PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Having 13+ years of professional experience in Information Technology with focus on development, support,Testing, Conversion and Enhancement of the systems using Agile methodology in IBM Mainframe Environment. Strong knowledge on Banking, Financial, Health Care and Retail domains.
• Works closely with customers, business analysts and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand - up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Strong knowledge in developing and maintaining batch applications. Involved in test and production support activities as well.
• Extensive experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, from requirement to implementation of Mainframe based enterprise level solutions and also played Scrum Master role.
• Proficient in Change Management involving Review of Change Requests (CR), Study & Impact Analysis of CR on present system, Finalization of enhancement, enhancement Design & Development, Testing and Implementation.
• Strong Technical Knowledge on Mainframe Technologies including Platform (OS), Languages, Databases and Tools with special expertise in COBOL, JCL, DB2,IMS/DB, VSAM, CICS,AS400,EGL,IDMS, Easytrieve, CMAN, REXX, File-Aid and Jobtrac.
• Have Hands on experience in MQs and Web Services.
• Worked with utilities and tools like TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, JCL, NDM, Quality Center, FTP, and IBM utilities.
• Adept at Team Management & Leadership skill like tasking, delegation, monitoring, feedback, skill upgrade, competence management, career planning, motivation & mentoring of the team
• Hands-on experience in analyzing functional business specifications, creating high & low level design documents.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance test (UAT) and Production environments.
• Done the impact analysis to identify the impacted components that are required to change as per the new business request.
• Involved in Coding, Unit testing and system testing of the change request as part of project enhancements.
• Ability to learn new technologies and processes rapidly and implement them in the project.
• Able to work under pressure, use own initiative and motivation to meet deadlines and set priorities without close supervision.
• Pro- active, flexible, enthusiastic, and results driven.
• Cohesive Team Player with Fast Learning Curve along with strong analytical, problem solving, innovation, planning, organizational, communication & interpersonal skills.
• Have given Knowledge Transfer to new joiners in the team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Z/OS,AS400

Programming Languages: COBOL,JCL,PL/1,SQL,Easytrieve

Databases: DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM

Tools/Utilities: TSO, ISPF, File-Aid, Change man, Xpeditor, Endeavor, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT, SPOOL, SPUFI, QMF and IBM Utilities.

Business Process Tools: MS Word, Excel, Power point, Outlook.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Dev lead on multiple PORs and implemented many in production successfully.
• Based on the analysis of requirements, preparing the estimates and present in the Confidential provided template.
• Preparing the tech responses, Technical Design Documents and present with Business and in Tech lead meetings to get approval.
• Deploying the code in SIT and Coordinating & providing support with SIT and UAT teams.
• Working on Change Management process to implement changes in Enterprise release and Off Cycle releases.
• Worked as SA for 9SFB project and implemented around 150 IDcard designs in production.
• Program development using COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB and VSAM.
• Coordinating with Offshore and guiding them to work on Technical/Business requirements.
• Trained new resources on SA works.
• Working closely with Business Analysts and Technical leads on multiple projects.
• Working on JIRA and Agile methodologies and tracking all the project related activities.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and preparing technical documentation and LLD.
• Preparation of High level and Detail Design documentation based on Business requirement.
• Prepared impact analysis document before changing the existing programs.
• Program development using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM.
• Responsible in supporting three applications those are Policy Based Payments (PBP), Billing and Finance.
• Implementing the PBP user stories using Agile methodology.
• Worked with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.
• Done with estimating effort for the enhancements, maintenance requests and support activities.
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Identified problems and formulated alternative solutions
• Took responsibility of delivery of the sprints and documents and management of the tasks.
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Ensured high quality code by using pair programming approach and moved the code successfully without abends to production for all sprints.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget.
• Managed the insight and opinions of multiple stakeholders and helped to ensure all stakeholders agreed with the current scope and roadmap of the product.
• Worked on the IMS tickets and resolved the tickets with proper resolution·
• Problem analysis and provided solutions for the environment issues and incidents.
• Responsible to create daily Bill rerun request and analysis for the failures of the cases.
• Handling task requests and Incidents in production environment.
• Ensured Quality of Deliverables-Components and Documents.·
• Responsible for effective communication between offshore team and the Onsite Coordinators.
• Supporting on-call on weekly basis

