SUMMARY

• 6+ years of IT professional experience in Analysis, Designing, Developing, Debugging Maintenance and Testing of application software running on IBM Mainframes.
• Strong Project Management and execution skills, experience in working with different cross functional teams located onsite and offshore.
• Experience with Finance - Credit Cards Domains.
• Strong in Functional Analysis.
• Strong programming experience in COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM
• Used ENDEVOR and CHANGEMAN for Code versioning.
• Used XPEDITER (Batch and Online) for Code debugging.
• Used schedulers like CA7 and TWS for job scheduling and Batch job testing.
• Worked on applications having mainframe backend and Java frontend with Web sphere MQ.
• Strong skills in Testing and writing Test cases for Applications at various levels.
• Exposure to Vision plus CMS, LMS and LTS subsystem and In-house Confidential subsystems WINGSFM (World Wide Interface Network for Group Systems) and CDM (Customer Data Management) for Credit Cards Domain.
• Proficient in Mercury Tools such as Quality Center
• Extensive experience in conducting System Integration, Regression, Functional and User Acceptance and Performance Testing.
• Skilled in prioritizing tasks in accordance with project delivery guidelines and methodology.
• Capable of rapidly learning new technologies and processes and successfully applying to Projects and operations
• Sound analytical and problem solving skills with a good exposure to the key facets of leading the Team to meet set objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, MVS, z/OS

Environment: Mainframe

Database: MS Access, DB2

Languages: COBOL,CICS,JCL,SQL

Microsoft Products: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, Visio

Utilities: CA-7, CHANGEMAN, EZYTRIEVE, XPED (Batch and Online), Abend-Aid, File-Aid, File Manager, Debug Tool (Batch and Online), TWS, TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, IBM Utilities

File Handling: VSAM

Defect Management Tool: HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus

QA Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Business Requirement Documents
• Preparation and Execution of User and SIT Test Cases
• Test Data Conditioning for Impacted Business of Alabama and rest all plants of Confidential
• Regression testing for all the plants of Confidential - Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio
• Defect Tracking and Reporting to Business and Management
• Lead the UAT support at Client site in Alabama.
• Co-coordinating with cross functional teams at different onsite and offshore locations.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, File-Aid, QMF, DB2

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the new functionalities and preparation of technical specifications, HLD (High Level Document)
• Assisting team members to understand BR
• Assisting team members technically and functionally
• Coding and Unit Testing Impacted applications
• Review of Code, Unit Test results of team members
• Involved in SIT, UAT, Functional testing, Regression Testing
• Closely worked with UAT testing to fix issues in testing
• Defect Reporting and Defect resolution
• Performing end-to-end system testing of product, writing test cases and fixing issues
• Validating Coding Standards, Conducting peer reviews and status meetings with team members
• Batch Runs for different subsystems of VisonPlus including CMS, TRAMS/ITS, FAS, MBS, ASM.
• Co-ordination with various FE teams during defect resolution and enhancement testing
• Peer review of artifacts and deliverables
• Conducting walk through of new impacting functionalities for the team members
• Provide KT sessions to Production support team and complete hand over process
• Provide support for Post implementation
• Used Changeman and TWS tool for staging, compilation and promotion of JCL and COBOL DB2 programs, COBOL CICS programs
• Involved in Technical analysis, for Migration project of Confidential from CHANGEMAN to ENDEVOR, CA7 to TWS. Setting up Business Standards for different BUs of Confidential .

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, TSO/ISPF, File-AidFile-Manager, CA7, TWS, CHANGEMANENDEVOR, XPEDITER, EZYTRIEVE

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding and Unit testing different enhancements
• SIT Batch Run for various sub-systems of Vision Plus
• Batch and Online Issue resolution
• Defect Support during SIT, UAT, Functional and Regression testing
• Data freezing. Scenario creations for FE/BE Testing
• Involved in Infrastructure projects where entire setup was made ready for the Upgrade projects by loading fresh new files, base code, running Dry batch runs and Data batch runs for different SIT/UAT regions of various BUs.
• Ensured application maintenance and support activities complying with corporate IT policies, procedures, and standards.
• Involved in Compliance projects of FDI where we get the tapes from FDI. This project involved analysis of different functionalities developed by FDI for global Cards and corresponding impact on different BUs like Brazil, Europe, Australia, CEE of Confidential .
• Involved in preparing HLD for the customizations required in FDI code for supporting existing business functionalities of Confidential
• Involved in code retrofitting for compliance projects
• Involved in coordinating with Backend and Front end development and testing teams in preparing User test cases for functional testing, data freezing.
• Coordinating with users and different project teams for defect resolutions

Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, File-AidCA7 and CHANGEMAN