SUMMARY:

• Having 11+ years of extensive IT experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Documentation.
• 6+ years of experience as Mainframe Testing lead & Project leader in Managing teams in varying in strength from 6 to 16.
• Worked as Mainframe Testing Lead, owns of complex modules, resolved ambiguity issues faced by team and also participated in all phases of application life cycle (Construction, Design, Testing and implementation) as well as Maintaining applications.
• 6+ years of Management experience especially with resource allocation, scope management, Billing, Status Reports and Progress Analysis.
• Deep understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Bug Life Cycle.
• Experience in detailing test plans, test cases, tracking defects, reporting status to various levels.
• Analyzed and modified Test Cases and executed them. Developed application software in COBOL. Also extensively involved in Testing COBOL, VSAM, CICS and DB2 applications and has clear concepts of Testing Methodologies.
• High self - motivation worked with manager, other testers and programmers to system, unit and User Acceptance cycle testing including creating Test Plans, Analyzing output test data using fileaid, creating datasets to test, setting up JCL, and Moving modules using Endevor.
• Experience includes testing applications using automated testing tool like Test Director.
• Test Automation Expertise through HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT/QTP) for Creating,
• Executing test cases and test scripts using Quick Test Professional (QTP) and Application Life cycle Management (ALM).
• Proficient in System, Functional, Integration, Regression, Load and Performance testing.
• Good knowledge in System testing and Regression testing.
• Specialization in developing batch/online modules using mainframe skills.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in MVS COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, TSO/ISPF, CA7, Test Director, ALM, Changeman, Endevor, Panvalet, SPUFI, FILE-AID, in an IBM Mainframe Environment.
• Exposure on Tableau and Informatica and also shows interest to learn new technologies
• Functional expert on knowledge of the Healthcare, Insurance and Banking &Financial services.
• Worked with end-users to assess requirements and create feasible solutions, establish technical specifications and set deadlines and milestones.
• Experience in Management activities like Preparing Project Status Report (PSR), Weekly Status Reports (WSR), Estimations, Financial Reports, Utilization reports, Team Briefing, DPC, QA and review annual performance review of team.
• Excellent communication, team building, Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills and Interpersonal skills with team and customer.
• Always willing take new challenges/Risks/ambiguity issues/Complex problems.
• Very good exposure to all Quality procedures complying with ISO 9002 standards and CMM - Level 5

Operating System: MVS, DOS, Windows95, 2000/NT, UNIX

Hardware Platforms: IBM OS/390

Languages: M VS COBOL II, JCL, PL/1

OLTP: CICS

DBMS: MS Access, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, Oracle 10g/9i/8i, SQL, IDMS

Tools: Endevor, Changeman, File Aid, File Aid for DB2, SAR, QMF, ISPF, SPUFI, Move for DB2, Smarttest, Xpeditor, Intertest, SYNCSORT, MQ Series

Testing Tools: ALM

Schedular: CA7

ETL Tools: Informatica 8.6.0/9.1.0

Visualization Tool: Tableau

Other: Test Director 8.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

Confidential, Connecticut, CT

Lead application/COBOL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and technical requirements to create detailed test cases/scripts.

• Test the batch/on-line application module(s) to verify whether the changes meet the new business requirements.
• Designed and tested screens, tables and reports.
• Prepared detailed Test Plan & Test Cases by understanding the business logic & user requirements.
• Testing with Batch programs are compiled and executed using JCL.
• Testing CICS mappings manually and checking the validation of the Mapplets.
• Prepare and document test data.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Planned and Managed Test schedules using Release Dates.
• Involved in documenting and maintaining quality process.
• Wrote Test scripts for Regression testing.
• Compared the Test files with the Production files.
• Involved in production check out.

Environment:: MVS COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, FILE-AID/MVS, FILE-AID/DB2, ENDEVOR, ALM, TEST DIRECTOR 8.0

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Lead Mainframe programmer analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and developing test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality.

• Involved in preparation of test Plans and test cases in test director.
• Involved in preparation of positive and negative test cases.
• Participated in system testing, Regression testing and UAT
• Participated in preparation of test data and document test data.
• Execution of test cases in Test Director and validates the data in the testing region.
• Used Test Director for managing the business requirements, test plans, test labs and test Defects.
• Interacted with developers for fixing the bugs.
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Analyzed the data using SPUFI.
• SQLs are written using SPUFI to query the DB2 database on Mainframe environment.
• Involved in the review process of junior team members work.
• Create JCL to run batch in test environment.
• Reviewed and approved team members' test scripts.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• SQLs are written using QMF to query the DB2 database on mainframe.

Environment:: OS/390, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, MQ Series, VB, SQL, File-Aid/MVS, File-Aid/DB2, AB END-AID, CEDF, Xpeditor, QMF, MS OFFICE, Test Director, HTML, ALM

Confidential

Senior Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and developing test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality.

• Involved in Modifying and creating test cases and test scripts.
• Manually created and executed various Test Procedures and Test Cases.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Prepared test plans and Test Procedures in test director.
• Debugging the application in Xpeditor/TSO and made changes to the values according to Test Cases such as Test condition and Expected results.
• SQLs are written using QMF to query the DB2 database on mainframe
• Test Director was extensively used in Functional Testing and System Testing.
• Communicate project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Testing the CICS BMS with Win Runner and generated scripts and executed.
• Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables to verify the output Data of the reports.
• Create JCL to run batch in test environment.

Environment:: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, QMF, TEST DIRECTOR, SPUFI, Xpeditor/TSO, Xpeditor/CICSConfidential Senior

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements and system specifications to understand the application.

• Involved in designing the Test Plan and Test cases and maintained in Test Director.
• Involved in executing the Test Scripts and reporting the Test Results in Test Director.
• Worked closely with development team in resolving bugs and verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved.
• Tracked defects, which include adding defects, repairing open defects, testing a new build of the application, and analyzed defect data using TestDirector.
• Provided the management with weekly QA documents like test metrics, reports, and schedules.
• Participated in user acceptance testing on the application.
• Written Positive and Negative test cases for entire systems.
• Participated in user acceptance testing on the application.
• Updates regression scripts as necessary for functionality changes on projects
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Logged the defects with proper priorities and severities.

Environment:: OS/390, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Xpeditor, File-Aid, Change Man

Confidential

Technical Lead Mainframe

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and developing test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality.

• Involved in preparation of test Plans and test cases in test director.
• Involved in preparation of positive and negative test cases.
• Working with business analysts and users to gather and understand business requirements.
• Responsible in developing mapping tables from Legacy Copy books to DB2 system.
• Involved in extensive Unit and Integration testing of the data to ensure that conversion programs are having required functionalities.
• Involved in designing the Test Plan and Test cases and maintained in Test Director.
• Worked closely with development team in resolving bugs and verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved.
• Communicate project business issues to appropriate business leadership groups and lead resolution or escalation of issues as necessary.
• Create JCL to run batch in test environment.
• Tracked defects, which include adding defects, repairing open defects, testing a new build of the application, and analyzed defect data using TestDirector.
• Provided the management with weekly QA documents like test metrics, reports, and schedules.
• Logged the defects with proper priorities and severities.

Environment:: OS/390, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Xpeditor, File-Aid, Change Man