Professional Summary

• More than 11 years of IT experience with sound knowledge of Programming, Testing and Problem solving in environment of IBM Mainframes.
• More than 5 years of working experience on CSC Vantage-One Product and having idea about Cyber life.
• Customer-focused IT professional for Healthcare (Claims Processing), Banking and Financial Applications, Life and Annuities, Mortgage and Airlines. Proven ability to utilize computer skills encompassing all phases of the System Development Life Cycle and continued specialized training.
• Experience in Analysis of Insurance business and technical requirements.
• Experience in developing solutions in a mainframe Batch and Online environment
• Gathering and compilation of business information from client and preparation of technical related documentation.
• Experience with PC file conversions
• More than 1 year working experience in JAVA, XML, Java Script and HTML.
• Good knowledge in AS/400 (RPG/400, Cobol/400, CL/400, DB2/400, SQL/400).
• Good working knowledge of version control tools Panvalet and LMF.
• Debugging Batch and online programs using Xpeditor and Intertest.
• Tuning complex applications for better performance.
• Having experience in MQ Series.
• Having experience in 24*7production support.
• Having experience in Onsite and Offshore model.
• Having experience in DSS, RPS, Commissions and NBU Systems.
• Having Knowledge in ETL tools like Ab Initio and Datastage.
• Having experience in SQL Enabled DATACOM and non SQL DATACOM.
• Having knowledge in CA Scheduling.
• Having experience developing applications using SOA.
• Having experience in languages like SAS, Easytrieve.
• Having experience in databases like DB2, IDMS, DATACOM and IMS.
• Active involvement in Coding, Testing and Implementation of Business Requirements.
• Having experience in writing the SQL queries.
• Having experience in SPUFI, QMF.
• Report generation according to Vendor requests.
• Handled Day-to-day Production Support activities.
• Experience in Troubleshoot and correct production defects.
• Involved in Backups, Restores and Recoveries.
• Developed test JCL for Testing..
• Worked in fast paced environment.
• Good at meeting deadlines and Working under pressure.
• Proficient in documentation.
• Experience in QA activities.
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
• Ability to rapidly learn and be productive in new areas.
• Excellent Team player and Team builder.

Educational Qualifications: Bachelor of Technology in Engineering

Software Skills:
Operating System : MVS/ESA, MS-Dos, WIN 95/NT, Unix, Z/OS.
Language : VS COBOL II, C, C++, SQL, EASYTRIEVE, SAS.
Database : DB2, IDMS, IMS.
Mainframe Essentials : VSAM, JCL, MQ-Series.
Middleware : CICS.
Utilities : File-Aid, Expediter, Panvalet, TSO/ISPF, SPF/PDF, SPUFI, FTP,SQL, QMF, SYNCSORT, JES2, IBM Utilities, SYNCSORT, ABENDAID, DB2 Explain, VANTAGE-ONE.
PROJECT PROFILE

Confidential,WA. Aug’08-Till Date

Senior Software Engineer

Group Health is a nonprofit health care system that provides both medical coverage and care. Group Health and its subsidiary health carriers, Group Health Options, Inc. and KPS Health Plans, serve approximately 568,344 members in Washington and Idaho. More than 70 percent of members receive care in Group Health-owned medical facilities. Group Health includes Group Health Cooperative, its research arm, the Group Health Center for Health Studies, Group Health Options, Inc, KPS Health Plans, Group Health Permanente medical group and Group Health Foundation.
Health Plans:
Plans for Individuals and Families
Plans for State and Federal Employees
Plans for Employers (Small and Large Groups)

Project Overview:

Objective: Expanding the Claim lines from 22 to 999.

