PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated, goal oriented with near around9 years of experience in design, development and implementation of mainframe programs.
• Strong Mainframe development experience which includes requirement gathering, technical discussion with Products owner, design finalization, coding (Build), unit testing and scrum testing support.
• Completed Syntel and self - learning training on core java and object oriented programming concepts.
• Responsible for creation of all QA supporting documentation such as estimates, test strategies, test plans, test coverage, risk assessment, defect management, issue resolution, status reporting and approach documents.
• Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness.
• Good Exposure on Requirements Analyzing & Streamlining and Management.
• Actively participate as a scrum team member in all phases of the scrum process from last 2 years and was full time dedicated scrum master as well.
• Responsible for giving demonstrations and presentation to the management and mentoring other junior team members.
• Expertise in all development phases of Software Development Life cycle. Having knowledge of all testing phases including System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing etc.
• Well versed with various Testing Stages/Levels/Phases, Testing Types, Testing Techniques and quality work products.
• Good expertise in peer reviews (Test Design and Defect Reporting), analyzing the results and reporting Suggestions and defects.
• Prepared documentation of the Prescription fulfilment and management module for management review and project presentations.
• Have an experience of handling multiple projects concurrently with a team of more than 15 resources.
• Understanding of code analysis, code conversion and automated testing tools
• In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, process which includes Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Expertise in Microsoft Office Suite including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Visio.
• Proficient in the development of Test Strategies and Test Plans, writing detailed Test Cases, developing and implementing complete software Test methodologies.
• Enriched working experience in SDLC using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Software Developer & Integrator

Responsibilities:

• Production and maintenance support. 24/7 support environment with onshore and offshore module. Monitoring and supporting batch and online jobs.
• Involving in the Critical calls with Clients and production issues and resolved all production issues without impacting the production .
• Actively participating the client meetings and deliverable meetings.
• Dealing with offshore teams, assign them works, and manage work in progress.
• Involving in meetings with subject matter experts and customers to get more information about the system and design the interface more effectively.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Optim DB2, VSAM, TSO, Service Now, File Manager, Sync Sort, Endevor, Control-M, IDCAMS, MS Office, NDM, WSF2.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed COBOL/DB2 for Multiple Tables and where Business and/or Data Referential Integrity Rules need to be considered.
• Used Teradata utility such as Fastload/Multiload and BTEQ to do the update/insert into target tables.
• Developed batch report programs utilizing Easytrieve. Conducted unit testing utilizing Xpediter.
• Prepared test cases for both systems unit and system tests.
• Created program specs based on business system analysis and Design documents and given directions to the offshore team to do the proper coding.
• Conducted and Verified test data during system testing before moving all the programs into production.
• Dealt with offshore teams, assigned them works, and managed work in progress.
• Involved in meetings with subject matter experts and customers to get more information about the system and design the interface more effectively.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, TSO, ISPF/PDF, File Manager, BMC Utilities, QMF, SPUFI, Sync Sort, Endevor, CA7, IDCAMS, MS Office, SAS.

Confidential, MI

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Made changes to BMP and Online COBOL, CICS programs based on Customer requirements, prepared test data, unit and system testing.
• Extracted data from IMS flat files and DB2 tables using QMF. Downloaded data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and sent the information directly to the user.
• Analyzed returned code and made COBOL and JCL changes as necessary.
• Tested and debugged the batch and online programs utilizing debugging tools like Via-soft and CA-Interest.
• Worked with the QA team to provide inputs for the test case generation.
• Performed code review with developers to ensure the Business requirements met in an efficient way, and make sure that the coding standards are followed.
• Performed the activities needed to deploy code to production environments during project installation.
• Documented the knowledge sharing sessions and the learning's from the project as a repository for the new joiners in the team.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, TSO, ISPF/PDF, CICS, Sync Sort, DF SORT, NDM, VSAM,CA7, HP Quality center

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created COBOL and DB2 batch programs. Have experience in Insurance and claims processing.
• Performed UTP Preparation, Unit Testing and Peer Review. Prepare Knowledge repository excluding the user documentation. Attended team meetings with clients understand priorities, sharing responsibility and gaining experience.
• Coded programs completed unit testing and conducted code walk-thru utilizing COBOL, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DB2 and JCL.
• Created unit test plans and test folders to gain user acceptance sign-offs. Performed integration and parallel testing in both the test and production environments. Participated in quality assurance peer reviews.
• Resolved production problems in a timely manner utilizing ABEND-AID. Analyzed and modified JCL for testing purposes.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, FTP, NDM, TSO, ISPF/PDF, CICS, MQ series, Sync Sort, DF SORT, Abend-aid, NDM, VSAM, CA7, File Manager, Endevor, HP Quality center