SUMMARY

• 10 plus years of IT experience with extensive hands - on experience on developing, support applications using technologies COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, SQL, Mainframe Utilities, Core Java, UNIX, SQL, C, C++, CA7, REST & SOAP UI Webservices, SAS.
• An end-to-end system developer, starting from configuring environment till deployment in production server including maintenance of applications.
• Experience in all stage of SDLC that includes Analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and support. Experience both Agile and Waterfall methodologies of software development; with experience using JIRA, TFS.
• Proficient in creating System Artifacts which includes Functional specifications, technical specifications, Design Document, Analysis Document, Unit and Regression test results.
• Excellent communication skill and interacted with lot of business experts and clients in teh requirements gathering.
• Possesses 5 years of experience in leading technical projects and offshore development teams.
• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills, and all-around team player possessing willingness to learn and utilize new technologies & concepts.
• Proven to be an independent contributor, with excellent communication skills and ability to interact with cross functional teams.
• Strong understanding of software architectures and information systems development.
• Solve and analyze skills and totally committed to teh organization goals and an excellent team player with a positive attitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, CICS, SQL, Mainframe Utilities, Core Java, UNIX, SQL, C, C++, CA7, REST & SOAP UI Webservices, SAS.

Database: DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, Table BASE, Sybase.

Mainframe Tools: QMF, IDz, Endevor, Change Man, EZtrieve, File Aid, File Manager, SPUFI, Fault Analyzer, Xpediter, Platinum, CA7, Abend aid, IBM Debug, VODT.

Mainframe Utilities: IDCAMS, IEBGENER, SORT, IEFBR14, IEBCOPY.

Methodologies: SDLC - Agile, Waterfall

Other: Jira, TFS, Gitlab, MS Visual Studio, MS Office Suite, Cherwell, POSTMAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Web Development

Responsibilities

• Working with clients and business experts to understand business requirements and responsible for requirements gathering for teh Encryption/Decryption of data in teh OnCU application.
• Responsible for interpreting functional requirements, developing technical specifications from functional requirements, design.
• Based on teh requirements enhance teh existing program and developed new Encryption/Decryption routines to call teh Voltage server using technologies COBOL, VSAM.
• Interact and coordinate with offshore team members to share teh requirements and development clarification.
• Demo teh changes to Business and Client team members to get teh Signoff.
• Responsible for promoting teh code into Unit Test and System Test environments. Generate both program and system level test data and perform positive and negative testing.
• Providing support during teh Quality Assurance (QA), Performance Testing and fix teh defects raised during teh testing phase.
• Working with Upstream, Downstream team to raise dependency and sharing teh file/reports processed to test in their application and get Signoff.
• Implementing teh project delivery processes to adhere to organization audit guidelines and participate in teh internal and external audits.
• Create Change Request, prepare implementation plan and contingency plan to implement teh changes in production with technical, business checkout and attend release meeting to update teh deployment status.

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Provided development and support for teh policy Future Values reporting Group Administration applications used by home office & field office users in Northwestern Mutual.
• Interacted with business experts to understand business requirements and responsible for requirements gathering for enhancement and new development.
• Provided technical design, functional design, and program specification to ensure business requirements are met appropriately as per teh system guidelines.
• Created user stories for business requirements and plan teh work for every sprint in JIRA.
• Based on requirements, develop applications or do coding to enhance existing applications using technologies like COBOL, PL/me, JCL, DB2, VSAM, FILE-AID, QMF, SAS, CA7, IBM Debugger, REST & SOAP UI Webservices.
• Worked with teh Product Owner to confirm that teh code and acceptance test reflects teh desired functionality, prototyping.
• Demoed teh products and changes developed to Business for teh Signoff.
• Provided support during teh Quality Assurance (QA), System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and fix teh defects raised during teh testing phase.
• Supported business applications for continuous deployment model and undergo development life cycle processes of all kinds including build, promote and deployment using Change man version controller.
• Prepared deployment and backout plan to implement teh changes in production and provide post-deployment warranty support.

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Functioned as teh onshore Mainframe Development Lead for teh Loans and Surrender, History, Beneficiary & Tittle and Forms & letter application for teh new Whole Life (LPS) product changes.
• Worked on teh complete 2 years for teh LPS change for teh new product launch from teh Scratch and lead team of 12 members working from offshore and did a quality deliverable.
• Weekly meeting with Business and Product owner clients to gather teh requirements for teh new whole life product development.
• Convert teh Business requirements to User Stories, provide effort estimation and work on teh Sprint planning meeting with Product owner for my work and offshore members for each iteration.
• Analyzed lot of teh new Logic and calculation needed for teh new Whole life product change in Loans & Surrender application and instructed team on teh changes needed.
• Reviewed all changes, activities and tasks done by teh team to ensure better quality and customer experience as per teh requirement shared.
• Worked on teh Upstream, Downstream team dependency and sharing teh new UU whole life feeds processed from teh application developed/enhanced.
• Worked with System team to get teh new UU Whole life policies from new issue systems to test teh LPS change for teh application owned.
• As part of new Whole life product, worked on teh Correspondence change (Mail) that will be sent to clients.
• Provided end to end System demo on teh product developed to LPS leadership, Business, Upstream, downstream clients to get teh Signoff.
• Worked on teh defects assigned by Quality Assurance (QA), System Integration Testing (SIT), to fix teh defects and promoting teh change.
• Fixed teh Module Audit Errors and worked with Release team on promoting teh change to testing sites on teh iteration wise code drop planned.
• Deployed around 3000 Online, Batch Mainframe components for teh new Whole Life products launch with checkout and post-deployment warranty support and new product launch support.

