SUMMARY:

• Have 11+ years of experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, deploying and maintaining in Auto insurance and Banking domains.
• 2 Years of working experience in Health care and Banking domains and nine years of experience in insurance domain
• Experience in working both agile methodology and waterfall model, experience and ability to work on sprints and deliver in challenging models.
• Extensively worked on IBM Mainframe technologies using PL1, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL and VSAM. Extensively worked with various tools SPUFI, Endevor, File - aid, XPEDITER, ABEND-AID and IBM Data Studio.
• Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation, enhancement and Maintenance.
• Worked as a lead systems analyst for End to End Mainframes Application development for auto applications.
• Over 7years of team leading experience, Mentoring, coordinating with teams in an Onsite-Offshore model.
• Hands on experience on project management tools like Lotus notes, Defect management tool like Track it and HP service manager and Agile tools like Version One.
• Experience in writing Functional Requirements, Design documents, programming specifications, Unit Test Cases, System Test cases and integration test cases.
• Involved in Production Support (24x7) and system test support, to fix the problems within the SLA time.
• Well organized, with proven ability to multi-task and prioritize workload, delivering high quality work on time, excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact with customers with ease and professionalism.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: DB2, IMS

DB2 Tools: SPUFI, File Aid, QMF

Languages worked on: COBOL, PLI, CICS, REXX and Core Java

Tools worked on: JES, SQL, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, IBM Utilities, SAVRS, ICETool,SPUFI, DUMP MASTER, SDSF, File-aid DB2, XPEDITER, CDAT, Data Studio, Splunk and ABEND-AID.

Reporting Tools: Qlikview and Qliksense

Output Viewing and Archiving Tools: SAVRS

File Transfer utilities: Connect Direct, FTP

Testing tools: Xpeditor

Ticketing/Project Management tools: HP service manager, Track it, Lotus notes

Middle Ware: MQ Series, XML

Operating System: MVS z-OS/OS-390, Windows,

MF User Interface: ISPF 6.1

Microsoft & other Technologies: HTML, MS WORD /EXCEL/ ACCESS/ POWERPOINT/ VISIO, FTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential 

Technical Lead/Lead Systems analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Lead System Analyst for telematics drive safe and save team focusing on Requirement gathering, Design, component specs coding and testing.
• Coordinate with all dependent teams to solve cross functional dependencies.
• Worked as product owner for the Scrum Team for the Drive safe and save discount mobile II program.
• Estimate solution costs for the business cases build by the business analysts.
• Coordinate with offshore team.
• Participating in Business requirement discussion with all the stakeholders
• Understanding, eliciting, documenting and providing solution for the business requirement.
• Preparation of Functional Specification & design document.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan.
• Preparation of System Test Plan.
• Construction as per the design documents prepared.
• Version management of constructed code and deployment in different regions.
• Testing the code as per test plans prepared.
• Conducting Unit testing and System testing.
• Facilitating Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Doing a causal analysis for all the defects and providing the resolution for the same.
• Analyze any existing production issues that come up by following the entire life cycle process for the same.
• Provide support for moving the code into production and also involve in post-production support
• Coordinate with downstream systems to create overlays for different systems by providing necessary files and mapping details
• Sprint Planning, Daily Standup Meeting, Demo, Retrospective etc.
• Remove impediments/roadblocks, ensure timely delivery and team management.
• Coordinate with interface system for all data feed and testing coordination
• Collecting metrics in each phase of the project periodically and submit it to management for further reviews.

Development Tools: IBM Mainframe: PL1, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, SAVRS, EJES, And IBM Data Studio

Confidential 

Technical Lead/Lead Systems analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Lead System Analyst for telematics discount team focusing on Requirement gathering, Design, component specs coding and testing.
• Coordinate with all dependent teams to solve cross functional dependencies.
• Coordinate with offshore team.
• Participating in Business requirement discussion with all the stakeholders
• Understanding, eliciting, documenting and providing solution for the business requirement.
• Preparation of Functional Specification & design document.
• Preparation of Unit Test Plan.
• Preparation of System Test Plan.
• Construction as per the design documents prepared.
• Version management of constructed code and deployment in different regions.
• Testing the code as per test plans prepared.
• Conducting Unit testing and System testing.
• Facilitating Integration and User Acceptance Testing.
• Doing a causal analysis for all the defects and providing the resolution for the same.
• Analyze any existing production issues that come up by following the entire life cycle process for the same.
• Provide support for moving the code into production and also involve in post-production support
• Coordinate with downstream systems to create overlays for different systems by providing necessary files and mapping details
• Sprint Planning, Daily Standup Meeting, Demo, Retrospective etc.
• Remove impediments/roadblocks, ensure timely delivery and team management.
• Coordinate with interface system for all data feed and testing coordination
• Collecting metrics in each phase of the project periodically and submit it to management for further reviews.