• Moving from 22 to 999 claim lines will increase accuracy and greatly reduce manual processing.
• Reduce the complexity of claims processing for users and IT developers via menu-driven maintenance and inquiry screens.
• Provide enhanced online data inquiry.
• Set the stage for a real-time claim processing system via the numerous upgrades to program and system architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of project requirements, Estimation, Design and Development.
• Preparing the Technical Design Documents as per the requirements.
• Developing the new modules and working on Enhancements.
• Developing the new CICS Online screens (MAPS).
• Developing new programs for retrieving the data from DATACOM tables using SQL Enabled DATACOM and non SQL DATACOM.
• Developing the new Batch (COBOL) and Online (CICS) development programs using Channels and Containers.
• Creating the New JCLs for Developing the new Daily, Weekly and Monthly Batch cycles.
• Running the new Test and Production batch cycles for daily, weekly and monthly and verifying the results.
• Creating the New modules for EDI, Last Word, EPIC, Mercator, eWatson and Pharmacy interfaces.
• Creating the new JCL’s, Procs, Parmcards and Sort cards.
• Using the IBM-DEBUG tool for debugging the Batch and Online Transactions.
• Using the Changeman for version control.
• Bringing existing code from Changeman to ENDEAVOR.
• Involved in implementation of new components in production and assisted in 24 X 7 on call support to resolve the issues as per Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Using the Channels and Containers as Commarea instead of DFHCOMMAREA in Cobol-CICS programs.
• Creating the reports in SAS.
• Identification of test data requirements.
• Participating in the testing of EDI and SCAN Interfaces.
• Creating the Filenet Images (UB04) for EDI Data.
• Changing the EDI Filenet images from UB92 to UB04 Format.
• Participating the full life cycle development process.
• Implementation of new code in Testing regions, Unit Testing, fixing the problems and capture the test results in UTR.
• Capturing / creating test data necessary for validation testing and moving it to the integrated environment.
• Following Agile practices with Lean process improvement and problem solving techniques for Quality process.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, TSO, ISPF, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, QMF, IMS, CICS,BMS ,DATACOM, IBM-DEBUG, VSAM, FILE MANAGER,IDCAMS, Changeman, ENDEAVOR, FTP, SYNCSORT, IMS, MS-Office, Easytrieve, MS-VISIO , Datastage, SAS, UNIX, SDSF.

Confidential,Hartford, CT.
Sr. Software Analyst Jan’08-July’08

The Phoenix Companies, Inc. is a leading provider of life insurance, annuities and investment products for the accumulation, preservation and transfer of wealth. The company offers a broad portfolio of products and services to help meet the needs of affluent and high-net-worth individuals and of institutions. Products are available through a wide variety of third-party financial advisors and consultants.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of UL project requirements, Estimation, Design and Development.
• Build Requirements Traceability from Functional Specs and Impact analysis.
• Identification of test data requirements.
• Implementation of new code in Testing regions, Unit Testing, fixing the problems and capture the test results in UTR.
• Preparation of Requirement specifications, detailed test plans and Status of work documents.
• Identifying, Unloading and Loading Test data into DB2 tables from Production to Test regions.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Capturing / creating test data necessary for validation testing and moving it to the integrated environment.
• Creating the transactions through Online by using CICS.
• Creating the new CICS Online screens by using VIDD.
• Communicating with open systems by using MQ Series.
• Preparation of Production implementation setting once code is approved in test region.
• Involved in implementation of new products in production and assisted in 24 X 7 on call support to resolve the issues.
• Assisted in the defect resolution process, including following up with App Dev groups on the defect closures.
• Modified and supported the Annual/Quarterly/Accounting reports according to their business requirements.
• Other responsibilities included mass compiles and links, running batch cycles, extensive debugging in both batch and online.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, TSO, ISPF, DB2, IMS, SQL,VSAM, SAS, SPUFI, QMF, FILE MANAGER, ENDEAVOR, CICS, BMS, MS-VISIO, MQ Series, FTP, SYNCSORT,INTERTEST, Vantage-One, Ms-Office, DOCUMERGE.

