SUMMARY:

• Total 14+ years of experience in information technology with expertise in insurance, retail, finance, banking and manufacturing industries. Currently working as Lead role (Senior Systems Analyst) in Analysis, Design, coding, Testing, implementation and Production Support of application software in Mainframe technologies leading initiatives that reduce cost, increase operational efficiencies and develop more productivity in team.
• Strong knowledge of IBM z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, VSAM, IBM Utilities, TSO/ISPF, CICS Web Services, Stored Procedures, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, JCL, IDCAMS, SORT Utility, TCP/IP, File - Aid, Abend-Aid, CA 7, DB2 SPUFI, DB2 platinum, IMS DB/DC, MQ Series, TSO, ISPF and other important mainframe tools. Extensive knowledge in INSTALL/1 tool and Service Management. Solid experience as a Lead in all phases of the system development life cycle in the Mainframe environment. Highly motivated and enthusiastic IT professional with proven experience and outstanding analysis, programming and debugging capabilities. Consistently commended for ability to work independently while achieving critical deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills, planning and organizational skills and strong interpersonal skills, communication skills including listening and observation, meeting facilitation and writing skills. Extensive knowledge in software development life cycle SDLC and agile methodology including analysis, design, development, testing life cycle STLC and implementation of software applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Current Taken: Apache Hadoop (MR v1.0, MR v2.0), HDFS, YARN, Hive, Pig, HBase, Oozie, Eclipse, IBM Web Sphere, Info sphere MDM 11v.

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows, MVS, IBM z/OS, UNIX

Databases: DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, MS ACCESS, SQL, Oracle 8.i

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Quick-Job, SAS, UNIX, C, C++, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, EASYTRIEVE, REXX, HTML, XML and SQL

Tools: ENDEVOR, Change man, TSO, ISPF, DB2 PLATINUM, IMS DC, $AVRS, Control-M, INTERTEST, SPUFI, QMF, FCP, BMS, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, QTP, HPQC, IBM UTILITIES, TELON, VSTS Performance Testing, IDCAMS, SORT Utility, TCP/IP FILE-AID, SYNCSORT, ABEND-AID, CA-7, CA DB2 Products, SDSF, FTP, NDM, MQ Series, SVCGEN, DATASYNC, EDI, OPC JOB SCHEDULER, HPQC ALM 12.2 and BMC Remedy Ticket/Incident Management.

Domain: MANUFACTURING, RETAIL, FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN, STORE SYSTEMS, INSURANCE, FINANCE, TRANSPORTATION, BILLING AND INVOICING, BANKING and INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Systems Analyst / Lead

Confidential, IL

Environment: MVS, COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SQL, SPUFI. Xpeditor, NDM, FTP, Endevor, INSTALL/1, IBM Utilities, MQ Series, IDCAMS, SORT Utility, TCP/IP, HP Quality Center ALM tool 12.2 version, BMC Remedy systems.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing Business/Functional Requirements specifications documents.
• Preparation of detailed technical specification document based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Development of the new batch/online programs and validating existing programs/jobs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM and ENDEVOR. Debugging errors using EXPEDITOR tool for batch and/or Online programs.
• Prepare Test Plan, JAT/UNIT test cases for the functional requirement. Test Plans, test cases loaded to HPQC ALM tool and executed in test lab.
• Executing Test cases using - JCL running, validating MQ Series, Verifying/Updating DB2 tables and running ASYNCs thru CICS transactions.
• Work on the defects assigned, debugging thru expeditor (batch/online) until it’s fixed and closed status.
• Preparing Endevor Packages for the new/updated elements / programs through ENDEVOR tool and also Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving for the release migration.
• Responsible for Production Support - keeping the pager in rotation basis and fixing production abends.
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements.
• Report the final status to entire team.

