SUMMARY:

• Senior Developer in Mainframe Technology with 10+ years of experience in COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, IMS, CICS and MQ Series. Experienced with Mainframe Development, Enhancement, Support and Migration projects.
• Possess working knowledge on Data Warehouse tool such as Informatica.
• Has worked as Senior Developer/Tech team Lead for a North America based Insurance, Telecom, Healthcare, Energy and Utility, Logistics and Retail client.
• Proficient in analysing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture. Well versed in doing analysis, coding and unit testing.
• Strong database and Programming skills, Maintenance and development knowledge.
• Highly skilled and experienced in Agile Development process for diverse requirements.
• Played the role of Scrum Master in current project to facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.
• Involved in Development, Enhancement, Automation and good exposure to 24x7 Production support environment.
• International Assignments: Worked Confidential client location in North America for the insurance, Telecom and Healthcare development project for a period of 5 years.

KEY SKILLS:

Programming Language: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Python, Eazytrieve

Operating Systems: MVS, Linux, Windows

Databases: DB2, IMS - DB, SQL server

Tools: File-AID, SPUFI, QMF, NDM, File-Manager, Jupyter NotebookWinSQL, Visio 2013, MS SQL server management studio 2017, Informatica 10.x

CM Tools: CHANGEMAN, PANVALET, LIBRARIAN

Scheduler Tools: CA-7, CONTROL-M, Autosys

Debugger Tools: XPEDITOR, INTERTEST

Ticketing tools: BMC iServices and BMC Remedy

Request Management tools: ServiceNow

Methodology: Agile and Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minnesota/New Jersey

Senior Developer/Technical Team Lead

Technology: Mainframe COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS, MQ series, Data Warehousing Tool - Informatica, SQL server

Responsibilities:

• Recipient of most prestigious FSS rewards and recognition, Recipient of Oncor Top performer of the month Award, Received IBM certificate for Maximum Innovative IDEA generator for NA based Healthcare ( Confidential ) client.
• Successful Project deliveries for cross-sector clients, and several client accolades.
• Completed entry level mainframe training and assessment.

Confidential, New Jerseys

Senior developer / Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develop COBOL, DB2 and MQ Series modules to deliver technical solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements and to improve on the performance, cost, resource utilization of applications and its functions.
• Translate functional designs into technical specifications such as program flow diagrams and translate technical specifications into program code.
• Develop CICS online modules to access relational databases.
• Develop JCL using SYNCSORT/DFSORT/IEBGENER/IEBCOMPR/IDCAMS utilities to perform data validation, manipulation, reformatting VSAM/GDG datasets.
• Conduct detailed reviews of existing CICS, JCL and COBOL Code to determine system integration points between current legacy systems relative to Targeted systems to identify recommend and document interface.
• Responsibility includes Coding and Testing in Agile mode and work in sprints.
• Played the role of Scrum master in addition to Sr. Developer for RMIS project, engaged highly in scrum meetings, Retrospection, Backlog grooming and Product showcase calls with all stakeholders.
• Responsibility includes providing technology guidance to the junior, prioritization and reprioritization of scrum tasks, reviewing the design documents and code for quality.
• Worked on Datawarehouse tool Informatica in CVAC project to get the understanding of entire data flow across applications, this helped in designing better solutions and resolving issues faster by reducing dependency on ETL resources.

Skills Demonstrated: Mainframe skill COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Data Warehousing skill Informatica. Agile and Scrum, Team Delivery

Tools: and Methods Used: SPUFI, PANVALET, File-aid, DB2 unload and load utility, PowerCenter Designer V10.1, WinSQL Visio 2013, MS SQL server management studio 2017, Agile JIRA.

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior developer / Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analysis, Design, Development and implementation of ASR (Access service requests) sent by Access Capacity Management System (ACMS) application.
• Responsibility includes ASR testing and defects resolution.
• Responsible for managing the projects for upgrades and leading the development effort on this front.
• Responsible for designing the structural framework of the application as per the business requirements for enhancements.
• Responsibility includes providing directions and assistance to team in India, prioritization of tasks, reviewing the design documents and code for quality.

Skills Demonstrated: Mainframe skills - COBOL, JCL, CICS and IMS

Tools: and Methods Used: AGILE, Waterfall, Librarian, File-Manager

Confidential, New Jersey/Minnesota

Senior Application Developer and senior team member

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Analysis, coding and unit testing of enhancements and Production issues in Eligibility and DCRS/FRS application.
• Responsible for Automation of manual processes and building JOB flows required for transformation and load of Eligibility and DCRS data.
• Responsible for building CICS screens to build the UI of DCRS application.
• Single Point of Contact for DCRS and FRS production issues and resolved all the critical command centre production defects for year 2014 and 2015.
• Deliver new and optimized solutions to DCRS/FRS users for the problems or issues raised, maintaining the timelines, standards and quality.
• Responsibility includes availability of Eligibility and DCRS/FRS application 24X7 and resolution of production abends immediately.

Skills Demonstrated: Mainframe skills - COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM and DB2

Tools: and Methods Used: Intertest, Endeavor, Waterfall, SPUFI, QMF

Confidential

Senior developer

Responsibilities:

• code and unit test technical problems encountered in our CIS (Customer Information System) application of ONCOR Electric.
• Engaged as a Level 2 Support Team Lead also with following responsibilities of Enhancement of mainframe programs as per business need.
• Responsible for resolving emergency and normal defects which were tagged under stipulated releases and creating Positive and Negative test cases so as to check the validation of changes.
• Working in shifts between 20th and end of the month for monitoring the Batch cycle and reporting anomalies, Corrective Steps as required by the application, Deploying Fix if any, supplied by the Development or Level 3 team to ensure application perform as expected and tracking and reporting the processing cycle

Skills Demonstrated: Mainframe skills - COBOL, JCL, CICS and DB2

Tools: and Methods Used: Iservice, SPUFI, QMF, File-Aid, Changeman