Confidential,Herndon, VA.
Sr. Software/Programmer Analyst Sept’07-Jan’08

Fannie Mae is a shareholder-owned company with a public mission. We exist to expand affordable housing and bring global capital to local communities in order to serve the U.S. housing market. Fannie Mae has a federal charter and operates in America\'s secondary mortgage market to ensure that mortgage bankers and other lenders have enough funds to lend to home buyers at low rates. Our job is to help those who house America. Fannie Mae was created in 1938, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, at a time when millions of families could not become homeowners, or risked losing their homes, for lack of a consistent supply of mortgage funds across America.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with developers on design and standards of new applications.
• Setting up test environments, writing detailed test plans, entering and tracking issues.
• Communicate release status with QA, development, support, and external software vendors to reduce development time.
• Data analysis, with assistance of business analysts.
• Produce system analysis-documentation and technical enhancements.
• Writing New Programs on emergency basis for fixing Job abends and preparing the conversion programs for the new releases.
• Resolving problem tickets along with enhancements.
• Communicate with users to decide on scheduling processes for various batch Jobs.
• Involving in taking Backups, restores and recoveries.
• Preparing the test JCL\'s and files for testing the batch programs.
• Database Retrieval, Manipulation and working with IDMS.
• Carrying out Impact analysis.
• Performing Complex System and Technical Analysis, Design, Specifications and Development.
• Coding and Testing before releasing the changes to the customer.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,SQL,SPUFI,QMF,IDMS, DMLO, OLQM, MAPC, CA7 Scheduler, Easytrieve, TSO, DB2, VSAM, FILE-ID, ENDEAVOR,SORT,MQ Series, SAS, CICS, CLIST, Ms-Office.

Confidential,Hartford, CT.
Sr.Software Analyst Feb’07-Aug’07

ING Group is a global financial services company of Dutch origin with 150 years of experience, providing a wide array of banking, insurance and asset management services in over 50 countries.
The high level objective of this project is to implement the Wealth Management Accelerator application, hereinafter referred to as wmA, within the ING infrastructure to support business executed on ACES and Premier.
With a history dating to 1851, Phoenix is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PNX. The Phoenix Companies, Inc. has two principal operating subsidiaries, Phoenix Life Insurance Company, and Phoenix Investment Partners, Ltd. The company also offers private placement insurance products through Philadelphia Financial Group, a wholly owned subsidiary.

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading the existing Vantage-One system to Wma.
• Gather detailed business requirements for ING wmA and baseline.
• Technical Design Specification provided to ING at the end of system testing.
• Coding/Retrofits of all ING wmA modifications.
• Development of ING wmA New Programs.
• Conversion of Online application form CICS to WEB application.
• Analyzing and capture the data for Testing.
• Unit Testing of all ING wmA modifications as defined in Baseline Requirements.
• System Testing of all ING wmA modifications.
• Comparing the data flowing between old system and new system.
• Peer Reviews, Internal Inspections and ING Walk Through for development of deliverables.

Environment: COBOL, MF-Cobol, JCL, TSO, DB2, IMS, SQL,PL/SQL, DB2 Explain, VSAM, SPUFI, Procs, Easytrieve, QMF, FILEAID, JAVA, Oracle, JavaScript, XML Gateway, VTAM, TCP/IP, FTP, HTML ,Unix, Vantage-One

Confidential,New Jersey
Sr. Programmer Analyst Nov’06-Jan’07

UBS is a leading global wealth manager, top tier investment banking and securities firm, and one of the largest global asset managers. As an organization, UBS combines financial strength with a culture that embraces change. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of project requirements, Estimation, Design and Development.
• Preparation of Technical design document.
• Design of code and code changes.
• Identifying, Unloading and Loading Test data that is in TERADATA,VSAM,DB2 from Production to Test regions.
• Testing of enhanced programs in development region with the prepared unit test plans and to compare test results with expected results.
• Analysis of Metadata and prepared the reports with secured data.
• Used TESTBASE tools for generating the test data.
• Preparation of Production implementation setting once code is approved in test region.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, TSO, DB2, SQL,PL/SQL, SAS,.DB2 Explain, VSAM, Oracle, SPUFI, MQ-Series, MS-VISIO,MS-OFFICE, Teradata , JAVA,QMF,FTP, JavaScript, HTML, FILEAID, UNIX, Datastage, REXX.