Development Tools: IBM Mainframe: PL1, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, SAVRS, EJES, And IBM Data Studio

Confidential 

Technical Lead/Lead Systems analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the onsite counterpart for requirement gathering and business related clarifications.
• Allocating tasks to team members with respect to functional and technical perspective based on the project priority.
• Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing.
• Design and Code Reviews.
• Testing, Validation and Test case Reviews.
• Integration Testing and resolving Integration test Defects.
• System Test Support.
• Facilitating project management and quality activities by using IPMS.
• Carrying out everyday tasks based on customer’s prioritization of work.

Development Tools: IBM Mainframe: PL1, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, SAVRS, EJES, And IBM Data Studio

Confidential

Technical Lead/Lead Systems analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the existing system components and extracting the Business logic and Rules for the same.
• Design and Developing data models, Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), plans and impact analysis on current system.
• Developing the code based on design, code walk through and reviews by Internal and external Quality assurance team. Debugging the defects identified and fixing them.
• Preparing test plans and performing testing.
• Unit testing and System testing review.
• Developing data topologies and data flow diagrams for logical databases and updating in Mega.
• Implementation & system support, Root Cause analysis for problems encountered during integration/acceptance testing with application teams and providing resolution.
• Follow-up with customers on satisfaction of solution.
• Reporting to Onsite Project Manager regarding the
• Progress of the Project, preparation of
• Process. Attending meetings with Business users.
• Carrying out everyday tasks based on customer’s prioritization of work.

Development Tools: Cobol, DB2, JCL, SAVRS, EJES, Mega and IBM Data Studio

Confidential

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the onsite counterpart/clients for requirement gathering and business related clarifications.
• Allocating tasks to team members with respect to functional and technical perspective based on the client’s priority.
• Analysis, Design, Coding and Testing.
• Design and Code Reviews.
• Providing Business improvements suggestions to the clients.
• Resolutions to certain crucial Business related activities.
• Facilitating project management and quality activities by using IPMS.
• Carrying out everyday tasks based on customer’s prioritization of work.
• Collecting metrics.
• Developed two tools to reduce manual effort in data preparation and issuance difference.

Development Tools: IBM Mainframe: PL1, IMS DB, DB2, JCL, SAVRS and EJES.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and business related Queries.
• Providing Business improvements suggestions to the clients.
• Design of new data/support tables or addition of new columns to the existing tables according the new requirement during the approach design sessions.
• Preparing technical specification document based on the design finalized. The document gives detailed explanation of Technical Processing and impacted modules involved with the Business requirement.
• Carrying out daily tasks based on customer’s prioritization of work.
• Participating in the technical specification, inspection and walk through with the customer.
• Defect Management - Coding for defects and tracking them to closure in Quality Center.
• Sign off on business specification after customer approval.
• Preparation of Lessons Learnt document after every release.

Development Tools: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Endevor, Abend-aid, XPEDITER

Confidential

Developer

Platform: IBM z/OS

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and business related Queries.
• Providing Business improvements suggestions to the clients.
• Design of new data/support tables or addition of new columns to the existing tables according the new requirement during the approach design sessions.
• Preparing technical specification document based on the design finalized. The document gives detailed explanation of Technical Processing and impacted modules involved with the Business requirement.
• Carrying out daily tasks based on customer’s prioritization of work.
• Participating in the technical specification, inspection and walk through with the customer.
• Defect Management - Coding for defects and tracking them to closure in Quality Center.
• Sign off on business specification after customer approval.
• Preparation of Lessons Learnt document after every release.

Development Tools: COBOL, CICS,DB2, JCL,HTML, XLM, Java script, Endevor, Abend-aid, XPEDITER

Confidential 

Developer

Platform: IBM z/OS

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements.
• Request Analysis and estimations.
• Coding for claim processing, design and unit testing of the requirements.
• Review for the various life cycle process of ACAS.
• Interacting and updating the status to the client.
• Maintaining weekly Status reports and updating with client.
• Key and Dependable Team Member in providing resolutions to complex issues..
• Won accolades from clients for my spontaneous resolutions to critical issues.
• Coordinated in preparing the Knowledge transition plan for the new entrants and ensured they are well implemented.

Development Tools: COBOL, CICS, DB2, Endevor, Abend-aid, XPEDITER