Technical Lead Developer/ IT Business Analyst Resume

SUMMARY:

11 years of experience in Mainframe applications development, requirements analysis, Business - IT coordination, application maintenance for Insurance and BFS (Banking and Financial Services) clients.
Agile Lead technical developer and Onshore Project Coordinator in Confidential.
Has work experience in various geographical locations - India, United Kingdom and United States.
Certified Professional Scrum Developer TM (PSD-I) with 3+ years of Scrum development experience.
Solid engineering background and analytical skill for requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance phases of Software Development Life Cycle ( SDLC ).
Excellent understanding and experience in ITIL Processes - Incident, Problem, Known Error and Change Management.
Strong functional knowledge and Subject Matter Expert of BACS clearings, International/Faster Payments, Financial reconciliations, Business-to-Business (B2B), Letters, Statements, Confirms, Certificates, ATM, Cards and PIN processing.
Strong professional experience in System analysis, Operational and Application Consultancy, Project Management, Provision of Business and Technical Solution, onshore-offshore work model and Stakeholder management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, OS/390, MVS, z/OS

Programming Skills: COBOL, Easytrieve, REXX, PL/I, TSO/ISPF, SAS, CICS, IBM dataset utilities, JCL, Python & Java basics

Database & Tools: IBM DB2, IMS, Princeton, Platinum, File-AID, SPUFI

Mainframe source code version controllers & schedulers: Alchemist, Endevor, TWS Scheduler, OPCE, CA-7, Autosys

Mainframe Tools: MQ, JCL, VSAM, Connect:Direct (NDM), FTP, XPEDITOR, DFSORT, ICETOOL, Abend-AID, CSF, BaseX

Agile/DevOps Tools: Scrumwise, VersionOne, Compuware Topaz Workbench, IntelliJ, SonarQube, GITHUB

ITIL Tools: SMART, HP SM7, BMC Remedy IT Service Management, Service Now, Lotus Notes, Clear Quest, HP Quality Centre

Certifications: Professional Scrum DeveloperTM (PSD-I) IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9 Fundamentals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Lead Developer/ IT Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Actively participate in Sprint planning, Retrospective, Review, Backlog refinement, Release planning and Daily stand up.
Design, develop and test components in Mainframe COBOL, SAS, JCL, DB2, XML parser, REXX, NDM, Compuware Topaz Workbench.
Work in Agile POD - coordinate with Business, offshore, xPression and QA teams for Continuous Integration and Development (CI/CD).
Redesigned financial annuities statements were awarded by Confidential. for the best client statement experience.

Confidential

Senior Technical Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

Subject Matter Expert (SME) for applications Business to Business (B2B), Confirms/Letters/Statements and Contract Print.
Design, develop and test applications in Mainframe COBOL, SAS, JCL, DB2, Autosys, IBM dataset utilities.
Do parallel development and effectively utilize version control tools.
Support SYT, UAT, test batch cycles, resolve batch abends and defects with minimum turnaround time.
Automated file transfer validations, file comparisons, prn files pull and format, COBOL standards checking.

Tech Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Lead the onshore and offshore development team members.
Analyze complex requirements, prepare Impact Analysis, design documents, Unit Test Plans/Results, estimate effort and resource planning.
Design, develop and test components in COBOL, DB2, JCL, NDM, Easytrieve, IBM dataset utilities, Message switch.
Prepare test environment for the development requirements.
Peer testing and review to ensure quality of the deliverables.
Work with client SMEs and develop the new tactical payment gateway process.
Prepare and implement decommission plan after permanent gateway was set up.
Implement and maintain project successfully on time with no production defect; Received client, organizational rewards and appreciations.

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert/ Developer

Responsibilities:

Drive incident calls for high severity incidents, coordinate with teams to implement work arounds and permanent fixes.
Maintain and enhance existing applications in DB2, PL/I, Easytrieve, COBOL, Assembler, IMS, SAS, REXX, CICS, SPUFI and JCL.
Performance tuning for existing processes and automate daily/weekly/monthly/yearly reports, overnight batch files validation, payments reconciliations, batch monitor reports, environment details enquiry tool.
Resolved complex incidents involving payment reconciliations, ATM, Cards/PIN encryptions, Letters & Statements, Message switch interfaces, Faster payments, BACS/Clearings.
Incident and Problem Management champion.