SUMMARY:

• Software professional with 11 years of experience in IT (IBM Mainframes), Software Development and Technical Support.
• Strong programming and logic development
• Working Knowledge on Agile principles & standards.
• Confident in system analysis and bug fix
• Proficient in end - to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation.
• Adept at mapping the requirements, custom designing solutions.
• Deft in managing all stages of the software development life cycle; and design, enterprise workflow application development; knowledge management
• Expertise in the US Health care, Financial & Banking sector applications.
• Extensive experience in Relational and Hierarchical Database Management Systems.
• Distinction of working with global teams in an onsite-offshore delivery model.
• Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities
• IBM DB2 730 fundamentals certified professional.
• Certified Agile Scrum master.
• Conducting System Analysis / Process Study for project scoping and tracking.
• Implementing project plans within deadlines.
• Defining best practices for project support and documentation.
• Understanding the technical & functional specifications.
• Design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the application.
• Provide post-implementation, enhancement and maintenance support to client for application.
• Resolving all the concerned issues upon getting approval from concerned authorities.
• Aware of the processes needed to be followed in a CMM level5 company. Aware of the process to be followed in any project life cycle
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in RTC. Work with component teams to resolve issues.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Extending high-end technical support on Mainframe server and ensuring high customer satisfaction levels through prompt redressal of their problems.
• Analyzing and fixing defects.
• Develops technical designs that will meet system objectives and minimize the impact on operations
• Have total responsibility for the creation, migration, and ownership of the schedules, JCL and PROC's and other batch resources.
• Perform project management of estimating, scheduling, and monitoring tasks.
• Ability to follow recovery procedures to restart a batch workload that was interrupted by a system failure
• Provided support for the daily batch production cycle which included JCL changes, restart and recovery procedures and notification of the appropriate application programmer to resolve batch abends.
• Preparing Abend Logs and Checkpoints, Monitoring Test cycles.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS: MVS, Z/OS.

Language: JCL, COBOL, Eazytrieve and CICS

Database: DB2, IMSDB and VSAM.

Tools: File Aid, ESP, CA-7, Change Man, Endevor, M4 Tools, Trace MasterIBM-Debugger, MQ Series, XML, SPUFI, QMF, Stored Procedure& Expediter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per HM specific standards and guidelines.
• Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.
• Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL and Eazytrieve.
• Modifying batch programs as per the requirement and made schedule changes
• Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT.
• Participated in test data and test case preparation and unit testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support
• Managing the Offshore team and responsible for their deliverables.
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. Track burn down, issues and progress in RTC. Work with component teams to resolve issues.
• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
• Implemented Issues Tracking in RTC to effectively track impediments against user stories.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, M4 Tools, Agile & RTC

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.
• Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.
• Create weekly status report and participation in team meetings.
• Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, DB2, JCL and Eazytrieve.
• Modifying batch programs as per the requirement and made schedule changes
• Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT.
• Participated in test data and test case preparation and unit testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support
• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings.
• Lead the IMS Elimination project phase1.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, M4 Tools, Agile & RTC

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Performed and analyzed the programs to create the CRUD report
• Performed and analyzed the Programs to get Called calling reports
• Prepared Jcl Interlink analysis Report
• Write and execute the quires using RAA tool
• Providing the guidance to the junior level resources
• Providing technical s to the peers

Environment: IBM Mainframe, CICS, JCL, COBOL II, IMS, RAA & MS Excel and PPT

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.
• Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.
• Enhancements, Maintenance & system testing activities which include formulating the testing strategy, preparing the test plans and identifying key business scenarios.
• Work planning, allocation & prioritization in coordination with client & onshore team.
• Provide production support and see that the issues were solved within the time limit specified in SLA.
• Provision of technical and business solutions to clients.
• Provide process, data and object modeling in a variety of application and database environments.
• Provide design, development, enhancement as well as management and coordination of changes to existing applications.
• Provide production support to Existing modules.
• Provide post-production support to Developed modules.
• Analyze requirements and discuss them with the client and the end users of the system.

Environnent: IBM Mainframe, CICS, JCL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, BMC, STARTOOL, CHANGEMAN & IBM DEBUGGER

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• 24x7 support to production, provide resolution to night-time production job abends, attend conference calls with business operations, system managers if any issues in batch stream.
• Designing and developing new batch programs using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, IMS and VSAM.
• Modifying batch & online programs as per the requirement and made schedule changes.
• Code review, Review of Deliverables
• Involved in unit testing, system testing and UAT.
• Participated in test data and test case preparation and unit testing, test results documentation, review and UAT support.
• Involved in resolving the job abends or any kind of problems that are faced by the client in production environment.
• Involved in running the entire batch cycle in test region with the new modifications which are going to be turned into production with the test data provided by the testers
• Conducting brain storming sessions on the defects identified.
• Ensuring timely deliveries of work requests and maintaining application and technical support and documentation
• Preparing High Level, Low-level Functional Specification documents.
• Effort estimations based upon the requirement analysis.
• Review and rework on the review comments.
• Interaction with business users to get the business requirements.
• Writing the DB2 stored procedures and maintain the COBOL, DB2 applications

Environment: IBM Mainframe, CICS, JCL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, BMC, STARTOOL, CHANGEMAN & IBM DEBUGGER

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing the co-existence of current and future state for Static data maintenance
• Responsible for technical design of creating the system for feeding the SSP component with upstream feeds.
• Understanding business process and requirements to effectively manage the project as per client’s specific standards and guidelines.
• Working with business analysts in gathering business requirements, obtaining clarifications and approvals during functional analysis, data validations and integration testing.
• Enhancements, Maintenance & system testing activities which include formulating the testing strategy, preparing the test plans and identifying key business scenarios.
• Work planning, allocation & prioritization in coordination with client & offshore team.
• Provide production support and see that the issues were solved within the time limit specified in SLA.
• Provision of technical and business solutions to clients.
• Provide process, data and object modeling in a variety of application and database environments.
• Provide design, development, enhancement as well as management and coordination of changes to existing applications.
• Provide production support to Existing modules.
• Provide post-production support to Developed modules.
• Analyze requirements and discuss them with the client and the end users of the system.

Environment: IBM Mainframe, JCL, COBOL II, IMS, DB2, CICS, BMC, STARTOOL, CHANGEMAN & IBM DEBUGGER.