PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly seasoned and experienced Mainframe professional with exceptional skills in all areas of software construction and programming.
• Adept at troubleshooting and ensuring quality control at every stage of management process. Able to function independently or as part of a team.
• Excellent knowledge in software construction and programming
• Strong experience in Mainframe Development and Testing
• Profound ability to quickly understand complex mainframe systems
• Superior proficiency in mainframe applications built with JCL, COBOL and DB2
• Good familiarity with TSO/ISPF, VSAM, CA Endevor, SDSF, FILE - AID and SPUFI
• Experienced in developing Test Plans and Test Cases for testing the application
• Proven ability to work in a high-pressure environment
• Exceptional presentation and organizational skills
• Sound problem solving and analytical skills
• Extremely well organized, with proven ability to multi-task and prioritize workload
• Good written and oral communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MVS 390

Database: DB2 and VSAM File Management

Languages: COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM

Tools: CA Endevor, SDSF, SPUFI, TSO, SCLM, and FILE-AID and CA7 scheduler tool

Domain: Telecom, Banking, Dwelling Insurance, Finance

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Feature Analysis and Business clarification during BRP
• Identifying the gaps in the feature requirement
• Understanding the feature and gathering functional requirements
• Planning the feature for different iteration and identifying external dependencies
• Enhancement/ Development as per the business requirement
• Reviewing the analysis/design and presenting it to the clients
• Create/Review the code as per the design and conduct code review with the clients
• Identifying the Production defects and fixing it
• Unit testing, Integration testing, System support testing and Release support
• Leading the Team with good Technical and Functional skill set
• Tracking the work progress and completing the stories before the end of the iteration
• Role model for the team

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reviewing functional specifications and preparing technical design document.
• Create/Review LLD & HLD documents as per the requirements specification.
• Created comprehensive test data, test plan and test cases for Unit testing
• Documented test plans, test cases, test scripts, and validations based on design specifications for unit testing.
• Planning and execution of batch process for the release for every business requirement and application involved.

Confidential

Production Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with the operations areas and lines of business to spot out and specify complex business requirements and processes.
• Monitoring the remedy queue for all the tickets, assigning the tickets to the team and updating the ticket status in Remedy.
• Representing the support team for all Technical Specification Report and Technical Implementation Plan review meetings and providing signoff for the same.
• Reviewing post implementation defects of development projects. Providing warranty sign off for development projects after warranty period.
• Monitoring of Bill Run to ensure that the Bills are produced within the Service Levels set.
• Monitoring that the Bills are provided for printing within the Service Levels set.
• Configuration and maintenance of Data where required by C&W.
• Reviewing all the CRs raised by Billing Operations team and Development team and providing approval.
• Communicating with business users to get business impact of the requests and incidents raised by them and prioritization of the tickets and IMACs.

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning testing procedures and test conditions.
• Perform the tasks of writing test scripts and test cases by referring the specifications of requirements.
• Handle responsibilities of analyzing the test results.
• Handle responsibilities of preparing detailed test cases by analyzing technical requirements.
• Responsible for executing and maintaining scripts in mainframe applications.
• Worked Closely with Dev Team, System Analysts, and DB team to troubleshoot issues found during test execution.
• Possess strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Ability to work in a diverse team and in a fast paced dynamic environment

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing the existing mainframe programs and creating the requirement documents.
• Interacted with Business Partners to understand the business requirements, analyze and design the integration Approach.
• Responsible for reviewing functional specifications and preparing technical design document.
• Create/Review LLD & HLD documents as per the requirements specification.

Confidential

Tester

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning testing procedures and test conditions under the instructions of lead tester.
• Perform the tasks of writing test scripts and test cases by referring the specifications of requirements.
• Handle responsibilities of analyzing test results and troubleshooting environment issues.
• Responsible for executing and maintaining scripts in mainframe applications.
• Performed negative and positive testing manually.
• Worked Closely with Dev Team, System Analysts, and DB team to troubleshoot issues found during test execution.
• Effective Time Management Skills and consistent ability to meet client deadline.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, presentation, and interpersonal skills.