OBJECTIVE:

I am looking for an opportunity that utilizes my technical expertise, development and design skills in integration using IBM Message Broker/ IIB, MQ Series on UNIX and Windows platform.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in designing, developing and administering middleware solutions using IBM's IIB/ WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ Series, Java/ J2EE, Spring 4.0.
• Experienced in Planning, Installation and Administration of WMB 7/8, IIB 9/10, IBM MQSeries 7.5/ 8, MQ Workflow and WBI Adapters on various platforms like Windows, AIX and LINUX.
• Well versed in using WMB/ IIB in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
• Implemented standards, processes and procedures related to middleware design, development, infrastructure setup, and administration and application deployment using WMB tools.
• Good experience in SOAP and RESTful Webservice development using ESQL, Java, XML, WSDL and JSON amongst others.
• Experienced in using MMLIB, WSDL, MQ Nodes, HTTP Nodes, SOAP Nodes, ESQL and Java Compute, Mapping Nodes, Database Nodes, FTP, Custom User Nodes and JDBC Adapters, etc.
• Participate in upgrade and migration of various WMB versions including WMB 8, IIB 9/10.
• Good experience in various tools like ClearCase, TFS, CVS, SCM and using deployment tools such as UDeploy.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in Java/ J2EE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, MVC framework, JAXB, Jenkins, and Java based RESTful APIs and WSO2 API Manager for registering and maintaining APIs, Jenkins for CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment).
• Proficient in interaction with the business users by conducting meetings with the clients in Requirements Analysis phase.
• Extensive functional and technical exposure. Experience working on high - visibility projects.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior IIB/ WMB Developer

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing technical design documents for various Interfaces based on functional designs.
• Design and develop SOAP and REST based WebServices and APIs using IIB 9/ WMB 8, MQ Series 7.5.
• Implement Message flows, Create Message Sets, Message Definition Files, WSDLs, XSDs, MMLIB, DFDLs, JSON messages, COBOL Copybooks, ESQL, Java, FTP nodes, Mapping nodes and various other nodes for developing the services/ APIs.
• Configured JMS connections to connect via JDBC and connected to Oracle and SQL Server Stored Procedures to connect to Database.
• Created Swagger contracts/ JSON messages for newer services/ APIs.
• Prepare Unit Test Case documents and tested them using Parasoft SOA Test, SOAPUI, rfhutil and MQ queues and use HP Quality Center for defect tracking.
• Write Ant scripts for building bar files.
• Configured services and APIs in IBM API-Connect for enterprise level availability and maintainability.
• Use Jenkins, GIT Stash for CI/CD process to Build and Deploy the applications
• Write and maintain SQL queries and DB2 queries to retrieve data from Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and Sybase databases.
• Promote codes to different environments (INT, QA, STG and PROD) using UDeploy and check in codes to IBM ClearCase (Source Control Management) code repository.
• Work as a team member and provide technical assistance to the team and perform peer reviews.
• Co-ordinate with offshore team on development tasks.

Environment: IIB 10/ WMB 8, IBM MQ Series 7.5/ 8, Oracle 11g/ 12c, ESQL, Java 7/ 8, API Manager, Swagger, IBM ClearCase, Altova XMLSpy, SOUPUI, Parasoft SOATest, LINUX.

Senior Message Broker Developer

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Responsibilities:

• Architecting, designing and implementing SOA/ ESB and Web Services integration solutions using IBM Integration Bus and WebSphere MQ platform.
• Analyze User needs and prepare Functional and Technical Design documents based on the requirements.
• Develop services using IBM Integration Bus 9, MQ Series 7.5, ESQL, Java, WSDL, MMLIB, DFDL and XSDs and various MB nodes, viz FTE nodes. FTP nodes, etc.
• Develop message flows for Project Smart and other internal projects, viz XBR, Omni Channel.
• Create Message Sets, Message Definition Files, WSDLs, XSDs and DFDLs and use ESQL and Java for developing the services.
• Create MQ queues, Topics, Subscribers, Queue Managers in MQ and monitor the queues constantly for any issues and troubleshoot.
• Maintain Multi-instance Brokers and Queue Managers running in different datacenters and manage MQ Clusters.
• Unix Scripting for various development environmental configurations and setup.
• Troubleshoot issues with message flow services and provide quick turnaround for fixing and testing.
• Prepare Unit Test Case documents and test the message flows using SOAPUI, rfhutil and MQ queues.
• Use HP QC and other required tools for issue/ defect tracking.
• Write and maintain SQL queries to retrieve logs and errors from the Oracle database using SQL Developer.
• Promote codes to different environments (INT, QA, STG and PROD) and take care of checking in codes to the CVS/ SCM (Source Control Management) code repository.
• Perform Integration testing of services with other teams/ applications.
• Work as a team member and provide technical assistance to the team and perform peer reviews.

