PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly experienced in Requirement gathering, analysis, verification and validation.
• Experienced developer. Work from requirements scope to verification level in many mainframe technologies.
• Experience in Claim adjudication and paid & rejected claims analysis based on standard claim edits including member eligibility, entitlement based on ICD, prescriber specialty etc…
• Developed expertise in requirement management and providing traceability to requirement using quality models including but not limiting to Bi - Directional traceability metrics.
• Experienced in Testing including regression, integration, system & UAT, Defect Management, process design, technical documentation and process improvement.
• Well experience in working with onsite-offshore-near shore in distributed team delivery models.
• Customer Management: Proven experience in communicating with customers on spectrum of issues including requirements, traceability, acceptance testing and support.
• Well versed with the project Planning,Controlling, Execution,Status Reporting, Stakeholder management, Issues management and project auditing and process compliance.
• Extensive experience in Development, Maintenance, reverse engineering, migration & Conversion projects.
• Experience in process management, identification, evaluation and institutionalization of Process improvements opportunities, risk management and major functions of corporate quality.
• Facilitated projects to improve process compliance & process, conducted process awareness sessions, lead causal analysis and ROI teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: OS-ES, OS, ES-MFT, MVS, DOS,ZoS

Languages: SAS, COBOL, APS COBOL, MVS Assembler, Autocoder, Fortran IV, PL/I, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, Easytrieve,VB, ASP, .NetASP.NET, Perl,Java, Peoplesoft

Databases: DB2, SQL, IMS/ DB, FOCUS (RAMIS), Oracle, SPUFI, QMFStored Procedures

Tools: Expeditor, IBM-Debug, Interest, File Aid, Revolve, VSAM IDCAMS CICS, Dumpmaster, Test Director, MS Project, ISPF, TSO, DFSORT,MQ Series, SPUFI, RACF, WSIM, IMS DC, Zeke, BMS, Fault, Analyzer, Tesseract, FileManager, Dumpmaster, Quality Center Infoman, FTP/SCP, Coolgen, MS Office,Outlook, MS Project, Excel Macros, ALM, ComparexChange Management: Endeavor, CA7 & 11, PANVALET, ChangeMan, Control M

Technical: Unit Testing, System testing, Defect Analysis, Defect Monitoring

Performance Testing. analyze failures, trace defects to root cause

Functional: Black Box, Functional, System, Integration, Regression,Integration, system, UAT smoke, sanity testing etc..

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. Test Lead (Migration Mainframe to Linux)

Responsibilities:

• Participation in understanding of Functional Requirements and Migration Strategies.
• Designed test plan, scheduled and executed various phases of testing including system, Integration and UAT based on Migration strategies.
• Test Strategies and Test Plan based on functional and on Technical specification.
• Conduct the Testing including Black Box, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, integration, system, parallel, UAT & smoke.
• End to End testing.
• Coordination with stake holders, developers, BAs to assist in clarification of technical issues
• Mentored junior team members on testing methodologies and application work flow.
• Defect identification, tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Escalation of critical issues to Business for resolution.
• Participated/ Drive Weekly team meetings and walk through to discuss status report and schedule task.

Environment: IBM-Mainframes, MVS, ISPF, DB2, CICS,JCL, VSAM, Endeavor, Contrl-M, FileaidUtilities e.g. Sort, IEBCOPY, FTP, QC, Frontend includes(Java, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL ), Excel Macros, Clear Quest

Confidential, Detroit

Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participation in understanding of Functional Requirements and Design discussions.
• Estimation, Impact analysis, Risk identification & risk evolution.
• Designed, scheduled and executed System Integration Test Plans based on functional specifications and Business Requirement Documents.
• Test Strategies and Test Plan based on functional and on Technical specification.
• Conduct the Testing including Black Box, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, integration, system, UAT smoke, sanity, etc…
• End to End Claims testing of claims.
• Coordination with stake holders, developers, BAs to assist in clarification of technical issues
• Mentored junior team members on testing methodologies and application work flow.
• Defect identification, tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Escalation of critical issues to Business for resolution.
• Actively involved in user sign off process for defect fixes and enhancements in off cycle releases.
• Participated in Weekly team meetings and walk through to discuss status report and schedule task.

Environment: IBM-Mainframes, MVS, ISPF, DB2, Natural ADABASE, CICS,JCL, VSAM, Endeavor, CA7, Fileaid, Utilities e.g. Sort, IEBCOPY, FTP, QC, Frontend includes(Java, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL ), Excel Macros, HP ALM.

Confidential, Richardson TX

Lead QA

Responsibilities:

• Participation in gathering and developing understanding of Functional & non-functional requirements and Design discussions.
• Estimation, Impact analysis, Risk identification & risk evolution.
• Formalizing functional & non-functional requirements
• Interacting with offshore team as project follows extensive onsite-offshore delivery model
• Designed, scheduled and executed Test Plans based on functional specifications and Business Requirement Documents.
• Test Strategies and Test Plan based on functional specifications in HP Quality Center.
• Conduct the Testing including Black Box, Functional, System, Integration, Regression, integration, system, UAT smoke, sanity, etc…
• End to End Claims testing including claims based on web, RxClaim engine, IVR & peoplesoft technologies.
• Attend the client calls, walkthrough the test execution Result with the client.
• Coordination with Developers, BAs to assist in clarification of technical issues
• Mentored junior team members on testing methodologies and application work flow.
• Defect identification, tracking and reporting using Quality Center.
• Escalation of critical issues to Business for resolution.
• Extensive Functional and End to End testing for various modules with all possible positive/negative scenarios
• Developed Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to track requirements during the QA Testing Phase.
• Actively involved in user sign off process for defect fixes and enhancements in off cycle releases.
• Participated in Weekly team meetings and walk through to discuss status report and schedule task.

