Application Developer Resume
SUMMARY:
- Around 9 Years of extensive experience in Development, Maintenance and Testing applications in Mainframes technology.
- Extensive experience in SDLC and Agile projects using IBM Mainframe technologies.
- Proficiency at various levels of project execution - Requirements capturing, analysis, estimations, Functional presentations, design, construction, unit, system and integration testing, implementation and documentation.
- Expert in quickly identifying problem areas, testing, debugging and documenting errors to avoid future occurrences minimizing down time.
- Good understanding of Business practices in Banking & Financial Services and Healthcare Industries
- Experience in Batch and Online Application development, Testing, Implementation and Support
- Excellent communication, team spirit, hard working and leadership skill.
- Experience includes preparation of Functional Specification, Technical Specification, Programming, System testing, Enhancements, Bug fixing, Production Support and Maintenance.
- Participated in Requirement gathering, and preparation of Application flow diagrams, High Level and Low Level Designs throughout the Software Development Life Cycle
- Have a good deal of understanding about the ISO and CMM level standards.
- Proven ability to learn and apply new systems, technologies, and applications and share the knowledge with other team members.
- Involved in client meetings to study and analyze the requirements for the new requests, coordinating with the offshore team members.
- Problem identification of production issues and Bug-fixing and met 98% of SLA.
- Extensively involved in developing application software on the IBM Mainframes using COBOL, JCL, DB2, IDMS, EZYTRIEVE, CICS and VSAM.
- Have good exposure to tools QMF, SPUFI, DFSORT, PLATINUM, QMF, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, CHANGEMAN, CA-SAR, CA7, BMS utilities, NDM, SAR, PDSM, FTP, FILA, FILD, ABEND-AID, XPEDITOR, PANVALET and Endevor.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Involving in requirements study and preparing estimates for the project .
- Analyzing the existing system and Preparing the various Design documents.
- Creating Low level Design documents and Technical specification documents.
- Developed RECON process to transmit the missing claims.
- Enhancement and Production/On-call support.
- Programming in COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL, CICS and DB2 using design specification.
- Testing the system at Unit, Integration and System Test level. Preparation of Test Result Documents of the tested cases at Unit, Integration.
- Did DB2 optimization to improve the SQL quality.
- Problem identification of Production issues and bug fixes.
- Address all technical issues and guiding team in investigating the root cause
- Study the business risk communicates to all stake holders in case of any issues in the feed processing.
- Generate the statistics based on the error logs.
- Simulating the test conditions with the help of tools like FILE-Master.
- Use CA7 to schedule the Jobs and check the job flow.
- Performing Quality Review’s to assure the quality along with the correctness of the deliverable.
- Use of tools like FILE-Master, SAR, CA7 and PDSMAN to ease the daily performed work effort.
- Developing project standards and processes. Conducting training sessions for team members covering project standards and best approaches.
- Tracking of project status, generated project metrics and project reports to reduce defects and improvement of productivity.
- Devising and optimizing the processes and procedures based on the quality models
- Developing new CICS programs using channels/containers to interact with Java Web Services and updated data to DB2 tables.
- Developing project standards and processes. Conducting training sessions for team members covering project standards and best approaches.
- Modifying COBOL, Easytrieve and IDMS/DB2 Programs to enhance the capability of existing system using Endevor.
- Providing technical support throughout the project and also during implementation warranty period.
Environment: COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, FILE-Master, Intertest, ENDEVOR, ABEND-AID, CA7, REMEDY
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Understanding the design and process flow of existing SOLAR system to do relevant modifications and additions.
- Involving in requirements study, preparing estimates for the project and preparation of various design documents.
- Programming in COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL, CICS and DB2 using design specification.
- Testing the system at Unit, Integration and System Test level. Preparation of Test Result Documents of the tested cases at Unit, Integration.
- Simulating the test conditions with the help of tools like FILE-AID.
- Use CA7 to schedule the Jobs and check the job flow.
- Performing Quality Review’s to assure the quality along with the correctness of the deliverable.
- Use of tools like FILE-AID, SAR, CA7 and PDSMAN to ease the daily performed work effort.
- Developing project standards and processes. Conducting training sessions for team members covering project standards and best approaches.
- Use IPMS for all project management related activities.
- Tracking of project status, generated project metrics and project reports to reduce defects and improvement of productivity.
- Coordinating with Onsite team regarding clarifications and in requirement gathering for the new initiatives.
- Devising and optimizing the processes and procedures based on the quality models
- Developing new CICS programs using channels/containers to interact with Silverlight light screens and updated data to DB2 tables.
- Developing project standards and processes. Conducting training sessions for team members covering project standards and best approaches.
- Modifying COBOL, Easytrieve and IDMS/DB2 Programs to enhance the capability of existing system
Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, CICS, IDMS, DB2, FILE-AID for DB2, CHANGEMAN, PDSM, SQuIDS, NDM, Data Clean, ADSO, OLQ
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Preparation of High level and Low level designs from the requirements
- Programming in COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL and DB2 using design specification
- Testing the system at Unit, Integration and System Test level. Preparation of Test Result Documents of the tested cases at Unit, Integration
- Simulating the test conditions with the help of tools like FILE-AID.
