SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of Information Technology experience in Mainframe/ETL Testing, Development, Production support, Migration,Systems analysis on Mainframe Environment using agile (Scrum) and waterfall methodologies on various applications using Mainframe/UNIX/ETL/SQL/MQ Series/XML/Data warehouse technologies.
• Working as a Senior Mainframe Test Analyst/QA Lead for multiple projects across the core settlement processing Agile Train.
• Excellent understanding of technical processes and experience on Software Development life cycle and Structured Programming Methodology.
• Involved in daily Interactions and scrum meetings with internal clients/Product owners for detailed requirement gathering, analysis of the work requirements
• Coordinating cross team planning and development of test deliverables project level for end - to-end testing of complex initiatives involving many participants like Test Plan, Test Cases/Scripts, Test Schedule, Test Strategy
• Solid Financial domain expertise, Banking, Payment Processing (Credit/Debit/Gift cards),Health Care(Refill Reminder Alerts),Banking and Cards, Telecom and extensive knowledge on Deposit check and Card payment processes.
• Well experienced in Batch QA Testing, Online Testing and Manual testing.
• Strong experience in COBOL,JCL, SQL,DB2,FILE-AID,QMF, SPUFI,MVS,VSAM,TSO,ISPF,CICS, Z/OS,REXX, XML(SOAP),MQ, Informatica, Oracle, Unix and Data warehouse.
• Extensive knowledge in Databases which includes Oracle, DB2, IMS DB/DC.
• Experience working with the HP ALM, Mercury Quality centre Tools for defect tracking and Rally for implementing agile/scrum methodology and TOSCA for writing test cases.
• Experience in developing Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Strategy, Traceability Matrix and Test Environments.
• Expert in Conducting Systems, Integration, Functional, User-Acceptance Testing, White box Testing, Black box testing and improvement of QA Processes.
• Have extensively used mainframe tools,DB2 Products, CA7, DB2-File Aid, IMS-File Aid, QMF, SPUFI,SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, FILE AID, Xpediter, Panvalet, Connect Direct, DB2 Connect, ChangeMan, Mercury Quality Center, BMC utilities, FTP, JCL Utilities,File transfer Protocol FTP.
• Expertise in Problem solving and Bug Reports using Bug Tracking Tools.
• Have excellent interpersonal, communication skills and a team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MVS 390,Z/OS

Environment: Windows XP, Windows 2000

File Systems: VSAM File Management System,Text files

Languages: COBOL,JCL,DB2, and CICS, SQL,ORACLE,Hadoop,Informatica Power Center, UNIX,Oracle,Data Warehouse,SQL,XML,MQ, Hadoop,Map Reduce,Java

Tools: SPUFI,QMF,AQT,ESP,File Manager, File Aid, Endeavor, Changeman, HPSC,Merucry QC,HP ALM Connect:Direct,FTP,SDSF, HPSC and CA7 scheduler tool,Mercury,Agile/Scrum

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati,Ohio

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with product users and developers in understanding the requirements and in preparation of test plan documents
• Attending daily stand up calls with product owners and developers and train leads
• Distributing the tasks/user stories among offshore team members and helping them in understanding the test requirements
• Preparation of test plan, execution goal plans and test case documents as per the BR and FR documents
• Preparing JCL builds for end to end testing, regression testing as per the given specifications
• Performing regression and end to end tests, functional tests
• Data validation on Mainframes using different mainframe utilities like IBM compare utilities
• Validating the loads for Dimension and Fact tables using SQL queries with QMF/SPUFI tools
• Reviewing Test cases and attending Requirements Review meetings, Team meetings
• Uploading test cases to TOSCA tool and validating against execution results
• Preparation of lesson learnt documents
• Updating defect logs and defect metrics documents
• Attending Project status and defect status meetings
• Test Data Repository maintenance on share point
• SLA adherence

