SUMMARY

• I have around 8.5 years of work experience in software development in Mainframe based technologies.
• Have rich experience in development and implementation of IBM Mainframe based projects.
• Good experience in Financial domain - Banking and Health Insurance.
• Implemented projects on 4 layered architecture platform. Implemented DB2 De-normalization for performance improvement.
• Core Skillset - Legacy System testing using Cobol, JCL, DB2, CICS.
• Have rich experience in SOA based project development.
• Have good working knowledge of MQ series on MF platform.
• Implemented SSN masking and other CICS screen based projects. Also worked on Data migration and other development projects.
• Have good hands-on experience of SDLC methodologies like Waterfall, Test Planning and Execution, Tracking of issues/ assignments, issue reporting.
• Exceptional Analytical, Trouble shooting and problem solving skills.
• I have played a key role in reducing the overall effort via using automated tools which have helped in improving the productivity of team.
• Have working knowledge of BASEL III and II, FATCA Act.
• Possess strong knowledge ofhealthcare terminologyand extensive experience working on healthcare projects.
• Have good understanding of support project, incident management and SLA management.
• ITIL v3 Foundation certified professional.
• AHIP Basics of Health care - Part A, B certified.
• AHIP Managed care Part A certified.
• AHIP HIPPA certified.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL

Database: DB2

Operating System: MVS, Windows

OLTP: CICS

Mainframe Utilities: Zeke (Job scheduler), File - Aid, Expeditor (Debugging), Endevor, VC4U (Version control), DB2 Tools, Startool, SDFII

Other: Web-Sphere MQ

Tools: Clear Case, Requisite pro, Clear Quest, IBM DB2 utilities.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte NC

Developer, Designer

Technology: Mainframes - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, MQ Series.

Tools: XPED, ABEND-AID, SPUFI

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements from Client team and suggesting the solution to Client.
• Participated in meeting with business team to evaluating the pros and cons of different design approaches.
• Prepare the Design specification documents from high level requirement.
• Code, Unit and Integration testing.
• Existing code analysis and review to identify the bugs.
• Performance tuning to improve the code performance and reduce the CPU utilization time.
• In depth code review to minimize the defect leakage.
• Preparation of unit and integration test plans, their execution and documenting the test results.
• Guiding testing team to start the testing of new jobs.
• Co-ordination with testing team on defects, issues and clarifications.
• Defect’s SLA management.
• Coordination with ESB team for integrating the web services.
• Production issue root cause analysis, issue simulation, Data profiling.
• Code deployment support, Supporting the system components during system testing, integration testing and during promotion of these components to production environment.
• Preparation of traceability metrics.
• Artifacts review - Code, design and test script review.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Developer

Technology: Mainframes - COBOL, JCL, IMS, DB2, IMS, Easytrieve.

Tools: VC4U, CA service desk.

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements from Client team and suggesting the solution to Client.
• Discussing business solutions with client business team, resolving existing problems and improving the application stability.
• Evaluating the pros and cons of different design approaches.
• Prepare the Design specification documents from high level requirement.
• Code, Unit and Integration testing.
• Existing code analysis and review to identify the bugs.
• In depth code review to minimize the defect leakage.
• Production issue root cause analysis, issue simulation, Data profiling.
• Code deployment/implementation support.
• Developed detailed test plan, Risk analysis document. Created test cases, testing jobs and executed them.
• Artifacts review - Code, design and test script review.
• Ticket Analysis and fix within the defined SLA.
• Change request development - Analysis, Design, Build and Testing.
• SLA management, working on SLA adherence.
• Working on identification of important batch schedules and their optimization.

Tools: XPED, ABEND-AID, SPUFI, Endevor.

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in business requirement gathering, elicitation with business team.
• Preparing the Functional design documents and high level design and get it approve from Client Tech Leads.
• Preparing the initial Estimate for the projects/CR/SSCR(Small System Change Request)
• Business requirement to system mapping, Impact analysis, feasibility analysis.
• Preparation of technical specs which includes documenting structured process logic, data flow and SQLs.
• Developing the code as per the business requirement and testing the same.
• Preparation of unit and integration test plans, their execution and documenting the test results.
• Production issue analysis, issue simulation, Data profiling.
• Artifacts review - Code, design and test script review.
• Address or Fix the issues/bugs during the SIT and UAT.
• Performed Analysis, design, developing, Testing & Implementation to support Mainframes
• Worked closely with testing team for planning, scheduling and executing tests in the system test environment.

Technology: Mainframes - COBOL, DB2, MQ, JCL.

Tools: Expeditor, Startool, QMF etc.

Developer, CC, KM.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To launch HNO product, Confidential had to revamp their enrollment process.
• To make system compatible for business needs, member enrollment application (MEA) made lot of changes over multiple releases.
• I was part of ODS team; ODS is database which is used for reporting needs of application like billing, ID card generation etc. ODS was primarily a ETL system where we used to read data from MEA database and store it into ODS.

Developer, CC

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for Analysis of requirement, Information gathering, Designing, Test plan preparation, Build (coding) and Testing.
• Development of new functionality, enhance the existing.
• Handling project implementation related activities, ensuring the correct version movement to production environment.
• Work allocation, staffing management, Work product review.
• Coordinating onsite team, Status reporting.
• Preparation of unit and integration test plans, their execution and documenting the test results.
• Handling project supporting task like Effort tracking, Issue tracking, Defect tracking.
• Project Quality Metrics reporting.
• Identification of tools, making re-useable components for enhancing the productivity of team.
• System performance improvement, reduction in response time i.e.; reduction in CPU usage time.
• Reduction in future maintenance cost.
• Application’s upward compatibility.
• Savings in storage devices by optimum de-normalization.
• Made application enabled to support several new products.