SUMMARY:

• Involved in all Meetings with Business Users to understand the Business Needs and independently handled the enhancements from design to implementation.
• Involved with business partner with BRD walkthrough during requirement phase
• Participated in BA walkthrough after requirements phase
• Prepared technical specifications doc which contains all impacted of codes COBOL, JCL & PROCs, COPYBOOKS, PARM members to be changed.
• Participated in preparing HLE and participated in discussion with various users
• Proven experience in various stages of software development life cycle (SDLC), includes requirement analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of software applications both at offshore and onsite locations.
• Experienced in creation of Test Plan and Test Cases from the Requirements documents
• Worked with QA for resolution of mission critical issues and smooth execution of User Acceptance Testing
• Good track record of timely delivery of critical projects
• Performed configuration manager role in the team.
• Involved in 24X7 On Call Support as a Primary and Secondary
• Experienced on Batch processing and Supporting Batch Cycle
• Participated in SLA meeting, dashboard meeting with client on regular basis
• Adept to effective delivery and systematic documentation
• Experienced in working in onshore - offshore model and teams located across different geographical locations.
• Good analytical, problem solving & presentation skills with the focus on customer needs
• Good Team player and involved various knowledge sharing session and intrapersonal activities with the team

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

More than 12 years of experience in many mainframe technologies. COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Endevor, DFSORT, Syncsort, Easytrieve, ZEKE, CA7, Fileaid, File Manager, Xpeditor, Debugtool, Abend aid, Dump Master, FTP, Micro Focus COBOL, UNIX, Mainframe Express, Python, MySQL, PL/SQL, R, Perl, Java.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Systems: Vantage, wmA, Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve, DFSORT, JAVA, XML, Debugtool, File manager, Fileaid, CA7, ZEKE, Mainframe Express

Responsibilities:

• Tracking operational activities in Test and Prod Environment
• Involved in developing of various projects and take a key part in implementation. Involved on various projects starting from the requirement analysis, estimate, coding and unit testing
• Involved in test data preparation for various projects
• Preparing deployment of projects and configure management. Performing the configure management activities in the project
• Participate in various knowledge sharing session with the team
• Taking part in business walkthrough with business analyst
• Monitoring SLA for online availability and batch cycle
• Analyzing code for issues, fixing bug, involved in root cause analysis
• Creating and delivering the adhoc reports based on user requirements
• Preparing project status report
• Involved in quality check and configuration management activities

Confidential, Kansas

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Systems: Vantage, wmA, Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve, DFSORT, JAVA, XML, Debugtool, File manager, Fileaid, CA7, ZEKE, Mainframe Express

Responsibilities:

• Interact with client on daily basis for requirement gathering
• Involved in batch cycle status meeting and dashboard meeting with client
• Played as coordinator between offshore and onsite team
• Analyzing batch cycle issue, root cause analysis, fixing bug
• Modifying programs in COBOL, VSAM, CICS, DB2 and JCL to resolve technical issues
• Involved in developing of various projects and take a key part in implementation. Involved on various projects starting from the requirement analysis, estimate, coding and unit testing
• Prepared deployment of projects and configuration management. Performed the configuration management activities in the project
• Mentor team members in the team and inducting new team members
• Creates various reports and gather test data
• Tracking all the activities of projects and provided Status to Application Manager

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Systems: Vantage, wmA, Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve, DFSORT, JAVA, XML, Debugtool, File manager, Fileaid, CA7, ZEKE, Mainframe Express

Responsibilities:

• Tracking operational activities in Test and Prod Environment
• Involved in developing of various projects and take a key part in implementation. Involved on various projects starting from the requirement analysis, estimate, coding and unit testing
• Involved in test data preparation for various projects
• Preparing deployment of projects and configure management. Performing the configure management activities in the project
• Participate in various knowledge sharing session with the team
• Taking part in business walkthrough with business analyst
• Monitoring SLA for online availability and batch cycle
• Analyzing code for issues, fixing bug, involved in root cause analysis
• Creating and delivering the adhoc reports based on user requirements
• Preparing project status report
• Involved in quality check and configuration management activities

Confidential

Senior Programmer/Analyst

Systems: Vantage, wmA, Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve, DFSORT, JAVA, XML, Debugtool, File manager, Fileaid, CA7, ZEKE, Mainframe Express

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the new requirements with business users
• Performing impact analysis and research for the new requirement
• Designing the functional flow and job flow diagram for the requirement
• Coding, Unit testing and production implementation of projects
• Preparing technical design doc that has specification all the impacted codes
• Preparing test environment and gathering test data
• Creating and delivering the adhoc reports based on user requirements
• Involved in data conversion and creating full data extract from system
• Involved in system testing, fixing many milestone issues with QA
• Involved in quality control and preparing migration plan

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Systems: Mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, Easytrieve, DFSORT, Xpeditor, Fileaid, UNIX, Shell script, Micro Focus

Responsibilities:

• Timely execution of each project and meets exceeding requirements and expectation of my managers and clients
• Primary task involves requirement analysis, estimate, coding and unit testing
• Prepared design doc using Microsoft Visio and converted COBOL and Easytrieve to Micro Focus COBOL, JCL to Shell script,
• Performed testing and compared reports from both systems, Analyzed differences
• Supported system test and fix the defect
• Groomed myself and helped team member in need