PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Overall 7 + years of experience in design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Worked in both Banking and Retail & Logistics domains.
• Expertise in developing and maintaining applications using Mainframe,Core Java, Talend Data Integration and Talend Big data components Hive, HDFS,Pig.
• Expertise in Mainframe - JCL,COBOL,DB2,IMSDB/DC,CICS.
• Worked with utilities and software like TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, JCL, NDM, Quality
• Center, FTP, IDCAMS, Control-M, Jobtrac and IBM utilities.
• Worked on all phases of the system development life cycle (SDLC) implementation support.
• Involved in Coding, Unit testing and system testing of change requests as part of project enhancements.
• Expertise in preparing project artifacts like Project Estimation document, Detailed Requirements Specifications, Functional and Technical specifications, Test cases documents, Test plans, Test Strategies, Defects log and Implementation activities document.
• Created user test cases for User Acceptance Test (UAT) and co-ordinate with users for UAT.
• Involved in logging the defects unearthed in all phase of testing and collecting the defect metrics of each change requests which help in assessing the health of the project.
• Actively involved in all project related communications like project kick off meetings, war room discussions, brain-storm sessions, project KT sessions, Daily/Weekly standup meetings, Daily/Weekly project status meetings, project hand-off meetings with all the stake holders of the project and Onshore/Offshore coordination.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work independently or within cross-functional teams to handle projects concurrently.
• Hands-on experience in analyzing functional business specifications, creating high & low level design documents.
• Proficiency in reviewing the CMR’s (Change Manage Records) and SSR’s (Special service request) for all the projects before going into live.
• Done the impact analysis to identify the impacted components that are required to change as per the new business request.
• Created Regression test cases for the end to end job flow testing.
• Have worked on numerous extracts and Test support projects.
• Ability to learn new technologies and processes rapidly and implement them in the project.
• Prepared Test results based on the execution of test cases in HP Quality Center.
• Provided Implementation and Post-Implementation support for the implemented project.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines and set priorities without close supervision.
• Have given Knowledge Transition to juniors.
• Good team player and active member in organizing the team outings and events etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: / Utilities: Talend Big Data Integration/data Integration, TSO, ISPF, File-Aid, Change man, Control-M, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT, SPOOL, SPUFI, IDCAMS, Jobtrac, IBM Utilities, Xpeditor.

Operating Systems: OS/390, Z/OS.

Programming Languages: COBOL,JCL,CICS,Core Java.

Databases: DB2, SQL,Mongo DB & IMS,MySQL.

Versioning tools: Change Man, ISPW.

Business Process tools: MS Word, Excel, Power point, Visio, Outlook.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Collierville, TN

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor.
• Working closely with upper management.
• Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance
• Responding promptly and professionally to bug reports.
• Expected to conduct system analysis and development, with limited support from professional staff, to keep our systems current with changing technologie
• Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems
• Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers.
• Responsible for analysis of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.
• Responsible for developing new programs and proofing the program to develop needed changes to assure production of a quality product.
• Responsible for development of new programs, analyzes current programs and processes, and making recommendations which yield a more cost effective product.
• Writes, edits, and debugs new computer programs for assigned projects, including necessary records and desired output.
• Document code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions, and any changes made in database tables on procedural, modular and database level
• Responsible for reading, understanding, and utilizing all part and assembly prints, forms, spreadsheets, bills of material, specification sheets, and technical references.

Environment: JCL,COBOL,DB2,IMSDB/DC,SQL,SORT.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor.
• Working closely with upper management.
• Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance
• Responding promptly and professionally to bug reports.
• Expected to conduct system analysis and development, with limited support from professional staff, to keep our systems current with changing technologie
• Analyze, design, coordinate and supervise the development of software systems to form a basis for the solution of information processing problems
• Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers.
• Responsible for analysis of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.
• Responsible for developing new programs and proofing the program to develop needed changes to assure production of a quality product.
• Responsible for development of new programs, analyzes current programs and processes, and making recommendations which yield a more cost effective product.
• Writes, edits, and debugs new computer programs for assigned projects, including necessary records and desired output.
• Document code consistently throughout the development process by listing a description of the program, special instructions, and any changes made in database tables on procedural, modular and database level
• Responsible for reading, understanding, and utilizing all part and assembly prints, forms, spreadsheets, bills of material, specification sheets, and technical references.

Environment: JCL,COBOL,DB2,IMSDB/DC,SQL,SORT.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of detailed technical design documents based on analysis of functional business requirement.
• Prepared the detailed design document as per the business requirement.
• Based on the requirement document, Performs impact analysis, provide the target completion date.
• Attended the Daily calls and weekly calls with onshore teams to discuss the ongoing projects and tasks assignments.
• Used languages like COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS to meet as per the business requirement.
• Preparation of testing and implementing strategies for modified components.
• Preparation of test data using File-Aid to run the test scenarios.
• Have entered new business data through CICS screens.
• Perform the unit testing and shared the unit test results with business as per the business request.
• Preparation of test data to run the test cycle run end to end job flow.
• Have compared the files before and after execution of jobs to make sure they are in sync.
• Root cause analysis of the non matching reports or files.
• Reviewed the CMR’s for the batch and online components of live projects.
• Have given knowledge transfer of end to end job flow to the new joiners.
• Provided solutions to issues raised in System Testing (SIT) and User acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Execution of regression test cycles.
• Have involved in the preparation of pre-implementation tasks and post-implementations tasks.
• Co-ordinate the activities with team members.

Environment: JCL, DB2, COBOL, CHANGE MAN, CICS, SQL, FILE-AID, Control-M, SPUFI, QMF,IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted environment requirements gathering meeting to collect the information from the project, required to build the test environment.
• Analyzed the project requirements and come up with a best solution like whether the existing assets/environment can be used or have to build the new brand environment.
• Analyzed and understanding the requirements
• Impact analysis and preparing components specifications.
• Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, COBOL, DB2
• Review of source code as per requirements.
• Involved in loading data into tables, unloading tables and running run stats on tables.
• Preparation of Unit test cases and unit testing as per the business requirements.
• Involved in Spec Walk-thru and Code Walk-thru with onsite.
• Updated the status of work on daily basis and sending the status report to POC.
• Involved in On-Shore and Off-Shore coordination.
• Involved in Knowledge sharing &Knowledge repository development.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CHANGE MAN, SP Tool, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, Control-M, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT, IBM Utilities.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Done the impact analysis and research of the affected system.
• Program modification using COBOL, JCL, DB2 as per the business requirements.
• In charge of having the cycle completed within the specified SLA (Service Level Agreement).
• Responsible for Accepting the Service now requests (SR s).
• Need to provide the solution for the SR’s.
• Prepared the test plan and test results and get the business approvals.
• Monitored the batch jobs and provided support.
• Used NDM for transferring the data across the regions.
• Used control-m to schedule the mainframe jobs.
• Identified, Unloaded and Loaded test data from Production to Test regions.
• Generated various adhoc reports as per the business requirements.
• Written the SQL quires against the database using SPUFI and QMF.
• Compared the test results before performing the test and after performing the test.
• Monitored the jobs, These jobs will run based on the frequency
• Have documented the test case results.
• Got appreciation from Business end.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, CHANGE MAN, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, Jobtrac, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT.