PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IBM Certified Mainframe professional having around 10+ years of Experience in the Information Technology Industry. Worked on all phases of Software development life cycle including Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation and Documentation.
• Experienced in developing applications using Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, SAS, VSAM, MQ Series, Easytrieve, and FILE - AID
• Worked on designing and maintaining CICS screens and CICS with SOAP on a wide basis to develop more front end payment screens used the concepts of channels and containers on a large scale to get and process voluminous data.
• Good hands on experience on Mainframe tools TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, QMF, DB2 Admin, IBM Optim, File manager, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN and the debugging tools like XPEDITOR and Viasoft.
• Good experience in all phases of systems life cycleDevelopment, Testing (Unit test, Integration Testing and Regression Testing)andImplementation.
• Ability to work on multiple projects.
• Extensive experience in Analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of software applications.
• Have strong experience in Production support.
• Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements into technical requirements and architecture design.
• Strong database skills and proficient in writing complex SQL queries
• Excellent Medicaid, Medicare domain knowledge.
• Capable of handling multiple projects and delivering high quality results
• Impressive work ethic, reliable, dependable and conscious of duties and responsibilities
• Positive approach handling tasks with excellent organizational skills
• Strong communication skills in both verbal and written
• Self-motivated and target oriented individual.
• Fast learner who is capable of learning new tools & technologies quickly
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to maintain good relationships with co-workers and business partners.
• Possess knowledge on software development life cycle methods as Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Good team player who can also work independently.
• Experienced in EDI based transactions (837I, 837P, 835, 834,276/277) and ANSI X12 files also has experience in EDI tools like Mercator and WTX (WebSphere Transformation Extender).
• Excellent knowledge and exposure to Health care domain

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, DYL280, EAZYTRIVE, REXX, .NET

OLTP: CICS

Access Methods: VSAM

Utility Tools: QMF, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, SYNCSORT, CA7, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, ISPF, FILEAID, INFOMAN, FILE MANAGER, DB2 Admin Tool, WAAPDSUT, Viasoft, Optim for DB2.

Databases: DB2, Teradata, SQL server, ORACLE

EAI Tool: WTX

Mainframe Interfaces: MQ, FTP, SFTP

Operating Systems: z/OS, Windows 98/2000/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wayne, NJ

Senior Systems Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the business requirements received in the form of a change request by interacting with the client and translating them into Design documents by providing them a resolution.
• Modified/Created COBOL + DB2 and CICS programs as part of regular maintenance
• Modified CICS programs to in corporate the new requirements.
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test cases
• Documented all Unit test results to get the user approvals
• Prepare system testing jobs and help SIT team in creating test data.
• Developed and Unit tested the application with robust test cases covering all of the scenarios.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, SOAP, File-Aid, Xpeditor, MQ Series

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Asynchronous transactions to aid the data movement between the customers and the AAA core processing system.
• Worked extensively in the Enterprise Fund Transfer system (EFT) that maintains credit card data and the member payments which enables the AAA employee to add, update and close the credit card information COBOL+CICS+DB2 programs.
• The credit card information of the members can be viewed, modified and closed AND maintained by AAA using online CICS screens and the EFT system has added certain safety features like signature verification and image verification for which channels and containers had to be used in the Asynchronous transaction processing as the data was of a huge size.
• Analyzed the business requirements received in the form of a change request by interacting with the users and translating them into Design documents by providing them a resolution.
• Modified COBOL, CICS and DB2 programs for the project credit card tokenization.
• Modified CICS Map screens to in corporate new requirements for EFT subsystem.
• Involved in creating Unit test plan, UIT test plan assisted team to create the test cases and test data.
• Developed and Unit tested the application with robust test cases covering all of the scenarios.
• Performed peer reviews on the developed application code.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, SOAP, File-Aid, Xpeditor, MQ Series, containers and channels

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Application developer

Responsibilities:

• As a senior mainframe developer participated in all requirement discussions and technical design discussions in projects to fill the gaps in requirements and technical design.
• Modified COBOL, CICS and DB2 programs as part of VA-MMIS system enhancements.
• Modified CICS Map screens to in corporate new requirements for provider subsystem.
• Involved in creating Unit test plan, UIT test plan assisted team to create the test cases and test data.
• Analyzed the business requirements for received in the form of a EWO/production fix/Projects by interacting with client and translating into Detailed Design document (DSD) by establishing a specific solution.
• Developed and Unit tested the application with robust test cases covering all of the scenarios. Doing peer reviews of other team member’s code.
• Monitored first run of jobs after code deployed into production.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Viasoft.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a senior developer participated in all requirement discussions and technical design discussions in major projects to fill the gaps in requirements and technical design.
• Involved in creating Unit test plan, UIT test plan assisted team to create the test cases and test data.
• Analyzed the business requirements for received in the form of a SDN (Change request) by interacting with client and translating into Technical Design document (TSD) by establishing a specific solution.
• Developed and Unit tested the application with robust test cases covering all of the scenarios. Doing peer reviews of other team member’s code.
• Monitored first run of jobs after code deployed into production.
• Created unit test cases in X12 files for DRG project to accept all secondary diagnosis codes.
• Prepared WTX mapping document from as part of HIPAA 5010 project.
• Supported data migration activities as part of project take over.
• Ensuring smooth running of fiscal intermediary operations by providing technical support.
• Report processing using DYL280.
• Resolved technical issues raised by business users.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DYL280, WTX, MQ.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Mainframe Developer and test lead in the above project modules.
• Analyzed the business requirements received in the form of a change request by interacting with the client and translating them into Design documents by providing them a resolution.
• Prepared estimates for the work received.
• Facilitated meetings for obtaining the requirements.
• Developed and Unit tested the application with robust test cases covering all of the scenarios.
• Performed peer reviews on the developed application code.
• Delivered the results to the customer in a timely manner and obtained the customer approvals, facilitated the code migrations and Prod implementations by meeting the deliverables.
• Ran system test cycles as scheduled.
• Load system test claims into IMS data base for adjudication.
• Maintained the test system like refreshing VSAM files with Prod data and DASD clean up etc..
• Fixed the production abends without missing SLA.
• Prepared the documents for quality purpose and delivering them for audits.
• Supported production system (on call) and fixing all abends without missing SLAs.
• Participated Mercator to WTX up gradation and tested the maps with different scenarios using X12 837 and 835 files
• Modified WTX maps/type trees to in corporate requested changes as a part of Mercator migration to WTX.
• Created unit test cases in X12 837 files.
• Improved the System testing performance and reducing the cycle time
• Trouble shooted and de bottlenecking the testing related issues
• Coordinated and advising the System test analyst.
• Facilitated regression setup and Support
• Coordinated and executing the customer test requests.
• Documentation as required
• Tracked all defects in Clear Quest

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, WTX, DB2, MQ, CICS

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Verifying output files from monthly extract jobs and correct them if any junk data found.
• Fix amended monthly jobs.
• FTP files to DMAS DATA warehousing system.
• Prepare estimates for changes in system.
• Design technical solution for requirement.
• Coding unit testing and monitor first run jobs after code deployed in production system.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, DYL280.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented DB2 components structure changes in development systems.
• Supported 24x7 on call for development environment batch loads.
• Performed ad hoc file and DB2 table refresh request from production to development systems.
• Resolved DB2 Related Problems in GWMG Systems.
• Prepared weekly structure / Authorization compare reports between other environments and prod and implemented discrepancies.
• Participated in major refresh activities which involves unload data over 2000 tables and 3000 files from prod and load into GWMG system environments.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, DB2-ADMIN Tool, CHANGEMAN, REXX, VSAM.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Quality Review and delivery of customer requests using COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
• Delivered new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to various customer
• Solved and helped the technical problems of all the team members.
• Responsible for Work allocation to team members in the absence of team lead
• Ensure that proper quality procedures are followed in all the phases
• Trained and guided the new team members on technical as well as process areas
• Maintained good documentation for all the tasks developed as per the client’s documentation policy.

Environment: OS-390, EZYTRIEVE, COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), JCL (Job Control Language), VSAM (Virtual Sequential Access Method), DB2.