SUMMARY:

• 5 Years 8 months of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance, Production Support, Coding, Testing, Documentation, Quality Assurance and Implementation of IBM Mainframe applications on full life cycle projects using COBOL, JCL, ESYTRIEVE, DB2, SQL, VSAM, FTP, Expertise in DB2.Expertise in Vantage and wMA product i.e. use to admininster Life and health insurance policies
• Worked as a Mainframe developer for Computer Sciences Corporation, Cognizant technology and Syntel LTD.
• Worked extensively with COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM and EASYTRIEVE.
• Worked extensively on Vantage and wMA product i.e. use to admininster Life and health insurance policies
• Very good knowledge of Life and Health Insurance Domain and iterative Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Worked extensively on Life and Health Insurance with Ameriprise Financial Services , Met life ,American Family, American General , Foresters , Pacific life and Phoenix insurance .
• Have actively involved in launching various life annuity products by following end to end business procedures.
• Good in Technical Documentation Developed various User Manuals.
• Extensive knowledge of the entire Software Development Cycle right from Requirement Gathering, Converting Business requirements into Technical specifications, Impact Analysis, Root cause Analysis for problems or incidents, Estimation, Design High Level and Detail, Code development, Maintenance, and support, Unit testing and Integration Testing to User Documentation.
• Identifies production issues related to Front End processing and ensures accurate tracking and reporting of these issues.
• Extensive experience in reviews for Technical Requirements, Impact Analysis, application Design and code walkthroughs.
• Extensive experience in using Microsoft Technologies like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Very energetic, hardworking and highly self-motivated team player with strong problem solving skills and very good communication and leadership skills.
• Strong leadership qualities, capable of handling and managing the teams. Very good at building team motivation/spirit and guiding the team to success.
• Quick learner and keen observer, determining external internal customer needs and well versed in internal external relationship building. Good team worker and like to be part of a team, which always tries to explore out of box. Flexible, dynamic and self-motivated with a flair for taking calculated risks and achieving success. Attention to detail, timeline sensitive and ability to manage technology projects from inception to transition.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments. Energetic and perseverant self-starter known for exceeding goals and objectives.objectives.

Technical Skills

Project Details

QA Analyst

Confidential

• It also offers financial planning, brokerage services, mutual funds, insurance and
• Other investment products. Confidential uses Vantage and wMA to administer its insurance products.
• Project involves development , enhancement and maintenance of VANTAGE as well as wMA system for Pacific life insurance. This involves improving, modifying/re-engineering base Vantage and wMA functionality as per client's requirement, developing new insurance product , Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis

Impact analysis Documentation.

Preparing Design Doc as per requirement

Coding and Unit Testing.

Implementing Code in Production

Root cause analysis of problem

Providing Fix in case of Bug

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• Foresters uses Vantage system to administer its insurance products.
• Project involves development , enhancement and maintenance of VANTAGE system for Foresters insurance

• We developed Insurance product called Preffered loan , Return of premium and Paid-up Additions Rider PUAR for Foresters client , in which we modified existing vantage functionality and added our new changes to implement above projects . This involves improving, modifying/re-engineering base Vantage functionality as per client's requirement, developing new insurance product , Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Tech Design Doc as per Business requirement doc
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• System testing

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• Confidential uses Vantage system to administer its insurance products.
• Project involves development , enhancement and maintenance of VANTAGE system for AIG insurance.
• We developed Insurance product called Choice loans , surrender ROP for AIG client , in which we modified existing vantage functionality and added our new changes to implement above projects . This involves improving, modifying/re-engineering base Vantage functionality as per client's requirement, developing new insurance product , Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Tech Design Doc as per Business requirement doc
• Coding and Unit Testing.

System testing

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• It also offers financial planning, brokerage services, mutual funds, insurance and
• Other investment products. Phoenix uses Vantage package to administer its insurance products.
• Project involves development , enhancement and maintenance of VANTAGE system for Phoenix insurance. This involves improving, modifying/re-engineering base Vantage functionality as per client's requirement, developing new insurance product , Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Implementing Code in Production
• Root cause analysis of problem
• Providing Fix in case of Bug

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST,Intertest, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• It also offers financial planning, brokerage services, mutual funds, insurance and
• Other investment products. American Family uses Vantage package to administer its insurance products.
• This project involves upgrade of Vantage system 15.16 version to Wealth Management Accelerator WMA 9.2.0 version . We converted the whole code of Vantage to wMA , now the insurance transaction which we use to do from Vantage online screens , can be done from wMA screen which is JAVA screen and back-end is mainframe .
• The purpose of converting Vantage to wMA is to make the system more user friendly.We did this development for all the system of insurance Annuity , Universal life and Tradition life . This project also involves the bug resolving and providing root cause analysis to client for supporting wMA code.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol and DB2 .

