SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of Information Technology experience including Systems and Business Analysis, Software Quality Assurance, Change Management and Programming.
• Hands - on experience in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle, including Requirement Gathering, Design, Coding, Integration, Testing, production implementation and Subsequent support.
• Provided both production and development support for several Banking Insurance Utilities and HEALTHCARE applications.
• Having 6+ years of experience in banking domain and 4+ Experience in HealthCare Domain and Health Claims Processing.
• Developing requirements (business, functional and testing) for software development, and worked in both SDLC and OOD/OOAD methodologies.
• Data mapping and process flow analysis experience.
• Database analysis, design & maintenance experience.
• Extensive experience in developing scalable and reliable enterprise applications using Mainframe technologies like DB2,COBOL II,JCL,VSAM,CICS,IMS-DB and IMS-DC adhering to coding standards and finishing on time.
• Expertise in using Mainframe tools like CHANGEMAN,PANVALET,XPEDITER,JOB-TRAC, CA7, FILE AID,QMF,SPUFI,QMF,SAS,Eztrieve, DCLGEN,NDM,XCOM,TSO /ISPF,FILE MANAGER, BMCADM/BMCADMIN,INFOMAN,CONTROL-M and ENDEAVOR and worked in worked in Agile Scrum Team.
• Experience in writing Database Objects such as Tables, Indexes, Views and Cursors.
• Good working experience and knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and the scrum processes.
• Strong Project/technical leadership skills in the areas of mainframe applications and their maintenance projects with development, enhancements, migration and testing.
• Participated in weekly status meetings and contributed views in project proceedings with client team.
• Strong experience and co-ordination skills to lead onsite-offshore teams throughout all phases of development life cycle.
• Excellent communication skills, good organizational abilities, good leadership qualities and excellent problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframes: IBM Mainframe Z/OS, OS/390 and MVS/ESA, IBM-AIX

VS COBOL II, JCL, SQL: Access Method and Online Transaction Processing System(OLTP)

TSO/ISPF, QMF, SPUFI, JOBTRACK, CA: 7, INFOMAN, MANAGENOW, FILE - AID, CONTROLM, SAS,EZtrieve, TSO, BMCADM, SDF II, CEDF, CEMT, NDM, MFT, FTP Connect:Direct, MQ Series, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT, XPEDITER, IMS HALDB, MicroFocus

MSWord, Visio, MSExcel, MS: Outlook, WordPerfect and MS-PowerPoint, J2EE and .NET, Webservices Testing, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in CMS and CMSe Applications for Activating New Cards, BIN/PREFIX for Financial Instutions using CMS Functionality in setting various limitation and Authorization parameters.
• Responsible for coding and modification of programs using COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM in the Cardbase Management System.
• Involved in MAINFRAME Research for Contactless Cards/ VISA Paywave Cards Application for MSD, EMV CHIP Cards for Transaction Processing using Contactless POS/Readers using Near Field Communication Technology.
• Involved in CBGetHistListing Service Functionality in TRANSACTION HISTORY of Card Holder in CMS screens by displaying ARQC and CVM values. (Authroization ReQuest Cryptogram indiacator and CARD Validation Method ie., Online Siganture or Online encrypted PIN).
• Developed Test Scripts and test cases by analysing requirements and Functional Specifications and reviews.
• Involved in testing, capturing the test results by extracting LOG History and unloading the Account Information of the Card Holder.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB/DC, JCL, File master, INSYNC, Endevor, MQ Stream Tester.

Confidential, San Fransisco, CA

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in uploading CVS/CareMark PBM reports to BSC Drop Folder on a daily Basis which comes in mail and analysed and fixed the bugs in the report format by modifying source code programs.
• Responsible for coding and modification of programs using COBOL, DB2,JCL,VSAM and Assembler for any production issues in the Claims Processing System.
• Developed Test books ie., test cases by analysing requirements and anlysing source code of the programs and JCLs in FEP and EDI Applications of Planning System.
• Involved in supporting NDM Connect: Direct Wire release task on a monthly basis.
• Involved in Data Migration activities ie., from Mainframe databases to Open Systems compatible databases by extracting, formatting and Transmitting of data.
• Involved in testing, capturing the test results and Product test status reporting.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, File master, CA-7, Endevor.

Confidential

Test Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of Test Analyst and Onsite Coordinator.
• Responsible for Functional requirements/user stories analysis, Test design and review.
• Involved in business modelling ie., developing and review of use cases developed from User Stories/Epics for testing .
• Worked on Pronto Ph II to maintain the Requirements list for each release.
• Participated daily scrum meetings apart from involving in Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings with Product owner, Developement team and scum masters.
• Capturing the execution results and sharing the product status to the stake holders.
• Coordinated with Functional, Non Functional Testing Teams as a Lead.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, SQL Server, SPUFI, UML, ALM, FILE-AID,JERA, J2EE, Perfmon

Confidential

Test Analyst Lead

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of Test Analyst Lead and onsite coordinator
• Responsible for migration Test design and review f the test cases as per the business requirements.
• Involved in developing and review of test cases for testing to ensure accuracy in billing.
• Worked on DMS Application to migrate it to a new oracle based Tallyman online system for its billing system.
• Participated daily adhoc status meetings apart from involving in reviews and testing
• Capturing the execution results and sharing the product status to the stake holders.

