SUMMARY

• 7+ years of Information Technology experience including Project Management, Systems and Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance, Change Management and Programming.
• Hands - on experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle, including Requirement Gathering, Design, Coding, Integration, Testing, production implementation and Subsequent support.
• Provided both production and development support for several Banking Telecom and Manufacturing applications.
• Having 6+ years of experience in Banking domain.
• Developing requirements (business, functional and testing) for software development.
• Data mapping and process flow analysis experience.
• Database analysis, design & maintenance experience.
• Extensive experience in developing scalable and reliable enterprise applications using Mainframe technologies like DB2,STORED PROCEDURES,COBOL,JCL,VSAM,CICS,IMS-DB and IMS-DC.
• Expertise in using Mainframe tools like CHGAMAN,PANVALENT,XPEDIDITER,JOB-TRAC,, CA7,FILEAID,QMF,SPUFI,DCLGEN,NDM,XCOM,TSOBMCADM,INFOMEN,CONTROL-M,TTTS and ENDEAVOR.
• Experienced in Performance tuning of Queries, indexing to improve Performance and has the ability to code and implement complex business rules in SQL and Stored Procedures.
• Expertise in writing Database Objects such as Tables, User Defined Data Types, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Views, User Defined Functions, and Cursors.
• Expertise in writing large/complex queries using SQL.
• Experience in adhering to coding standards and finishing on time.
• Good noledge on Waterfall model, Agile methodology and the scrum process.
• Strong Project/technical leadership skills in the areas of mainframe applications and their maintenance projects.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Strong experience and co-ordination skills to lead onsite-offshore teams throughout all phases of development life cycle.
• Excellent communication skills, good organizational abilities, good leadership qualities and excellent problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PLATFORM: IBM Mainframe (Z/OS, OS/390, and MVS/ESA), MS Windows.

LANGUAGES: COBOL, JCL,SQL,CICS,CORE JAVA.

ACCESS METHOD: VSAM.

DATABASE: DB2,IMS-DB,Stored procedures.

MAINFRAME TOOLS: TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, JOBTRACK,CA-7, INFOMAN,DST,REFORM MANAGENOW,FILEAID,CONTROLM,DST,TSOBMCADM,NDM,XCOM.

VERSION CONTROL TOOLS: CHANGEMAN

AUTOMATION OFFICE: MS-Word, Visio, MS-Excel, MS-Outlook, WordPerfect and MS-PowerPoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support during integration testing for projects as well as documenting the installation and support processes for environments.
• Frequently met with business user to gather requirements, heavy documentation of technical and functional specifications, code and test programs while following SDLC.
• Implemented program changes, prepared systems documentation and status reports as requested to development manager.
• Understands business requirements, proposes flexible solutions, and provides specifications and
• designs in support of application development.
• Promote best design and coding practices and provided technical guidance.
• Actioned for Business Queries and Solving the Incidents and follow the SLA as agreed.
• Involved in Decommissioning of jobs.
• Involved in preparing Data Mapping documents.
• Scheduling the jobs on JOBTRAC.
• Monitoring the Jobs through JOB-TRAC and on call support for abended jobs.
• Created a high level/detail level system designs specifications.
• Coordinated with the front end teams in regression testing the Applications.
• Documented the flow of Application programs.
• Worked on request requiring table changes in DB2.
• Performed impact analysis and prepared Impact document.
• Development of code as per the requirement.
• Development of Cobol+Db2 stored procedures as per the requirement.
• Testing of Stored procedures using DST.
• Implementing changes in the production.
• Participating in signoffs and deployment process.
• Leading the project technically, which includes, designing and coding of important workflows, reviewing functional documents and codes developed by team members, complete end to end testing starting from unit-testing till user acceptance testing and documentation and responsible for creation of Implementation plan.
• Strong development skills in COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IMS-DB, Stored Procedures and ISPF.

Environment: Cobol,JCL,VSAM,DB2,StoredProcedure,Spufi,NDM,XCom,TSOBMCADM,Infoman, Managenow, DST and Changeman.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Mainframe programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with business clients, support the application and implement the process as per specifications provided.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Preparing technical design and technical requirement documents.
• Developing the code as per the requirement.
• Perform Impact analysis and prepare impact document.
• Perform Unit testing.
• Participating in signoff's and deployment process.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Participated in project discussions and weekly status meetings of the project proceedings with the onsite team.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Prepared the HLD and LLDs for all the functional requirements.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Worked on requests aimed at updating various DB2 .

Environment: JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Expeditor, Endeavor and File-Aid.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Cobol programs.
• Monitoring the tickets in TTTS.
• Constant interaction with the client to understand service requests.
• Resolving the Tickets as per SLA.
• Worked on production fixes.
• Knowledge in CA7 to view job details and monitored it for performance during integration testing.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Generating reports using Reform Tool.
• Providing On call support five days a week.
• Worked on request required on table changes.
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.

Environment: DB2, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, JCL,QMF, SPUFI, TTTS,CA7,REFORM and PANVALENT.