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements to upgrade system from Vantage to wMA
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Tecnical Doc as per requirement
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Implementing Code in Production
• Root cause analysis of problem
• Providing Fix in case of Bug

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• It also offers financial planning, brokerage services, mutual funds, insurance and
• Other investment products. METLIFE uses Vantage package to administer its insurance products.
• Project involves enhancement and maintenance of VANTAGE system for Metlife insurance. This involves improving, modifying/re-engineering base Vantage functionality as per client's requirement, Business ticket bug fixing , Root Cause Analysis etc. We analyze the policy if any request come from MetLife customer for example premium is not being applied or policy is not getting surrendered, Account value is showing incorrect values etc..On the basis of analysis of Policy and Vantage code we provide solution, sometime it comes as enhancement if code Bug is found or new functionality is needed to add.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Implementing Code in Production
• Root cause analysis of problem
• Providing Fix in case of Bug

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• Project involves applying new rules on the 403 B Qualified annuities accounts, providing new business to the Confidential. 403 B is Qualified Pension plan under which taxable compensation is provided to Plan Confidential .
• In the project we have applied new rules on Loan accounts , Suppose the customer has taken loan and he is not paying the installment on time then he will not have to pay interest until his age reaches 59 years. 59 is standard age after which customer has to pay Tax penalty plus loan interest , It provides the new business to the client as at this time if customer is not able to pay loan then he surrender the policy and business suffers loss but now customer don't need to worry about the interest on due installment.
• Secondary project involves waving of Admin fee charges on the organization like some schools and charity org. which provide relief to this organization for paying any admin fee which is charged as 30 each policy anniversary.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• System Testing
• UAT
• Preparing SSR and SSR Components.
• Providing 90 days support for installing the code in production

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• It also offers financial planning, brokerage services, mutual funds, insurance and
• Other investment products. American Express uses Vantage package to administer its insurance products.
• Project involves enhancement and maintenance of VANTAGE system for American
• Express Insurance wing Ameriprise Financial. This involves improving, modifying/re-engineering base Vantage functionality as per client's requirement, Abend Fixing, Root Cause Analysis etc.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• BAU involves handling of work requests modification and enhancements and analysis and corrections of problems reported in production run.
• Responsibilities: -
• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• Preparing SSR and SSR Components.

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• Project involves Development, enhancement and maintenance for Confidential wing Ameriprise Financial. It involves generating Insurance Contracts letters for the Ameriprise insurance company for example if customer is not paying his premium till his due date then insurance company send him letters so we analyze the situation and according to it generate letters . The project involves coding of new JCL and Cobol programs.

• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 , JCL and VSAM.

Responsibilities: -

• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Coding and Unit Testing.
• System Testing
• UAT
• Preparing SSR and SSR Components.
• Providing 90 days support for installing the code in production

Technologies: MVS/ESA, Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, VS COBOL II, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SORT, SYNCSORT, IBM UTILITIES, TEST, XPEDITOR, Changeman, SDSF, GDG, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL.

QA Analyst

Confidential

• Tool development involves the coding of tool that provide the product to the client. By using the REXX program , we have develop Code Review Tool which provide programmer easy handling of code without looking AMERIPRISE CODING standard and enabling the reviewer to just focus on logic and code. We have developed the Rexx panel through which we are going to take our Cobol program as a input and interface with that panel with our Rexx program logic and jcl .
• Second Tool involved opening of copy-book of any transaction of vantage insurance and any segments by writing only one tso rexx command. this will open all related copy-book without repeating all the lengthy process of opening copy-book. and save our time.
• Technology Involved coding in Cobol , DB2 and Rexx.

Responsibilities:

• Tool development involves the coding of tool that provide the product to the client
• Gathering Requirements with initial Analysis
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Coding of program
• Coding and Unit Testing.