PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Mainframe tester/developer with 10 years of experience in Mainframe technology involving Development, QA testing and QA Support .
• Extensive knowledge in all phases of software development life cycle starting with Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Maintenance of vast mainframe applications.
• Expertise in Mainframe Batch, Online and Manual QA testing.
• Expertise in creating Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios/Cases, Defect Management and Reporting.
• Ability to identify root causes and derive corrective actions to meet short /long term business requirements.
• Experience working in onshore and offshore model.
• Involved in generating test cases, test scripts and resolving User Acceptance Testing (UAT) issues.
• Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, frequent travel meeting one on one with clients, able to comfortably converse with all facets in the client organization.
• Extensive knowledge of Financial domain mainly Investment Banking, Insurance domain namely Life Insurance, Property & Casualty Insurance, Auto Insurance, Health care Insurance etc. I have done LOMA 280 certification to get in - depth knowledge in insurance domain.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MVS, IBM OS/390, Windows

Environment: TSO/ISPF

Languages: Cobol, Assembler, JCL, Easytrieve

File system: VSAM

Transaction System: CICS

Databases: DB2, VSAM, MS SQL

Tools: HP ALM, File Aid, Intertest, Endeavor, Changeman

Software: MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, VISIO, Outlook, MS Project

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS:

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Technical Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze requirements, coordinate with BA’s and SME’s.
• Participate in test plan walkthrough, test result walkthrough with client.
• Involve in creation of test cases and test plan.
• Retest, validate and close defect as applicable.
• Coordinate between onshore and offshore as needed.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing ensuring all required test are performed.
• Involved in Database testing.
• Help business analyst in grooming the input received from vendors.
• Participate in daily stand up, updating about testing status.
• Involved in creating test cases, logging & retesting defects in CA Rally.
• Ensuring the data are updated correctly in database tables by validating using complex SQL queries.
• Underwent training for STAF (System Testing Automation Framework) for In-Sprint automation & .Net training conducted by Confidential Phoenix Medicaid team.

Environment: SSMS, .Net, C#, SQL, Agile, Scrum, MS Team, Remedy, Zeke, Rally.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Mainframe Tech Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business and technical requirements to create detailed test cases/scripts.
• Accountable for the Test Plan development, Test Case Creation, Test Data Setup, test execution and system testing.
• Responsible for making modifications and enhancements to the existing JCL.
• Responsible for the Defect Tracking and Defect Reporting.
• Recreation, retesting and regression testing of defects logged by client.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Effectively used HP ALM as a test management tool to document the test cases, execute the tests, track the defects and to send the daily reports to the management.
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing ensuring all required test are performed and verified from multiple user’s perspectives.

Environment: Z/OS, TSO, COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, File Manager, Quality Center.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing business requirements and writing test plan. Prepared the Test plan with results and Test summary report after the test completion.
• Create test cases and reviewed them based on the Software Requirements Specification documents.
• Mentored the less experience testers.
• Maintained Traceability matrix and Test Matrix.
• Manually performed integration and Regression testing, documented bugs and worked with development team to resolve issues.
• Effectively used HP-ALM as a test management tool to document the test cases, execute the tests, and track the defects and to send the daily/weekly/monthly reports/dashboard to the management.
• Participated in design walkthroughs and verified Test Scripts and results.
• Executed regression suite, reported results and issues in a timely and accurate manner.
• Reported and tracked problems by providing reproducible test cases, and working with other product team members to close problem reports.
• Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, providing development/business partners with sufficient detail to understand, replicate and resolve.
• Worked on Mainframe systems for creating members under different types of groups.
• Actively participated in various meetings like Kick-off, Scope/Requirement review meetings, Design Spec/Code Walkthroughs, Unit Test Plan Reviews, Project Status, System Test Entrance and Exit Criteria, RCAs, Lessons Learned, etc.
• Attended Defect Review meetings, review and triage all the defects based on priority and severity of the defects.
• Managing conflicts and resolving escalations & issues appropriately on time.

