PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 9.9 years of IT experience in System Analysis, Design, Data Modelling , Development, all phases of Testing, Implementation, Production Support and Maintenance of software applications in Insurance Domain.
• Strong Experience as a Developer, Production support, Project Lead responsibilities includes preparing Metrics, Identifying Business Value Ads, Quality and Gap Analysis, Planning, Scheduling, Effort Estimation and attending Internal and External Audits
• Having good analytical and problem solving skills in batch and online applications, evaluation and enhancements of Life and P C Insurance Applications.
• Excellent communication, problem solving, analytical skills and decision making abilities
• Proactive at defining strategies, gaps, and dependencies to support and enhance department goals and initiatives across a broad global spectrum
• Participates in meetings, workshops and seminars for the purpose of conveying and/or gathering information required to perform functions
• Vast experience in working with issues systems, upstream and downstream systems in gathering the requirements, identifying the cost effective solutions and implementing them.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in group as well as independently with excellent communication skills.
• Assign work and provide technical oversight to onshore and offshore developers.
• Proficient in interaction with the business users by conducting meetings with the clients and Experience in working with business analysts to identify, study and understand requirements and translated them into code in Requirement Analysis phase.
• Experience working in onsite-offshore model based development project and production support.
• Experience in metrics data collection, monthly metrics generation and report the variances
• Experience in team status, metrics and milestones achieved periodically to different stakeholders
• Good at estimations of dividing work packages, man hours and risk control planning of team size and time lines
• Good at identify dependencies and planning the risk control to report project progress, revenue forecasts and client feedback to the management along with status reporting.
• Experience in resource management for identifying and recruiting resources for meeting the project manpower.
• Prepare resources availability matrix for all the teams in the project during development, deployment and support
• Hands-on Experience in creating test plans, test strategies, test data
• Acted as test coordinator to test and maintain the issues during unit, system, performance and load testing during development, implementation, post implementation and allocated the resources and raise/track the status of the issue in Quality Center
• Have excellent knowledge about system and data overall, provided support for system testing and implementation
• Supporting Multiple Business Locations, task tracking all phases of a project life cycle
• Performed as onsite lead and coordinating with offshore team and get the assigned tasks done
• Have solid planning and organizational skills in all aspects of development.
• Strong Interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in a team as well as independently
• High proficiency in different phases of Analysis, Design, Programming, Debugging, Testing and Implementation of various application systems.
• Have excellent experience in working with mainframe technologies like COBOL,PL/I, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS ,VSAM
• Experience in TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, ENDEVOR, CA-7
• Good exposure to web technologies HTML,XML,JAVA,VB,.NET.
• Having good experience in using MQ series queues to read the messages and write the messages, reporting using Focus and SAS.
• Involved in meetings to gather information and requirements from the clients
• Conduct daily meeting with the team, walkthroughs and defect tracking meetings
• Supporting business critical applications, review code, test results, efficiency of changes before signing off on elements going into production
• Problem-solver who accurately assesses technical situational challenges and successfully transforms ideas into appropriate process and technical solutions

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Mainframe Sr. Developer and Project Lead

CLIENT DESCRIPTION:

The Travelers Indemnity Company is a leading insurance provider in United States, offers a wide variety of property and casualty insurance and surety products, as well as risk management services, to numerous types of businesses, organizations and individuals in the United States and in selected international markets. In addition, the company can meet insurance needs in more than 90 countries worldwide through their network of insurers. Personal Insurance offers a broad array of property and casualty insurance products for individuals. Products include automobile, homeowners, umbrella, condominium, tenant, flood, identity theft, valuable items, boat and yacht and wedding coverages. Business Insurance offers a broad array of property and casualty insurance products and services to its clients, which range from small main street businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. Business Insurance is organized into marketing and underwriting groups focused on particular markets, industries or product lines. Financial, Professional International Insurance includes the Bond Financial Products business as well as International and Lloyd's businesses. Bond Financial Products provides surety, management liability and professional liability and crime coverages, primarily to U.S.-based businesses. Property and casualty products are marketed on an international basis through operations in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Canada and at Lloyd's of London.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

• Enterprise Direct Billing is a complex system that supports the billing activities for the Voluntary business such as select small business. Also supports the construction, boiler machinery, bond etc. involuntary business such as workers compensation.
• The Commercial Lines Direct Billing process begins when the agent requests that a policy be billed directly to the insured. Agents can request for direct billing with specifying the need for doing so. This can be for either new business or account renewal order.
• A menu driven screen navigation helps the end-users to traverse through screens, to complete their business. The information is formatted in to the account level and policy level for the benefit of users. Users can look at very specific piece of information, like either premium, commission etc., depending on their need.
• DBS batch process updates the policy and account tracers, Policy key data, reinstatement process, paid equity processing DBS database depending upon the input data. Various reports are generated from this batch cycle.