Senior System Analyst / Lead

Confidential - Bentonville, AR

Environment: MVS, COBOL-II, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SQL, SPUFI. Xpeditor, NDM, FTP, Endevor, INSTALL/1, IBM Utilities, MQ Series, IDCAMS, SORT Utility, TCP/IP, HP Quality Center ALM tool 12.2 version, BMC Remedy systems.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the Business requirement document and Technical design document against requirements
• Verifying the requirements against RADF criteria and logging the defects thru HPQC tool.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch/online programs, and also re-use most of the existing components/modules.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs to be ready for implementation.
• Development of the new batch/online programs and validating existing programs/jobs using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM and ENDEVOR. Debugging errors using EXPEDITOR tool for batch and/or Online programs.
• Preparing Packages for the new/updated elements / programs through ENDEVOR tool and also Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests.
• Conducting walkthroughs and peer reviews with clients
• Executing Test cases using - JCL running, validating MQ Series, Verifying/Updating DB2 tables and running ASYNCs thru CICS transactions.
• Participated preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan documents.
• Communicating with Business Analyst, Development and Deployment team regularly
• Created Test Plans using the use cases and executed Unit Level Test cases for the functional requirements.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues/defects and track till it is closed using HPQC tool.
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements.
• Status and defect matrices reporting on a daily/weekly basis and also Responsible for the final delivery.

IT Analyst

Confidential, Schaumberg, IL

Environment: MVS, COBOL-II, CICS, CA DB2 (Platinum), VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, SQL, SPUFI. Xpeditor, InterTest, Control M, File-Aid, Abend-Aid for CICS, WEB Service Development, NDM, FTP, Endevor, INSTALL/1, IBM Utilities, SQL, MQ Series, HP Quality Center ALM tool 12.2 version, BMC Remedy systems, Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities:

• Verifying the Business requirement document and Technical design document against requirements
• Verifying the Use cases and writing functional test cases with identifying gaps
• Interacting through meetings with clients directly for new requirement updates, change management and defects tracking.
• Developing use cases by way of interacting closely with Kraft business/systems partners
• Documenting business requirements for the Kraft project
• Analyzing functional specifications for the Kraft project
• Conducting walkthroughs and peer reviews with clients
• Enhancing/customizing the Kraft Food product to meet the business needs
• Defining and development of the testing methodology, process and strategy.
• Preparing Test Strategy, Test Plan documents.
• Interacting with Clients directly through daily meetings.
• Executing Test cases using - JCL running, validating MQ Series, Verifying/Updating DB2 tables and running ASYNCs thru CICS transactions.
• Track, prepare and deliver the report of testing activities like testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.
• Coordinate and Assigning tasks to offshore & onshore teams
• Communicating with Business Analyst, Development and Deployment team regularly
• On a ad-hoc basis fulfilling customer’s requirements
• Prepared, coordinated and reviewed the End-to-End test strategy from all stakeholders
• Participate in Requirement Analysis, Architecture/Design review
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.

IT Analyst

Confidential, Roseland, NJ

Environment: EDI ANSI X12/HIPAA, UML, MS Access, MS Office, MS Visio and Rational Suite, Quality Center tool, Remedy systems.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and conducted system requirements walkthroughs/sessions with business Owner/stakeholders/SMEs as well as design/development teams.
• Worked with business area SMEs/analysts to develop and finalize test plans/scripts/use cases. Analysis of key business requirements and assisted in the development of Business Requirement (BRS), Functional Requirement (FRS), and System Requirement Specification (SRS).
• Analysis for making system compliant with HIPAA.
• Involved in making the Medicare patient profiles being compliant with the HIPAA regulations Management of patient profile transfer (PPT) reports created by data team by verifying the associated data.
• Involved in analysis, design and implementation of Control Management Reporting and Security Systems, Collection Systems and Accounting Systems:
• Experience with Epic Resolute Professional and Hospital Billing system experience
• Experience in a highly regulated environment (healthcare, financial, SOX, HIPPA etc)
• Hands on experience on Mercury Quality Center (HPQC).

Asst. System Engineer

Confidential . Jacksonville, FL

Environment: MVS, COBOL-II, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, Xpeditor, InterTest, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Endevor, NDM, FTP, IBM Utilities, MQ, HP Quality Center 9.0 tool, BMC Remedy systems.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Executing unit /integration Test cases for all the modules as per the SDLC process
• Code/Construction
• Preparation of functional design documents
• Staging/Promoting/Testing code using Endevor tool
• Overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Environment: OS/390, Cobol-II, JCL, IMS DB/DC, Change man, Expeditor, TSO/ISPF, FILEAID, ABEND-AID, Unit Test Execution

Responsibilities:

• Performing current state Analysis to determine the requirements.
• Preparation of HLD and LLD.
• Code construction.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plans and Test cases.
• Unit Testing.

Environment: ASP, VB, VB Script, Java, Java Script, XML, DHTML, COM/DCOM, SQL Server, Web services, IIS, VSS.