OBJECTIVE

• To secure a Senior Mainframe Software Engineer / Developer / Sr. Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst position that provides increasing responsibility and the opportunity for growth.
• Extensive experience in mainframe application systems, Actuarial Information System (AIS), user’s requirements, analysis, development, maintenance, Unit and End - To-End (E2E) testing, and documentations; complete System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SOFTWARE: DB2, IDMS, DATACOM, Oracle 11g, FOCUS, VSAM, ISAM, COBOL, CICS, Eclipse, XML, MQ Series, SDLC, OMEGAMON, File Manager, File-AID, SQL, JCL & IBM utilities, SPUFI, INTERTEST, EXPEDITER, ENDEVOR, QMF, TSO, SPF, Dimensions, MVS/ESA, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, MS Word and Office Suite

.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, DC

Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as a contractor to Optimal Solutions and technologies (OST) I was involved heavily in creating test cases, test data, manual testing, reviewing, and validating test cases, scenarios, test plans, and E2E testing of the transition and migration
• Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program (FEMA-NFIP) computer system from client’s computer system (please see below)
• National Information Technology Center (NITC) computer system in general and the Actuarial Information System (AIS) in particular. Latest assignment was to ensure

Confidential, Hyattsville, MD

Software Engineer Leader / Sr. Professional System Development

Responsibilities:

• System and the Actuarial Information System (AIS) to analyze National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) experience, project historical trends, provide sound loss projections for items covered under the NFIP and produce subsidized rating
• Actuarial rating reports by category for the confidential. The System utilizes IBM mainframe, COBOL, FOCUS, JCL, ISPF, and IBM utilities.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Sr. Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Creating test cases, test data, and actual Unit testing (as a developer). And then, as a QA Leader, successfully created test plans, E2E test plans, test cases, test data, and took big part of the actual QA E2E testing and UAT testing to ensure the new automated application General Order II system is compliant and defect free. The General Order II application system enables contractors outside CBP/DHS to load, update, and retrieve information via XML messages on the MQ utilizing IBM mainframe computers, COBOL, online CICS, JCL, IBM utilities, XML, MQ Series, SQL, OMEGAMON and DATACOMM database.
• As the “Sale Process Owner” within the SEACATS system, I have researched, modified and unit tested numerous batch and on-line programs to either fix production problems or to implement new functions as requested by users.
• This is an ongoing and as-needed process. I was involved in large-scale projects such as the “Add SQL Views for Incident Tables”.

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Since I rejoined Confidential as a contractor, I was a member of the Production Support Team. Responsible for analyzing production problems related to their student-loan financial system, fixing the problems, and testing it utilizing DB2 database
• COBOL, CICS online, batch, JCL, SPUFI, ACCESS, File-AID, FileMaster, Xpediter, InterTest, and IBM utilities. Responsibilities included gathering user’s requirements, analyzing, developing and testing of new requirements and enhancements to their financial system.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Performance Team, I have been involved in monitoring the production DB2 CICS on-line transactions through Omegamon System to identify long-running transactions and transactions that abended.
• Then research those modules, identify what causing it to be a long-running transaction or to abend then fix the problem.
• Also, I was helping the Development Team in modifying DB2 CICS online programs and teaching some developers how to use Intertest to test their programs.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Information Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Continued working (see below) on the COSS system for the confidential. This system is designed to be used on the mainframe computer and utilizes
• DATACOMM database, COBOL, on-line CICS, batch processing, IBM JCL, and SPUFI. Areas of responsibilities included user’s requirements, systems analysis, program design, coding, testing, and implementations (complete life cycle).

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Computer Specialist

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the Customs Overtime and Scheduling System (COSS) team at confidential, I was in charge of the user’s requirement, systems analysis, coding, testing, and implementing new sub-systems within the COSS System (complete life-cycle).
• Using COBOL language, on-line CICS, and IBM JCL & utilities, designed, developed, and implemented the Budget Reports and Staffing systems to run on a mainframe computer. This is in addition to the development of numerous other parts of different sub-systems within the COSS System.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• The latest large-scale project was the DB2 Conversion. I worked on the conversion of a large IMS system to DB2 on the IBM mainframe using DB2, COBOL, CICS, SPUFI, ACCESS, VSAM, ISAM, JCL & utilities.
• Converted existing batch and CICS online programs as well as writing new programs, including system analysis, coding, testing, and maintenance. As a member of the Origination Team, I was responsible for the Private Credit Loan Origination portion of the system.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Systems Analyst-Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the National Guaranteed Student Loan Financial System for the confidential. Prepared user’s requirements and program specifications for the Account System, then coded, developed, tested, and maintained
• CICS programs as well as batch programs in an IBM mainframe environment utilizing IDMS Network Database, CICS, COBOL, VSAM, ISAM, JCL, TSO, and SPF.