SUMMARY:

• Successful IT professional having more than seven years of experience in developing/Maintaining Mainframe applications with Very good knowledge in Health care and Auto domain. A team player with:
• Expertise in designing, developing and testing various Mainframe applications.
• Knowledge of Health - Insurance domains.
• Expertise in COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, VSAM.
• Experience with web services like RPC's, EBS’s, DAL’s using SOA concepts.
• Proficient in MF tools like Expediter, File Aid, Change man, Abend-Aid, Pro/JCL, Table base, TSO/ISPF, BMC Main View, BMC AR/CTL Query Monitor, IBM PD tools, SOUP UI.
• IBM certified Professional.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: MVS/OS390, Windows NT

Languages: COBOL, JCL

Databases: IMS DB, DB2

Tools: Expediter, File Aid, Change man, Abend-Aid, Control-M, Pro/JCL, Table base, TSO/ISPF, Main View, Query Monitor, BMC Main View, BMC AR/CTL Query Monitor, IBM PD tools.

Others: VSAM, Tivoli Service Request Manager, IBM Clear quest, SOUP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Technical Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements by directly interacting with the Client and Business partners and estimating the effort required for each task.
• Working with the client on Business solutions, Involved in coordinating Software development activities with onshore and offshore teammates.
• Participate in the BRD, high level analysis and the customer impacts for new business requirements with Business Team as well as IT Teams.
• Analyzing and fixing program problems reported by users.
• Providing solutions and developing code changes for immediate and urgent needs.
• Reviews build activities & Code, Unit Test Plan and Unit test Results prepared Team mates.
• Provide support for Monthly Software release for Change requests, Confidential and Projects
• Coordinating release and Integration testing with impacted other systems and other Projects.
• Hardware used: IBM-Mainframe

Software Used: OS/390, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, DB2, Change Man, File-Aid, File-Aid/IMS, Abend-Aid, PD Tools, Expeditor, Soup UI

Confidential

Technology Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Providing resolution and Implementing the codes changes based on immediate needs
• Coding the jobs and programs using Change Man tool.
• Participate in the BRD, high level analysis and the customer impacts.
• Gathering the requirements by directly interacting with the Client and Business partners and estimating the effort required for each Business requirements or changes.
• Managing Requirements, which involves the analysis of project requirements with a view to understanding the same and to identify the gray areas in the requirements and co-coordinating with offshore.
• Incident Resolution and Management during Steady State which involved Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Code/Design/Testing Review.
• Review build activities & Code, Unit Test Plan and Unit test Results prepared by offshore.
• Coordinating release and Integration testing with impacted other systems.
• Implementing the Change Requests at the client side.
• Maintaining various status reports and involving in Issue resolutions.
• Technical issue resolution, Client Interfacing and Production Support which include System support activities and Production Job monitoring.
• Project Tracking, Scheduling, Monitoring, and Milestone and Metrics preparation.

Software used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, TSO, IMS DB, SASUST-GLOBAL, INDIA and USA

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the BRD, high level analysis and the customer impacts.
• Analyzing and fixing program problems based on issues reported by users.
• Provide support for Monthly Software release.
• Provide Enhancement to the system by incorporating new business requirements.
• Coding the jobs and programs using Change Man tool.
• Review build activities & Code, Unit Test Plan and Unit test Results prepared by offshore.
• Coordinating release and Integration testing with impacted other systems and other Projects.
• Working with the client and Involved in coordinating onshore activities from offshore.
• Gathering the requirements by directly interacting with the Client and Business partners and estimating the effort required for each task.
• Managing Requirements, which involves the analysis of project requirements with a view to understanding the same and to identify the gray areas in the requirements.
• Implementing the Change Requests at the client side.

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a lead I was involved in the following activities
• Coordinating project requirements with onsite team.
• Estimation of the tasks and allocating them to the team members.
• Preparing designs, program specifications and test plans.
• Coding the jobs and programs using Change Man tool.
• Unit testing, system testing and integration testing support, Implementation activities.
• Ensuring that the organizational processes, based on Organizational standards, are adhered in his project.

Software Used: OS/390, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, DB2, Change Man, File-Aid, File-Aid/IMS, Abend-Aid, Pro/JCL, PD Tools, Expeditor

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Technical leader I am involved in the following activities
• Coordinating project requirements with onsite team.
• Attending knowledge transfer sessions with onsite team and transfer the business.
• Estimation of the tasks and allocating them to the team members.
• Organizing weekly conference calls with onsite teams.
• Preparing designs, program specifications and test plans.
• Coding the jobs and programs using Change Man tool.
• Unit testing, system testing and integration testing.
• Reviewing the jobs and programs done by my team members.
• Provide support for Monthly Software release.
• Work with team members and Onsite to fix Lights-on issues and queue issues to make system more stable.
• Provide implementation support and monitor performance of the installed components
• Documentation of the project modifications.
• Ensuring that the organizational processes, based on Organizational standards, are adhered in his project.
• Helping the business development team with technical solutions on potential projects. My extensive knowledge in various verticals coupled with my technical expertise has helped a lot in this regard.

Software Used: OS/390, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, DB2, Change Man, File-Aid, File-Aid/IMS, Abend-Aid, Control-M, Pro/JCL, PD Tools, BMC main view, Query monitor, Expeditor

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Software Engineer I was involved in the following activities
• Analyzing the Requirements send by the Client
• Estimation and Project startup activities
• Designing and Construction of programs.
• Testing and debugging processes.
• Reviewing the jobs and programs
• Maintenance includes production support.
• Preparation of program specifications and documentation.
• Hardware used: IBM-Mainframe

Software Used: OS/390, COBOL, JCL, IMS DB, SAS, DB2, Change Man, File-Aid, File-Aid/IMS, Abend-Aid, Expeditor