PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of IT Experience in Software Development, Testing and Implementation of business applications for Healthcare, Insurance, Capital Markets and Banking clients.
• 9+ years of rich experience in the IT Industry and DevOps, Teradata, Mainframe (VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM and CICS) and Automation Tools.
• Insightful experience in IT industry with domain knowledge of Dividends, Reorganization, Mutual funds, Payment processing, Healthcare enrollments, Eligibility, Medicare, Medicaid, Claims processing and Cash vault.
• Rich experience in full cycle of software development (SDLC) including Requirement analysis, System study, Program design (High level and Low level), Development, Unit testing, System testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance Testing, System maintenance, Support and Documentation.
• Have exposure in IT based roles with an ability to interact at all levels - Management, Business and Technical.
• Have good Techno-Functional skills including business requirement capturing; conceptualizing and designing the new requirements.
• Good experience in the design and implementation of fully automated Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment pipelines and DevOps processes for Agile projects (CI/CD).
• Utilized Jenkins, Git, and Eclipse for deployment on test servers and to move towards CI/CD.
• Sound knowledge of SQL concepts and Teradata.
• Have strong knowledge and experience in Agile Methodology/Framework (Scrum, Sprint and User Stories).
• Have excellent knowledge on Implementing Mapping and Value added processes (VAP) on the Data.
• Sound knowledge on Collect statistics, Join strategies and Join types.
• Expertise in Mainframe Technologies like COBOL, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF and VSAM.
• Have good working experience in DB2 database, Datacom and Mongo DB
• Parameterized the Teradata object names in the production SQL components using SYNCSORT to make it usable in lower environments with minimal change.
• Good understanding in usage of Network Data Mover (NDM)- Connect Direct and FTP, S-FTP.
• Excellent knowledge in scheduling Mainframe batch jobs through CA7 scheduler.
• Very good in providing technical solutions to business problems.
• Possess strong analytical and problem solving skills. Fast learner.
• Have basic knowledge on Control-M scheduler and Autosys.
• Have exposure in REXX and SAS.
• SME (Subject Matter Expert) in Healthcare EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transaction 834 (Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance), 835 (Claim Payment and Remittance Advice), RDS (Retiree Drug Subsidy), External Claims, PA/PLA(Prior Authorization and Patient Level Authorization), Card Generation, ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease), OHI (Other Health Information), COB (Co-Ordination of Benefit), Medicare, CMS, Medicaid, Claim, HCR (Health Care Reform), Tricare and Cash Vault processing, Capital Markets, Shares, Dividends, Reorganization, Mutual Funds, Equities, Daily Dividends and Payment system processing.
• Very good knowledge in HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) 4010 to 5010 conversion.
• Proficient in team management and an Excellent Team Player and Onsite coordinator for a team of 10 offshore resources.
• Skilled in team leadership/mentoring/training, workshop facilitation, acting as a liaison between business users and technical staff, and coordination of offsite (e.g. offshore).
• Have very good experience in Project estimation, Resource planning.
• Have used Webex effectively for presenting the walkthroughs and review.
• Have used SharePoint effectively for defect and task tracking and document management.
• Have very good experience in using Microsoft Project Plan and Microsoft Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: Confidential Mainframe

Database: DB2, MS SQL server, Datacom, Mongo DB, Teradata, MS Access

Operating Systems: Windows, OS-390, MVS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, VSAM, REXX and XML

Version Control Tool: ChangeMan, Endevor

Utilities and Tools: TSO, ISPF, File Master, File Aid, SPUFI, Endevor, Unicenter, Greenhat, Advanced Query Tool (AQT), Rational Integration Tester (RIT), XPEDITER, Rally, Combinatorial Test Design (CTD), Compass, Microsoft Visio, XREF, eArchive/OnDemand, Client Central, Ops Central, Gentran, XTRA, BlueZone, JIRA, Data Studio, Zephyr and Cucumber

Tracking Tools: Rational Clear Quest, Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM), HP - Quality Center (QC), Remedy 7.5, Microsoft Project Plan, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), TFS

Scheduling Tool: CA7, PODS

Environment: Jenkins, VMWare, Atlassian Stash, JSON

Automation Tools: UFT, Parasoft, Selenium and Cucumber

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX and Lone Tree, CO

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties include liaison with business, collecting requirements, define activities, estimation, scheduling, tracking, monitoring, controlling, coordinate with Offshore development team, creating high level design documents, participate/coordinate in System Integration Testing (SIT) with other vendors, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the business/users.
• Worked on creating SQL scripts to load data into SQL server.
• Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects (Devops and CI/CD).
• Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven.
• Utilized Jenkins, Git, and Eclipse for deployment on test servers and to move towards CI/CD.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management.
• Worked on implementing the value added processes (VAP) using JCL, COBOL, VSAM in Mainframe System to develop a tool to generate the JCL for testing automatically.
• Worked on storing the Announcement and payment data to DB2 and Datacom storages.
• Worked on NDM, FTP the data to different vendors through the batch process integrating the UNIX system applications.
• Attend workgroup meeting with project managers and Bi-Weekly meeting with Directors.
• Responsible to send the Daily Status Report (DSR), Weekly Status Report (WSR) and Monthly metrics on the status of each Completed, ongoing and upcoming projects deliverables.
• Coordinating with several downstream teams and third party Vendors like Bank, Custodians.
• Documenting the lessons learned information and looking out for continuous improvement.
• Providing team with motivation both on personal and professional grounds.
• Responsible to provide updates in Sprint Planning meeting, Daily Scrum, Weekly Backlog Refinement, Bi-weekly Sprint closure, Demo with Stakeholders.
• Have very efficient in using JIRA and Zephyr tools.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

