SUMMARY:

• Having 7+ years of IT experience in Mainframe technology working with Development, Production Support, Maintenance and Enhancement projects.
• Experience in all phases of SDLC, Software Practices and Standards.
• Sound development and design experience in COBOL, JCL, IMS/DB, DB2 & CICS
• Experience in preparing and reviewing the Business and the Functional Requirements.
• Involved in the Business analysis of user requirements by interacting with the SME’s and the Business Users.
• Excellent analytical, communication and problem - solving skills.
• Team player with excellent organizational skills to assess needs, set priorities and meet deadlines.
• Have working experience on MMIS
• Good experience in documentation like program analysis documents, LLDs and UTRs.
• Experience in Coordinating with the teams of programmers at different locations. Ability to mentor and coach junior team members.
• Hands on experience in using version control tool like ENDEVOR, Debugging tool like XPEDITOR, Production tool like SAVERS/SAR and General Tools - FILE-AID, QMF,CA7
• Expertise in development of user interface screens using Basic mapping support and running CICS commands
• Excellent knowledge in IBM utilities like IDCAMS, REPRO, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEFBR14.
• Excellent knowledge with Unit Testing, User Acceptance testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, System acceptance testing, Production implementation and maintenance.
• Expertise in working with STATIC Calls, DYNAMIC Calls, Linkage section in COBOL programs and Communication area in CICS programs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframes Technologies/Operating system: IBM-Z/OS

LANGUAGES: COBOL, JCL, EZYTRIEVE,FOCUS

DATA BASE: IMS/DB, DB2 & VSAMOLTPCICS

TOOLS: WORKED: ENDEVOR, TSO, FILEAID - IMS, DB2 & MVS, XPEDITOR, $SAVERS, $AR,SPUFI, CA7 & ABEND-AID, FTP, VISIO, IDCAMS & Open View Service Desk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Environment: COBOL, EZYTRIEVE, FOCUS, IMS DB(V11R1), DB2(V9R1), CICS FILE - AID, ABEND AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR.

Computer Systems Analyst & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with Offshore team to ensure smooth execution of project
• Interacting with Business personnel to gather the requirements
• Prioritize the work items and assigning them to the team members
• Prepared Minutes of Meeting for Business requirement walk through.
• Remove any conflict found during Requirement Analysis.
• Prepared High/low level design documents. (System Requirements Documents)
• Participating in the Status meetings and following up on the tasks assigned to ensure on-time delivery
• Expertise in full project life cycle development for implementation and integration.
• Maintaining version control for the conflicting components
• Debugging and diagnostic skills in batch processing.
• Coding, unit testing, moving components to Production, Rollout and Back out Plans.
• Prepared Unit test plan document for all the enhancements and projects
• Tested the Integration of different modules.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Worked with Mainframes & BizTalk while working on compliance changes
• Workingon Various Critical Problem Tickets and Maintenance activities
• Working as a Primary On-call support person for the scheduled batch cycles
• Adhere to SLA while working as On call

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB(V11), DB2(V9R1), CICS FILE - AID, ABEND AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR.

Computer Systems Analyst & Onsite Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Onshore/Offshore coordination
• Analyze Requirements after discussion with Business
• Prepared Minutes of Meeting for Business requirement walk through.
• Remove any conflict found during Requirement Analysis.
• Prepared High/low level design documents. (System Requirements Documents)
• Actively involved in Coding and Unit Testing
• Expertise in full project life cycle development for implementation and integration.
• Maintaining version control for the components through Endevor
• Debugging and diagnostic skills in batch processing.
• Coding, unit testing, moving components to Production, Rollout and Back out Plans.
• Prepared Unit test plan document for all the projects and enhancements.
• Tested the Integration of different modules.
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Prepared Release Notes and Patch or Code for Delivery.
• Monitoring the Production Deployment for a Particular Release Implementation.
• Attending the pre and post deployment meetings with vendor, Business service delivery team, QA testing team and Users team.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB(V10), DB2(V8), CICS FILE - AID, ABEND AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR.

Software Engineer & Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the designs as per the requirements provided
• Actively Coded and Unit Tested the components
• Setting up the Test Environment to be in Sync with Prod by FTP'ing the components.
• Running the Batch Jobs in different test Environments
• Source code walk through and review the components.
• Tested the Integration of different modules.
• Worked with SQL using SPUFI
• Developed Test Cases and Test Scripts.
• Maintaining version control for the components through Endevor

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IMS DB(V10), DB2(V8), CICS FILE - AID, ABEND AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR.

Software Engineer & Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Prepared design documents as per the requirements provided
• Coded/Modified the components required as per the design specifications
• Unit tested the components
• Was involved in status meetings
• Was involved in the Deployment activities
• Involved in Post Deployment activities during the warranty period of the project

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, FILE - AID, XPEDITOR & CA7

Software Engineer & Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Work on internal enhancement projects and change management user requests for Wisconsin Medicaid.
• Create System Requirements Specification Document, Detail System Design Document and Test Plan for each assigned change management requests.
• Program changes to meet business requirements and technical specifications
• Perform unit testing, system testing and regression testing to verify accuracy as per business requirements.
• Migrate to production system when approved and signed-off by project team and business users.
• Perform On-Call cycle monitoring and production support duties for daily, weekly and monthly cycles as assigned on programmer schedules.
• Prod fix issues and restart job cycles during production support.
• Analyze system Issues and report to solutions which converts to Change requests and production fixes.

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, PAN VALET and ABEND-AID

Junior Software Engineer & Team Member

Responsibilities:

• As per the design documents, analyzed the impacted components
• Coded/Modified the modules according to Design specificationsUnit tested the changes

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FILE - AID, XPEDITOR & CA7

Software Engineer & Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Providing primary support to BT for ASC & EDI modules.
• Providing solutions for the errors occurring when processing takes place at back end.
• Monitoring the jobs.
• Resolving the on line cases.