SUMMARY:

• Six+ years of Software Development and Testing experience in banking domain.
• Extensive experience in requirement analysis, design, development, quality reviews, unit testing, SIT, performance testing and maintenance of complex applications using IBM Mainframes.
• Experience in developing applications using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, and CICS.
• Experience in manual testing projects using mainframe, UNIX and SQL.
• Expertise in databases like DB2, SQL Server.
• Experience in handling batch as well as online programs.
• Good experience in working on tools like Quality Center, Endevor, Change Man, Expeditor, File - Aid, IBM utilities, GENEVA.
• Excellent knowledge of SDLC processes, SEI CMMI processes and Quality Standards.
• Excellent team player with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS

Databases: DB2, SQL

Other tools: Quality Center, Endevor, Change Man, Expeditor, File-Aid, IBM utilities, GENEVA, MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint

Operating Systems: MS Windows all versions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Test Analyst,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing test plans, test scenarios, test cases based on Functional Requirement Specification of the project.
• Created effective methods of data preparation.
• Responsible for execution of test cases and capturing test results.
• Participated in the discussion with development team for better understanding of the project.
• Involved in the reviews of test cases created by team members and provided them valuable review comments.
• Ensured that the SIT completed in the given timeline and got appreciation form the client for the same.
• Responsible for daily and weekly project status update to the client.
• Involved in preparing test closure reports.

Senior Test Analyst,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing test scenarios based on Functional Requirement Specification of the project.
• Created 200+ test cases for transformation process.
• Responsible for execution of test cases and capturing test results.
• Participated in the discussion with development team for better understanding of the project.
• Proactively monitored the progress of defects in QC.
• Got appreciation from the client for the extra efforts spent to meet the project deadlines.
• Acted as a mentor to new members of the team.

Associate,

Confidential,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis of the change request and creation of High Level Design Document for the same.
• Discussed HLD with the onsite team.
• Responsible for creating Detail Design Document.
• Made complex code changes to the existing batch as well as the online programs as per the requirements.
• Developed two new programs for the new functionality.
• Performed unit testing and created Unit test results document.
• Involved in the discussions with the client to gather requirements and manage deliverables.
• Created User Guide to help user to send the input data in correct format.
• Performed Peer Review of Code, Test Cases and Test Results.
• Provided QA testing and UAT support.

Associate,

JPMC,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis of the programs in DML system and preparation of Impact Analysis Document.
• Made complex code changes to the existing complex as well as batch programs as per the requirements.
• Performed unit testing and created Unit test results document.
• Performed Peer Review of Code, Test Cases and Test Results.
• Provided QA testing and UAT support.
• Performed implementation activities like creating validation plan, job scheduling plan etc.

Software Engineer,

Confidential, USA,

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Service Request and performed Impact Analysis for the same.
• Updated Program Specification document.
• Created Unit Test Cases.
• Made code changes to the COBOL program as per the requirements.
• Created reusable JCL for unit testing which was used across multiple programs.
• Created Unit test results document.
• Co-ordination with the client / onsite representative on daily basis to gather requirements and manage deliverables.
• Attended of GENEVA tool for 2 weeks which included hands on assignments.
• Proactively volunteered for testing of complex Views created using GENEVA.

System Analyst,

Confidential, South Africa

Responsibilities:

• Independently performed the analysis of Use Cases and Design Specification.
• Performed Impact Analysis for Existing functionality and suggested modifications to the Program Specification to the client.
• Created Unit Test Cases.
• Made changes to the common service and mapper programs within short timelines and was delivered to client without any critical defects.
• Mentored the team members and always kept the team spirit high.
• Performed Peer Review of Code, Test Cases and Test Results and documented it appropriately.
• The project was executed at CMMI level 5 and continuous improvement in both process and technology was a key goal.

System Analyst,

Confidential, South Africa,

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the functional analysis of the To Be system. This involved extensive co-ordination with the onsite counterpart.
• Created Functional Specification Document and Low level Design.
• Developed batch programs in COBOL that automated the report generation for Discrepancies on daily and monthly basis.
• The reports generated (RRDS) were in custom client specific formats and involved extensive business logic.
• Created extracts in flat files which was further used by a COGNOS tool to create user friendly reports.
• Made modification in online Treasury Till program as per the modified requirements.
• Used Change Man as a tool for Change Management process.
• Created Unit Test Cases and documented Test results.
• Helped new team members in the team to understand the domain and get up to speed in short timelines.
• Performed Peer Review of Code and Test Cases.

System Analyst,

Confidential, South Africa

Responsibilities:

• Participated in discussions for requirements analysis and performed end to end impact analysis for the same.
• Created Program Analysis report for all the affected programs.
• Created detailed design document.
• Made modifications to both online and batch affected programs and also made changes to the DB2 impacted tables.
• Created Unit test Cases and also noted the Unit test results.
• Took the bottom-line responsibility of the project and delivered the project ahead of schedule without any defects.
• Performed Peer Review of Code and Test Cases.

System Analyst,

Confidential, South Africa

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the analysis of the Requirements document.
• Made changes to some of the most complex and critical programs in the system.
• Created Unit test Cases and Performed Unit Testing.
• This project was executed in short timelines and without any issues.
• Performed Code clean-up and enhanced the system to comply with Nedbank standards.

System Analyst,

Confidential, South Africa

Responsibilities:

• Single handedly developed programs for migration of both online and batch modes for Accounts data which was one of the most complex and critical program.
• Made changes to JCL to make it generic and help Unit Testing of most of the programs.
• Created Unit test Cases and documented results.
• Used Expeditor as a debugging tool to ensure accuracy of flow of program
• This program was executed in an AGILE methodology since the requirements from the client side were constantly changing.