SUMMARY:

• Over 20 +years of experience in all areas of SDLC(software development cycle) with Confidential 500 companies
• Leading groups of 20 - 30 developers, testers, Business Analysts for delivering IT projects ranging from $5-10M.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MVS, Windows XP/2000/NT

Hardware Platforms: IBM-S390, IBM-ES9000, HP-3000

Languages: JSCRIPT, VBSCRIPT, ASP, JSP, DHTML, Java, J2EE technology COBOL II, COBOL 85, VB 6.0/5.0 RDBMS DB2, Oracle 9x/8x, Oracle PL/SQL, MSSQL, MS-Access, Teradata

Pega Related Tools: PRPC 6.x, 5.x, PegaWorks, Java, IAC, Knowledge of EJB, XML, SOAP, Web services Pega Framework CPMHC, CPM, ISPM,GSPM, TMF, PMF

NonPega Rules: MS Project, CA-7, VSAM, JCL, SUPRTOOL, QEDIT, VSS

Testing Tools: ALM, Rally, JIRA, Test Director 8.0

Cloud Platforms: Pega 5.x, 6.x, 7.x/PRPC, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing the enterprise class structure ( Confidential ), High level design, reviewing technical specifications, coding and merging of developed code
• Leading 5 scrums teams- total 25 developers
• Working with solution architects and enterprise architects to drive re-usability, orchestration, pushing UIX standards etc.
• Leading an entire Transformation initiative from Oracle 11 to Pega 7.2.1using CSHC, PegaHC, Care management frameworks.

Confidential

Technical Architect/Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing Confidential (Solution Summary document) and delivering other architectural/design documents for Cloud Applications developed in Pega Java technology and ASP.net technology
• Working with Business Analysts and Business owners to understand the requirements and identify gaps in expectations and what’s needed.
• Working with Developers, DBA’s and infrastructure to provide software and hardware solutions for clients.
• Hands on developing Pega solutions- UI expert, Integration, Activities, Connect-sql rules, Connect-MQ rules etc.
• Facilitate and participate in software solution development sessions - Confidential (Solution summary documents) and PRD discussions
• Responsible for adherence to enterprise architecture, established technology standards, frameworks and roadmaps
• Promoting reusability across different segments
• Responsible for sizing Pega applications, capacity planning, infrastructure planning and additions in relation to Performance.

Confidential

Pega architect and lead

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the capacity of Lead System Architect for developing Contact Center for Confidential
• Worked in the capacity of Lead Business Architect for the Service Gold Replacement Project for developing Contact Center for Confidential
• Developed use cases and process flows utilizing DCO tool in PRPC,
• Leading Inception & Elaboration sessions with business users, developers and system analysts
• Developed Proof Of Concept for PUMA Templates,
• Verifying Pega’s capability to integrate seamlessly with external systems using IAC (Internet Application Composer).
• Developed use cases and process flows utilizing DCO tool in PRPC,
• Leading Inception & Elaboration sessions with business users, developers and system analysts

Confidential

Lead System Architect/Project Manager

Technology: PRPC 5.5, TeraData(for current HAP 1.0), Oracle(for HAP 2.0),CPMHC framework

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 5 consultants at onsite and 5 IBM offshore team members from Project Delivery perspective: total team of 10 developers
• Responsible starting from requirements gathering to design and development and final delivery, bug fixing, product handover hand’s on experience in writing activities, connect-sqls’, connect-http rules,workflows wide usage of CPMHC framework e.g. Interaction Drivers, Interaction Gadgets, Service Intent work objects.
• Design and development lead for designing the 360 UI experience for CSR’s and Pharmacists at Confidential resolving issues related to usage of JDBC connections against soap services to get the data from external systems resolving challenges faced with localization tool, since this entire project was developed for Confidential ’s German counterpart, hence all UI, when rules, had to translated to Deutsche language
• Involved in designing the logical model and the physical model for HAP data store, which is the backend of this system
• Core responsibilities included leading initiatives in designing the 360 User Interface (CSR portal/ Pharmacist Portal), and Interaction Outbound Call functionality.

Confidential

Lead System Architect

Technology: PRPC 5.4/5.5, Java, IAC, TMF, PMF

Responsibilities:

• Working in the capacity of BSA/QA lead specifically overseeing UAT & E2E testing releases in Deutsche Bank for their Investment Banking portal i.e. GRCM application, which in turn is linked to 5 other applications.
• Responsibilities as BSA lead:
• Working with research analysts to translate business requirements into functional specifications(BA Role)
• Working with HCL development group to troubleshoot bugs at requirement level or coding level
• Responsibilities as QA Lead
• Development of a complete regression test suite.
• Coordinate and guide an 21 member offshore and onshore team for test case execution.
• Ensuring smooth releases of GRCM application for before every earnings season and testing the integration of GRCM with rest of the upstream and downstream applications.
• GRCM is a critical piece of application for Equities and Fixed Income Research Analysts and helps DB to automate their work from compliance and distribution perspective.
• Created and maintained the following documents as part of Test Management role.
• QA & E2E Project Plan - tracked daily.
• QA, E2E and UAT test cases and coverage reports.
• Coordinating with individual application managers for setting up of E2E Test Environments.
• E2E test data matrix.
• Peer reviews and sign offs on requirements, use cases, context diagrams.

Confidential

End to End test manager

Technology: Project Management tools, Test Director 8.0, Quick Tip Professional

Responsibilities:

• Defect tracking, test case management for End to End projects.
• Follow up on test case progress with Application owners and Leads, participating in end to end efforts and create reporting metrics for Senior Management of Confidential .
• End to end testing encompasses validation of all impacted application interfaces (could be up to 35 apps at a time). It mainly involved testing of end to end business processes and all associated business triggers of the application.
• The End to End Test Team was responsible for leveraging functional test assets to create
• Master Scope Grid, Scope Grid Assessment.
• E2E QA Project Plan - tracked daily.
• E2E test cases and coverage reports.
• E2E Test Environments.
• E2E test data matrix.
• Daily E2E defect reporting and tracking using Test Director.
• Status reporting using QA Dashboard.
• Peer reviews and sign offs on requirements, use cases, context diagrams, functional and E2E test plans.
• In addition to begin End to End test co-coordinator, I also played the role of Production support head & Change Management Head for CIF (Customer Information file) development project. Initial engagement involved the role of Change Control Manager making sure every fix and releases are done in an orderly fashion.

Confidential, New York

Technology: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CA-7

Technical Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Design & Development-workflow architect of the entire project and was the onshore Project Lead.
• Involved in different phases of unit testing, regression testing, system testing for the entire project life cycle,
• Maintaining weekly status reports & project plans