SUMMARY:

• Graduate with more than 7 years of work experience as Z O/S Mainframes developer with multiple organizations.
• Experience in Cobol programming along with usage of JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC and CICS.
• Skilled at creating specification documents, Technical design deliverables, fixing code and SQL defects, updating and reviewing codes and SQL queries, creating test documents and defect report.
• Proven Management competence with effective Leadership, Problem Solving, Coordination and Communication skills.
• Experience in Banking and finance domain with expertise in Project and Database Management and Control.
• Experienced in Goal management and performance review process, providing proposals to improve work routine and enhance efficiency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Team Management and Leadership - Z O/S Mainframe Technologies
• COBOL, PL/1, MicroFocus - DB2, IMS DB/DC, Stored Proc, Open ESQL.
• VSAM File system - JCL (DFSORT), JES2
• ISPF, Endevor - CICS Application interfaces and services -
• Banking and Finance domain - Requirements Gathering
• MS-Office (Excel, Visio), Lotus Notes - SQL coding and abend handling
• Software Testing tools (HP QC,
• Smarttest, Xpeditor, IBM FA) - Z O/S, MVS, TSO, MQ, CA Gen/Coolgen

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Cobol Developer

• Created Functional Designs from the Business Requirement Documents.
• Participated in the functional Design/Detail Design Review meetings.
• Created Unit Test Documents containing test case procedure, data sources, results, and screen captures highlighting input and output data.
• Designed/Coded new programs using MicroFocus Visual COBOL for Content management system.
• Analyzed the existing Cobol or PL/1 programs, JCL Jobs, DB2 queries and tables to develop understanding of the system.

Confidential

COBOL Developer

• Support and maintenance for Z-O/S mainframe core banking modules at HSBC.
• Implementation of Cobol and JCL code change requests and defect tracking through Quality Center (HP QC)
• Analysis, design, and re-engineering of Z O/S mainframe system applications and business processes, using structured system analysis methodologies of SDLC.
• On-site offshore coordination through extensive communication networks.
• Authored Software and functional specification documents for system involving use of COBOL, DB2, JCL and VSAM.
• Mentored a team of junior IT engineers. Help with code fixes, analysis, testing and test document creation.
• Prepared requirement traceability metrics and facilitated meetings to plan and manage the project cycles.
• Creating DB2 database models and process mapping, using Visio.

Confidential

Mainframe Cobol DB2 Developer

• Led a 3-member team in coding and development process for migration of letter generation system and align it to a new model.
• Worked on new and old COBOL codes to update or add new functionalities to the system.
• Create queries based on DB2 model and relationship between tables. Used data in tables for verification and retrieval purposes.
• Handled DB2 errors and system abends while testing and promoting codes in Endevor.
• Created new or modified old JCL’s on a regular basis to create best testing scenarios and to transfer files from mainframe to UNIX systems.
• Worked on IDCAMS, SYNCSORT and similar utilities on a regular basis for VSAM modification, File comparison and backup and other purposes.
• Single point of contact for coordination between on-site team in the US and the offshore team in India.
• Updating and maintenance of UNIX scripts.
• Collected Daily and weekly work status and submitted status reports to the manager, assessed risks, tracked issues and identified mitigation strategies.
• Involved in Functional and Process specification design.
• Conducted trainings for new associates.
• Involved in Regression testing and validation of Batch processes.
• Involved in review and promotion of COBOL codes and JCL jobs to production environment through Endevor package creation.
• Worked as a part of the team to develop and deliver back-end mainframe CICS-COBOL application programs. Also, involved in Unit testing, test case and test results document preparation.
• Defined Code level validations to be built into application in line with the functional requirements.
• Involved in Data Analysis & Mapping to track all data elements used in the application from UI to the target databases in which they are stored.
• Identified bugs, tracked and followed them to completion using HP-QC
• Collected Daily and weekly work status and submitted status reports to the Onsite manager.
• Designed and executed complex SQL queries for cross verification of application results.
• Retrieved/Imported data using SQL queries and utilized to generate reports.
• Co-ordinated with front-end team to test different project modules independently.
• Analyze Software Requirement Specifications (SRS); prepare Functional Specification Document (FSD), Design Document
• Develop Online(CICS) and Batch COBOL codes, JCLs and SQL queries based on SRS.
• Created of test cases and scenarios and conducted Unit, Integration and System Testing.
• Cross review codes and test documents to ensure they reflected User Needs and requirements.
• Facilitated Weekly Status update meetings using lean agile approach and Created MOM’s for the meeting.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Developed Banking and finance software using Cobol, REXX. Trained on Mainframe technologies and languages like Cobol and REXX and data bases like DB2 and IMS DB/DC.
• Implemented a group review process to identify recurring issues.
• Documented validation lookup which helped increase code-quality and reduced review work.
• Created functional test documents. Involved in Unit and Integration testing.