PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 10.5 years of experience in full SDLC life cycle including Project Planning, Analysis, Design, Development Testing, Implementation and Documentation.
• Experienced on working directly with client on Development, Enhancement, Production support, Defect resolution and Migration Projects.
• Having extensive experience and in - depth knowledge of Life Insurance Policy Admins Systems Vantage One, Life-Comm and Leverage (Policy-Link) Life admin products.
• Expertise on Mainframe technologies, Micro Focus, HP-Unix, AIX with domain Expertise in Life insurance (Term Life, UL, VUL, VLS, SVUL, Whole Life and Annuities/Retirement) Products.
• Lead Client interactions , facilitate meetings/discussions revolving around technical, functional and process related issues.
• Participate at an expert-level for the feasibility of the most complex enhancements.
• Conduct requirement gathering, estimation, impact analysis, design, cost benefit analysis & scheduling for implementation of best possible solution for new projects, enhancements or business requirements.
• Lead tasks which involve design, development, enhancements, configuration management, testing and implementation for various life admin applications.
• Involved in creation of Test Plan and Test Cases for Unit Testing, Integration Testing and system testing.
• Lead and participate at an expert-level for the feasibility of the most complex enhancements.
• Migration specialist (CCA) for migrating Mainframe and PVCS codes to their respective domains.
• Proven experience in various stages of SDLC, includes requirement management, creating BSD, Business acceptance testing and Data Flow Diagrams.
• Look for possible process automations and optimizations to reduce manual efforts and implement identified solutions.
• Efficient in document preparation such as Technical Specifications, Design Document, Test Plan, various Checklists and Implementation Plan for project work.
• To identify, manage and escalate any issues and risks to the higher management.
• Work in close liaison with specified departments within Mass Mutual to ensure business drivers, assumptions and accurate data are collected, updated, agreed, revised and built into the plan.
• Strong experience in Data Analysis.
• Adept at working effectively to achieve goals both as a team member and individual contributor.
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Project Management: HP Quality Center, HP service manager, JIRA, SharePoint, Service Now, MAX

Products: Vantage One (15.0), Leverage (Policy-Link), Life-Comm, Vision-Plus, OPM (Ordinary Policy Master), Policy Admin System

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/XP/2007/10, Mainframe Z/OS, Unix, AIX 7.1

Databases: MS Access, VSAM, IBM DB2, SQL Server

Languages: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, SPUFI, QMF, SQL, Easytrieve, MF-Cobol, FileTab, Shell scripting, Assembler

Endevor, Change: man, Serena PVCS

File: Aid, Xpeditor, Flasher, CA7, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, Enterprise Server Studio, PVCS, TWS-Maestro, Putty, Net Express

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Springfield, MA

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead tasks which involve design, development, configuration management, code testing, implementation and release support of new development and enhancements.
• Worked as BA on various development projects related to Policy Fund Values and Unit allocation, Loan processing, Premium and Tax calculations, COI processing, Policy Claim, Grace-Lapse and Policy Surrender.
• Involved in creation of Test Plan and Test Cases for Unit Testing, Integration Testing and system testing.
• Perform business process, product and system analysis to translate business needs into system requirements document.
• Responsible for BA Estimations.
• Maintain project schedules for key deliverables by developing project plan, monitoring milestone completion and coordinating project progress.
• Creation and execution of test plan for various software upgrades including DB2, Z/OS, CICS, Server, TWS and AIX upgrades for admin applications.
• Meeting regulatory requirements, planning and execution for Disaster Recovery testing and external Audit for admin applications
• Client interactions , facilitate meetings/discussions revolving around technical, functional and process related issues.
• Participate at an expert-level for the feasibility of the most complex enhancements.
• Conduct requirement gathering, estimation, impact analysis, design, cost benefit analysis & scheduling for implementation of best possible solution for new projects, enhancements or business requirements.
• Requirement gathering and creation of High-level design documents.
• Create Technical Specification document, Unit and QA integration Test Plan and Reports.
• Proven experience in various stages of SDLC.
• Look for possible process automations and optimizations to reduce manual efforts and implement identified solutions.
• Efficient in document preparation such as Technical Specifications, Design Document, Test Plan, various Checklists and Implementation Plan for project work.
• To identify, manage and escalate any issues and risks to the higher management.
• Efficiently manage onsite-offsite coordination for smooth operation of day to day processes and activities.
• Providing Knowledge transfer and sessions to vendor and other team members at both onshore and offshore.

Environment: Mainframe Z/OS, HP-Unix, AIX 7.1, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Vantage One, Policy-Link, Life-Comm, Easytrieve, File-Aid, Xpeditor, Flasher, CA7, Flasher, PVCS, TWS-Maestro, Putty, Net Express 5.1, MF-Cobol

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of POC (Proof of Concept)
• Co-ordinate with clients for Requirements Gathering and discussions.
• Analysis of Business Requirement Document and providing estimation for each phase of the life cycle.
• Writing the new MF-Cobol routines to achieve the SUPRA inbuilt functions functionality.
• Conversion of Easytrieve and Filetab programs to MF-Cobol and functionalities like SORT in mainframe to SQL queries on Oracle.
• Shifting of the code to Micro Focus Environment.
• Preparing unit test plans, executing unit test scripts and documenting the test results.
• Providing support for User Acceptance Testing and deployment of application.

Environment: Mainframe Z /OS, Net Express, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Easytrieve, File-tab, DB2, SQL, Micro Focus-Cobol, Net Express, Enterprise Server Studio.

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Handled a team for seven members in this project.
• Accountable for the activities allied with the documentation (Preparation of Technical Specification and User Test Scripts UTS ).
• Retrofitting of the Global and FDI code.
• Testing of Online, Batch Programs and review work.
• Defect Resolution for CRS defects coming in SIT, UAT phase.

Environment: Mainframe Z /OS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, VisionPlus, Easytrieve, Expeditor, Change-Man, Endevor, Debug Tool, File Manager, File-Aid

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the activities allied with the documentation (Preparation of Technical Specification, User Test Plans UTP and User Test Reports UTR ).
• Coding of copybooks and programs.
• Supporting, Maintaining and any new Enhancements Work.
• Performing the Unit Testing.
• Review work.

Environment: Mainframe Z /OS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, Vision Plus, Easytrieve, Expeditor, Change-Man, Endevor, Debug Tool, File Manager, File-Aid