Confidential,Richmond, VA
Sr. Programmer Analyst Jul’06- Nov’06

Capital One and the Better Business Bureau have developed a national financial education partnership to provide consumers who are considering starting a small business with tips and information on a range of financial and business management topics. It is a diversified financial services company offering a broad array of credit, savings and loan products to customers in the United States, UK, and Canada.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis the business requirements
• Gather the Pre-production Data from all the mainframe systems in Capital One.
• and
• Down load that data into MS-Excel documents.
• Analysis of Metadata and prepared the reports with secured data.
• Used TESTBASE tools for generating the test data.
• Analysis that Pre-Production data that is in TERADATA,VSAM SQL Tables

for finding the Personnel and Employee information

• Prepare the reports with which contains the information for Encrypting

Environment: COBOL, JCL, TSO, DB2, Oracle, SQL,SAS, TERADATA, MS-VISIO, SPUFI, MVS,QMF,DB2 Explain, IMS,VSAM, FILEAID, HTML, MS-OFFICE.

Confidential,MONTPELIER, VT Mar’04 - Jun’06
Sr. System Analyst

The National Life Group has a long and rich tradition, with roots reaching back to the beginning of the life insurance industry in America. The main objective of this project is to implement the new products into the existing system and maintain the new and existing products.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of UL project requirements, Estimation, Design and Development.
• Build Requirements Traceability from Functional Specs and Impact analysis.
• Identification of test data requirements.
• Implementation of new code in Testing regions, Unit Testing, fixing the problems and capture the test results in UTR.
• Preparation of Requirement specifications, detailed test plans and Status of work documents.
• Identifying, Unloading and Loading Test data from Production to Test regions.
• Performed User Acceptance Testing.
• Capturing / creating test data necessary for validation testing and moving it to the integrated environment.
• Preparation of Production implementation setting once code is approved in test region.
• Involved in implementation of new products in production and assisted in 24 X 7 on call support to resolve the issues as per Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Responsible in preparing weekly status report to the client.
• Assisted in the defect resolution process, including following up with App Dev groups on the defect closures.
• Modified and supported the NLG Annual/Quarterly/Accounting reports according to their business requirements.
• Other responsibilities included mass compiles and links, running batch cycles, extensive debugging in both batch and online.

Environment: MVS & OS/390, Win-NT/98, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, VSAM & DB2, IDMS. DB2 Stored Procedures, SQL, DB2 Explain, MS-VISIO, MQ-Series, Test Director, SPUFI, MS Word, Data Stage, Easytrieve, QMF, FTP, Visual Basic, VTAM, TCP/IP, Data stage, LMF, EXPEDITER ,DSS System, NBU System and Vantage-One 15.0

Confidential,Worcester, MA
Sr. System Analyst Jan’03 – Feb’04

Allmerica Financial Corporation is an insurance company dealing different annuities and funds. The main objective of this project was to maintain the Vantage One, GPS, Beacon, RIFA, Fan Mail, Market Value, Plan Summary systems of Allmerica. Production support was also done for the above systems. Maintenance of systems includes major and minor enhancements to the existing systems and Production support involves fixing of problems encountered during production Cycle. The system Vantage will get the Unit values from the daily process of share market it involved a huge volume of financial transactions and hence was a critical component of the daily functionality of Allmerica. Maintenance and enhancements to the existing systems were initiated by a formal request from the customer.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with developers on design and standards of new applications.
• Setting up test environments, writing detailed test plans, entering and tracking issues.
• Communicate release status with QA, development, support, and external software vendors to reduce development time.
• Data analysis, with assistance of business analysts.
• Produce system analysis-documentation and technical enhancements.
• Monitoring the production jobs on daily batch cycles and resolving abends and restarting the abended jobs.
• Working on ad-hoc requests like creating a new report and likewise.
• Writing New Programs on emergency basis for fixing Job abends and preparing the conversion programs for the new releases.
• Resolving problem tickets along with enhancements.
• Providing 24 X 7 production support as per SLA.
• Communicate with users to decide on scheduling processes for various batch Jobs.
• Involving in taking Backups, restores and recoveries.
• Preparing the test JCL\'s and files for testing the batch programs.
• Database Retrieval, Manipulation and working with VSAM DATA.
• Conducting Quality reviews.
• Carrying out Impact analysis.
• Performing Complex System and Technical Analysis, Design, Specifications and Development.
• Coding and Testing before releasing the changes to the customer.
• Used Novell NetWare for the time tracking and job monitoring through Service Center

Environment: COBOL II, JCL,C,C++, CICS, VSAM, PANVALET, FILEAID, VANTAGE-ONE, DSS System, MVS, FTP, EXPEDITER, DB2,IDMS, SQL,PL/1,IMS-DB/DC,SQL,DB2 Explain, EASYTRIEVE, Datastage, MS-VISIO, PowerBuilder, VTAM, TCP/IP, Test Director, MS Word ,PL/1,ISPF/TSO, SAS, OS/390 (MVS).

