SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of professional experience in business application software design, development, Integration, testing and maintenance.
• Expertise in COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM, IMS DB, MQ Series & Java/J2EE.
• Good experience in Re - Engineering the CICS Applications with SOA Web Services.
• Good Understanding of Confidential, Struts and Sprint Frame Work.
• Good Expertise in Micro Focus Cobol, Oracle.
• Expertise in Perl, Batch Scripting and ESP Scheduler.
• Very good experience on Batch processing and production support.
• Enhancements and evaluation of Health Care and Financial applications.
• Good knowledge on Insurance and Finance Domain.
• Expertise in requirement gatherings, Design Document preparation.
• Proficient in creating Test Plans & Test scenarios.
• Expertise in SPUFI, QMF, File Master and FILEAID as testing tools and for data manipulation and Data cleaning.
• Involved in 24x7 Production Support as a Primary Support.
• Proficient in Confidential utilities and Tools like CNTL-M, XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, CA-INTERTEST, ABEND-AID, INFOMAN, PANVALET, SYNC SORT, FILEAID FOR DB2, PLATINUM FOR DB2, SCLM .
• Has done documentation like User Requirement spec Document, Technical Design Document, System Test Case documents.
• Involved in all the stages of the software development cycle, namely design, specification, coding, debugging, testing (test plan and test execution), integration, Regression and system testing, documentation and maintenance of the programs.
• Program specifications contains which part of code to be changed, all the JCL & PROCs modification and if any COPYBOOKS to be included.
• Proficient in RDBMS systems like DB2, SQL Server and Oracle.
• Strong Communication, Presentation and Interpersonal skills with excellent problem solving capabilities
• Experience in FTP, SAS Programming & Reporting and ALM tool.
• Extensive experience with Team Dynamics (Cross-site Inclusive), Client Support & Relationships.
• Evaluated numerous complex system problems and user requirements. Developed the ability to develop structured and modular solutions. Built program specifications, requirements analysis and internal design to meet rigorous client standards.
• Implemented large-scale, release and enhancement projects as lead analyst. Supported delivery of batch and online programs, customized reports, application/data conversion and process improvements.
• Supported maintenance of several applications in handling of user requests, system enhancements, front-end and back-end interface modifications and production installation.
• Modification of elements that are identified as impacted. The conversion is to be done based on the conversion guidelines provided.
• Created complex test plans, requirements and design test cases. Managed execution of different testing phases (unit, integration, systems, interface and compliance testing).
• Developed project schedule as an onsite team lead. Ran and supported project/problem status meetings with management, development team and auditors.
• Presented architectural reviews, test plan reviews and technical training sessions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, Proc, PL/1, SQL, SAS, EASY TRIEVE PLUS, C

Scripting Languages: XML,HTML

Web Technologies: MQ Series, Getting trained on Websphere

Database: DB2, IMS DB, SQL Server, MS Access, TOAD Oracle

GUI: Developer 2000, Visual Basic

Configuration Management Tools: ENDEVOR, ChangeMan, SCLM, Librarian, Easytrieve

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000, MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS, UNIX

Tools: FILE - AID, Easy Plus, JCL Check, FROG, SCAM, PDM, CA7, Panavalet, Debug, Xpeditor, TSO/ISPF, Control-M.

Utilities: ISPF/PDF, TSO/E, SPUFI, QMF, Platinum DB2 Tool, OPC/ESA, BMC, QMF, SPUFI, PRINCE, Move to DB2, ALM, SORT, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, ICETOOL

OLTP: CICS

Others: REXX, VSAM,VTAM

Methodologies: Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Portland, OR

Developer & Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with MQ Support, SOA and Changeman teams to setup the environment for new project.
• Work with RA and Tester to understand the card assigned and fix the timelines.
• Conduct the detail analysis on PALLM Mainframe Application and identify modules need to be changed or need to develop new modules to complete the assigned card.
• Work with Desktop JAVA/J2EE team to understand the impact of Mainframe changes and make Desktop application is in Sync with PALLM.
• Make the changes to the existing COBOL/CICS modules.
• Develop new modules if necessary using COBOL/CICS with Webservices and MQ.
• Conduct Unit Testing and make sure all scenarios are covered.
• Support system testing in case of any bugs or defects.
• Participate in show and tell with business users.
• Prepare the promotion and implementation plans while promoting the code from development region to production region.

Confidential, Scranton, PA

Developer & Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business users to gather the requirements.
• Participate in stake holders meeting to understand meet the financial and delivery deadlines.
• Work with Agile Model experts to get trained as this project is following the Agile methodology.
• Work closely with MQ Support, SOA and Changeman teams to make CICS act as a service requestor and service provider.
• Prepare the architectural view diagrams for the new system.
• Prepare the design documents for the new system.
• Define the Service request and service response Interface copybooks.
• Generate the mainframe compatible Schema and WSDL for service request and Service Response copybooks.
• Design and develop the new wrapper module to process the request and response between ECIF and PALLM thru MQ.
• Participate in Daily Standup meetings to provide the daily updates to the Iteration manager and project managers.
• Participate in Show and Tell meetings after every iteration to explain user what we have performed in last iteration to gain the customer confidence.
• Support the Testers for their testing and Fix the bugs that have been raised.
• Provide the extensive support to the release team to deploy all the necessary components to move into respective regions.
• Implementation of the project into production and provide the support if any issues after implementation.
• Update the user documentation, Risks, Assumptions and scope documentation after implementation with changes if any.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a point of contact from legacy system side for Bluestar Re-engineering.
• Responsible for fixing all the CMS-Bluestar issues as part of Bluestar Re-engineering project.
• Responsible for manual file fixes and put the changes into production.
• Provided the extensive customer support and close the tickets within SLA.
• Participated in the weekly customer meetings and responsible for the team status reports.
• Involved in 24X7 production support as a primary.
• Involved in the review and analysis of Business design summary, Use case document and Screen definition documents.
• Analyzed the functional requirements of the application and involved in Coding and Testing.
• Developed test strategy for the application and developed various Test plans and Test cases.
• Involved in the interaction with end user to resolve the CMS issues.
• Developed new programs and generated the report as part of ADHOC requests.
• Mentoring the team of developers.

Environment: Z/OS, OS 390, CICS, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, Proc, SAS, Rexx, MQ Series, UNIX, TOAD Oracle, IMS DB, FTP, DB2, XML, SOAP, WSDL, File Aid, Xpeditor, Endeavour, Platinum, QMF, SPUFI, Changeman, ALM, Move to DB2, Librarian, Confidential Utilities, Sort, Syncsort, DF Sort, ICETOOL, Jobtrac.