SUMMARY:

• An accomplished Senior Technical Business Analyst /Mainframe Developer with more than 8 years of experience in Automotive and Banking /Finance domains.
• Experience in analysis, design, development, enhancements, testing and implementation of IT applications.
• Proven excellence in analyzing business processes, eliciting requirements, defining business needs and translating it to BRD, FRD, and Technical Requirement Documents.
• Extensive experience in Agile software development methodology.
• Involved in development of statement of work (SOW) and Request for Proposal (RFP) .
• Proficiency in executing the complete life cycle of the project (SDLC) and Agile.
• Knowledge on IBM Mainframe utilities and tools like File Manager, File Aid, Easytrieve, SORT, SPUFI and QMF,Endevor,Debugger.
• Performed Unit testing, functional testing, System Testing, Integration Testing and performance to verify if client’s needs are met.
• Hands on experience in MS office products and tools like MS Excel, Access, word, PowerPoint, Visio.
• Expertise using Agile tools like JIRA, Creation of User stories/Epic,Tasks/Subtasks and creation of test cases.
• Expertise in Requirement gathering,Application development, Project Management, Deployment, Implementation, Planning and issues prioritization, System Migration Planning and maintenance life cycle process.
• Well acquainted with Shipping Schedule Management and Supply chain domains of Automotive Industr
• Delivery Model - Experienced in Global outsourcing model and leading multiple teams based across geographical locations.Also Have good experience working with Suppliers such as HP/DXC and other Suppliers.
• Experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM., DB2, CICS, Easytrieve, CA7,REXX,RACF
• Mentoring and training new developers on programming languages and business requirements for various projects.
• Quick learner of new programming tools and good communication and presentation skills. Offers excellent interpersonal and team skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming languages: COBOL, Eazytrieve, JCL, DB2, VSAM and CICS

Tools: ENDEVOR, INTERTEST, SPUFI and TSO/ISPF, CA7, QC (Quality Center), R11 (Distributed scheduling Tool), MSVISIO,CAVIEW, SYSVIEW.$AVERS, Solar winds, JIRA,MS VISIO.

Testing: Coding and testing of APIs (Application Program Interface) using SOAP and IWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Confidential, Dearborn,MI

Lead Developer/Business Analyst

• Perform requirements gathering by interacting with key business people in understanding of the existing business processes.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement methodology and scope for ongoing projects.
• Adhered to strong research techniques to minimize gaps and inconsistencies within existing product, for cost effective model and improved development.
• Identified user needs and business requirements and communicate design deliverables, such as specifications BRD and design documents and component deliverables.
• Daily tracking of milestones and impediments using scrum meetings of around 15 minutes.
• Estimating the hours to complete the enhancement by analyzing and breaking down the requirements technically and creating a solution design document.
• End to end development to add new functionalities using COBOL, JCL,DB2,VSAM.
• Regression testing, user acceptance testing done of each completed module to ensure there is no adverse effect on existing functionalities.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Endevor, FTP,, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid, Xpeditor Batch & Online, QMF, SPUFI, Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office,E-Tracker,,MS VISIO.

Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Project Lead/Business Analyst

• Worked with the Credit Analysts and interface systems to gather the requirements for a particular Epic/User story.
• Create BRD and design documents according to the business and technical impact to the system/application.
• Develop various enhancements for COBOL/DB2/CICS and JCL/PROC to accomplish the BRD objectives.
• Test the programs and then perform UAT with customers to achieve desired results before deployment.
• Get all approvals prior to production launch to ensure compliance at all levels.
• Participated in telecoms to make offshore team understand the requirements and design of the project.
• Used various JCL Utilities & Debugging tools to resolve the Production Issues.
• Followed Root Cause Analysis to minimize the production job abends and hence stabilize the system.
• For the customer issues provide consultation to business users to implement the most effective solution.
• Use technical expertise to optimize the long running jobs by modifying the legacy code and fine-tuning the embedded DB2 queries, resulting in indirect cost savings.
• Coordinate with onsite team for task assignment, completion and status reporting to client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Endevor, FTP, MQ Series, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid, Xpeditor Batch & Online, QMF, SPUFI, Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office,JIRA,,MS VISIO.

