked as a Quality Analyst and supported the testing activities.

As a Quality Personnel, my responsibility includes Writing Test cases, Testing methodologies, Configuration Management and Process review for couple of projects.

September 2005 - June 2007, Confidential, Chennai, India
Worked as a Technical Analyst and involved in the following projects.

Project: FINATEC - Tax process Outsourcing

Description:FINATECH is an external system that will undertake tax processing for Citibank customers. As part of preparation towards FINATECH establishment, changes are required in host for both online and batch processing.
TAX processing should be extracted from the batch programs. Interest/ Bonus amount will be calculated for different products. In the course of this, a file will be generated which will contain a large amount of relevant data for IIT (Interest Income Tax) calculations.

Technology: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB and Endevor.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and design the extract routines.
• Based on the requirements document, calculation routines to be written.
• Unit and System test the data from the files generated.

Project: JCL Standardization

Description:At the request of the Weehawken Data Center, CMI has initiated a project to convert its JCL/PROC/PROCDATA to current Global Standards. The continued activity of company/loan acquisitions and data center consolidations has lead to a collection of JCLs that have been developed under several different standards. There is a desire and commitment to bring all the Citi Mortgage JCL's into compliance with company standards.

Technology: COBOL, JCL, REXX and CHANGEMAN.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the scope component
• Using requirement analysis, create package and stage the correct version into package.
• Program design, coding, Review and testing

February 2004 - June 2005, Confidential, Madras, India
Worked as a Developer and involved in the following projects.

Project: AMPI Field expansion project

Description:The Aggregated Market Purpose Identifier (AMPI) expansion is a project to expand the AMPI code used in core order processing.

Technology: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB and Easytrieve.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the existing code of several American Greetings\' core applications for AMPI code changes
• Modify the impacted components (expand the AMPI code from 5 digits to 10 digits)
• Unit and System test the impacted components.

Project: CRMP (Consumer Rewards Management Platform)

Description:This project deals with rewarding the AT & T customers based on their usage. Consumer Rewards Management Platform (CRMP) supports the consumer rewards program that provides long-term benefits and drives loyalty to AT & T. The rewards program offers the customers the opportunity to redeem reward points earned on Long Distance/Local Usage.

Technology: COBOL, JCL and DB2

Responsibilities:

• Design, Coding and Testing.
• Ticket monitoring and Support the issues raised during warranty period.

• Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)

• Certified in IBM Mainframe from Master Minds Inc.
• Certified in DB2 UDB v6.1/v7.1 user.
• Certified in Software Testing from STC Technologies.