Environment: AS/400, Mainframe QC, ALM, FTP, Sharepoint etc…, Frontend includes (Peoplesoft, Java, CRM, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL Server), Excel Macros

Confidential, Miami Fl

Technical Lead & Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participation in gathering and developing understanding of Functional Requirements and Design discussions.
• Estimation, Impact analysis, Risk identification & risk evolution.
• Formalizing functional & non-functional requirements
• Interacting with offshore team as project follows extensive onsite-offshore delivery model
• Data Management $ data quality
• Development work using COBOL, CICS, IMS and DB2
• Unit testing, system and participation in User acceptance testing integration testing.
• Production support and maintenance of the application
• Handling of 837 transactions for claim processing
• Enhancements to the applications.
• Claim adjudication, analysis of paid & rejected claims based on standard claim edits including member eligibility, entitlement based on ICD, prescriber specialty, drug setup etc…
• Improving the system technically also functionally.

Environment: DB2, IMS, CICS, COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL, VSAM, SAR, FOCUS, Expediter, Endeavor, CA7, QC, Frontend includes (Java, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL )

Confidential, St. Joseph, MI

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Development work using COBOL, CICS and DB2
• Unit Testing, system and conducted User acceptance Testing
• Production support and maintenance of the application
• Onsite-offshore coordination
• Production Support Activities
• Interacting with offshore team as project follows extensive onsite-offshore delivery model
• Support to the existing applications, enhancement and maintenance of the application
• Verification and validation process management - Unit Testing, integration and system testing. Coordination with user community for, parallel and acceptance testing
• Worked on Integrating of process and data of newly acquired company by collecting the business requirements
• Enhancements to the applications.

Environment: IBM-Mainframes, MVS, COBOL, IDMS, DB2, CICS, MQ Series, SAS, Focus, Endeavor, VSAM. JCL, Utilities(Sort, Fileaid, Copy, etc...) QC, Frontend includes(Java, .Net, CRM, SQL, PL/SQL )

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participation in gathering and developing understanding of Functional Requirements and Design discussions.
• Estimation, Impact analysis, Risk identification & risk evolution.
• Formalizing functional & non-functional requirements
• Development work using COBOL, CICS and DB2, VSAM, SAS, IMS DB/DC, Tesseract.
• Unit Testing, system Testing, Integration and conducted User acceptance Testing
• Production support and maintenance of the application
• Production Support Activities
• Support to the existing applications, enhancement and maintenance of the application
• Verification and validation process management - Unit Testing, integration and system testing. Coordination with user community for, parallel and user acceptance testing
• Enhancements to the applications.
• Interacting with offshore near shore teams as project follows extensive distributed team delivery model

Environment: IBM-ES/390, DB2,CICS, MVS Assembler, VSAM, SORT, FTP, Fileaid, SAS, IMS DB/DC, Tesseract, Zeke. WSIM, FOCUS, Fileaid, Sort, FTP & QC

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed Methodology for re-engineering.
• Developed Testing Methodology for the re-engineered system.
• Designed the reverse engineering deliverables.
• Documenting functional & non-functional requirements as deliverable of re-engineering.
• Workload distribution and issue handling
• Developed Preparing the Test cases pertaining to the specific functionality
• Testing of new system with respect to existing system using parallel run strategies.
• Supported the existing system during transitioned.

Environment: IBM-ES/390, DB2, IMS, COBOL, CICS, MVS, VSAM, Sort, Fileaid, FTP, Excel, CoolGen, DesignPro,Visio

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Documented function of each macro used in the exiting system.
• Developed code for converting a macro(s) to the corresponding/relevant commands.
• Developed gap analysis and strategy to resolve addressing issues.
• Documented the test strategy for the converted system.
• Ensuring the deliverables as per SLA
• Preparing the Test cases and Testing Application programs
• System Testing and participation in User acceptance Testing
• Tested the integrated system and provided parallel run to ensure that before and after conversion output is the same as expected, leading customer acceptance testing phases.

Environment: IBM-ES/390, DB2, Utilities(Sort, IEBCOPY, Fileaid FTP, etc…) CICS, MVS Assembler, VSAM

Confidential

Team and Subject matter

Responsibilities:

• Member of Steering committee
• Member of Corp SEPG
• Subject Matter expert for one of he Gap Analysis Group
• Process development, documentation and improvements.
• Imparted on QMS as part of the CMMI initiative.
• Providing the Status Reports to the Corp SEPG.
• Communication with ADC SEPG’s on process performance, Metrics/ trend analysis, process improvement proposals.
• Institutionalized process of improvement.
• Panel for ROI and Root-cause analysis.

Environment: SEPG Tools developed customized tools, Excel Macros, Defect Reporting Tools, designPro, MPP, Power Point.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Impact Analysis
• Reviews Testing and preparing the Documentation
• Gathering requirements from business analysts and Users.
• Preparing the Design of Technical and Program specifications
• Development work using COBOL, CICS, DB2, and Easytrieve.
• Unit Testing, system and participation in User acceptance Testing
• Production support and maintenance of the application
• Enhancements to the applications.
• Improving the system technically/functionally.
• Interacting with offshore team as project follows extensive onsite-offshore delivery model

Environment: IBM- ES/9000, DB II CICS, MVS Assembler COBOL, VSAM, TSO, FileAid, ACMS (Configuration Controller) and Expeditor.