SUMMARY:

• Highly efficient and talented programmer with 11+ years of experience in developing and implementing effective quality control processes and structures.
• Strong customer service experience, and a background of in supporting all levels of management & SDLC.
• Extensively worked in projects using Agile & Waterfall methodology.
• Involved in Design, Development, Maintenance and Testing of EDBSS (Enrollment Database), MBDSS (Medicare Beneficiary Database) and MARx (Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug) Systems.
• Expertise in Design, Development, Maintenance and Testing of Mainframe Systems and Java based Enterprise and Web applications.
• Expert in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, SQL.
• Expertise in QMF, SPUFI, FILEAID, RACF, ISPF, TSO, AS400, Z/OS, OS/390, JOBTRAC, ENDEVOR, XPEDITER, INFOMAN, CHGMAN, HPQC, MQC, Rally, ALM and other utilities.
• Expert in Manual testing and familiar in Automation testing using UFT and Selenium.
• Knowledgeable in JAVA, Spring Framework 4.0, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Web Services (REST and SOAP), Hibernate.
• In - depth knowledge in Agile and Waterfall SDLC.
• Good experience in managing team, coordinating between all the roles and resources of project.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deliver as per federal guidelines, regulations, audit, data security (HIPAA, FISMA) requirements, contract terms & conditions.
• Design, Development and Maintenance of EDBSS (Enrollment Database), MBDSS (Medicare Beneficiary Database) and MARx (Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug) Systems.
• Work with internal and external requirements, technical, development, and test teams to ensure that all work meet/exceeds the client’s needs and enterprise IT architectures and make measurable recommendations to the process improvements
• Participate in stakeholder meetings, JAD sessions, and change request walk-throughs, understand the business, functional, technical needs and scope changes, test scenario walk-through sessions for software release cycles more specifically as related to SSNRI efforts.
• Conduct independent peer reviews on formal deliverables to fix errors, reviews the same with internal and/or external project teams, obtain team consensus and finalize the work products for customer delivery.

Confidential, Memphis

Responsibilities:

• Understanding Requirement Specifications, Develop and Deliver of new and complex high quality solutions to Clients in response to varying business requirements enhancements and developments.
• Designed and developed modules using Spring Core, Spring AOP, Spring Web MVC modules and Hibernate.
• Developed REST Web Services clients to consume those Web Services
• Reverse engineer COBOL-DB2/CICS programs providing input for EDD conversion team with program flow from existing application code and support documentation.
• Testing of both batch Cobol/DB2 and online Cobol/DB2/CICS modules.
• Performance enhancements on Stored procedures by tuning SQL queries, creating or dropping index and eliminating unwanted parent-child relationships.
• Managed 8 Tester offshore team on daily basis regarding testing progress and defects closures.

Confidential, New Jersey

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• User story Analysis in Rally and meeting all the stakeholders of the project for better understanding of the Business requirements, grooming sprint backlog, prioritizing the user stories and gathering details required for testing phase of the project.
• Write and review the test strategy for the project. Selecting test approaches, defining test levels, cycles, and planning incident/defect management.
• Planning and executing Regression, Functional, System integration, Stress testing etc.
• Developing and maintaining automation test scripts using Selenium.
• In few instances based on team’s requirements I have played multiple roles as a Business Analyst gathering requirements from the business and in some cases Performed User acceptance testing.
• Attending the daily scrum calls and updating the status and discussing any impediments with the team.
• Managing the entire testing team by solving the queries, creating/follow-up/re-testing of the defects, review if the product meets all the requirements and meeting the planned dates of testing phases and completion.
• Introduce suitable metrics for measuring test progress and evaluating the quality of the testing and the product and demo the software to the product owner and all the stakeholders.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis and meeting all the stakeholders of the project for better understanding and gathering details required for testing phase of the project.
• Write and review the test strategy for the project. Selecting test approaches, estimating the time, effort and cost of testing, defining test levels, cycles, and planning incident/defect management.
• Developing and maintaining automation test scripts using QTP.
• Planning and executing Regression, Functional, System integration, Smoke, Stress testing.

Confidential

Analyst Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Joined as a fresher and underwent a 2-month Technical on technologies like COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS. Also underwent a 1-month soft skills .
• Involved in Requirement analysis, Impact analysis, Functional design, Technical Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and production support.
• Preparation of Unit Test Cases, Test Plans and doing the unit testing of the work packets.
• Performing system integration testing and providing support to QA and UAT testing by addressing and resolving issues.
• Creating release requests and supporting the deployment team during installation.