SUMMARY

• 12 yrs. experience in project management resource management and managing software development, agile process, analysis, Design, requirement gathering, application development, documentation, performance monitoring, testing, implementation, production support, quality management in legacy system.
• Strong technical knowledge on building the architectural design flow for multi - platform application.
• Having extensive domain knowledge in Health care insurance, Telecom, Finance and logistics.
• Played various roles in my career as system analyst, technical lead, development lead On-site coordinator for offshore-onsite projects.
• Involve in Agile methodology in creating stories, epic, Sprint/Iteration planning, pair programming and retrospective meeting.
• Worked in onshore-offshore model Agile methodology.
• Strong technical skills in DB2, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, SQL server, DB2 stored procedures.
• Expertise in IBM Mainframe related software MVS, TSO, VSAM, SQL, JCL, DB2, CICS and COBOL programming skills.
• Exposure to all phases of System Development Life Cycle from planning to Implementation.
• Holding good command on Unit Testing, System Testing, Functional testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, System acceptance, migrating systems New developed / Enhancement systems, production support.
• Excellent Team Player with good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive experience in Software Development & Maintenance and Software Process Improvement. This involves preparation of Program Specification, Analysis, Estimation, Coding, Testing, Support and Process Related Activities.
• Coordination with all stakeholders - Program Directors, Project PM's, Upstream/Downstream applications, LOB, BA, UAT, Dev and Scrum masters, Scrum QA etc.
• Attend requirement meeting and provide clarification to business / functional questions in various line of Businesses.
• Worked with customers, product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.
• Coordinated the work efforts of 10-member team for various projects.
• Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.
• Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority.
• Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.
• Peer Review for Offshore deliverables

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• OS390 / Zos
• COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, Stored Procedures and Web Services.
• File Aid, Inter-test, Endevor, IBM File Manger, Change man
• IBM Debugger, IBM SDSF, REXX, SPUFI,QMF, Xpediter,CA-7,MAESTRO,JIRA
• DB2,
• VSAM
• RTC, ALM, KANBAN, JIRA
• JAVA, HTML
• SPLUNK

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As System Architect, creating logical and physical design.
• Coordinate with BA’s to write stories for development team.
• Assisting team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improved transparency, and radiated information
• Built relationship with Product owner and other stake holders to facilitate team's interaction with them
• Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team
• Facilitated getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work
• Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos
• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions.
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and led by example
• Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment
• Took responsibility of delivery and management of the tasks
• Tracked and effectively communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management
• Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
• Carry out estimation, system architecture definition, perform impact analysis and deliver application design for the current requirement.
• Do peer Review for all the off shore deliverables.
• Conduct Quality review with SME’s before moving to system testing.
• Carried out Root Cause Analysis and provided inputs to identify the Defect Prevention activities for LOB Application.
• Conduct Show and Tell for completed cards. Show and Tell includes all the stake holders from Business, requirements, Development and Testing.
• Provide support for all the System test, User acceptance test, Regression test, Release test. Interact with Business, testing team for the entire defects aroused during various phases of testing.
• Status update of all the activities in the Farm Line of Business application to the clients on a daily/weekly basis.

Confidential, Hartford, Connecticut

Responsibilities:

• Support application deployments, building new systems and upgrading and patching existing ones.
• Using monitoring tools to find problems, resolve and/or escalate to development
• Build and manage development and testing environments, assisting developers in debugging application issues using tools
• Manage a highly stable, secure and automate release process.
• Support source code control tools and procedures.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To translate the business requirements into technical requirements.
• Preparation of High level design and low level design from business requirement
• To coordinate with architects, testing team and client team for various issues.
• Analyze database requirements for Batch, OLTP and reporting and analysis applications
• Provide query performance monitoring and tuning recommendations.
• Creating the program spec documents for new programs.
• Code Construction, Unit Testing and Debugging.
• Involved in code promotion and peer review activities.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the Client team to discuss the status of the project, clarify any queries regarding the functionality etc.
• Involved in the impact analysis and preparing the design documents
• Code Construction, Unit Testing and Debugging.
• Integration and Acceptance Testing support - Consulted with Client QA team to define holistic Test plan, provide support in testing like creation of Test data and verification of results.
• Analyze database requirements for Batch, OLTP and reporting and analysis applications.
• Develop and execute appropriate Data Definition Language (DDL)
• Provide query performance monitoring and tuning recommendations
• Performance data export and imports.
• Responsibility for database monitoring and tuning of database and application SQL.
• Create & maintain DB2 objects, Create, modify, execute IMAGE COPY, RUNSTAT, REORG production jobs, Execute Data Migration Jobs in test regions.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Create Technical specifications documentation for code changes.
• Interact with the Client team to discuss the status of the project, clarify any queries regarding the functionality etc
• Code Construction, Unit Testing and Debugging.
• Batch Cycle Support for production job abends.
• Integration and Acceptance Testing support - Consulted with Client QA team to define holistic Test plan, provide support in testing like creation of Test data and verification of results.

Confidential

System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Batch Cycle Support for production job abends.
• Solving issues raised by client.
• Involved in requirement gathering and business analysis.
• Understanding the requirements and analyzing the programs
• Writing program specifications
• Coding, Code Review, Test planning and Unit testing