Environment: DB2, SQL Server, SPUFI, ALM, JERA, MS Excel

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Sr Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in preparing the Functional Design documents(FDD) and Technical Design Documents (TDD) as per the Business Requirements Speications provided.
• Involved in development phase of the Projects and developed new programs from scratch or modified the programs and JCLs as per the requirements.
• Preparation of Technical Review documents according to the business specifications and attend the meetings with the Subject Matter Experts, Business people.
• Worked on the Cobol Coding, DB2,IBM MQ Websphere, VSAM, JCLs etc, from scratch.
• Worked on Data modeling and created DCLGEN before the execution of the DB2 programs.
• Involved in preparation of Unit and SystemTest Specifications, Testing and capturing the results.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, CICS,SDF2, IMS-DB, Expeditor, JCL, VSAM, File Aid, QMF, Assembler.

Confidential, Franklinlakes, NJ

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Meetings and preparing the requirement documents and as per the Business Requirements Speications and coordinated with Offshore team.
• Preparation of Technical Review documents according to the business specifications and attend the meetings with the Subject Matter Experts, Business people.
• Involved Coding of COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCLs etc, for the bug fixation.
• Involed in change management using ENDEVER in transferring the JCLs and Documents to Production by putting requests for the approvals from Change Management Leads.
• Involved in preparation of Unit and SystemTest Specifications and review of the same.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, ENDEVOR, CICS,SPUFI, JCL, VSAM, File Aid, QMF.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis of business requirements and preparing the Functional Design documents(FDD).
• Preparation of Technical Review documents according to the business specifications and attend the meetings with the Subject Matter Experts, Business people.
• Review of Cobol Coding, DB2,IBM MQ Websphere, VSAM, JCLs etc, for the module.
• Involved in preparation of Unit and SystemTest Specifications and review of the same.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, JCL, VSAM, File Aid, QMF, Assembler.

Confidential, Charlotte

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the business requirements and gathering the requirements.
• Involved in preparing Functional Requirement Specifications, and clarifications log
• Prepaing the detailed Technical Design Specifications for the enhancement and bug fixing.
• Translating technical requirements into programmed modules ie., Coding of new programs and handled changes to existing programs using Cobol DB2, VSAM, JCLs etc.
• Involved in preparation of Unit and SystemTest Specifications, Testing and capturing the results.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, SAS, Infoman, Manage now, Eztrieve and Changeman

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the Business or System requirements specifications, preparation of clarifications log.
• Involved in preparing Functional Requirement Specifications, detailed Technical Design Specifications.
• Translating technical requirements into programmed modules ie., Coding of new programs and handled changes to existing programs using Cobol DB2, VSAM, JCLs etc.
• Involved in preparation of Unit and SystemTest Specifications, Testing and capturing the results.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, CICS, SDF2, Expeditor, JCL, VSAM, File Aid, QMF.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support during integration testing for projects as well as documenting the installation and support processes for environments.
• Implemented program changes, prepared systems documentation and status reports as requested to development manager.
• Understands business requirements, proposes flexible solutions, and provides specifications and designs in support of application development.
• Promote best design and coding practices and provided technical guidance.
• Monitoring the Jobs through JOB-TRAC and fixation of abended jobs.
• Created a high level/detail level system designs specifications.
• Coordinated with the front end teams in regression testing the Applications.
• Documented the flow of Application programs.
• Worked on request requiring table changes in DB2.
• Performed impact analysis and prepared Impact document.
• Development of code as per the requirement.
• Development of COBOL and Db2 programs as per the requirement and implemented stored procedures.
• Involved in writing Database Objects such as Tables, Indexes, Stored Procedures, Views, User Defined Functions, and Cursors.
• Implementing changes in the production.
• Strong development skills in COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, IMS-DB, and ISPF.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Spufi, NDM, IMS-DB, TSO BMCADM, Infoman, Manage now, and Changeman

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with business clients, support the application and implement the process as per specifications provided.
• Responsible for coding new programs in COBOL, DB2, CICS and IMS-DB in batch and online mode for various Job Jar Activities for enhancement or maintenance or fixation of Production issues.
• Modified CICS screens to add new fields as part for Functional requirements.
• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Preparing technical design and technical requirement documents coordinated with DBA to make changes in DB2 Tables and for creation of IMS-DB PSB and PCB as per the requirements.
• Developing the code as per the requirements and perform Unit testing.
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Participated in project discussions and weekly status meetings of the project proceedings with the onsite team.
• Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system.
• Worked on requests aimed at updating various DB2 Tables.

Environment: JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, CICS,IMS-DB, Expeditor, Panvalet and File-Aid.