SUMMARY:

• IT professional with proven technical expertise in a career spanning around 12 years. Have Domain Experience in Health care, Retail, Banking and Financial services.
• Experience in Mainframe application development, support and testing using Java, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, JCL, IMS DB and REXX.
• Experience in Defect Management tools such as HPALM and Jira
• Experience in Tracking the defects and attending defect triage calls
• Experience in Re engineering of Missouri Medicaid IT system testing
• Experience on Data conversion testing using ETL tools such as INFORMATICA and DATASTAGE
• Experience in SOAP UI Testing
• Experience in Web service testing
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall software life, cycle models
• Have played roles as Programmer, Project Lead, Tester, Test Lead, Project Lead and Test Manager
• Experience in Test Strategy, Test Plan creation
• Experience in Creation of Test cases and Test case reviews and Test Case Execution
• Experience in Unit testing, SIT and UAT testing using DB Fitness, SQL,PLSQL
• Experience in Data validation using various Tools such as HQL, Teradata SQL Assist
• Experience in Data validation in HDFS
• Experience in analyzing the logs
• Experience in debugging tools such as Xpeditor

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: JAVA, COBOL, CICS,DB2,JCL, IMS DB

ETL Tools: Informatica, Data stage

Testing Tools: Quality Centre, HP ALM, DB Fitnes

Schedulers: ESP, CA7, Control - M

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Teradata, Informix, Cassandra

Logging: Log4J, Java logging

Version Control: Endeavor, Change man, Clear Case, SVN

Other Tools: File-aid, BMC remedy, Service Center, HP ALM,JIRA, Selenium

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix, z/OS, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, AR

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the architecture of the system
• Collection of Requirements
• Preparation of Design documents
• Application development using Java, COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX.
• Participation in Agile/Scrum meetings
• Preparation of Test plan, test cases and test case review
• Preparation of Mapping documents with Source and target fields
• Compare source table with subset in target table
• Compare source table with multiple target tables
• Daily and Weekly dash boards for status reporting
• Used HP ALM for Test case management
• QMF, Data Viewer are the Query management tools used
• Conduct knowledge sharing session

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the architecture of the system
• Collection of Requirements
• Preparation of Design documents
• Application development using Java, COBOL, DB2,JCL
• Participation in agile scrum meetings
• Preparation of Test plan, test cases and test case review
• Preparation of Mapping documents with Source and target fields
• Compare source table with subset in target table
• Compare source table with multiple target tables
• Daily and Weekly dash boards for status reporting
• Used HP ALM for Test case management
• QMF, Data Viewer are the Query management tools used
• Conduct knowledge sharing session

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the architecture of the system
• Collection of Requirements
• Preparation of Design documents
• Application development using Data stage, Teradata, COBOL, DB2,JCL
• Preparation of Test plan, test cases and test case review
• Preparation of Mapping documents with Source and target fields
• Compare source table with subset in target table
• Compare source table with multiple target tables
• Daily and Weekly dash boards for status reporting
• Used HP ALM for Test case management
• QMF, Data Viewer are the Query management tools used
• Conduct knowledge sharing session

Confidential, Houston, TX

Business analyst, shadow Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Implemented the projects using Agile Methodologies
• Organize daily standup meetings
• Track the project deliverable using Microsoft project plan
• Updating the project plan for the approved changes in consultation with project manager
• Worked on the integration of Task card system of Confidential with continental airways
• Identify the improvement areas in application of request.
• Follow and adhere to united airline’s ticketing management tools for support and maintenance
• Application enhancement using .Net, Java and Oracle
• Used HP ALM for Test case management
• Tracked user stories and back log using Microsoft’s Team foundation server

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the overall application Testing for E1P2 Mainframe (COBOL,DB2,VSAM, CICS,JCL) conversion project
• Conversion of File based architecture to DB2 based relation architecture in order to transform the system to keep phase with the upcoming technologies.
• ETL tool used is INFORMATICA
• Analysis of the Requirement and Impact Analysis.
• Conduct Root cause analysis and LAM (Look Ahead meetings)
• Help the pre sales team by giving technical support and case studies.
• Used Jira for work assignment and incident management

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of specification and Analysis of the design
• Development and Enhancement and Production support in Mainframe (COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM ).
• Coding Business Rules and validation
• Preparing UTC and UTR
• Preparing Quality Documents
• Allotment of work to the team member and co-ordination with Client
• Used BMC Remedy for Incident Management.
• Incidents are managed by ITIL foundation’s best practices
• Prepared issue tracker and risk tracker

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on MPS (Member Parameter System). Creation and validation of the new Members.
• Preparation of specification and Analysis of the design
• Development and Enhancement using COBOL, DB2 stored procedures.
• Coding Business Rules and validation
• Preparing UTC and UTR
• Preparing Quality Documents
• Allotment of work to the team member and co-ordination with Client
• Prepared daily status report
• Test cases execution are managed by Quality center

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the automation of electronic meter system for Confidential
• The technology and tool used are Mainframe(COBOL,CICS,IMSDB,DB2,JCL), ESP for Scheduling
• Application development and Test support
• Preparation of low level design
• Preparation of understanding documents of the system
• Review of the Test cases
• Preparing the Rota and leading the Test Support
• Weekly or need based meeting with onsite counterparts
• Conduction Knowledge sharing sessions

Confidential

Production Technician

Responsibilities:

• Project is on school loan programs
• Production technician
• Production Support(CA7,COBOL,DB2,JCL)
• Make sure the availability of Online for all the Guaranty services system
• Abend Fixes
• Daily call with onsite colleagues
• BMC remedy is used for ticket tracking and monitoring
• Mainframe is used as platform for Jobs