PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 9.5 years of experience in Software Industry in mainframe environment of Insurance and Credit risk domain, Software application development/maintenance, INTG/UAT testing and Production support.
• Currently working as Senior Mainframe programmer. My responsibilities involve maintenance and support of new business requirements, Identifying bugs, identifying impacted modules and understanding their functionality, effective client communication, and Process & management activities.
• Technical expertise in COBOL, JCL,AS/400 iseries, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Xpeditor, Endeavor, SDF, File Marval,Panvalet, Beyond compare, zOS/MVS, TSO/ISPF, Control - M scheduler, GUI (Graphical user interface).
• Experience of all team lead activities like allocating the task within team members, preparing the estimation, prioritizing the task, resolving the issue and report the status to upper management.
• Worked with the Business and Client at different locations of HSBC (London, Sheffield, and Paris).
• Good understanding of Life Insurance (Cyber life) and Banking Financial System.
• Working knowledge on Waterfall, Agile Process methodology.
• FLMI Level 1(Loma 280 and Loma 290) Certified.
• Working knowledge on Waterfall, Agile Process methodology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: ZOS/MVS and Windows

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL

Database: DB2

Web Related: Algo Limit Manager, Mercury QC, MKS, Beyond Compare, K-Diff

Mainframe Tools: TSO/ISPF, Endevor, FILE-AID, Xpeditor, SPUFI, VPMS, SDF, Road RunnerAbend-aid, File-aid, File Marval, Panvalet,GUI

Utilities: IDCAMs, DFSSORT.

Documentation Tools: MS Word, Excel, Power point etc

Domain Knowledge: Life Insurance and Banking Financial System - Credit Risk and Core Banking

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Onsite Lead (Senior Programmer Analyst)

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• As Senior Programmer Analyst my responsibilities involve -
• Analysis of Design Specifications
• Preparation of Effort Estimates
• Functional and Technical understanding of the Issues and requirements
• Preparation of Detail Design Document and Unit Test Plan based on the Functional Requirements and Business Process.Created data comparison and data extraction tools written in RPG IV, CL and APIs on the AS/400.
• Design, development and unit testing of COBOL programs, Batch Jobs (JCL), ULTIM Cards, etc. based on the requirement
• Regression testing and Analysis of miscompares to ensure error free Production releases
• Maintain testing regions, region refresh, system Test installs, and ensure that system Test and UAT regions are available to the Business Analysts and SQAs for their testing
• Batch Monitoring (including Scheduling, Troubleshooting and Resolution)
• Perform Root cause Analysis of Production Job Amends
• Review of the work products before delivery for the completeness, correctness and adherence to standards
• Coordination on Queries, Clarifications, Status update, Issues/concerns and Support.
• Mentoring New Members in Team. Assist Team Members on Solutions when required
• Assignment of work to Team Members
• Handling Conference calls
• Participate in Quality Audits for the project
• Support to Onsite staff for Production issues
• Production support on weekdays as well as weekend for Cyber Life production cycle and keep eye on production cycle via scheduler (Control-M scheduler).
• Responsible for and mentoring team members with technical/system knowledge and business processes. helped with data transmission problems encountered with AS2 trading partners and added input for the placement of trigger programs for data transfer from/to the AS/400 from/to the Oracle data server.
• Lead 10 members strong offshore team to support the project delivery under strict timeline restrictions.
• Provide support for Analyst testing done by Business analyst, creating implementation plan documentation and perform post implementation activities.
• Fire online transactions to bring the online test and model regions up. Use online screens and run the transactions related to policy issues, miscellaneous change, quotations, financial transactions etc. for Unit testing purpose.
• Taking and attending the knowledge sharing sessions every week to share the new learning s gained while working on assignments.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential uses CSC s Cyber Life product for the Policy administration of their Life Insurance business. This project involved Production support and delivering enhancements in CyberLife product.
• Geneworth was using old version of cyberlife.CSC has got this project to upgrade its old version(O97) to new version(O11).The product can be upgraded in its every release which is generally a yearly release.
• As a Senior Programmer Analyst I was involved in -
• Representing in all phases of product development including requirement, design, construction, testing, implementation, code reviews and support.
• Assigning the task to team members and resolving their issue and report the status to upper management.
• Progressive working experience as Functional tester, writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured development environments.
• Documenting miscompares of FMB batch outputs.
• Defect Analysis and Reporting
• Documenting defects in ALM.
• Documenting miscompares of different reports.
• Reviewing miscompares which are documented and analyzing if the miscomapres are acceptable or not.
• Communicating with development managers, delivery managers, business consultants, project managers and the support team. Managed projects to convert mainframe EDI transaction sets to the AS/400 and convert AS/400 transaction sets to a client/server environment.
• Worked with technical team to define test data needed for Unit testing and System testing.
• Worked closely with Users, Developers and Administrators to resolve ongoing Production Problems by reviewing and coordinating application coding and design changes made to production systems.
• Experienced in executing and analyzing the various queries and also in creating QC reports depending on the user.

Module Lead/Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Module Lead and onsite coordinator involved in Analysis, design and development phase of project
• Writing and Reviewing Cobol/DB2 code from scratch.
• Converted OPM source to ILE and tuned AS/400 memory pools
• Provide technical & functional assistance to team member.
• Worked as an onsite coordinator in London and Sheffield.
• Working with the client to prioritize and rationalize the requirements.
• Reviewing technical and non - technical writing.
• Implementation and Testing of AS/400 Software and Hardware upgrades. Provide Technical Support for RVI, MIMIX, system operations, FTP, security and IBM Client Access software. f new resources to understand the present system.
• Analyzing data and generating reports.
• Production fixes knowledge and issue resolution in co-ordination with onsite team and Business.
• Participating in Quality & Security audit of the project.
• Designated as DPC and IQA for the Project.

Developer/Onsite coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As strong team player having Good analytical skills to identify key issues and provide solutions.
• Worked as an on - site coordinator in Paris.
• Developing codes as per the requirement.
• Supported all aspects of Package installation and customization of HarrisData food distribution software on AS/400
• Preparing Prog Spec, Unit Test Plan, Unit Test Results and System testing, Support for UAT.
• Documenting and maintaining the change summary.
• Interactive with weekly meetings.
• Designated as DPC for this Project.
• Working in the various Quality Process followed by GLT.