Environment: IIB 10, IBM MQ Series 7.5, Oracle 11g, ESQL, JAVA, WebSphere DataPower, CVS/ SCM, SOUPUI 4.6, AIX/ UNIX.

Message Broker Developer

Confidential, Des Peres, MO

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirement details for the ESB integration and designed an architecture that best suits the integration.
• Prepare Functional and Technical specification documents.
• Develop the Core UCM WebServices and UCM Business Integration Services.
• Design the Message Sets, Message Definition Files, XSDs, WSDLs, DFDL, SOAP nodes, Database nodes and various other nodes in Message Flows with ESQL and Java coding.
• Develop Core services and Business Integration Services.
• Thoroughly Unit tested the Message Flows and did the Integration testing with BPM application that utilizes these services.
• Message Broker receives an ACORD Tx1228 transaction with documents from an external vendor application system called Firelight and processes it thru the internal services and sends an SMS message to the concerned audience.
• All the transactions from Firelight to the USB web services happen through a secured channel with User Authentication at each level.
• Upgraded from MB version 7.1 to version 8 and migrated all the projects to the new version and introduced the new concepts of Applications, Libraries, Deployable subflows and ESQL.

Environment: Message Broker 7.1/ 8, IBM MQ Series 7, Oracle 11g, ESQL, JAVA, BPM, UCM (Universal Content Management), Oracle Content Server, SOUPUI 4.5, Windows, Linux.

Message Broker Developer

Confidential, Nashville, TN

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured WMB 7.1 and WMQ on Windows platform.
• Developed, enhanced and maintained Message Broker tools and components for various development releases.
• Designed the Message Sets, Message Flows to encapsulate the business logic using IBM Nodes and ESQL.
• Business Logic included Data Transformation.
• Develop SQL queries to assist in data retrieval. Used Mapping nodes, XSDs and WSDL.
• Assist WebSphere portal and User Interface team in end to end testing.
• Involved in system testing, integration testing and volume testing of middleware applications. Work with QA to resolve defects and provide support.
• Identify the need for Queue managers and other MQ Objects for project considerations Defining, administering and monitoring them.
• Maintained Data Intake process single handedly on all the environments, viz. PROD, QA and UAT, which includes partial automation of the process as well.
• Debugging of message flow and problem determination using local error logs and by running user traces and service traces.
• Have Installed and Configured IIB, MQ and related tools on newer servers.
• Migrated code from local environment to development, test and performance environments.
• Handled QC Tickets created by users as well as system change management.
• Provided technical support/ direction to developers in the team working to create stable, conventional and effective message broker components.
• Worked on Offshore-Onshore model having mentored a team of 2 in Offshore (India).

Environment: Message Broker 7, IBM MQ Series 6/ 7, Oracle 10g, TFS, ESQL, SQL Developer 2.1, SOUPUI 3.6, JAVA, rfhutil, Windows.

Message Broker Developer

Confidential, Rutherford, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Involve in the team discussion about development patterns.
• Work on detailed Technical design document preparation for the requirement.
• Create the Message Set and Message definitions from XML Schema and WSDL.
• Develop message flows having various patterns such as Web services, Publish-Subscribe, database interaction, etc.
• Perform the Unit testing and Integration testing with application teams.
• Perform flow enhancements for low processing time and low memory consumption.
• Develop common flows for Error handling, logging and for Email/ Mobile Message notifications
• Work with CWF, TDS and XML, XMLNSC message formats.
• Implement WebService message flows using SOAP nodes in WebSphere Message Broker 7.0.
• Provided Message Broker Production Support and On-call support as well.
• Creation of Standards and Best Practices documents.
• Design and develop a POC, where Message Broker application acts as a Web service provider using HTTP input and HTTP reply nodes.
• Message flow troubleshooting in lower environments viz. DEV, DEVTEST and UAT.

Environment: IBM MQ Series 6.0, Message Broker 7.0.0.8, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Oracle 9i, Windows, Mainframes, DB2.