SUMMARY

• Technical and functional software consultant with 12+ Years of IT experience in analysis, design, development, customization, implementation and support of Mainframe projects
• 6+ years of experience on senior roles while managing teams of 6 - 8 developers & analysts
• Proficient in analyzing business requirements and translating them to technical requirements
• Experience in Onshore-Offshore Project Management model, Client Interaction, Team Management, Resourcing/ Hiring
• Strong programming knowledge in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, IMS DB/DC, DB2, EASYTRIEVE
• Involved in the full Project Life Cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle (Agile/ Waterfall) and Test Methodologies of Mainframe Projects
• Leading a delivery team in the execution of Agile Software projects
• Tracking all the production related incidents and working directly with client to provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s
• Liaise with all areas of IT & Business in order to assist the Project Manager with the dissemination of information to external clients where necessary
• Using Jira to plan and manage teams work. Assume accountability for the data team across scrums, driving sharing of information and consistency in approach and deliverables
• Lead software development team through Scrum ceremonies
• Ensuring compliance of design, development, and unit test of applications in accordance with established standards
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects
• Self -motivated, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams
• Good domain knowledge of the Healthcare, Property & CasualtyInsurance, Finance and Energy & Utilities Industry
• Excellent analytical and development skills and adaptability to work with new technologies
• Gather client requirements and develop proposals or estimates of work efforts
• Collaborate with teams across Total Solutions to deliver a comprehensive client solution
• Deliver consistent quality in a team environment with focus on personal and team growth
• Work with project management to plan, kick-off, and lead projects
• Develop and maintains a productive working relationship with project sponsors, internal clients, vendors, and other key stakeholders
• Utilize relationship building skills to create, reinforce, motivate and guide project team members
• Communicate solution components in layman’s terms to business and IT stakeholders
• Influence and move others across organizational boundaries to the desired business outcome
• Implement the successful technical deployment of systems within member firm and global environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM OS 360, Z/OS (Mainframe Z series operating system)

Mainframe Technologies: AS 400, COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), JCL (Job Control Language), CICS (Customer Information Control System), VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method), IBM DB2 (IBM Database 2)

RDBMS: DB2, VSAM, IMS

Tools: and Utilities: JIRA, RALLY, QMF (Query Management Facility), FILEAID, FILE MANAGER, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, CA7, SPUFI, QMF, IBM DEBUGGER, EZTRIEVE, IDCAMS, IBM SORT UTILITIES, SPUFI (Structured Query Language processing using file input), DB2PM (DB2 Performance Monitor), DB2QM (DB2 Query Monitor), File Manager, IBM Debugger tool, IBM Load and Unload utilities for DB2, BTS (Batch terminal simulator), ICFS customized

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SQL, REXX and EASYTRIEVE

Processes: QPACE (Quality process awareness and competency evaluation), OPAL (OnDemand Process Asset Library), AGILE, SCRUM Framework

Domain Knowledge: Healthcare, Property & Casualty Insurance, Finance, Energy & Utilities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Onshore Team Lead

Technologies: IMS DB/DC, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Easytrieve, REXX, CLIST, JIRA, RALLY, File Manager

Responsibilities:

• Working as a top-level technical expert with clients, analysts, programmers and other team members to develop technical solutions to complex business problems
• Participates in Requirement gathering sessions and converts business requirements into technical specifications
• Analyse business specifications to identify the changes required and assess the dependencies and risks
• Carried out Effort Estimation for the deliverables
• Developed High Level Design and Low-level Design documents from the requirement specification documents
• Analysed modifications, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation
• Contributed to releases with high quality code and unit tests within predictable timeframes.
• Implements and verifies a complete unit test. Codes, tests, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications.
• Responsible for Version controlling and source code migration from development region to SIT region
• Responsible for implementing the tested modules into production environment.
• Coordinated with the client’s teams during the production moves
• Participated in agile SCRUM development team for regular development updates and onshore/ nearshore/ offshore team collaborations
• Facilitated JIRA issue tracking throughout the project lifecycle
• Administered JIRA training for executives from Confidential and their merging partners
• Improves stability of platforms, applications, services and systems
• Effectively communicates with customers, teammates or other stakeholders, and may function as lead or point of contact.
• Shares knowledge of systems and mentors or trains others
• Develops and manages relationships with diverse groups of stakeholders at multiple levels

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Technologies: CLMS, SDSF, CA7, CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL on MVS TSO, CHANGEMAN, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, IBM DEBUGGER, File-aid, QMF

Responsibilities:

