SUMMARY:

• Over 9+ years of IT experience in designing, developing, implementing and testing of application development and maintenance using Mainframe Technologies.
• Strong experience of working in team as well as execution of projects single handedly with least or no supervision.
• Excellent Analytical, Planning and Problem solving skills with strong ability to interact with individuals and work towards synergy of team.
• Extensive Experience in COBOL,JCL,DB2,VSAM,CICS (CICS Transaction Gateway) and SQL technologies.
• Extensive experience in Business Requirements analysis, Functional Specification, Design, Coding, Unit testing, Implementation, Estimation, Guiding & mentoring the team to understand the business needs.
• Strong analytical experience in application development using mainframe etchnologies with practical approach to timelines and scope.
• Rich experience in translating Business/System requirements to understandable System Testing requirements and Implementing CMM Methods & Procedures across the organization.
• Outstanding problem solving, analytical, Issue tracking and decision making skills with proven ability to conceptualize optimal solution to challenging situations.
• Thorough Understanding of Software Development/Testing Life Cycle (SDLC/STLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Production Support.
• Experienced in Documenting, Writing unit Test Cases, Test Plans and Manual Test Cases & executing it.
• Strong experience in incident, change and problem management using BMC Remedy.
• Worked as 'On call' support for distributed applications on weekly rotation basis.
• Experience working in a fast - paced Agile environment using SCRUM methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: OS/390, Z/OS, Windows

Programming Languages: COBOL,CICS,JCL,VSAM,COBOL-XML,MQ

Databases & Tools: DB2 and Teradata SQL Assistant

Development Tools: TSO/ISPF,File-Aid,Abend-Aid,Endeavor Version control,Xpeditor,Zeke,SPUFI, WINSQL, and IBM Rational Developer for system Z,Strobe

Testing Tools: Quality Centre

Content Management: SharePoint 2010

IT Service Management: BMC Remedy 9.1

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the design documents detailed design documents, Unit Test Plans for the requirements.
• Completed Coding, Unit Testing of the whole project as a single person.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing and performance testing with QA team/performance team.
• Coordinated with Bizlink team for the SFTP server and settings on mainframe system for the file transfer.
• Implemented all the DB2 tables involved by coordinate with DBA and DA’s.
• Coordinated the User Acceptance Testing with Confidential team by having the team here.
• Prepared Release Notes, Production component list and Schedule planning.
• Delivered defect free code on time and Implemented all the mainframe modules in production on time.
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Received very good feedback from Confidential team for coordinating all the integration tasks and code delivery on time.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed 3 member’s offshore team and analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps.
• Prepared project plan and estimations based on the analysis for the entire team.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing, UAT and Production Validation testing.
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed/Lead the 4 member’s offshore team, groomed offshore team members in understanding the requirements well and reviewing and improvising the codes as per Client’s coding standards.
• Analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps. Prepared project plan and estimations based on the analysis for the entire team.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing, UAT and Production Validation testing.
• Coordinated entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Prepared implementation documents and release notes for testing team.
• Worked with change management team/Remedy and created multiple CRQ’s to rollout the code in production in short time of period
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Received very good feedback from client for resolving production issues in short period of time by taking proactive steps on time.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed/Lead the 4 member’s offshore team to complete the development and integration testing on time.
• Involved in UNIX/Genesis integration testing after development work is completed.
• Worked in all the test case creation, upload in Quality center, creating report for presenting to client for testing progress.
• Analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps. Prepared project plan and estimations based on the analysis for the entire team.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing, UAT and Production Validation testing.
• Coordinated entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Prepared implementation documents and release notes for testing team.
• Worked with change management team/Remedy and created multiple CRQ’s to rollout the code in production in short time of period
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Received very good feedback from client for completing the project in very short time without any issues.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed/Lead the 4 member’s offshore team, 2 member’s onsite team and coordinating to get the work done. Groomed offshore team members in understanding the requirements well and reviewing and improvising the codes as per Client’s coding standards.
• Analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps. Prepared project plan and estimations based on the analysis for the entire team.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing, UAT and Production Validation testing.
• Coordinated entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Prepared implementation documents and release notes for testing team.
• Coordinating third Party team for all the design solutions/changes and integrating our code with them throughout the project
• Implemented the code in production in stage by stage coordinating with Store system and third party vender team.
• Worked with change management team/Remedy and created multiple CRQ’s to rollout the code in production in short time of period
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Sorted and scrubbed the requirements to prevent changes to the Schedule, often by gaining consensus of all groups involved especially the Enterprise Architecture (EA) group.
• Took part in brain storming sessions with other team SME’s and business to finalize few critical design changes in mainframe modules and came up with good solutions satisfying business needs.
• Discovered the performance issues and resolved the faced in the SFTP process and transmitting the data.
• Received very good feedback from client for completing the project in very short time without any issues.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing and Production Validation testing.
• Coordinated entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Co-ordinated with other system team to integrate with our new EPP system.
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Took part in brain storming sessions with other team SME’s and business to finalize few critical design changes in mainframe modules and came up with good solutions satisfying business needs.
• Found production issue in the existing system and fixed the same in short time period.
• Prepared implementation documents and release notes for testing team, implemented the entire code into production without any issues
• Prepared project plan and estimations for the project and got very good feedback from customer for completing the project on time without any issues.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed all the CICS-online transactions based on client requirements and get Architect approval.
• Handled the 2 members offshore team and coordinating to get the work done and groomed offshore team members.
• Trained the offshore team in CICS and tracked their improvement in CICS transactions
• Reviewed and improvising the codes as per client coding standards and delivered all the CICS modules on time without any defects.
• Worked with senior DBA, Data architecture and enterprise architecture closely to get the project solutions and establishments.
• Involved in coding, code review, unit testing system integration (SIT) and User acceptance testing (UAT).
• Received excellent feedback from client for the real time online CICS application developed in this project.
• Interacted with SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements
• Co-ordinated with ESB, JAVA team to integrate all the systems; had experience in java batch program execution and debugging options.
• Implemented all the modules into production and involved in post-production support. Also involved in remedy and CRQ creation.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps. Come up with project plan and estimations based on the analysis.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing and Production Validation testing.
• Coordinated entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Prepared implementation documents and release notes for testing team.
• Co-ordinated with ESB, WEM and JAVA team to integrate with mainframe systems.
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Sorted and scrubbed the requirements to prevent changes to the Schedule, often by gaining consensus of all groups involved especially the Enterprise Architecture (EA) group.
• Involved with Client architect to review the SQL design for achieving few requirements using DB2/SQL rather than more programs and very good feedback for the design approach.
• Took part in brain storming sessions with other team SME’s and business to finalize few critical design changes in mainframe modules and came up with good solutions satisfying business needs.
• Clarified the doubts about Historical sales system (HSS) raised by testing teams and helped them in understanding the HSS flow.
• Implemented all the modules into production and involved in post-production support. Also involved in remedy and CRQ creation.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements and identifying the requirement gaps.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Schedule planning.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing and Production Validation testing.
• Coordinated entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Prepared implementation documents and release notes for testing team.
• Co-ordinated with ESB and JAVA team to integrate with mainframe systems.
• Interacted with Client SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Worked with high experienced Data Architects (DA) and the DBAs to implement the requested business functionality from the business. Participated in the strategies and technical architecture design discussion.
• Sorted and scrubbed the requirements to prevent changes to the Schedule, often by gaining consensus of all groups involved especially the Enterprise Architecture (EA) group.
• Took part in brain storming sessions with other team SME’s and business to finalize few critical design changes in mainframe modules and came up with good solutions satisfying business needs.
• Implemented all the modules into production and involved in post-production support. Also involved in remedy and CRQ creation.
• Involved in status meeting with client manager weekly basis.
• Organized team meetings with offshore team daily basis to track the project development.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Job scheduling. Manager 2 members offshore team.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Took part of Regression testing and Production Validation testing
• Coordinate entire project flow, from begin to production move, and make sure all inter-project team activities are smooth.
• Prepared implementation plans and release notes
• Co-ordinated with SIEBEL team to integrate with mainframe system.
• Involved in defect management, issue tracking.
• Interacted with SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Coordinated Regression testing, System Integration testing and Production Validation testing.
• Had much experience in fixing production abends/ issues.
• Had onsite call in daily basis to track development activities
• Received very good feedback from client for completing the project on time with short time of period

