SUMMARY:

• 8 Years of Mainframe Application Design, Development, and Maintenance with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and REXX
• Proficient in end - to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation.
• Adept at mapping the requirements, custom designing solutions.
• Deft in managing all stages of the software development life cycle; and design, enterprise workflow application development; knowledge management
• Distinction of working with global teams in an onsite-offshore delivery model.
• Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities
• Conducting System Analysis / Process Study for project scoping and tracking.
• Implementing project plans within deadlines.
• Defining best practices for project support and documentation.
• Understanding the technical & functional specifications.
• Design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the application.
• Provide post-implementation, enhancement and maintenance support to client for application.
• Resolving all the concerned issues upon getting approval from concerned authorities.
• Aware of the processes needed to be followed in a CMM level5 company. Aware of the process to be followed in any project life cycle
• Superior proficiency with mainframe application built with JCL COBOL and CICS, VSAM and DB2
• Good familiarity with MQ Series VSAM.
• Extending high-end technical support on Mainframe server and ensuring high customer satisfaction levels through prompt redressal of their problems.
• Analyzing and fixing defects.
• Strong experience in DB2 application like cursor (Declare, Open, Fetch ), SQL query optimization.
• Good experience in Cobol-VSAM application with VSAM database like KSDS and ESDS cluster
• Developed new inbound/Outbound program in CICS Web Services Environment with support of CICS.
• Develops technical designs that will meet system objectives and minimize the impact on operations
• Have total responsibility for the creation, migration, and ownership of the schedules, JCL and PROC's and other batch resources.
• Perform project management of estimating, scheduling, and monitoring tasks.
• Ability to follow recovery procedures to restart a batch workload that was interrupted by a system failure
• Provided support for the daily batch production cycle which included JCL changes, restart and recovery procedures and notification of the appropriate application programmer to resolve batch abends.
• Preparing Abend Logs and Checkpoints, Monitoring Test cycles.
• Point of contact to maintain the Web applications used by users for DB2 stored procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: MF Cobol, Cobol II, PL/1, JCL, Core Java, SQL, PL/SQL, C, AFP, Rexx

Databases: Oracle 11g, VSAM, DB2 8.0 & 8.1, Teradata 12.0, IDMS/DB, SQL 2005/2008

Database Middleware Tools: Oracle Developer Toad, DB2 Development Center, SQL Server 2008 R2, Informatica

Transaction Processors: CICS 3.1, POS (Point Of Sale)

Scheduling Tools: OPC, CA-7, IBM Tivoli

Middleware: MQ-Series, SOAP UI/GMI Harness

Reporting Languages/Tools: BO (Business Objects), SAS, Ezyetrive, Dart reporting tool

Tools & Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, FILE-AID, Endevor, Changeman, Librarian, LMS (Library Management System), SAVRS, EDI 837 (Electronic Data Interexchange), Citrix, Webstar, VSS, IVMenu, PDSE, IOF, SDSF, Change Point, SMD, DBIO, Smart Test, File Manager, Ditto, Roscoe, RPF, IDCAMS, Expeditor, Syncsort, Abend-Aid, FTP, Connect Direct, Kofax & Scan Sheet, 2D Barcode, Star Team, Guidewire Claim Center 6.0, SR Tool, Micro Focus NetExpress, CubeD, HP Exstream, Case Copy, CalWIN Application

Testing Tools: ALM HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Clear Quest, HP-Quality Center (10.0), Mercury-QC, Test Director 8.0, SOAP UI/ Web services

Operating Systems: Z/OS, S/390, Unix (HP-Unix/AIX/SOLARIS/SCO), Windows XP/2000/NT

Software Lifecycle & Application Architecture: Dimension PVCS, Agile methodology, Water Fall, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), PPM

Design and Document Management Tools: Microsoft Visio, Planview, Sharepoint, OnBase, VSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, California

Sr. Mainframe Developer                      

Responsibilities:

• Project cost estimation using HP proprietary PAC tool.
• Analysis of FBR (Functional Business Requirements) document.
• Coordination with BA (Business Analyst) and testing teams to help them understand and gather the technical requirements.
• Analysis of Client Correspondence and Management Reporting programs and preparing details of existing and new SQL's required.
• Preparing mapping of new SQL tables with new Java based data collection screens.
• Preparation of High-level design document.
• Coding of batch and online programs using COBOL/JCL/VSAM/DB2/CICS and MF COBOL/HP-Unix/MF Net Express for Client Correspondence and Management Reporting applications.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan in HP ALM and execution.
• SQL pack preparations and applications to different environments for HP Exstream conversion project.
• Validations of HP Exstream client correspondences such as NOAs, OCC, and Forms before and after packaging.
• System testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) support using IBM Rational ClearQuest, CA SR Tool, and HP ALM.
• Deployment and Post deployment supports.
• Weekly status updates to project team.

Environment: MVS COBOL, MF COBOL, IBM Mainframe, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, MF NetExpress, HP Unix, IBM Rational ClearQuest, Oracle Developer Toad 11g, Dimension PVCS, SharePoint, Java, XML, SR Tool, CubeD, Calwin Application, SQL Station (DBA Review Tool), BO (Business Objects), HP ALM, HP Exstream, etc.

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed, designed, unit test and performed integrate testing of the functional modules.
• Create test cases, perform defect analysis and worked on defect/work orders of the new CSS system as well as the existing system.
• Actively participated with the team to discuss technical or design ideas during project development process.
• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients Prepared unit test plan COBOL, DB2 coding for the POST BASE LINED FUNCTONAL module.
• Created programming logic in mass data extraction, evaluate and validate based on the new business rules and system design.
• Distributed tasks in the team during design, coding and testing phases of the new system.
• Confirmed data accuracy after introducing new system.
• Developed and maintained batch/online systems.
• Responsible for planning, tracking, change control for the Work requests assigned to me.
• Responsible for following the quality process and maintaining proper documentation of the tasks in hand.
• Performed analysis, Functional, Regression, Integration, End-End and System testing, data verification and validation in a batch and interactive IBM MVS Mainframe environment (TSO/ISPF, JCL,
• Coordinating with the Testing team and assisting them in creating the test data for system testing and supporting the UAT phase of the Install.
• Interact with Onsite team members and discuss technical problems and report bugs.