Summary:

• IBM Mainframe Analyst Programmer having 12 years of extensive IT experience.
• Expertise in different phases of SDLC: Design, Development, Maintenance, Re-Engineering.
• Working Experience in domains like:
• Insurance Claims Processing, Property Casualties
• Banking Savings, Checking, IRA, Brokerage Accounts, Fraudulent
• Retail POS/Credit Card Processing/Product Price Markdown process/SOA Refresh
• Publication Legal Document Processing/States School Score Evaluation Processing

Technical Skills:

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

As Senior Mainframe developer I am responsible for analysis of software specification requirements and getting clarifications of queries after analysis. Interaction with business analyst, technical developers, and users providing supports for activities like, UAT User Acceptance Testing , deployment, and post deployment supports. Participated in the requirement gathering activities and provided technical solutions for clear requirements to Business Analyst. Supported End2End System Testing and UAT.

Contributions:

• Coordination with BA Business Analyst and testing teams.
• Analysis of SRS software specification requirements document.
• Provide Solutioning and Peer Reviews.
• Preparation of Effort estimation using PERT estimation technique.
• Preparation of High-level design document.
• Development of both Online and Batch applications.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan and execution with documentation.
• System testing support using HPQC.
• Active participation throughout UAT User Acceptance Testing .
• Deployment and Post deployment supports.
• Weekly status updates to project team.

Environment: Librarian, SQL 2005 and 2008, Informatica ETL, Kofax and Scan Sheet utilities, 2D Barcode, OnBase, Silver light, DB2, File Aid, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, CICS, SORT, HPQC 10.0, Share Point, Plan View, etc.

Confidential

Mainframe Technical Analyst

As Technical Analyst at Onsite I was responsible for gathering all the technical requirements from technical Confidential residing at various Confidential locations, arranging technical working sessions to discuss and bring down the key technical requirements to closer. Coordination of offshore team and onsite SME's. Analysis of technical inventory for X2C conversion, status updates to immediate client project managers. Assisting team for technical clarification, unit testing, and review of technical specs

Contributions:

• Analysis of technical decisions made and preparation of issue log for further clarifications.
• Analysis of inventory provided by UHC and preparation of understanding document.
• Conducting technical discussions with various UHC SME's and offshore technical team.
• Analysis of legacy COSMOS system and investigation on remaining alternative solutions required for conversion.
• Review of technical specs and Code walkthrough.
• Review of unit test plan and unit test cases.
• Assisting offshore team in test data preparation and unit testing.
• Conducting daily offshore technical and status meetings
• Weekly Status updates to client.

Environment: Endevor, Endevor Workbench, DB2, File Aid, QMF, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, XGEN COBOL, CICS, SORT, EDI, HPQC 9.0, Share Point, etc.

Confidential

Mainframe Application Analyst

Contributions:

• Analysis of Mainframe Online and Batch Applications.
• Identification of Application Interfaces.
• Inventory Analysis of the existing applications.
• Application Reverse engineering to provide support for forward engineering teams.
• Coordination of offshore team to generate required reports out of code inventory.
• Acted as a SPOC to the Forward engineering team to resolve any Technical Issues in to be system.

Environment: Librarian, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, IDEAL, DATACOM, CICS, SORT, File-Aid, SPUFI, HPQC 10.0, JAVA, Insight AMS tool, etc.

Confidential

Mainframe Programmer

Contributions:

• Worked with various Applications in Mainframe and other interfacing applications.
• Involved in complete System Integration testing support i.e. End to End including module level of testing using COBOL/DB2/TERADATA/VSAM and POS.
• Assisted Testing team in Peer reviews of there system test cases in Quality Assurance in HPQC.
• Worked on various tools including FTP, ETL Load, Connect Direct
• Created new JCL's, modified the existing JCLs for Batch processing
• Used SPUFI to retrieve, modify and insert data into test database.
• Responsible for evaluating Business Requirements, Functional Specs, HLD, Designing, Coding, and Unit Testing.
• Defects fixing during different phases of testing using HP Quality center.
• Conducting the team meetings, Customer meetings and management meetings with the respective stake holders on Weekly basis.
• Getting Signoff from Business for the deliverables.

Environment: Endeavor, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, CICS, CHANNELS CONTAINERS, SORT, DB2, File-Aid, SPUFI, HPQC 9.2 by HP , MQ Series, JAVA, XML, Web Method, LIFT FTP application, Connect Direct, Teradata, Oracle, Genesis, Unix-AIX, POS, DART reporting tool and SQL Assistance, etc.

Confidential

Mainframe Lead Developer

The project SPS Scan to Confidential is a main process in the scan to Prescore applications of the publication giant Pearson. Pearson helps to process the question and answer papers of the educational institutes in different districts of States every year:

Contributions:

• Worked as a mainframe lead developer in the 3 member team.
• Preparation of ARLs
• Estimation and Preparation of scan specs and edit specs for other teams
• Involved in Construction, Unit Testing phases.
• Preparation of UTP for deliverable components.
• Unit test execution and test result documentations.
• System/Integration and Production support.

Environment: MVS, TSO, ISPF, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SAS, Change Man, DB2, Test Director, and Change Point.

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Analyst and Programmer

Contributions:

• Acted as a Project Lead in the 4 member team.
• Involved in Design, Construction, Unit Testing phases.
• Preparation of Program Specifications for all the individual deliverable components.
• Combine Unit test plan preparation for all the individual components.
• Code construction.
• Unit test execution for online component and capturing the test results.
• System/Integration test support.

Environment: Endeavor, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, CICS, CHANNELS CONTAINERS, VSAM, DB2, File-Aid, SPUFI, Expeditor CICS/Batch , Test Director 8.0, SOAP-UI GMI Harness , Core JAVA with front-end Workflow.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Contributions:

• Requirement gathering
• Analysis, and documentation
• Coding
• Testing and documentation of test results
• Manual testing of USAA Site

Environment: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, CHANNELS CONTAINERS, VSAM, PDSE, Librarian, JCL, Smart Test, DBIO, Control M, VB Macros, JAVA script, UNIX, and SQL server.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Contributions:

• Interaction with Client and Offshore team for getting the detailed requirements.
• Analyzing the business requirements and preparing the technical Specs, Coding, Reviews, Test data preparation, Testing and delivery.
• Perform complete Impact Analysis for the system and document the same.
• Development of the code
• Analysis and Design preparation
• Involved in the information gathering with clients and study of requirements
• Estimation of work
• Release of the work in Production

Environment: TSO/ISPF, UNIX, PL/1, COBOL II, VSAM, MVS JCL, CICS, IDMS/DB, ADS/O, DB2, ASSEMBLER, REXX, FILE MANAGER, LMS, SYNCSORT, PASCAL, OPC, RPF, ROSCOE.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Contributions:

• Developing the different batch jobs
• Designing the Menu panel for users to choose various online functions available
• Understanding the requirement specifications
• Testing the program to make sure the program is working according to the spec.

Environment: IBM S/390 using TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, SCO UNIX, and DB2.