Environment: Windows 10,Z/OS

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

QA Lead/Senior Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with Business users and participated in JAD sessions in understanding requirements and in preparation of ADDs and XML formats through WebSphere Message Queues(WMQ)
• Preparation of High Level Application design documents
• Reviewing UTC documents and advising the team in case of any deviations from FRs and BRDs
• Preparing XML specifications and interacting with Message Queue administration team in obtaining correct queue manager name and Queue names to supply to the application program
• Preparation of the UTC(Unit test cases) document as per the FRDs
• Coding and development using Cobol,DB2,XML & MQ and unit testing
• Preparation of Test data as and when required
• Code walk through and code reviews
• Peer Reviewing the UTRs and advising the team if there are any modifications required
• Participation in status meetings with distributing applications teams while going for SIT cycle execution
• Executing system test cycles and providing abend resolution
• Updating the project status to the client on daily basis
• Updating of technical design documents
• Involved in pre-production activities like rising JIRA requests and change requests
• Attending daily status calls
• SLA adherence

Environment: Z/OS,Windows

Confidential

Batch Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attending meetings with business users to understand the testing requirements
• Extracting business rules to prepare test matrix
• Preparation of low level design documents
• Code enhancements and unit testing
• Environment set ups and test data preparation
• Preparation of test strategy and test plan documents
• Preparation of test case documents and test data documents
• Test Cycle execution and Test result validation
• Uploading test cases to HPSC and Validating test cases against execution results
• Preparation of lesson learnt documents
• Defect Tracking and Updates
• Updating metrics documents
• Attending defect status meetings
• Attending daily execution status meetings
• Attending weekly status meetings

Environment: Windows XP,Z/OS

Confidential

Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Distributed the work among team members and helped them understanding the business requirements
• Mentored the new team members
• Involved in analysis of the cardpac batch and online system applications and preapred the phase wise documents with the details of all components like programs,jobs,files,tools/utilities used in jobs,compiler versions…etc.
• Prepared excels with details on jobs/Procs/OPC names and cardpac file names and cobol versions and utilities used.
• Created test plans and test case documents
• Daily status updates to clients
• Coordinated the Team meetings.
• Mentored the junior team members.
• Coordinated and attended weekly status calls with onsite team.

Confidential

Production Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the production batch and online system availability for users
• Abend Analysis and Abend Resolution
• Analyzing the change requests and preparing the design for new/existing changes.
• Preparing unit test cases
• Working on change requests and minor code enhancements
• Unit testing
• Scheduling the changes in production
• Defect(ticket handling) management
• Providing 24 x 7 365 days system support
• Coding and Unit testing
• Work/Change requests
• Client Assistance (performing the client requests)
• Preparation of Test Result Summary Reports
• Adhoc requests processing
• Conducting Annual health checks for production application systems
• Attending the weekly status calls & team meetings
• Mentoring the team member as part of cross application training

Environment: Windows 2000,MVS/390

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirements
• Coding and Development
• Unit Testing
• Preparation of Test Result Summary Reports
• Attending the daily status calls
• Attending the team meetings

Environment: Windows 2000,MVS/390

Confidential

Batch Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Triggering batch system test cycle jobs
• Batch monitoring for system test cycles
• ABEND resolution and Defect Analysis.
• Setting up JCLs according to the requirements.
• Cycle execution and monitoring.
• Preparing Test result summary report and Test Status Reports.
• Environment upgrades and data deployments.
• Database transactions monitoring
• Rollbacks and pre-pass procedures.
• Monitoring the database onlines up job on daily basis.
• Perform ad-hoc requests.••
• Attending the daily status calls and Weekly Status calls.
• Attending client meetings.
• Defect tracking.
• Training and mentoring the new resources
• Taking Knowledge sharing sessions
• Arranging team meetings and Team get togethers
• Arranging Work progress meetings
• Attending cross training applications.

Environment: Windows 2000Languages: COBOL, MVS/JCl, TSO/ISPF,UNIX