SUMMARY:

• Performance - driven and result-oriented computer-professional with more than 11 years of extensive expertise in the IT fields with 3 years of current experience in Pega-PRPC application development.
• Efficiently worked on Pega PRPC 7.1.8
• Experience on various Pega Rules - UI, activities and Flows, Declaratives, Decision, Validation, Reports and Correspondences.
• Worked efficiently in the agile methodology and handled the various scrum meetings.
• Involved in understanding business requirement documents (BRDs) and preparing Bridge Documents, Unit Test Scripts, Unit Test Reports, and Traceability Matrix along with version control.
• Six years of Mainframe experience in Insurance industry having Auto, Home, personal, commercial and entertainment business areas.
• Understanding the business transactions (New business, Renewals, Endorsements and cancellations) and their flow, analyzing the issues in business transactions and resolving them.
• Extensive experience in Mainframes using COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,MQ,REXX,SAS
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Strong DB2 skills - worked on both Mainframe and Linux DB2 systems.
• Executed software projects both in Insurance and Banking industry.
• Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player.
• Experience in leading and managing teams. Handled multiple roles - Developer, Team Lead and Tech Lead.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

BPM tool: Pega systems 7.1.8

Web Technologies: CSS,Javascript,HTML,XML

Languages: Java, COBOL, CICS, JCL

Tools: REXX,DFSORT,SAS,MICRO FOCUS

RDBMS: DB2

O/S: Z/Os, Windows 7

EAI: Websphere MQ

Processes: IBM’s QMS (Quality Management System)

Designing Tool: SOAP UI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Team Lead/Senior System Engineer

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Contribution in the Tolerance upgrade, UI upgrade of the old application.
• Upgrade the whole UX of the application by applying correct Skins and responsive layouts.
• Removing the deprecated controls and Custom controls with OOTB controls so that the application is accessible on other devices also.
• Designing new CSS, Skin for application. Overriding the OOTB Skin to match the FFIC UI standards.
• Bug fixing in case the functionality has been broken after the upgrade so that the business is not impacted.
• Coordinating with Pega ECS team for the SRs and the hindrances while upgrading the application.
• Contribution to new DB schema design, table refactoring and then moving the appropriate tables to application specific schema.
• Representing the new features of the application to the stakeholders at global level.
• Leading the offshore team at Bangalore and working closely with LSA.
• Preparing technical documents, upgrade documents for the different modules of the application.
• Sending daily Work Status Report to FFIC about the completion status of the assigned work.

Environment: Pega PRPC 7.1.8,Java,SOAP

Team Lead/Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading application team in delivering solution to our customer in the Insurance sector.
• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of functional and Technical experience in SAS, REXX, DFSORT, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and JCL and other leading-edge products and technology in conjunction with industry and business skills to deliver solutions to customer.
• Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.
• Key projects handled so far include Master Data management, Enterprise operational Data source, Enterprise Client Management, Data Archive, Disaster recovery, TSAR, AJS and IRIS.

Environment: SAS, REXX, DFSORT, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, Websphere MQ

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Senior Software Engineer responsible for Analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of PBS (Payment Business Services) application.
• Worked with Business Analyst in translating business requirements into Functional Requirements Document and to Detailed Design Documents
• Gathering requirements, writing specification and functional design documents for enhancements and customization; analyzing product impact.
• Ensuring that development is performed as per requirements.
• Communicate activities/progress to project managers, business development, business analysts and clients.
• Performance tuning, SQL query enhancements, code enhancements to achieve performance targets.

Environment: JCL, COBOL, DB2

Assist System Engineer/Associate Data Information Management 

Confidential

• ADIM is a data warehousing application which stores information of all associates and contractors in the bank. It is an application internal to the bank and the users are mostly within Bank. ADIM receives data from different sources and loaded into Teradata tables. Data in these tables are used to build views for users and to generate reports.
• Impact analysis and Enhancements of existing applications and documenting the changes.
• Debugging the changed programs and Testing them properly
• Handling the user requests and generating the reports.
• Continued 24/7 production support at first level.
• Root cause analysis and reporting them to client with possible solutions and reporting the daily status to client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Teradata SQL Assistant 12.0 and Changeman

Confidential

• Interact with Solution Engineers/Business Analysts to perform requirement analysis and define project scope.
• Generate project plans and provide estimates for Change requests.
• Develop design objects and code them to achieve project objectives.
• Consummate bug fixing abilities and proficient in defining testing scope, preparing test plans, files and Unit/System testing.
• Skilled in providing UAT support and handling implementation activities.
• Competent in analyzing the data / code issues reported and providing permanent / optimal solutions.
• Develop cost-effective routines and advocate design modifications/automations to reduce the CPU consumption time as a part of Demand Management objectives.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Changeman, Xpeditor and JavaScript

Software Engineer

Confidential

• Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
• Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.
• Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.
• Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Changeman