SUMMARY

• Software Engineer having over 9.5 years of experience in IT Industry, including experience in software design, development, deployment, support and maintenance of Mainframes. Also worked in Microsoft technologies.
• Strong knowledge of mainframe technologies COBOL II, PL/I, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, SQL, SPUFI,Z/OS,CICS, FILE - AID, TSO, ISPF, SYNCSORT, XPEDITER, Change man, File-AID, File-Manager, Easytrieve, RDZ and REXX.
• Worked in Microsoft technologies like ASP, Visual Basic.
• As part of my assignments, Involved in interacting with clients, Analysis, Planning and Scheduling, Effort Estimation, Design, Development, Testing, Quality and Delivery activities.
• Worked with Automotive, Utilities, Insurance, Banking and Financial clients
• Have worked on technologies like Power Builder, Sybase and Web Focus for clients like Confidential &G and Confidential Insurance.
• Strong experience in Development, Requirements Collection, Business analysis, systems migration, user training and project documentation.
• Excellent Experience in Preparing the High Level Design, Low Level Design and Detailed Design Specifications for a Project.
• Experience in web application development using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Worked with databases DB2, Oracle, ADABAS, MS-Access and SYBASE
• Experienced in Working with SQL stored procedures.
• Having good exposure in company’s quality process and methodologies.
• Good Business Acumen, Team player, Mentor, fast learner, Independent worker.
• Flexible to work at any capacity (Developer thru Project Management)
• Trained on and used SEI CMM Level 5, PCMM Level 5 certified development processes.
• Proficient in understanding new technologies, strong problem solving, troubleshooting skills, highly motivated and ability to work as an individual and also as a dynamic member in a team
• Exceptionally well organized, strong work ethics and willingness to work hard to achieve employer objectives

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MVS, Windows9X/NT

Environment: Mainframes

Database: DB2, DB2 Stored Procedures, Adabas, Oracle, SQL Server, MS-Access

Internet Tools: HTML, ASP

Languages: COBOL, JCL

Others: VSAM, CICS, Visual Basic 6.0, Power Builder, REXX, FILE-AID, Expeditor, Intertest, ENDEVOR, File-Aid for DB2, PVCS, Insync, Apptune, Strobe, Visual Basic 6.0, Power Builder, Systematics ALS, Easytrieve, PLI, RTZ and File Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Quincy, MA

Senior Developer / Tech lead

Environment: PL-I, COBOL, DB2, JCL, File Master, RTC, IBM-Debugger

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirement analysis, impact analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Prepared technical documents, flow charts, diagrams of work flow and test plans.
• Prepared low level design and file analysis programs for every application.
• Worked on largest applications, has thousands programs.
• Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
• Preparation of Technical Design, Test Plan and Test cases documents.
• Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Modified many COBOL, PLI, DB2 batch modules for converting the Datacom calls into Native SQL for better Performance
• Converted Many single Jobs into multithreaded jobs for better performance
• Involved in UAT and BUAT Support
• Responsible for coaching, and mentoring junior members in the team

Confidential

Tech Lead / Senior Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, File Master, Changeman and IBM-Debugger

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in all testing phases.
• Modified COBOL-DB2 programs and created test batch jobs.
• Used SPUFI to execute the test queries.
• All tested files verified the data by using FILE-Manager
• Created many GDGs to create daily/weekly/monthly versions.
• Resolved many JCL abends during batch job testing.
• Involved in Code Review & Test Review
• Converted few WEBFOCUS programs into COBOL-DB2 modules

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Environment: Cobol, CICS, VSAM, Eazytrieve, Intertest and Systematics-ALS

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Prepared and executed Conversion / File Fix JCL’s
• Prepared test plan and results for the fixed files
• Created extract and deletion programs using Eazytrieve
• Impact analysis of list of programs / Fields affected
• Attended training on SYSTEMATICS-ALS

Confidential

Team Lead

Environment: Cobol, CICS, Db2, Rexx, JCL, VSAM, Intertest, Changeman and DB2

Responsibilities:

• Impact analysis of the Existing COBOL-CICS-DB2 Programs
• Prepared CSD’s Document (Cobol Specification Document)
• Created wrapper modules using Cobol-CICS-MQ Series, which will act as in Interface between Web pages and Mainframe
• Prepared REXX tools for internal usage
• Allocating and reviewing of Task
• Preparing status Report on weekly Basis

Confidential

Sr. Developer / Team Lead

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, Changeman, Intertest

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in requirement analysis, impact analysis, low-level design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Prepared technical documents and test plans.
• Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
• Preparation of Technical Design, Test Plan and Test cases documents.
• Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Modified many COBOL-DB2 and COBOL-CICS-DB2-VSAM modules
• Created COBOL Conversion programs for Loading SMAC data into SECORE
• Involved in Code Review & Test Plan Review
• Prepared REXX Tools for Internal Usage

Confidential

Sr. Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, Smarttest, Panvalet, Ababas and Natural

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in analysis, low-level design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Prepared technical documents and test plans.
• Estimation, Activity planning, Project status tracking and reporting.
• Preparation of Technical Design, Test Plan and Test cases documents.
• Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Modified many COBOL-DB2 and COBOL-CICS-DB2 modules
• Involved in Code Review & Test Plan Review
• Responsible for Providing Solutions to the Issues that Arise on Production Batches

Confidential

Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, Power Builder, DB2 Stored Procedure

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Involved in analysis, low-level design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Prepared technical documents and test plans.
• Preparation of Technical Design, Test Plan and Test cases documents.
• Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Modified many Power Builder modules to call Cobol-DB2 Stored procedures instead of Sybase Stored procedures.

Confidential

Developer

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Changeman and Intertest

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, low-level design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Prepared technical documents and test plans.
• Involved in Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Coded COBOL-CICS-DB2 online programs that synchronizes the db2 data across different subsystems
• Coded COBOL-DB2 batch programs for housekeeping activities and reporting purposes.
• Involved in volume testing
• Tuning system performance when required