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Triage the issue reported by customers and prepared the triaged documents Interaction with business users for requirement clarification & resolutions
• Monitoring of applications
• Provided production support and fixed the issues immediately as per SLA.
• Resolution of incidents reported by application users.
• Coordination with global teams
• Generated the reports as per customer request
• Queries has been constructed and generated reports as per business requirements.
• Attended the Daily calls and weekly calls with onshore teams to discuss the tasks assignments.
• Resolution of test bugs uncovered during all phases of testing.
• Preparing and documenting triage documents.
• Maintain documentations for all work done.
• Co-coordinating the activities with other team members and reporting to the onsite POC.

Environment: AS400

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and preparing technical documentation and LLD.
• Preparation of High level and Detail Design documentation based on Business requirement.
• Prepared impact analysis document before changing the existing programs.
• Program development using COBOL,CICS,JCL,DB2
• Used ENDEVOR tool to work with production and test environments.
• Used FTP and NDM for transferring the files from one region to another region.
• Comparing the test results before performing the test and after performing the test.
• Preparing Unit test cases as per the new code.
• Involved in code review, Unit testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, test results and documentation.
• Prepared jobs hierarchy flow-charts using Visio tool.
• Estimated time and efforts for the enhancement.
• Involved in internal reviews like code walkthroughs, unit-test review of new programs, copybooks and JCL’s etc. and quality control documents.
• 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.
• Resolution of test bugs uncovered during all phases of testing.
• Preparing and documenting various deliveries (All phases of project).
• Running file compares before and after execution of input/output files to make sure they are in sync.
• Working on Enhancements of the existing codes by adding new functionality to it.
• Creation of test data & test plan for various scenarios.
• Providing solutions to issues raised in System Testing (SIT) and User acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Used ITSP for scheduling and FTP requests.
• Monitoring the Batch jobs and fixed the bugs immediately if any ABEND occurs.
• Execution of regression test cycles.
• Maintain documentations for all work done.
• Co-coordinating the activities with other team members and reporting to the onsite POC.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, ENDEVOR, SQL, InSync, Xpeditor, Endeavor, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading onshore and offshore teams sitting in different geographic location for day to day project activities.
• Develop schedule, determine budget & control schedule to complete the projects within agreed timelines and budget.
• Need to organizing, facilitating and ensuring follow-up action on new enhancement and production issues raised by the client.
• Inform team members and client of key developments, decisions, issues, and changes to the project and the project plan.
• Managing and tracking the delivery of multiple development project and production issues on contractually agreed SLAS & performance parameters Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress to client and onsite manger.
• Define delivery phases of the project including activities, sub-activities, and milestones ensuring these are documented and used as the basis for the project event log, issues and risk log and any subsequent reporting.
• Working closely with onsite Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery phase.
• Understanding and gathering information from client SME's for problems and enhancements.
• Need to participate in Application design, development, testing and maintenance.
• Performing coding, unit test data, SIT and UAT for changed modules. Outlining and confirming client expectations and major milestones i.e. project completion.
• Ensuring project documentation is kept up to date and relevant. Communicating effectively with stakeholders and sponsors and support new business development from the respective coalition,
• Handling production incidents and enhancements and resolve user's queries and issues.
• JCL and CICS knowledge to identify and resolve issues in batch and online.
• Facilitating peer reviews and quality control at various stages of SDLC. Provide production support for smooth running of online and batch application. Reporting to upper management regarding project status on daily and weekly basis. Handling of team members at different locations and co-ordination between them.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, IMS-DB, JCL, VSAM, Panvalet, MQs, Web Services, Change man, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, SYNCSORT, IBM Utilities.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with team, assigning tasks to team members, Planning and Estimation of the effort.
• Coordinating with team, assigning Tils s to team members.
• Responsible for interacting with users and understanding the issues.
• Responsible for the complete process of the Tils handling till tracking to closure.
• L1 L2 team will review the checklist and make the final status to retest and assign it to Biz team for closure.
• L1 L2 Team will take care for user understanding, Data fix ( subject to access), Parameter setting fixes and coordination between Env Support/ CTI for Env, Interfaces related issues & GPD team for L3 issues.
• Monitored the TILs in QC and resolve the issues with in time limit.
• Provided support for UAT,PAT regions.
• Participated in reviews and to provide technical guidance.
• Make sure that delivering the deliverables on time.
• Involved in solving user requests.
• Delivering the reports which are useful inside the project.

