PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 11+ years of mainframe experience with main focus on Business Analysis, Development, Maintenance, Trouble shooting, Enhancement and Testing.
• Experience in Automotive (Purchasing and supply chain Management), Banking and Utility applications.
• In - depth knowledge of project documentation especially preparing Requirement analysis document, change proposals, complex test plans and design test cases.
• Versatile team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Possess strong problem-solving and analytical skills with ability to follow project standards, documentation and procedures.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Business Analyst

Environment: Oracle eBS, IBM MAINFRANE 3090, COBOL, JCL, DB2-SQL, CICS Online screens, Microsoft SQL server, Agile (shipment application in .NET),Tidal jobs - scripts

Responsibilities:

• I was part of the migration project where Parts system was migrated to Oracle based application from Mainframes. Below listed are my current responsibilities.
• To assist business area with information they need.
• To Provide support for Agile-ship application
• To Assist end users in warehouse with shipment documents (domestic as well as export) as and when required
• To co-coordinate for the fixes with application Vendor- developers
• To configure new carrier or carrier rate changes provided by business
• To perform tests to confirm ticket closures with the application vendor
• To test new equipment’s for warehouses
• To set up the scripts in order to generate daily reports as needed by business.
• To set up the scripts to get all shipment documents loaded to document server for future reference.
• To co-ordinate with custom department for export orders and ITN requests.
• To manage the help documentation for end users at warehouses.

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

Mainframe Test Lead

Environment: IBM MAINFRANE 3090, COBOL, JCL, DB2-SQL, CICS Online screens, ETL, MVS, MDMS,XML, Unix Shell scripting, TERADATA

Responsibilities:

• Test strategy, Test plan with estimation in hours
• Preparing Test case document
• Taking part in test case review and walk through with client.
• Test data identification and set up
• Executing test scripts/scenarios
• Tracking and review of actual testing
• Co-coordinating UAT testing activities - test data setup, test environment setup, test id setup, required access requests for UAT testing team
• Uploading and tracking all required elements to HP ALM tool
• Presenting test status on daily basis

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Environment: IBM MAINFRANE 3090, COBOL, JCL, IDMS, ADSO online screens, DMLO, CICS Web services, MVS

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and solution proposal with estimation in hours - phase wise - Analysis, development, Integration testing and implementation
• Taking part in weekly status calls with client for discussion on on-going work and issues, if any.
• Handling Batch job ABENDs or online screen failures in Production
• Providing temporary fix by changing production data.
• Providing permanent fix to the production issues.
• Resolving service requests raised by end users while working on online screens
• Analysis and providing possible solutions for change requests
• Taking care of on-call support (on rotation basis)
• Preparing program specifications (Design documents) and test case documents
• Development for the change and unit testing
• Performing Integration Testing and Post implementation validations

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Environment: IBM MAINFRANE 3090, COBOL, JCL, IMS online screens, DB2, SQL, MVS, IBM Debug tool, ENDEVOR, EDI (Transactions - 810, 830, 850, 834, 856 and application specific formats), OPC, Scratch pad, FAULT-ANALYSER, JIRA, SCRUM

Responsibilities:

• Analysis in order to resolve the production issues
• Proposing the solution and following up for the approval for the same
• Development according to the specification document
• To capture the observations which can be worked on as proactive category
• Preparing program specification documents
• Development for the complex modules
• Handling queries from 2nd level support (initiated by end user).
• Providing quick resolution/fix to the productions issues whenever possible.
• Raising a Maintenance ticket for permanent resolution whenever required.
• Taking care of onetime execution of some planned quarterly and yearly job runs in order to produce business critical reports.
• Provided application education for the new and existing end users periodically. Especially when new feature has been added or modified existing feature.
• Created help screens and process flow diagrams in easily understandable non-technical language for the reference of end users and business users.
• Update the KANBAN board as per the stated stage as and when work moves forward

Confidential

Technology Analyst

Environment: IBM MAINFRANE 3090, COBOL, JCL, IMS DC, IMS DB, DB2, SQL, Stored Procedure, MVS, SYNCSORT, EXPEDITOR, Changeman, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, JOBTRAC, JCL utilities, Easytrieve, REXX, MQ series, HP Quality Center

Responsibilities:

• Performing Impact Analysis
• Followed SDLC and stated documentation in specific formats for each phase of SDLC.
• Performed thorough analysis on requirements and documenting them in a specific format and presenting to the client for approval. These documents contained easily understandable non-technical language.
• Planning and tracking progress for design, build and test activities
• Tracking review process thru out the project life cycle
• Design, Build and testing for complex modules
• Taking walkthroughs for design and code with client and own team members
• Coordinating testing activities with other teams
• Planning Implementation activities (creating Implementation plan)
• Preparation of Post validation plan and performing the post implementation validation
• Documentation and sharing of learning with Team members.
• Documenting the requirements, test and defects in Quality center

Confidential

Software engineer

Environment: JAVA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in waterfall model and followed SDLC.
• Worked towards requirement gathering by interacting with end users -- geology scientists. filtered and clarified requirements and preparing final requirement documents worked towards detail design of the application and database design coding and testing for the new programs from scratch performed integration testing