- Use CA7 to schedule the Jobs and check the job flow
- Impact analysis
- Performing Quality Review’s to assure the quality along with the correctness of the deliverable
- Debugging the on-line programs using Xpeditor
- Troubleshooting and supporting end-user in the implementation and maintenance of application systems.
- Use of tools like FILE-AID, SAR, JCL, CA7 and PDSMAN to ease the daily performed work effort.
- Dress Rehearsal Testing/ Performance Testing
- Investigated on user reported problems, modified existing process to resolve critical problems
- Coordination with user groups for testing and QA.
- Provided 24/7 production support to Mainframe system, which includes support during night batch run, providing temporary fix to JCL’s during batch abends to avoid delay.
- Use IPMS for all project management related activities.
- Tracking of project status, generated project metrics and project reports to reduce defects and improvement of productivity.
- Coordinating with Onsite team regarding clarifications and in requirement gathering for the new initiatives
Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, CICS, DB2, Web Sphere Customer Centre (WCC), DB2, FILE-AID for DB2, CHANGEMAN, IPMS,, PDSM, Quality Centre, NDM, Data Clean
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Preparation of High level and Low level designs from the requirements
- Programming in COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL and DB2 using design specification
- Testing the system at Unit, Integration and System Test level. Preparation of Test Result Documents of the tested cases at Unit, Integration
- Planning of Scrub activities to sync up the data in the target system.
- Impact Analysis
- Problem identification of production issues and Bug-fixing.
- Use CA7 to schedule the Jobs and check the job flow
- Performing Quality Review’s to assure the quality along with the correctness of the deliverable
- Use of tools like FILE-AID, SAR, JCL, CA7 and PDSMAN to ease the daily performed work effort.
- Troubleshooting and supporting end-user in the implementation and maintenance of application systems.
- Use IPMS for all project management related activities.
- Coordinating with Onsite team regarding clarifications and in requirement gathering for the new initiatives
Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, CICS, DB2, Web Sphere Customer Centre (WCC), DB2, FILE-AID for DB2, CHANGEMAN, IPMS, IRIS, PDSM, Quality Centre, NDM, Data Clean
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Preparation of High level and Low level designs from the requirements
- Programming in COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL and DB2 using design specification
- Testing the system at Unit, Integration and System Test level. Preparation of Test Result Documents of the tested cases at Unit, Integration
- Use CA7 to schedule the Jobs and check the job flow
- Debugging the on-line programs using Xpeditor
- Analyzing the existing components and make changes in the impacted components
- Use of tools like FILE-AID, SAR, JCL, CA7 and PDSMAN to ease the daily performed work effort.
- Tracking of project status, generated project metrics and project reports to reduce defects and improvement of productivity.
- Coordinating with Onsite team regarding clarifications and in requirement gathering for the new initiatives
- Extensive code reviews, unit testing, system integration testing, and trouble shooting for the batch jobs.
- Production migration and support
- Coordinating and implementing application releases and changes.
- Problem identification of production issues and Bug-fixing.
Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, CICS, DB2, Websphere Customer Centre (WCC), DB2, FILE-AID for DB2, CHANGEMAN, IPMS, IRIS, PDSM, Quality Centre, NDM, Data Clean
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Preparation of High level and Low level designs from the requirements
- Programming in COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL and DB2 using design specification
- Testing the system at Unit, Integration and System Test level. Preparation of Test Result Documents of the tested cases at Unit, Integration
- Creating test data for programs
- Involved in the prototype and design part of the project.
- Assist in establishing file structures and processing logic requirements.
- Coordinating and implementing application releases and changes.
- Support and build Disaster recovery procedures.
- Extensive code reviews, unit testing, system integration testing, and trouble shooting for the batch jobs.
- Use CA7 to schedule the Jobs and check the job flow
- Use of tools like FILE-AID, SAR, JCL, CA7 and PDSMAN to ease the daily performed work effort.
- Coordinating with Technical Lead and Onsite team regarding clarifications and in requirement gathering for the new initiatives.
Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, CICS, DB2, FILE-AID for DB2, CHANGEMAN, PDSM, Quality Centre, NDM, Data Clean
Confidential
Application developerResponsibilities:
- Migration of VSAM Files into DB2 System.
- Conversion of Programs accessing VSAM files to DB2 calls
- Testing of batch and online programs with an eye on exception handling.
- Retrofitting the programs according to the changes
- Implemented RLS for VSAM files.
- Creation and execution of QTP scripts as part of System Testing
- Converting the Maintenance transactions into real-time processing transactions
- Prepared the test data and test cases for UNIT, CIT and SIT testing.
Environment: VS COBOL II, JCL, EZYTRIEVE, CICS, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, FTP, PANVALET, IBM FileManager and FILE-AID