Environment: JCL, DB2, COBOL, CICS, CHANGE MAN, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI,HP Quality control

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with team, assigning tasks to team members, Planning and Estimation of the effort.
• Responsible for interacting with Clients and gathering requirements.
• Conducting environment requirements gathering meeting to collect the information from the project, required to build the test environment
• Coding and reviewing the construction of the programs according to the new business requirements supplied by the client.
• Participate in reviews and provided technical guidance in the team.
• Enhancements to the online programs according to the requirements specified.
• Should understand the technical problem and give a prompt resolution
• Developed the test environments and provided support in problem analysis, solving test environment issues and incidents.
• Coordinating the Test Support Activities, resolving different type of issues interrelated to test support
• Root cause analysis done for the abends and suggested to the developers with the possible solutions
• Monitoring and provided support for daily batch cycles.
• STROBE tool used for both online and batch processing applications and produces reports to find used to find the Application Performance Management.
• JCL and CICS knowledge to identify and fix the issues in batch and online.
• Documented the technical and functional specifications
• Have supported QA team in UAT testing.
• Make sure that delivering the deliverables on time.
• Have supported during project implementation and warranty activities.
• Documented the technical and functional specifications
• Responsible for effective communication between the team and the Onsite Coordinators.
• Involved in Knowledge sharing & Knowledge repository development.

Environment: COBOL, IMS-DB, JCL, CHANGE MAN, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, SYNCSORT, IBM Utilities and REXX.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with the team, assigning tasks to the team members, and preparing Estimation of the effort.
• Analysis, Design and Development of Batch Programs and online programs for all Applications according to the new business requirements supplied by the client.
• Done the impact analysis and research of the affected system.
• Took sessions on functional KT for the new joiners to the team.
• Design, Coding and reviewing the construction of the programs according to the new business requirements supplied by the client.
• Program modifications as per the business requirements.
• Carrying out Impact analysis and research on the affected system
• Coding, Unit testing, User acceptance testing, System Integrated testing, and production implementation of the project.
• Prepared the test plan and test results and get the business approvals.
• Monitoring the batch jobs and providing support.
• Generating various adhoc reports as per the business requirements.
• Comparing the test results before performing the test and after performing the test.
• Monitoring the jobs, These jobs will run based on the frequency
• Have documented the test case results.

Environment: Agile Methodology, JCL, COBOL, IMS-DB, SQL, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, EGL, PL1

Confidential

Assistant System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Design and Development of COBOL/DB2 Batch Programs and online programs for all Applications according to the new business requirements supplied by the client.
• Design and Development of COBOL Remote Procedure Calls (RPC’s).
• Prepared and executed lot of test cases, done integrated testing, System testing
• Handling adhoc requests and preparing reports.
• Analyzing Daily batch job abends in production and resolving them.
• Involved in Quality Assurance Activities for the Project
• Conducting team meetings and status meetings with onsite.
• Documented the project related activities and got appreciations from client.
• Preparation of unit test cases.
• Doing review across the team.
• Attending weekly status calls with clients and sending status reports.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, SQL, FILE-AID, Changeman and REXX

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design and construction of the programs according to the new business requirements supplied by the client.
• As a team member performing Analysis, Coding, Testing and Debugging.
• Preparation of unit test cases.
• Attending weekly status calls with clients and sending status reports.
• Sharing the acquired business and technical knowledge through various knowledge sharing sessions and seminars, thus helping out the team members to achieve high productivity
• Doing review across the team.
• Attending weekly status calls with clients and sending status reports.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, SQL, FILE-AID, Change man