EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• 12+years of experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of application software in Mainframe platform.
• Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
• Perform code and design reviews
• Perform unit testing and System testing
• Resolve incidents problem reported and also perform root cause Analysis(RCA) for issues
• Participates as a developer in team environment
• Build Programs/JCLS/PROCS independently with minimal oversight
• Participate pre and post deployment activates
• Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test plan
• Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability.
• Tracking all the production related incidents via ESP and working directly with client to provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in COBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL,DB2,VSAM,FILE - AID, TSO/ISPF,CA7,ESP (Scheduler) tool, CHANGEMAN,INFOMAN,SPUFI,IBM UTILITIES, Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
• Good domain knowledge of the Retail, Telecom
• Responsible for creating and deleting user id’s.
• Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• Developed expertise in client interaction.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills
• Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint(Charts, tables, graphs),Visio(Flowcharts)
• Strong commitment towards quality, experience in Agile and waterfall methodologies while ensuring compliance to coding standards and review process
• Analyze, Design, Develop & test activities in Cobol,CICS,DB2
• JCL job creation and maintenance
• Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
• Perform code and design reviews
• Participate as a developer in team environment
• Perform unit testing and System testing
• Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability
• Working directly with client and other teams to meet the SLA’s.
• Documenting and coordinating project activities for internal knowledge base.
• Escalation of issues within OPAS(incident tracking tool) as appropriate
• Scheduling of Jobs via ESP scheduler
• Resource planning Production support

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL

Databases: DB2,VSAM,SQL Server 2000

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA Windows 98/2000/XP/2003

Tools & Technologies: ESP(Job scheduler), CICS, FILE-AID

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St Louis, MO

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Understand business Requirements(BRD) create technical design specifications
• Perform code and design reviews
• Perform unit testing and System testing
• Resolve incidents problem reported and also perform root cause Analysis(RCA) for issues
• Participates as a developer in team environment
• Build Programs/JCLS/PROCS independently with minimal oversight
• Participate pre and post deployment activates
• Document and maintain deliverables such as Code, Business Requirements and test plan
• ESP job scheduling / Abend resolution and JCL coding
• Production Batch Scheduling and Server Based Application Scheduling
• Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.
• Escalation of Technical issues within EPAS as appropriate
• Schedule, monitor, balance and distribute output for all production batches processing regardless of platform.
• Abend resolution and job restarts
• Automated inserting and mail scheduling
• Responsible for all external production data file exchanges.
• Coordinate ad-hoc mailings
• Mail Support Services
• Testing, Validation, and Implementation of New Functionality for Infrastructure Software Releases:
• Create JCL ‘PROCs’ (cataloged procedures)
• Create Documentation and run instructions
• Develop and implement Automated balancing procedures (U/ACR)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases
• Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the IT & Business managers.
• Modified and tested COBOL and CICS programs and JCL codes per the requests ofbusiness departments.
• Take new scheduling requests from programmers, set up CA-7 job definition, schedules, triggers and requirements.
• Monitor and ABEND resolution of MVS CA-7/CA-11 batch processing.
• Creation and maintenance of mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User acceptance (UAT) and Production environments.
• Extensive coding using COBOL, JCL and VSAMs.
• Preparing System test cases and performing UAT activities.
• Gathering Signoffs from Business.
• Preparing End of schedule report and carrying out minutes of meeting with the team. (Both offshore and onsite) at the end of the schedule.
• Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, CICS, CA-7, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGEMAN

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Requirement Analysis, Coding, Technical support, and Testing and Quality assurance.
• Prepare the Analysis and understanding documents.
• Resource and project planning for optimum usage of resources and seamless delivery for meeting the project deadlines.
• Coded COBOL and COBOL DB2 programs and tested them thoroughly.
• Creating bind strategies and running bind jobs
• Used Endeavor to create, stage, and deploy COBOL packages in to production site
• Assurance of fast and error free delivery of requirements within limited amount of time.
• Monitoring the Error events and resolving them.
• Create and modify JCL jobs in production.
• Analyzing the issue mentioned in Ticket and applying appropriate solution.
• Carried out the Change Release (Regression Testing) test schedule where planned changes going to production were routed.
• Provide technical assistance to the team for solving abends.
• Creating Change Request (CRs) as and when required.
• Tracking the work in progress and attending status meetings.
• Performing detailed turnover of all activities performed.
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members.
• Ensure that the project documentation is maintained as per the Project Life Cycle and all documents are version controlled and maintained.
• Used QMF for executing Query

Environment: COBOL, CA7, JCL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, ENDEVOR, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, SPUFI, IBM UTILITIES, SMARTTEST, QMF