Senior Mainframe Application Designer Resume Hartford, CT - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

12 Years of Total IT Experience with maintenance and development of applications using Mainframe technologies
Extensive experience with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Flat files, DB2 and SQL
Expertise in Application Enhancement Maintenance, Production Support and SLA compliance
Expert in Mainframe Testing (Unit Testing, System testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing)
Strengths include strong customer interface and problem - solving skills, estimations, requirement analysis, designing, programming and testing
Expertise with complex programming, program debugging, data analysis, problem analysis and resolution issues within Mainframe application systems
Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills with ability to coordinate and lead technical team members

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: IBM Mainframe (Z/OS, OS/390), Windows.

Programming Languages: JCL, COBOL, SQL, and EDI

Databases: IBM DB2, ORACLE, VSAM and Flat files, IMSDB

Transaction Server: CICS

Mainframe Tools: CA-7, Endeavor, Expeditor, Focus, DB2 utilities, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, NDM and FTP

Other Software: MS Office, Lotus Notes, AQT, Hudson ALM Quality,unix,websphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Senior Mainframe Application Designer

Responsibilities:

Requirements review and impact analysis
High-level system design using COBOL/ JCL and DB2
Technical specification document and test plan creation
Coding using COBOL, VSAM, JCL and DB2 and various mainframe tools to meet the business need.
Performed Unit testing, System testing and Integration testing
Code deployment in Endevor and post production checkout
Responsible for Technology upgrade such as FOCUS, DB2, COBOL compiler upgrades
Production ABEND resolution and discrepancy fix
Research to respond to the queries from Business users
Responsible for data discrepancy fix through one shots.
SME and Single point of contact for Across Accounts application

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN

Mainframe Application Designer

Responsibilities:

Prepare and implement BPT/AIT test jobs in Endevor
Responsible for Planning, Schedule and Executing System testing and Integration testing cycles
Responsible for Test data creation and test data management
Involved in code changes to the existing programs for multiple enhancements/developed new programs for Major enhancements in COBOL, VSAM, JCL, and SQL
Responsible for maintaining test data in the DB2 UDB using DB2 utilities LOAD and usage of tools QMF, SPUFI
Defect tracking using HP Service Manager and managing defect status calls
Maintenance of test jobs in Distributed batch jobs in Autosys and Host batch jobs in CA-7

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Mainframe Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

Single point of contact to the clients for projects
Involved in Project management activities i.e. estimation, status review, issues and query resolution, risk management, defect prevention etc.
Production job monitoring and production check out activities.
Production ABEND resolution and discrepancy fix.
Performed multiple Enhancement and Maintenance projects as per business requirements
Batch Cycle Run, and One shot process
Preparation of Test Data using FILE-AID, SPUFI, DB2 FILE-AID
Scheduled the new jobs or changing the scheduling of the existing jobs using CA-7

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Mainframe programmer

Responsibilities:

Confidential, Tennessee

Mainframe Programmer

Responsibilities:

Involved in receiving client’s System Change Requests and review the requirements of the Change Requests.
Responsible for coding for enhancements using COBOL, VSAM and JCL SORT utilities
System Test and UAT support, Maintain defect log
Prepared Conceptual Design to meet CSR
Developed Pseudo code to meet CSR
Provided Technical and post production support