• Interact with the client to understand the business requirement and document
• Analysing the requirements for new changes and document the high level and detailed design documents
• Create the functional design document, Technical Design Documents. Reviewing the design documents
• Performing Unit and Integration testing, Regression testing and providing support for user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Create test plans, test scenarios and review as per stated requirements
• Estimating effort required for changes to the system and provide the same to the customers and get an approval for the same
• Perform design and code review of the system developed and performance evaluation of the system
• Coding the mainframe components using IBM COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, CICS, REXX, EASYTRIEVE with respect to the designs documented
• Debugging applications using IBM debugger for Z/OS
• Performing Unit and Integration testing, performing code reviews and peer testing of the modules developed
• Performing Regression testing and providing support for user acceptance testing. Create test plans, test scenarios and review as per stated requirements
• Providing batch job support, Analyzing and resolving end user problem tickets
• Providing status on the Change Request assignments to customer.
• Supporting the Job monitoring activities during the warranty period and documenting them

Confidential

Senior System Engineer

Technologies: RMDS, OPC, SDSF, Endeavor, Xpeditor & CA7, CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, JCL on MVS TSO, File-aid, QMF

Responsibilities:

• I am supporting the migration work at CSS (Customer Support System).
• Understanding the client’s business reporting requirement
• Analysing the existing systems and the business reporting requirements and proposing a Technical solution
• Document key business and regulatory requirements for areas impacted by the customer systems supporting the legacy KeySpan business
• Perform gap analysis comparing functionality of the source & target systems
• Develop a plan to deliver CAS/EBO to LIPA as an electric commodity system, disabling gas related functions while preserving necessary interfaces
• Develop detailed estimates for the development and implementation phase of the project
• Migrate the LI gas customers to CSS from CAS without affecting the remaining LIPA customers adversely impacted
• Successfully completed 3 MCR assigned to me for including the new functionality of KeySpan - Long Island (KEDLI) assigned Company Code (CD-CO) 37
• Organize internal team meeting to discuss the progress of the all the reporting developments
• Doing regular meetings with the client to implement any new requirement or changes to existing business process
• Preparing the daily status report and updating the client with the status of the deliverables

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Technologies: RMDS, OPC,SDSF, Endeavor, Xpeditor & CA7, CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, JCL on MVS TSO, File-aid, QMF

Responsibilities:

• Analysing the requirements for new changes and document the high level and detailed design documents
• Create the functional design document, Technical Design Documents. Reviewing the design documents
• Performing Unit and Integration testing, Regression testing and providing support for user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Create test plans, test scenarios and review as per stated requirements
• Estimating effort required for changes to the system and provide the same to the customers and get an approval for the same
• Perform design review. Perform code review of the system developed and performance evaluation of the system
• Coding the mainframe components using IBM COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, CICS with respect to the designs documented
• Debugging applications using IBM debugger for Z/OS
• Performing Unit and Integration testing, performing code reviews and peer testing of the modules developed
• Performing Regression testing and providing support for user acceptance testing
• Create test plans, test scenarios and review as per stated requirements
• Providing batch job support, Analyzing and resolving end user problem tickets
• Providing status on the Change Request assignments to customer

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Technologies: Expeditor, APC, File-Aid, CA-7 & $avers, COBOL, DB2, MS-SQL, CICS, VSAM, JCL on MVS TSO, File-aid, QMF

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Designing, Coding, Testing, Implementation and support of required enhancements
• Code modifications and Bug Fixing
• Coordination with Onsite for business clarifications & designing specification documents
• Production Support
• Involved in testing and Peer Reviews
• Involved in trainings and KT sessions for new associates

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Technologies: JHS, SDSF, Endeavor, Xpeditor & CA7, CICS Client, COBOL, DB2, MS-SQL, JCL on MVS TSO, File-aid, QMF & Visual Basic

Responsibilities:

• Production Support
• Scheduling changes in Batch
• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Enhancing using COBOL programs
• Testing - unit testing & integration testing
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project
• Database management

Confidential

Software Engineer

Technologies: CICS, EASYTRIEVE, APPLINX, COBOL, CICS, JCL on MVS TSO, File-aid, VSAM

Responsibilities:

• As a development team member following roles are defined:
• Analysis of the specifications provided by the clients
• Enhancing using COBOL programs
• Testing - unit testing & integration testing
• Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project
• File System management

Confidential

Graduate Engineer Trainee

Technologies: Primavera, STAAD Pro

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• As a Managing team member following roles are defined:
• Work Flow day plan reviews
• Coordination between different sub-contractors
• Quality review and Inspection
• Daily interacted with Contractors Regarding Project Status
• Developed Plans in Primavera for smooth execution of activities
• Studying and reviewing design plans on STAAD Pro
• Material Procurement planning