SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in IT Industry with US based Insurance and banking Sector clients.
• 8 years of Experience in various Development, Testing and Production Support projects on Mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS) covering full software life cycle.
• 5+ years of experience in Vantage - ONE (Based on mainframes) Life Insurance Policy Administration Systems.
• Strong experience in major Development, Enhancements, bug-fixes and, system related upgrades. This requires strong understanding of Vantage One product flow, architecture and product base codes.
• Expertise on Universal Life and Annuities.
• Experience in working in onshore-offshore model and teams located across different geographical locations. Currently leading high performing teams of team sizes up to 10, and mentoring them.
• Worked on customization of various Vantage One functionalities for MassMutual.
• Responsible for various Life and Annuity Insurance Projects which involved UL, VUL, Whole Life Insurance and Annuities
• Good working experience on insurance process like Policy add, Annual statement, policy surrender, Loan processing, payout in annuities, fund processing etc.
• Proven experience in various stages of SDLC (Waterfall model), includes requirement management, creating BSD, Business acceptance testing, Data Flow Diagrams and Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Experienced in Conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with various stakeholders for Requirements gathering.
• Proficient in transforming business requirements into Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specifications Document (FSD) and Use Case Narratives.
• Good experience in creation of Test Plan and Test Cases from the Requirements documents.
• Assisted business partners in Usability/User Acceptance Testing (UAT) teams. Performed Regression and Functional Testing for various releases.
• Done key automations using COBOL, JCL and REXX for policy administration.
• Good experience of providing production support to mainframe applications.
• Designed and developed automated function for business which has ongoing saving of around $19000 per year.
• Good experience in WMA.
• Have worked extensively with Business users, and presenting final functionality/deliveries to clients.
• Strong Experience in Data Analysis and SQL queries (SPUFI) .
• Involvement and Insight into Team Management, Dashboard Reporting, Status Reporting and Invoicing.
• Good interpersonal skills, excellent communication (written & verbal), analytical, problem solving & presentation skills with the focus on customer needs.
• Experience in working in onshore-offshore model and teams located across different geographical locations.
• Working Knowledge of XML.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGE: Cobol, JCL (8 Years of Cobol, Microfocus Cobol,JCL, Db2 Experience)

Databases: VSAM, DB2, SPUFI, Squirrel Client, SQL-Server (7 Years of Experience)

Change Control tool: Endeavour, ChangeMan (3 Years of Experience)

Debugging: Interest, Main frame express, SSH Secure shell, FileZilla, Wiley

TOOLS: Fileaid, Expeditor

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Z OS, OS 390

Other tools: ALM Quality Center, HP Service manager, QTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst Mainframe Technical Lead

Technology: z/OS, Vantage, COBOL, VSAM, Open systems, DB2, SQL Data mining.

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a techno functional lead of team of 6 at offshore and later moved on to onshore for this client.
• Single point of contact between CSC Management and clients for any discussion/feedback/issues related to these applications.
• Worked on various development projects related to policy loan processing, Policy surrender, policy taxation and 1035 EXCHANGE.
• Learning Business Processes of the client, Identifying Pain Areas, and planning &
• Implementing the solution for identified pain areas.
• Had created various tools to reduce significant cost while testing and also save time and Effort which helped Project significantly with testing and maintenance Efforts.
• Actively involved in trouble shooting of technical issues faced by the team.
• Active participation in major enhancements & bug fixes, system related upgrades and disaster recovery exercises.
• Solving production problems as and when they occur.
• Ensure that SLA’s defined for these systems are met after every batch cycle completion, promptly take action in case of any identified issue.
• Actively looking for automations which could reduce manual effort and working towards their successful implementation.
• Guiding team through various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle like Analysis, Design, Programming, Testing, Implementation and Quality assurance for complex projects/tasks.
• Mentoring new team members and, providing training (knowledge sharing sessions) and assistance to others on complex tasks.
• Strong Experience in Data Analysis and SQL queries.
• Facilitate meetings/discussions revolving around technical and process related issues and getting the queries/issues resolved.
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases from the Requirements documents.
• Helped business partners with UAT testing.

Programmer Analyst (Mainframe Developer)

Technology: z/OS, Vantage, Cobol, VSAM, Open systems, SQL Data mining.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Change Requests generated for the existing applications
• Developing new Programs, enhancing the existing Programs and Retrofitting the modifications done by other Programmers if required
• Derivation of Technical requirements from the requirement specifications
• Creation of Design Documents to implement the Change Requests
• Developing the Unit Test Cases
• Preparation of Functional as well as Technical Documents for different applications
• Worked on various development projects related to policy payout, surrender etc.
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases from the Requirements documents.
• Helped business partners with UAT testing.

• Re-price optimization was intended to reduce the cost and time to market for non-Traditional products on the Product Engine platform.
• Earlier in order to reprice a product on Product Engine and allow backdating of policies to save age new plan codes must be used to identify the new product.
• This created a lot of overhead, in that these plan codes must be translated and/or identified in the down streams.
• This creates the need to engage 20 or more systems in development and testing.
• For simple reprices the only change is internal to the admin and many of these downstream systems not impacted other than having to identify and translate the new plan codes.
• Solution for this was identified after lot of brainstorming is to make changes to the Admin system to access the COI rates without the need to change the plan codes.
• And for this a new field was introduced in the system (Rate-Series-Date) which allows system to access backdate COI rate without need to change the Plan code.

System Analyst Microfocus Cobol Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, Micro focus, Net express, Microsoft Visio, Visual Studio.

Responsibility:

• Co-ordinate with clients for Requirements Gathering and discussions.
• Writing the new COBOL routines to achieve the SUPRA inbuilt functions functionality.
• Converted functionalities like SORT in mainframe to SQL queries on Oracle.
• Analysis of Business Requirement Document.
• Carrying out requirement and impact analysis.
• Providing estimation for each phase of the life cycle.
• Attending design walkthrough’s with client.
• Designing and developing the application based on the requirement.
• Preparing unit test plans, executing unit test scripts and documenting the test results.
• Providing support for User Acceptance Testing and deployment of application.
• Designing post implementation scripts
• Providing Implementation and post implementation support .
• Created Test Plan and Test Cases from the Requirements documents.
• Helped business partners with UAT testing.

System Analyst Mainframe Developer

Environment: Mainframe Application - COBOL, JCL, DB2 and SAS.

Responsibility:

• Co-ordinate with clients for Requirements Gathering and discussions.
• Creating technical and business documents and shared with offshore and onsite team.
• Analysis of Business Requirement Document.
• Carrying out requirement and impact analysis.
• Providing estimation for each phase of the life cycle.
• Attending design walkthrough’s with client.
• Designing and developing the application based on the requirement.
• Preparing unit test plans, executing unit test scripts and documenting the test results.
• Providing support for User Acceptance Testing and deployment of application.
• Designing post implementation scripts
• Providing Implementation and post implementation support.
• Conducting knowledge sharing sessions for the offshore team