SUMMARY:

• Over 5.9 years of Software Development experience in diversified fields of Application Software Development which include Development, Maintenance, and Testing on mainframe and Informatica(ETL Tool) along with excellent database knowledge and programming skills.
• Proven record of success in design, development and implementation of software applications using COBOL,JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, QMF, SPUFI and ISPF/TSO and tools CHANGEMAN, FILE - AID, BMC, Platinum tools and OPCC as well as Informatica ETL
• Has extensive domain knowledge in the diversified fields of Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Retails. Experienced in Requirement Gathering, Project Estimation, and Analysis, Technical Specification design, Coding, Testing, Implementation and knowledge transfer activities. Sound understanding and exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Able to work under tight deadlines and rapidly changing priorities with proactive, creative & focused approach to business needs with high analytical, inter personal, communication and team handling skills
• Good Programming and Communication Skills with excellent work ethics, easy adaptability to demanding time schedules coupled with positive user interaction and excellent team spirit. Able to quickly absorb new material and highly motivated to work in a group. Demonstrated competence and ability to work on multiple projects.
• In-depth experience in developing and supporting both production and development environments.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to interact with people at all levels and good decision maker with good leadership qualities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, MQ, Informatica, Linux

Databases: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, Oracle 9.0

Software Tools: CHANGEMAN,OPCC, SQL Developer, Toad, QMF, Platinum tool, Fileaid

Operating Systems: Windows (batchfile) /UNIX / OS-390, Z/OS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Environment: JCL, COBOL, Eztrieve, VSAM, DB2, CA7, Platinum tool, File-aid, QMF

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with client in order to have a thorough understanding of Software Requirements.
• Acts as a lead in providing application design guidance and consultation, utilizing a thorough understanding of applicable technology, tools and existing designs.
• Analyzes highly complex business requirements, designs and writes technical specifications to design or redesign complex computer platforms and applications.
• Provides coding direction to less experienced staff or develops highly complex original code.
• Acts as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts.
• Worked closely with Architect and Tech Manager to Design and implement solutions.
• Handled team of 7 members from offshore and assigned work to them as per requirements.
• Partner with Quality Assurance team to troubleshoot applications and address identified issues.
• Provided communication with multiple partnering teams in regards to development status.
• Involved in coding and QA Reviewing of the deliverables.
• Created all project artifacts including functional requirements, use cases, activity and transition diagrams, test plans and test cases
• Experience with Agile SCRUM Framework
• Peer Reviewing and QA Reviewing of the deliverables
• Assisted during production install and implementation.

Confidential

Environment: JCL, COBOL, Eztrieve, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, CA7, Platinum tool, File-aid, QMF

Responsibilities:

• Analysis on impacted components (i.e. COBOL, COBOL/DB2, IMS DB, EZTRIEVE) and exiting Functionality and Code.
• Verifies program logic by overseeing the preparation of test data, testing and debugging of programs.
• Oversees overall systems testing and the migration of applications to production.
• Develops new documentation, departmental technical procedures and user guides.
• Leads projects, allocates and manages resources and manages the work of less experienced staff.
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area and oversees creation of or updates to and testing of the business continuation plan.
• Involved in gathering the system requirements and understanding the schema.
• Involved in the Requirement Analysis, Design, Data Modeling, Service Design for the project
• Participated in overall design and derived detail design flowchart.
• Understood functional specifications, designing and developing creative solutions to meet business requirements.
• Peer Reviewing and QA Reviewing of the deliverables.
• Responsible for overall design & analysis of Unit testing and integration with existing system.
• Created Test Plans and Test cases.
• Have provided support on implementation and post implementation.

Confidential

Environment: JCL, COBOL, CICS, MQ, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB, OPCC, CTD, CHANGEMAN

Responsibilities:

• New development using COBOL on IBM mainframe systems mostly related to unit cost systems.
• Responsible for elaboration of user requirements, designing solutions, development and testing of COBOL code and related JCL.
• Review development documents and provide functional and non-functional project requirements, critique and direct architecture decisions & application designs.
• Responsible for transferring the knowledge to offshore and making sure the team is gaining proper knowledge to provide support for handling the tickets to meet the project deliverable within the SLA.
• Work with application support teams and business teams to integrate new COBOL applications with other applications, with thorough testing.
• Acting as the single point of contact between onsite and offshore HCL teams.
• Raising issues, risks and assumptions appropriately with the SMEs/Business
• Responsible for bridging the gaps between the customer, business stakeholders, and the development team.
• Responsible for Design, Planning, Scheduling, Development, Tracking, Monitoring & Reporting.
• Coding, Unit and System Integration testing, Providing QA and UAT support for successful implementation.

Confidential

Environment: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, SPUFI, OPCC, CTD, CHANGEMAN and Informatica (ETL Tool)

Responsibilities:

• Develop applications in COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2 and VSAM
• Produce software component designs and specifications.
• Produce software components and test the components.
• Produce unit and link test plans and test results.
• Create test data and testing environments for unit and link testing.
• Undertake integration testing including assisting in the production of test plans.
• Produce system documentation.
• Identify instances where change control is required.
• Maintain and develop knowledge skill and competencies in software development.
• Carry out audits and participate in technical walkthroughs of other team members’ components, test plans and results.
• Implementation and promotion of change requests to production.
• Performance tuning to existing applications
• Involved in Monitoring daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly Batch cycles.