SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated IT professional with 10 years of proven experience in development, testing, maintenance, migration, performance tuning of Mainframe.
• Proven experience in legacy modernization projects
• Worked as quality assurance analyst - defect tracking, analysis, conducted technical and process quality audits
• Proven skills in system analysis and gathering / defining client business.
• Expert in developing BRD, Business Processes, Work Flow Diagrams and AS-IS and TO-BE diagrams.
• Cross-functional expertise, encompassing Technical Analysis and Specifications, Data Analysis, Design, Quality Assurance and Full Life Cycle Project Management
• Worked in Water fall as well to Agile Methodologies.
• Expertise in project planning and scheduling using project management tool (MS Project)
• Good working experience on IBM Rational Clear Quest
• Extensive experience in working as onsite-offshore model supporting 24x7 applications.
• Quick at learning and applying new technologies to current assignments.
• Proficient in Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB, IMS-DC, IDMS, Changeman, File-Aid, Strobe, MQ, SAS, CICS, VSAM, ISPF, QMF, Online and Batch Expeditor, Express, SAR, Mailbox, CLIST, Endeavor, SORT, FTP, Stored Procedure, UDB
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the development process.
• Experience in working with multiple vendors
• Have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to interact with individuals at all levels and can work as part of the team and independently
• Expertise in Product Application evaluation, Process flow reviews and Requirements definitions and implementation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C, COBOL, JCL, PL/I, SQL

O/S: MVS -OS/390, Z/OS, Windows XP, windows 7

IBM utilities: IEBGENER, IEFBR14, IEBCOPY, SORT, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT and ICETOOL

Databases: DB2, IMS, VSAM

OLTP: CICS, IMS

Tools: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, CA7( Scheduler), QM/PM, DB2OPTIM, Panvalet, Quick Job, File Aid, ICETOOL, REXX, Expeditor, IBM File Manager, Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY

Senior Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Conducted brain storming session and Joint Application development with business users to collect requirements
• Responsible for walk through the Business Requirement documents with customer during the end user review, maintain versions and take the user sign-off on the documents and changes
• Create High level and low level design documents and prototyping through creation of POCs
• Deliver high quality code deliverables and supports peers in quality checks such that design requirements are met
• Prepared test data, lead testing activities for functional, Integration and User Acceptance testing and managed integration testing with multiple vendors.
• Support the creation of ‘Go Live’ plan and manage the assigned activities in the plan.
• Perform root cause analysis of any issues that arise post-implementation and work on solutions related to issue fixing.
• Conduct impact analysis of issues logged, prioritize and ensure that production support is provided as per the committed SLAs.
• Help the manager in prioritization of effort to resolve the most critical tickets as per the business requirements.
• Support and coach peers and juniors as and when required on specific technical competencies required to deliver on the assigned task
• Interface with internal team spread globally to undertake onsite specific activities of the project
• Perform high and low level technical design, provide pseudo codes, and implement the prototype and conduct design reviews
• Support client interfacing activities and help create the relevant reports in a timely manner

Environment: IBM mainframes, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, IMS DB, IDCAMS, REXX, CLIST, IEBGENER, SORT, ICETOOL, FTP, FILE-AID/DB2, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, SYNC-SORT,CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, IBM Rational Clear Quest.

Confidential

Senior Application Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Participated and documented the requirement gathering sessions and analyzed the impact of the changes.
• Analyze the requirements, design and implementation of business applications, middleware, database etc.; study the impact of software/application changes; and ensure that all system components are designed and tuned to acceptable levels of performance and resource utilization
• Participate in technical architecture and design discussions to determine the most appropriate solution model, taking into consideration high performance, availability, failover and disaster rec
• Partner with the Development, Application & Infrastructure Architecture and Technical Services teams to ensure that changes in technical or business systems do not adversely impact application performance
• Serve as a technical expert, resolving critical and complex application performance issues. Identify and drive optimization changes in the application design to improve customer experience for business-critical IT applications
• Develop, maintain, recommend, documents and support tools and backend utilities to perform performance and capacity planning management.
• Preparing Estimation, Impact Analysis, Business-Technical Requirement, Technical Design, Test Plan Results, System Testing and Release Pack documents as result of analysis, coding, testing and implementation
• Worked cross-functionally with Marketing teams (Toyota, Lexus & Scion) and Toyota Financial Services to interpret industry trends and recommended changes to existing system functionality that reduced manual work and increased business revenue
• Led monthly Project Executive Summary meeting - involving team, IT Managers and Business to analyze current status against targets and provided executive management with a forward-looking view of the business
• Attended Change Control Board meeting for approval of Change Requests.
• Defined the Functional specifications for set ups and reports and transformed the specifications to the Technical Team.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for various repetitive problems and provided suggestions for speedy problem resolution.
• Maintained the regular interaction with the Client, End users, Technical team, participated in the meetings on regular basis and followed up the progress of work.
• Working with different teams to resolve all issues for the assigned sites.
• Tested the interfaces, reports, and processes to ensure that all the functionalities are working correctly.
• Worked with the users and businesspersons in designing and defining the new Reports and Customizing the existing Reports. to super users and users
• Review, identify, and recommend opportunities to optimize, consolidate, refactor, reuse, simplify and streamline the infrastructure and software asset base
• Coordinated Set up activities in UAT and Production Environment of all the modules
• Supported the Team as Subject Matter Specialist in Financial Modules and business Process
• Prepared the weekly status and monthly SLA reports for the top level management

Environment: MVS- Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, IMS, QMF- SPUFI, Query Monitor, DB2, VSAM, CA7, Quality Center, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, HTML, XML, JavaScript, VSAM IDCAMS, IMS DB/DC