Confidential

Project lead and onsite coordinator

• Responsible for conversion of all active IMS components (~150) to non-IMS by removing checkpoint restart logic in the source code, JCL and Proc
• Lead the task of COBOL -IMS DB2 component changes, Proc and JCL changes, regression testing on a daily basis for ~150 components during a period 3 months
• Independently coded ~20 COBOL IMS DB2 component changes, proc and JCL changes and delivered to customer in a quick turn around time
• Provided cost savings to the customer by performing sundown of IMS in active components
• Coordinated with offshore team on a daily basis to provide high quality deliverables through use of checklists, daily share point trackers and knowledge transfer ensuring timely completion of requests
• Worked with management team and customer in resource allocation, project planning to meet critical/high visibility project requirements and deadlines requested by customer
• Involved in creating SOW/RFP for the project.
• Recipient of MBFS customer one coin 3 times for having delivered high quality results in a timely mannerResponsible for Planning and implementing various processes to keep the business up and running.
• Daily activities include tracking /reporting the CPU usage of Batch /Online Systems for the various applications by Solar winds for Distributed.
• Used SAS tool to extract and analyze MVS source data- SMF to determine historical trends of CPU, memory and storage utilization.
• Responsible for Co-Coordinating with the offshore team and other Suppliers.
• Provide technical solutions for CA7 scheduling activities for the entire applications of the project.
• Supporting distributed environment by learning new tools like Solar winds, R11 scheduler.
• Responsible for building tools for automation for data refresh/CA7 dashboard/CA7 schedule comparison between various LPAR’s/CA7 forecasts.
• Working on various cost saving activities that benefit the company.

Environment: COBOL, JCL,, DB2,,IMS,Endevor, FTP, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid, Xpeditor Batch & Online, QMF, SPUFI,Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office.

Confidential

Lead Developer

• Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing and Implementation of various Projects and Work Requests in GIW space. Developed the new code or change the existing code.
• Responsible for creating comprehensive test data, test plan and test cases for Unit testing Involved in peer code review.
• Have used Quality control for tracking the defects.
• Responsible for planning, tracking, change control for the Work requests assigned to me.
• Responsible for following the quality process and maintaining proper documentation of the tasks in hand.
• Coordinating with the Testing team and assisting them in creating the test data for system testing and supporting the UAT phase of the Install.
• Interact with Onsite team members and discuss technical problems and report bugs.
• Also was part of mentoring, providing the knowledge transfer and performing the code review of Co-developers and providing sign-offs

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FTP, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid,, QMF, SPUFI, RC-Edit, Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients and also designing the requirement.
• Prepared unit test plan.
• COBOL coding for the Sim corp module and creation of the proc's and JCL's.
• Conducted unit testing on all the modules of the project.
• Prepared unit test report.
• Checking the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company and client Quality guidelines.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, FTP, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid,, QMF, SPUFI,Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Prepared unit test plan
• COBOL, IDMS coding for the MOE module.
• Conducted unit testing on all the modules of the project
• Prepared unit test report
• Checked the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company and client Quality guidelines

Environment: COBOL, JCL, IDMS, FTP, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid,, QMF, SPUFI, RC-Edit, Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Prepared unit test plan
• COBOL, DB2 coding for the POST BASE LINED FUNCTONAL module.
• Conducted unit testing on all the modules of the project
• Prepared unit test report
• Checking the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company and client Quality guidelines
• Providing knowledge transfer and technical training for new joiners.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FTP, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid,, QMF, SPUFI, RC-Edit, Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office.,XML,SOAP/IWS API.

Developer

Confidential

• Developing the system of client requirement and standard.
• Coding and implementing the COBOL codes for the programs.
• Preparation of test cases and error log for the code.

Developer

Confidential

• Coding and Development.
• Checking the Quality standards of various aspects of the project in accordance with the company Quality guidelines.
• Generation of reports and presentation of the project.
• Help in integration of the project.
• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, FTP, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Aid,, QMF, SPUFI, Sync Sort, Easytrieve,CA7, Abend-Aid, File Manager, Panvalet, MS Office.