Confidential,NJ
Programmer/Analyst Sept’02 – Jan’03

Merrill Lynch is the one of the world\'s Biggest Stocks and Share Brokerage firms. Their primary business is the Capital Markets. The project involves predominantly IBM mainframe skills and some open systems skills. One such project that was brought to offshore was T+1 clearing Systems which was primarily designed for making the entire clearing system to reduce all the three days transactions into a single day transactions.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the various documents in line with the CMM guidelines.
• Analysis of requirement specs, design of code and code changes.
• Preparing Test cases
• Testing of programs till Acceptance Region.
• Recompiling all the modules impacted due to copybook changes.
• Studying the existing system.
• Testing of enhanced programs in development region with the prepared unit test plans and to compare test results with expected results.
• Involving in reviews of the various work products.

Environment: COBOL II, DB2 Stored Procedures, MQ-Series, FILEAID, ISPF/TSO, SPUFI, QMF,SQL, MS Word, JCL, HTML, VSAM, Endeavor, Viasoft.

Confidential, IL
Programmer/Analyst Feb’00- Sept’02

United Airlines (“UAL”) is one of the largest airlines in the world. This system involves in improving the revenue to the UAL. This system processes the daily reservation data and sends the inputs to the manual analysis team for analyzing the data for improving the revenue to the company.

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Study, Specification Development, Design, and Development including coding, Testing, Implementation for enhancements.
• Help Desk involves daily job monitoring, critical scan of daily reports and job summaries and proactively debug problems.
• Identify deficiencies and probable future problems which will crop up due to errors in daily reports and take action to plug them respectively.
• Code/unit test to implement the fix using JCL and DB2 and IDMS.
• Involved in 24 X 7 coverage production support.
• Overall Co-ordination and Monitoring of all activities including QA and documentation.

Environment: COBOL3, COBOL II, SAS, JCL, TSO, Changeman, IMS DB, VSAM, Unix, FILEAID, Via Soft, MVS, IDMS, OLQM, DMLO, MAPC, Power Builder.

Confidential,IL.
Programmer/Analyst Apr’98 - Jan’00

United Airlines (“UAL”) is one of the largest airlines in the world. Scope of the project involves coding new code-share programs as required by the client, supporting the SMART System, ASPS System, SPEED System and giving production support.

SPEED is a Schedule Dissemination System used by United Airlines to disseminate the flight schedules to many other systems across the company and externally. Its interfaces include Planning, Inventory management, Hand-offs etc. The schedules could be further categorized into Planning Schedules, Working Schedules, and Open for Sale (OFS) schedules. All the schedule information is stored in an IDMS and DB2 database on IBM mainframes running TSO under MVS/ESA. SPEED has around 400 programs and it uses COBOL, C, DB2, IDMS, VSAM, JCL’s and CICS screens.

Code-Share is a module, which processes and provides information regarding SEAT SHARING among United Airlines and its STAR ALLIANCE. Scope of the project includes coding new programs for the enhancement of existing system.

Responsibilities:

• Creation of new programs for code share.
• Changing the code for Existing programs according to client requirements, testing.
• Test plan development, unit and system testing.
• Preparing estimates, gathering user requirements and preparing schedules for projects.
• Resolving project related issues and problems and providing better solutions if possible.
• Bug fixing.
• Review process.

Environment: COBOL, SAS, JCL, TSO, DB2, IDMS, OLQM, DMLO, and OLQMIMS DB, UNIX, SPUFI, QMF, MAPC, Visual Basic, VTAM, TCP/IP, ANDYMEN, FILEAID, Changeman, Teradata, Via-soft.