SUMMARY:

• I have 10 plus years of professional IT experience in areas of Software Application Development, Maintenance and Support.
• Strong in development, enhancement, and production support roles with exposure to end - to-end release management along with on-call support ability, and quickly resolving production tickets. Experienced developer with outstanding technical abilities with extensive knowledge of application development and support.
• Good domain knowledge in Insurance, Credit Card and Manufacturing domains.
• Strong programming skills in Cobol, with experience in JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB/DC, CICS. Micro Focus Cobol, and Sybase.
• Worked on various tools such as Microfocus Eclipse, GIT, WINSCP, Putty, Jira, Release Engineering, Animator, CAST, Confidential DB2-Connect, MS Visual Studio, Quality Center, CHANGMAN, PUPS, XPEDITER, ENDEVOR, MOBIUS, ABEND-AID, FILE-AID, Strobe, Application Performance Analyzer, SQL-PA, Control-M, CAST, SPUFI, QMF
• Extensive knowledge in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), trouble shooting, end-user support and performance tuning.
• Capable & proven experience in gathering business requirements from business end-users, Initial Analysis and preparing technical specification documents.
• Conducted root cause analysis to improve operational services.
• Manage large projects and successfully met client's project deadlines.
• Hands-on change control and defect prevention activities.
• Excellent documentation experience in tickets tracking, problem simulations and solutions, bug fixes and project specific documents.
• Excellent team player, very well adapted to work with various levels of management team.
• Excellent Communication Skills, Problem solving skills and Analytical/Design skills.
• Experience in understanding new business requirements, existing applications, Impact Analysis, Design, Maintenance and Regression Testing.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, communication skills, team player & highly motivated self-starter.
• Capable of delivering optimized, effective and well documented code independently.

EXPERIENCE:

Sr cobol Developer

Confidential

Skill Set: Micro Focus Cobol, GIT, DB2 Connect, WINSCP, PUTTY, SFTP, Beyond Compare, JIRA

Responsibilities:

• Setting up Microfocus Environment on zLinux.
• Understand existing source code functionality and convert them to Microfocus Cobol wherever required.
• Write Linux base shell scripting jobs to execute Microfocus Loads in Linux environment.
• Perform Unit and Integration testing.
• Perform root-cause analysis of any issues that arise during Integration, System and Regression testing and providing a solution fix.
• Resolving any Source to Object code link-edit issue.
• Resolving connectivity issue such as with DB2, Java, SFTP, and other downstream sub systems.

Technical Consultant

Confidential

Skill Set: Micro focus Cobol, Oracle, Autosys, Jira, Release Engineering, VersionOne, HP QC.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with business team, SMEs and identifying the business needs.
• Preparing technical design documents from the requirements.
• Provide professional consultation across design, development, configuration and testing activities.
• Resolve QA and UAT defects within turnaround time and minimize repetitive errors and delivery quality deliverables.
• Identifying and working on re-engineering functions and providing solutions.
• Work on Production Service Desk Tickets and provide resolution within Turnaround time.

Technical Consultant

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB, CICS, VSAM, Endevor, File-Manager, SFTP, Autosys, Micro-Focus Net Express Cobol, PVCS Version Manager, Windows 2003 Server, Sybase V12, HP Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing schedule for work, prioritizing tasks. Track project status and report to management.
• Attending business and functional requirement meetings.
• Answer offshore technical queries.
• Perform quarterly release for production issues, bug fixes and enhancements.
• Performing impact analysis of application for a given business or functional requirement.
• Documenting Test Scripts for testing of new functionality respective to the assigned project.
• Involved in Implementation of Microfocus Cobol conversion to Net Express and Sybase migration as part of Windows 2012 Server migration Project.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM, Xpeditor, Mainframe SAS Procs, File-Aid, HP Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing schedules for work, attending and chairing various conference calls, to track project status, reviews within the project.
• Attaining in business and functional requirement meetings.
• Performing impact analysis of application for a given business or functional requirement.
• Documenting Test Scripts for testing of new functionality respective to the assigned project.
• Executing new functionality Test Scripts and validate test results.
• Work closely with Business Analyst on providing impacts to existing system functionality for new proposed client Change Requests.
• Involved in gathering Business requirements, Initial Analysis of existing request Programs and Process flow.
• Involved in Unit, Integration, System and Regression testing of batch programs, Implementation and post Implementation support.
• Designed test cases, test data, testing and documented test results.
• Understand and resolve user application problems and provide clarifications.
• Proposed Effort estimation to the clients for each request based on the type of request, complexity and resources workload.
• Participated in CMM level quality audits and strictly followed the client's quality process.
• Updated status of work on weekly basis to clients.
• Single point of contact (POC) for answering queries from offshore, tracking the schedule, tracking the quality of deliverables and resolving offshore concerns.

Sr. Developer

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CAST, Xpeditor, CHANGMAN, Confidential -PA, SQL-PA, Control-M, Strobe.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of top 100 CPU consuming jobs.
• Preparing technical specification for the analyzed modules.
• Attending meetings with Onsite Coordinator/SMEs.
• Proposing new strategy for long running CPU jobs.
• Preparing analysis & design docs, coding, and testing.
• Fixing violations suggested by the CAST tool.
• Showed a significant reduce in CPU usage around 30 pct. to client.

Developer

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CAST, Xpeditor, Confidential -PA, SQL-PA.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of 230 docs’, tickets raised and assigned.
• Attend onsite coordinator/ for business understanding/clarifications.
• Prepare module specs for coding, unit test cases, and system testing.
• Involved in coding, testing, code migration, and system testing activities.
• Responsible for bug fixes raised in unit testing, and system testing.

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB, PUPS, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, HP Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of 230 doc's.
• Attend/Organize meetings with BA/Client for business understanding / clarifications
• Prepare module specs for coding, plus Preparing unit test cases for the requirements
• Involved in Coding, Peer review of coding done & Code Migration
• Responsible for Interaction with QC team for business understanding & Warranty support for the releases.

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB, PUPS, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, HP Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of requirements.
• Preparing Unit Test Cases for the requirement & Module Specification for the requirement
• Coding as per the Module Specification & Reviewing of code to ensure the desire output.

Confidential

Skill Set: Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB, PUPS, XPEDITER, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, HP Quality Center.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis of requirements
• Coding as per standards
• Debugging the coded programs & Reviewing of code to ensure the standards set by the client
• Performed Unit testing with the prepared test cases
• Ensuring timely deliveries of DCR.