Environment: Mainframe JCL, File Aid, TSO, Db2, SPUFI, SQL Server 2005, Cobol, Assembler, VSAM, CICS, MS-Excel, Windows XP, Quality Center, QTP, Easytrieve, BMC Remedy.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with business clients to understand requirements and creating technical design documentation.
• Coding and Unit testing Cobol and Assembler program in a timely manner and creating test cases as well.
• Training freshers in Assembler language.
• Worked with DB2 database team. New tables were created, and existing tables were modified to include additional fields.
• Edited JCL jobs and resolved production abends.
• Participated in design walkthroughs and verified Test Cases and results.
• Sending weekly/daily status report to the Stakeholders and Management

Environment: Mainframes Assembler, Cobol, JCL, Db2, SQL, MS-Excel, CICS, Windows XP, Changeman, File Aid.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements, Prepare & Review Test Estimation and Test Strategy artifacts.
• Identified the vendor test support requirements and recommend testing procedures.
• Created detailed Test Plan, test scripts, test scenarios & prepared test data, & conducted various testing like but not limited to functional, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing.
• Create new, and modify existing SQL queries for use in the data integrity testing.
• Mapped requirements to tests and test results, and regularly conducted static reviews.
• Worked on Mainframe systems for creating members under different types of groups.
• Actively participated in various meetings like Kick-off, Scope/Requirement review meetings, Design Spec/Code Walkthroughs, Unit Test Plan Reviews, Project Status, System Test Entrance and Exit Criteria, RCAs, Lessons Learned, etc.
• Executed regression suite, reported results and issues in a timely and accurate manner.
• Reported and tracked problems by providing reproducible test cases, and working with other product team members to close problem reports.
• Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, providing development/business partners with sufficient detail to understand, replicate and resolve.
• Prepared the Test plan with results and Test summary report after the test completion.
• Reported metrics/status reports for Test Execution phase on daily/weekly basis.
• Attended Defect Review meetings, review and triage all the defects based on priority and severity of the defects.
• Collaboratively worked with cross-functional and offshore testing and development team, and helped enhance communication.
• Actively involved in Production Support and incident Management (Analyze Tickets, reach out to the right person, not let the ticket breach, if analyzed as an issue open the defect).
• Managing conflicts and resolving escalations & issues appropriately on time.
• Facilitated UAT and test strategies with developers and testers and performed manual front-end testing to check all the functionalities incorporated with the different modules.
• Involved in analyzing business requirements and writing test plan.
• Worked with the business team and technology team in substantiating the System Requirement Specification document for the project.
• Participated as a key team member in planning and coordinating the testing of the product where I had responsibility for specifically coordinating the test plans with the client.
• Created, reviewed, validated and maintained a comprehensive regression test suite.
• Ensured that test case standards are adhered to for all test cases included in regression suite.
• Executed regression suite, reported results in a timely and accurate manner.
• Reported and tracked problems by providing reproducible test cases, and working with other product team members to close problem reports.
• Conduct root cause analysis of identified defects, providing development/business partners with sufficient detail to understand, replicate and resolve.
• Create test cases and reviewed them based on the Software Requirements Specification documents.
• Involved with regular walkthroughs and meeting to discuss bottlenecks in the system and possible solutions with the development team.

Environment: IBM Mainframes, Cobol, JCL, Easytrieve, QMF, Db2, SQL, CICS, File Aid, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, Intertest, Lotus Notes, MS excel, MS Word, MS Visio, MS SQL, MS Power Point.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the High Level design documents by analyzing the requirement of project.
• Modifying JCL, Cobol and Assembler programs, PROC and Copybook.
• Analyzed the JCL abend in the JOB SPOOL.

Environment: Mainframe Assembler, Cobol, Db2, CICS, MS-Excel, Windows XP