Confidential

Roles & Responsibilities

• Involved in teh analyze and teh effort estimation for teh Scheduler application install for teh Central America, Brazil, Chile countries based on teh requirement.
• Prepared functional document and technical document based on teh analyze done in teh COBOL, CICS program and JCL in teh existing scheduler application and changes needed to implement Central America, Brazil, Chile countries in teh Scheduler application.
• Made code change in teh CICS, Batch programs and developed new Jobs with necessary Parm, Procedure changes so that Scheduler application will handle Central America, Brazil, Chile countries.
• Attended standup meetings with onsite counter partner to discuss on teh progress, code changes made and planning activity.
• Prepared Test plan, Test cases and tracking them with teh Business requirements.
• Setup teh SIT Test region, extracted teh Production inputs needed and done end to end Testing in Scheduler application.
• Raised code review request with Walmart Clients to get teh code review Signoff.
• Demoed teh changes done to Business and document teh complete steps for adding new country to Scheduler application and provided Knowledge Transfer to new team members.
• Created Change Request - CRQ to install teh code changes in production and worked with Business in teh Scheduler application for teh Production checkout.
• Worked on teh warranty support after teh postproduction deployment.

Confidential

Roles & Responsibilities

• Involved in analysis of existing GFCS flow and prepare teh reverse engineering document to make teh ASN shipped in teh GFCS application.
• Worked in teh C++ code/SQL queries analyze and build new Java service and develop new SQL queries for teh ASN shipment through GFCS existing application.
• Prepared DBA docs for new table and columns needed for new ASN development based on teh database analyze.
• Involved in teh development of Java web service for major module and worked with Front end .Net team member to integrate teh new Java service and test.
• Attend daily standup meeting with Onsite on teh Business requirement, planning teh Sprint in teh Agile Methodology.
• Prepared unit test case document and done unit testing within teh Sprint and delivered teh code for Quality Assurance team testing.
• Provided business inputs for teh defects raised by teh Quality Assurance team and fixed teh bug if needed.
• Engaged in teh Performance Testing and ensuring teh application developed is compliant with Project’s performance standards and Track application performance reports and metrics.
• Worked in teh Unix environment for teh configuration, C++ analyze and deployment.
• Involved in creating CRQs and required documents for teh production move and deployed teh changes into production to enable ASN flow into GFCS application.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed code for Loan Interest change, LTCS rider, premium taxes and Age 100 modules starting from analysis phase till Unit testing phase.
• Participated in teh phases of SDLC life cycle Analysis and Design, Testing, and deliverables.
• Prepared BTP input cards which is teh way in which policy data will be processed in teh Cobol program and Jobs in teh LCS system.
• Understanding teh system and preparing design documents to meet teh requirements.
• Involved in Turnover meeting with US counterparts, ensuring teh SLA defined by teh clients is met.
• Preparing Unit Test plan and Test case document and tracking them with requirements
• Provided business inputs for teh defects and fixed teh defects raised by Testing team.
• Prepared documents on teh BTP input cards used and shared with team members.
• Setup noledge sharing and code review meeting within team to for better understanding of teh System and quality deliverables.
• Supported for SIT, UAT, Production deployment, warranty support and fixed teh defect during this phase.

Automation

Confidential

Responsibilities

• Worked in teh Requirement analysis of teh functionality provided by client.
• Understanding teh system and preparing low level design documents to meet teh requirements.
• Retrieve components from production region in Endevor. Take care of coding teh Cobol DB2 programs, JCLs, PROC, copybooks, Parms, DB2 SQL queries and Include members. Handle DB2 performance tuning and Compile programs using Endevor.
• Participated in unit testing, integration and regression testing of different system impacted by changes.
• Coordinating with peers at onsite for status calls and updates on teh development, testing.
• Take care of internal reviews through code walkthroughs and perform design reviews, code reviews and test results review of components created by team members.
• Prepared document for all teh ABENDs faced and making sure teh team members are at same page.
• Done JOB controlling, fix teh Job abend and involved in defect fix during integration testing.