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead 2 member offshore team and trained them in CICS.
• Involved in Preparation of documents such as HLD, DDD, Unit Test Plans, Release Notes, Production component list, Job scheduling.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the work delivered by team members.
• Developed CICS transactions to integrate Store/Unix system.
• Took part of Regression testing, defect management and Production Validation testing
• Handled the team while in offshore and coordinated with onsite to get the requirements. Took complete ownership of rebates module and groomed team members in understanding the requirements well and reviewing and improvising the codes as per Confidential ’s coding standards.
• Co-ordinated with HSS (purchase history) team and worked in their database to get sales data.
• Interacted with SME’s and worked closely with business in different situations to explain the design changes or requirements.
• Took part in brain storming sessions we had with other team SME’s and business to finalize few critical design changes in rebate modules and came up with good solutions satisfying business needs.
• Had good experience working in XML-COBOL, a new coding language we used for rebates system.
• Clarified the doubts about returns and rebates system in host, raised by other teams and helped them in understanding the host return/rebates process.
• Involved in post-production support and fixed the issues/abends.
• Had onsite call in daily basis to track development activities
• Received very good feedback from client for completing the project on time with short time of period

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully executed the project in offshore as Offshore tech lead and managed 3 members teams.
• Involved in coding to get and put data in MQ.
• Designed complex SQL queries to meet the business requirements.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the delivered work by team members.
• Involved in identify defects in the integration process.
• Involved in status meeting with onsite manager weekly and monthly basis.
• Participate in team meetings with team members on daily basis to report status and clarify the requirements.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed the CICS transactions as per client requirements and created multiple CICS transactions as a single person.
• Involved in Coding, Unit Testing and review of the delivered work by team members.
• Test case preparation and review.
• Coordinated with testing team during system and integration testing.
• Involved in identify defects in the integration process.
• Involved in implementing modules into production and post supports
• Participate in team meetings with team members on daily basis to report status and clarify the requirements.