PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Sr Programmer Analyst with 13+ years of rich IBM Mainframe development, maintenance and support experience using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, CA - Ideal & Datacom and MF COBOL along with tools like Endevor, File Aid, Smart Test, File Manager, Micro Focus Net Express, CA-7, CA-Dispatch, Business Objects, Teradata, U/SQL Manager, Tortoise SVN, PVCS, Microsoft TFS, SFDC, Procom Plus & Multiview emulators, Bluage Legacy Modernization, VMware, vSphere, Lab Manager...etc
• Currently working as a Senior Technical Lead at HCL America for more than 11 years. HCL America is an IT Services Co providing software solutions to various clients worldwide.
• 2+ years of on-site experience in UK (Dixons) and almost 5 years onsite experience with US based client ( Confidential ).
• Strong client relations and communications skills. Excellent interpersonal communication skills and extensive interactions with Business Users directly is my next big plus.
• Extensive experience in analysis, design, coding & testing and implementation.
• Played a major role in ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion project @ Confidential .
• Executed current project Misys PM & Tiger successfully starting from transition, team building and successful deliverables to client. Have great exposure as Business Analyst as well due to smaller team size. Involved in various testing phases of the project.
• Received many customer appreciations from almost all the clients namely Confidential USA, Confidential USA, Dixons Retail UK …. Etc
• Handled Team of 4-9 people and have exposure to both Agile and SDLC development methodologies. Played Scrum master role with almost 20+ team members.
• Very good in preparing high level & low level design documents for various requirements. Experience in writing unit test cases and test plans and active participation in Regression, Integration and User Acceptance testing.
• Technical expertise in both online and batch application development & support projects. Well versed in trouble-shooting problems in a wide variety of abnormal terminations in a batch and production environment.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint (Charts, tables, graphs) and Visio (Flowcharts).
• ITIL v3 certified.
• Domain Knowledge Resourceful, innovative and flexible software engineer with professional experience in large scale software design and development in Banking, Retail & US Healthcare domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• COBOL
• JCL
• VSAM
• DB2
• CICS
• MF COBOL
• ISAM
• CA-IDEAL & DATACOM
• IBM Systems Z series
• Windows X and AIX
• Micro Focus Net Express
• Endevor
• File Aid
• Smart Test
• File Manager
• CA7
• CA-Dispatch
• Business Objects
• Teradata
• USQL Manager
• Tortoise SVN
• PVCS
• Microsoft TFS
• Procom Plus & Multiview emulators
• Bluage Legacy Modernization
• VMware vSphere
• Lab Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Sr. Developer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Majorly to analyze, develop & unit test the ICD10 requirements for one of the major Confidential practice management products Tiger & Misys PM.
• Prepare technical specifications, unit test plans and sometimes functional specifications if required.
• Implement IRDA (Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority) specification changes in Tiger & Misys PM Products.
• Playing major role in ICD10 Phase 2 scope estimation & planning. Coordinating with offshore team members to ensure we (HCL) deliver the services on time with great quality.
• Participate in weekly and monthly review meetings with client to share the progress on weekly & monthly basis.
• Monitor Salesforce (SFDC) resource Q and handle the issue cases logged by support team.
• Providing the environment setup by creating virtual machines for the offshore team using VMware Lab Manager.
• Coordinating with CM (Configuration Management) & RE (Release Engineering) teams during Install testing of each release before EA (Early Availability) & GA (General Availability).
• Last but not the least, strictly following the AGILE methodology during the entire life cycle of each release includes pre-planning, planning, stand-up meetings, retro meeting (all the SCRUM master duties).

Environment: COBOL, Micro Focus Net Express, MF Dialog coding, Unix (AIX), I-32 Forms Design 5.1, U/SQL Manager, Tortoise SVN, Microsoft TFS, Procom Plus & Multiview emulators, SVN, PVCS, Shell scripting

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Technical / Functional analysis of existing Legacy applications - Legacy Inventory Analysis Phase
• Involved in estimating the effort required to understand and document the current Legacy systems
• Allocating the work to junior team members and be accountable for the same
• Preparing High Level Design documents (System Description & Functional Specification) given as input to Business Analysts and SOA developers
• Performing re-engineering activities and preparing re-engineering documents
• Performing various testing of Mainframe application components / deliverables
• Supporting the different teams (Business Analysts / SOA Developers / SOA Testers … etc.) involved in migrating Legacy screens to SOA screens

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, CA-IDEAL & DATACOM & BluAge Reverse Engineering Tool

Confidential

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Delegating & overseeing the work being done by any other junior team members working on the project - Acting as a mentor for them
• Creating, analyzing & representing of weekly reporting
• Attending Senior Management Review meetings happen once in a month
• Scheduling jobs in CA-7.
• Preparing & Presenting the project overview PPTs to clients (Internal & External)
• Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management
• Solving the IR’s (Incident Reference) i.e. tickets raised by business users as part of regular BAU activities.
• Resolving the job failures during day time as well as overnight through On-call.
• Maintaining the systems up to date by raising the required changes (Change Management System).
• Developing brand new programs (online as well as batch) and making changes to existing systems based on CRQ’s (Change Requests).
• Preparing Technical specifications in line to the requirements provided by the client.
• Preparing program specifications in line to the technical specifications provided by the client.
• Involving into Peer / Panel Reviews of the code and test plans.
• During Knowledge Transfer - Involved in knowledge gathering of retail systems at client place (UK)

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, CA-IDEAL & DATACOM, Meta COBOL, CA-7, CA-Dispatch, Business Objects, Teradata

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developing brand new programs (online as well as batch) and making changes to existing systems based on CRQ’s (Change Requests).
• Preparing Test plans/ Test cases/ Test data and Unit testing the same.
• Preparing Technical specifications in line to the requirements provided by the client.
• Preparing program specifications in line to the technical specifications provided by the client.
• Involving into Peer / Panel Reviews of the code and test plans.
• Configuration Management - Quality related activities.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, JCL, Endevor, Smart Test, File Aid

Confidential

Jr Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developing brand new programs (online as well as batch) and making changes to existing systems based on CRQ’s (Change Requests).
• Preparing Test plans/ Test cases/ Test data and Unit testing the same.
• Involvement into Peer Reviews of the deliverables.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, CA-IDEAL & DATACOM