SUMMARY:

• More than 10 years of extensive industry experience as a Project Engineer, Senior Software Engineer and Lead Engineer.
• 5 years of technical experience in Warehouse Management Systems under supply chain area
• 5 years of technical experience in developing and supporting Mainframe platform applications in Securities and banking market.
• Strong functional knowledge of Retail and Distribution Center Operations.
• Good Knowledge of Supply Chain & Warehouse management Concepts.
• Strong technical knowledge of UNIX, Shell scripting, Informix 4GL, Microfocus COBOL, C programming.
• Strong functional knowledge of Securities and banking applications.
• Strong technical knowledge of JCL, COBOL, DB2, DB2 SQL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, IBM UTILITIES.
• Strong knowledge of SQL queries and database operations
• Extensive experience in gathering Functional Requirements, doing Impact analysis, Designing, Coding, Unit testing, end - to-end testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and troubleshooting in areas of Mainframe, Unix, COBOL, JCL, Informix 4GL, DB2 SQL with backend DB2, Informix.
• Having good experience on job monitoring & scheduling tool like ESP.
• Monitoring batch jobs for production support, solving issues and abends in minimal possible time.
• Extensive involvement in production support area and handle issues on priorities.
• Co-ordination with Offshore team and accordingly working on tasks after defining the priorities.
• Evaluate, Analyze, Code and test the proposed enhancements.
• Excellent working knowledge on multiple platforms like Unix/AIX, Z/OS and Windows.
• Good inter-personal and communication skills.
• Ability to rapidly learn and be productive in new areas.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, PowerPoint (Charts, tables, graphs), Visio (Flowcharts).
• Proven experience in all the phases of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) like analysis, design, prototyping, coding, testing, design and rollout of various enhancements and support.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the sprint planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platform: AIX/UNIX, IBM Z/OS

Operating Systems: AIX, Z/OS, OS/390, Windows

Languages: C, Informix 4GL, Microfocus COBOL, Unix shell scripting COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, WSDL/SOAP, SQL

Database: DB2, Informix

Tools: & Utilities: Loftware utilities, Connectship, FedEx FSMS, Service-Now, HP Quality Center

StarTool: TOAD, Spufi, Jira, Remedy, RDz, Parasoft SOA test, ChangeMan, IBM utilities, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEFBR14, SYNCSORT, Xpediter

Business Process Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, Lotus Notes, Citrix.

Change Management Tool: SCCS, ChangeMan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Engineer/Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in support and maintenance activities.
• Performing the functional analysis, creating Technical Specification and providing solution for new medium/large size projects of DOCS system.
• To build project plan, creating estimates and tracking completion of DC initiatives and new medium/large size projects.
• Meeting Business users and get requirements and suggest proposed fixes/enhancements.
• Working closely with end users to identify issues and resolve them.
• Map functional issues to technical aspects.
• Automate existing processes so that they can be done in a better and efficient manner.
• Eliminate recurring issues by providing short term and long term fixes.
• Working with teams that share an interface with DOCS to come up with solutions for issues that have a cross track bearing.
• To design shipping package labels, packing slips, packing list and Bill of Lading forms using Loftware label manager tool utilities.
• To design price and polybag labels for different VF customers by creating programs in Zebra Programming Language.
• Setup and maintain shipping solution for DCs using FedEx Ship Manager and Connectship server.
• Development and maintenance of C socket programs for interaction of application with MHE system in Distribution centers.
• Work closely with Dematic conveyor systems to address issues with MHE systems.
• Understand the enhancements done for new projects and take up support for those projects.
• Work closely with offshore, delegate work and manage deliverables.
• As it is a homegrown application, build knowledge repository and processes within the project to help provide value to customer and there by enable project team to enhance their knowledge of application.
• Use and implement Wipro proprietary tools to automate systems and improve analytics.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development, maintenance and support of a project module (Securities Lending's batch processes and applications)
• Batch Monitoring and Supporting I.e., Maintain and monitoring mainframe batch jobs of processes like Mark to Market, Short sale etc. to ensure data quality and management of the client's data.
• Work on incidents (Issues in production) received
• Identifying root causes to production problems and subsequently fixing it and preparing the RCA analysis.
• Requirement gathering by understanding the customer requirements.
• Preparation of functional specification and technical specification document.
• Develop/maintain programs to access and update the Securities Lending data in backend tables.
• Work on enhancements and promoting the changes to production environment after testing at different stages.
• Create business reports for Securities Lending business users by fetching Securities Lending data from DB2 backend tables using Easytrieve.
• Develop enhancements and system documentation.
• Reviewing modules developed by other project members in the team (Peer code review).
• Conducting knowledge sharing sessions on technical and Business Knowledge with the team members
• Attending Sprint planning and scrum meetings
• Coordinate with onsite.

Confidential

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering by understanding the customer requirements
• Understand business requirement/functional specification and come up with technical specification
• Perform impact analysis by searching the codebase to derive the call chain
• Design, develop, unit and regression test and deploy as part of development team
• Develop COBOL business services which interacts with DB2, WebSphere application server, MQ series in both BATCH and ONLINE platforms based upon the business requirement
• Code JCL’s and JCL PROC’s as per the requirement using various utilities like DFSORT, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBCOMPR and ICETOOL
• Develop DB2 queries for Cobol business services and work on DB2 stored procedure
• Analyze the performance of existing Db2 queries and suggest enhancements for better performance using tools like APPTUNE, DB2 SQL optimizer, EXPLAIN etc
• Implement mainframe SOAP services and testing using SOA TEST tool.
• Develop and Enhance JCL jobs that access and processes VSAM files
• Use CHANGEMAN tool to develop and install Cobol wrappers, business services, JCL, PROC and create corresponding REMEDY tickets to install the change in production
• Identify and document unit test and integration test scenarios and perform testing on the developed code and document the same.
• Apply fixes and get sign off from testing teams for production move of interfaces.
• Debug Cobol programs using Expeditor.
• Use tools like STARTOOL to analyze the datasets.
• Coordinate with onsite team for all design, developments and deployment.
• Performed production support activities involving identification of the issue, re-creating the issue in test region and reporting the same to the team to get it fixed.