SQL Developer

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties include liaison with business, collecting requirements, define activities, estimation, scheduling, tracking, monitoring, controlling, coordinate with Offshore development team, creating high level design documents, participate/coordinate in System Integration Testing (SIT) with other vendors, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the business/users.
• Worked on creating SQL scripts to load data into SQL server.
• Worked on implementing the value added processes (VAP) using JCL, COBOL, VSAM in Mainframe System.
• Worked on different LPARS (Execute, Schedule, NDM, FTP)
• Worked on FTP, NDM the data to different vendors through the batch process.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties include liaison with business, collecting requirements, define activities, estimation, scheduling, tracking, monitoring, controlling, coordinate with Offshore development team, creating high level design documents, participate/coordinate in System Integration Testing (SIT) with other vendors, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the business/users.
• Proficient in preparing the Project Estimations and Resource plans.
• Worked as a Technical Lead (VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM and CICS) for a team of 10 people.
• Worked extensively on complex SQLs for Adhoc requests initiated by business.
• Have good knowledge in scheduling batch jobs using Control-M scheduler.
• Participated in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with Business Lead, Application Manager, Technology Delivery manager and Business Analyst for multiple projects for the application.
• Worked on multiple phases of implementation such as gathering Teradata performance metrics and gain approval from the DBA, Mainframe standards-met approval, Scheduling approval, Changeman packages approval, monitoring the installation etc.
• Worked on several transmission methods and triggering mechanism to provide data to multiple downstream (LOB) - NDM, FTP, CA7-triggering, Automated E-mail alert.
• Worked on performance tuning, including collecting statistics, analyzing explains & determining the tables that needed statistics. Increased performance by 35% and saved 20% of space using compression techniques.
• Developed COBOL codes and JCL for automated processing of multiple files from LOBs using single flow. It has made the new LOB onboarding ease with minimal effort and saved further developmental costs.
• Extensively used ChangeMan for versioning the components and promoting to production.
• Guided offshore development team and extend support during critical phases.
• Providing warranty production support and working on enhancements.
• Participated in Rapid Responses during production run and provided technical solutions for the business problems.
• Worked on documentation involved in each phase of the project. Created playbooks and operational manual for production support.
• Identifying Innovative ideas to improve the performance or productivity of the existing system.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Apart from the core project, worked as a team lead for a team of 8 primary duties include liaison with business, collecting requirements, define activities, scheduling, tracking, monitoring, controlling and coordination.
• Submitting the Metrics, PL-PM report, RPM every month.
• Creating and Maintaining the Audit documentation for all deliverables.
• Creating Lesson Learnt, Technical Document, Work Flow Documents.
• Participating in daily status call and Individual Project status/clarification calls with clients.
• Worked on multiple phases of implementation such as gathering performance metrics and gain approval from the DBA, Mainframe standards-met approval, Scheduling approval, Changeman packages approval, monitoring the installation etc.
• Created views for Mainframe file extracts based on business needs.
• Providing warranty production support and working on enhancements. Created playbooks and operational manual for production support.
• Created low-level design document based on Business Requirement Document and High-level design document with appropriate system flow and possible code snippets and created Unit Test Plans (UTP).
• Converted the inbound files in healthcare specific format using COBOL programs.
• Worked extensively on development using CICS-DB2 and Message-Queue (MQ) series modules.
• Have used Confidential DB2 Query Management Facility (QMF) and SQL Processing Using File Input (SPUFI) for working on adhoc queries and online testing.
• Extensive knowledge in using ‘Revolve’ and SMART tool for Impact analysis that identifies the impacted components across all modules such as COBOL, CICS, etc.
• Worked on Production fixes and tickets.
• Worked on Endevor for version control for the components.
• Worked on setting up the environments for QA’s and coordinate in testing and provided support for System integration testing and User acceptance testing
• Worked primarily on creating the reports for the merger project using COBOL-DB2 in Mainframe.
• Extensively used Mainframe COBOL and SORT to avoid DB2 usage, wherever possible to save operational costs.
• Worked on unit testing, test plan creation and peer review.
• Provided SIT support with other vendor.
• Worked on Endevor for components versioning.
• Used ‘Revolve’ tool for Impact analysis.
• Created Jobdocs/playbook for all Mainframe jobs.