SUMMARY:

• IT experiences of 15+ years as a lead and technology developer
• Technical skills in Mainframe and Database development
• Active participation in DEVops activities
• AMAZON WEB SERVICES - Certified cloud practitioner
• Prodcution and Dev Oncall responsibilities
• Experience with REST APIs
• Expertise in Data Base devolpement and testing in DB2 and sound Knowledge in SQL
• Experience in all phases of SDLC/ STLC including Analysis, Design, Development, and Testing
• Experience in documenting analysis, design, coding documents and test approach
• Extensive knowledge in Insurance Financia and Telecom domains with mainframe applications - Dev Lead
• Experience in handling multiple projects
• Co-ordinating with team members to obtain the deliverables on time
• Good communication skills
• Comprehensive problem solving abilities
• Willingness to learn new technology
• Capable of meeting short deadlines, quickly adapting to change, and work well in a fast-paced environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Databases: Mainframes DB2, Teradata, Oracle

Requirement Management Tool: MS Visio

Languages: COBOL, SQL, JCL, CICS,REXX

Other Tools & Utilities: IDZ, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, DB2, SAS, HP Quality Center,Lotus Notes, JCLsInformatica (self paced for 30 days),ESP

Operating Systems: Winx/NT/XP/Vista, MVS/ESA, MS-DOS

Reporting Tools: Microsoft Excel, SQL, VSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed project release implementation in Production and Dev regions
• Led sessions for interface team to understand system
• Provided feed files to interfacing team after conversion within time lines
• Prepared design documents
• Prerpared New JCLs from scratch
• Enabled new members in team to speed up
• Helped testing team for completing validations on time
• Flow master from past 6 months
• Preapred Tool to run jobs even out of flow for any given date. It helped tester not to enter data multiple times and at the same time, helped in Unit testing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Attending walk through of high level design
• Changed architectural setup for CICS for aplications
• Coding and unit testing of poject
• Periodic development region oncall
• Resolving issues identified during oncall support
• Reviews for peers
• Join owner relationship
• Changes in Communication for joint owner relationship(letters and statements)
• CICS screen modification for VA suite 3.0
• Single handled changed CICS storage capacity/infrastructure for Confidential application
• Managed to handle Storage violations in CICS in less than stipulated timelines

Technology Stack: Mainframe, Z/OS,CHGMAN, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, JCL,File Manager,Sort techniques, COBOL,Syncsort MFX, CA ESP,Serena ChangeMan, Quality center

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis for defect/Audits
• Design, coding and unit testing for Defect
• Periodic oncall support
• Resolving issues identified during oncall support
• Audit support
• Non routine data changes for production files

Technology Stack: Mainframe, Z/OS,CHGMAN, TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, JCL,File Manager,Sort techniques, COBOL,Syncsort MFX, CA ESP,Serena ChangeMan, Confidential ADRDSSU

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for tracking of trouble tickets and resolution
• Answers technical support queries and implements fixes for application problems
• Works on cross-functional teams to proactively address support issues
• Creates and maintains documentation for supported applications
• Coordinates with customers to resolve technical support issues
• Fixed problems and rectifies errors by modifying the system or databases
• Providing directions to interfacing teams
• Recycling and loading of data
• Closing tickets after verification of the corrected data in the database
• Participated in Requirements gathering and gap analysis sessions
• Involved in preparing of project Test cases for Functional Testing, Regression testing, Integration testing/End to End Testing
• Prepared Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to map the requirements and ensured it is established and maintained throughout all the Testing phases of the project
• Executed Functional and Regression test cases and validated the application against defined requirements
• Worked on recording, analysing, and verifying test results
• Involved in logging bugs when application does not meet the requirement and tracking the logged bugs
• Worked on post-production support phase

Technology Stack: Mainframe, DB2, O/s: Z/OS, BMCDB2, CHGMAN, NDM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, Teradata, COBOL, CICS, JCL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Requirement documents, Design documents & Business Rules
• Analyzing requirements to arrive at test strategy
• Estimation of testing efforts.
• Worked in Integration and Release Testing
• Creation of design documents and coding related documents
• Coding of new programs
• Test data setup
• Responsible for testing the Data Mapping and Back-end data validations
• Interacting with clients and all stakeholders.
• Tracking the defects to closure in QC.
• Review of Project Deliverables

Technology Stack: Mainframe, DB2, O/s: Z/OS, HP QC, BMCADM, BMCDB2, CHGMAN, NDM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF,JCL,VSAM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Communication with different technology groups across AMEX globe.
• Client communication in sync with different technology groups
• Manage a team of 5 members and coordinating them.
• Analysis of Requirement documents, Design documents & Business Rules.
• Analysing requirements to arrive at test strategy
• Worked in Integration Testing across external components
• Creation of REXX tool
• Involving in all the discussion with User representatives while requirements gathering.
• Ensure that specific elements of the product are thoroughly tested per the Test Plan documentation.
• Test Planning, identifying priorities and scheduling of tasks.
• Coordinating with the offshore project team
• Tracking and mitigating the project risks at the start of the project with client and different technology groups.
• Tracking the defects to closure in QC
• Review of Project Deliverables

Technology Stack: Mainframe, REXX, O/s: Z/OS, HP QC, BMCADM, CHGMAN, NDM, TSO/ISPF,JCL

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage a testing team of 4 members and coordinating them.
• Analysis of Requirement documents, Design documents & Business Rules.
• Analyzing requirements to arrive at test strategy.
• Estimation of testing efforts.
• Worked in Integration and Release Testing.
• New table definition and changing exiting table definitions.
• Designing of stored procs.
• Coded stored procs
• Involving in all the discussion with User representatives while requirements gathering.
• Ensure that specific elements of the product are thoroughly tested per the Test Plan documentation.
• Responsible for testing the Data Mapping and Back-end data validations.
• Test Planning, identifying priorities and scheduling of tasks.
• Interacting with clients and all stakeholders.
• Co-ordinate the Reviews and Walkthrough with IQA and EQA.
• Coordinating with the offshore project team.
• Tracking and mitigating the project risks.
• Tracking the defects to closure in QC.
• Review of Project Deliverables related to testing.

Technology Stack: Mainframe, .NET, Database: DB2, O/s: Z/OS, HP QC, BMCADM, BMCDB2, CHGMAN, NDM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Requirement documents, Design documents & Business Rules
• Analyzing requirements to arrive at test strategy
• Estimation of testing efforts.
• Worked in Integration and Release Testing
• Coding and code review
• Test data setup
• Testing CICS screens
• Involving in all the discussion with User representatives while requirements gathering.
• Ensure that specific elements of the product are thoroughly tested per the Test Plan documentation.
• Responsible for testing the Data Mapping and Back-end data validations
• Interacting with clients and all stakeholders.
• Tracking the defects to closure in QC.
• Review of Project Deliverables

Technology Stack: Mainframe, DB2, O/s: Z/OS, HP QC, BMCADM, BMCDB2, CHGMAN, NDM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF, CICS

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Increased ad managed a testing team of 7 members and coordinating them.
• Managing multiple projects at a time
• Review all outputs from different phases in the projects across the portfolio.
• Discussions with project teams to understand the testing effort by analysing the requirements of projects.
• Develop the test plan and test strategy for IVR tasks.
• Identify need of automation and guiding the team over creation of tools for testing.
• Giving KT to IVR team and bringing them up to speed.
• Defects logging in IVR defect tracking tool.
• Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
• Maintaining IVR dashboard for reviews and defects detected by IVR team.
• Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents is documented and maintained.
• Planning and strategizing test data setup.

Technology Stack: Mainframe, Database: DB2, IMS, O/s: Z/OS, HP QC, BMCADM, BMCDB2, CHGMAN, NDM, SPUFI, TSO/ISPF