SUMMARY:

• 9+ years of IT experience with Application Development, Maintenance, Production support in Mainframe Platform.
• Expertise in design, development and implementation of Web services around Mainframe systems.
• Proficient in Service Orient Architecture.
• Proven expertise in working as Onsite Tech Lead, Offshore Tech Lead and Team Member.
• Conversant with all phases of software development life cycle involving Requirement Analysis and Specifications, Architecture/Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, Support, Enhancements, Documentation & Configuration Management.
• Excellent leadership, communication, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Project delivery under stringent timelines. Estimation, Process Management, Metrics Collection and Project Status Reporting.
• 1+ year of SAP experience in ABAP/4 with functional area of Finance Accounting.
• Expertise in ABAP/4 Technical areas includes design, development and debugging of ABAP Programs, Reports (Classical, Interactive and ALV Reports).
• Data Mapping and Conversions with migration tool LSMW, Batch Data Communication (BDC) using Call Transaction and Batch input methods.
• Experienced in Customizing and modifying layout sets in SAP script.
• Knowledge in BAPI'S, BADI'S and Smart forms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mainframe: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve & Web Services JAVA, HTML, XML

Database: DB2, SQL, IDMS

Middleware: MQ series, SFTP

Operating systems: Z/OS, Windows XP

Development/Testing Tools: SOAP, File - aid, Abend-aid, Expeditor, Endevor, Changeman, DB2 File Aid, SPUFI, QMF, DMLO, OLQ, Datapower tester, Zeke Scheduler, ESP, Postman

Process Tools: IBM Clearcase, IBM Clearquest, Service Center, Planview, WEEM (Estimation)

SAP: ABAP/4

Data Dictionary: Tables, Views, Structures & Search Helps

Reports: Classical, Interactive & ALV

Data Conversions: LSMW, Batch Data Communication (BDC) using Call Transaction and Batch input methods.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved right from the requirement gathering phase of a project through the design, coding, testing and until the implementation and warranty support of Major projects in the HMO Enrollment (HMOE) application.
• Served as a Technical specialist/Subject Matter Expert providing expertise and guidance for the development and maintenance of HMOE application; Has strong knowledge of the application and business line that includes member enrollment (HMO, Medicare, Medicaid, etc), Plans, Groups, PCP selection, Billing, ID card creation process, various letter generation processes, Online & Batch transactions.
• Worked on major enhancements to the application involving various new Confidential Healthcare reform product creation like Network Neighborhood plans, Vitalidad Plus products, Low-Income-Subsidy Member and change letter creation process and more.
• Highly skilled in written & oral communication to conduct meetings and other oral presentations; Directly interact with the clients, technical SMEs, business analysts and architects during the requirement gathering phase, design review and architectural discussions.
• Good knowledge of the Enterprise Architecture (EA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) technology & Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts; worked and implemented many Web Services based projects to integrate HMOE data (member information) with the web based Confidential Strategic Desktop (ASD) application.
• Involved in the creation and review of the Web Service Handbook - This includes all the details related to building a new Web Service to integrate mainframe data with the web.
• Possess strong ability to analyze and dissect functional requirements to create quality complex test cases, including negative test cases; Identify as many defects as possible to produce a quality product; Open, evaluate and retest defects in a timely manner.
• Attend the Member Domain Triage/other triage meetings during the QA testing support phase and report the status of any defects with details/ETA of fix and other related details.
• Point of contact for updating testing strategy, setting up data, environment in the Dev & QA regions, work with cross-functional team members to provide them with test schedules, test data and detailed test scripts on assigned projects.
• Is a part of the HMO Enrollment Baseline (Production Support) team; working on day-to-day activities, on call support, job cycle issues/Abends, IM tickets, adhoc report creation and also worked on Service request changes.
• Created and reviewed most of the project enhancement estimations with the onsite/offshore team, AD (Application Development) management and technical SMEs.
• Worked as an Install release coordinator - coordinating multiple & complex project implementation at the same time for a release to Production.
• Created and presented AD weekly dashboard, Level 1 and Level 2 project status report to the Confidential and Vendor management on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Created Project/Contract Amendment documents as part of Vendor management process activity and also take care of timesheet submission in the Plan view.
• Organized a well-prepared knowledge transition sessions to the new members of the team on the healthcare domain and application. Created a repository of all the supporting documents that are a part of KT.
• Faced the Confidential audits and Confidential quality audits with no/less findings.
• Worked with Guidewire technical team on an existing Mainframe Insurance application, assisted them in writing technical specifications for data extracts and building the Guidewire application.
• Was also involved in creating data mapping requirements and performed data analysis to validate the business requirements.
• Developed SOAP Automation tool using Groovy script to run multiple requests at once and record responses for testing Web services quickly and efficiently.

Confidential

Technical ABAP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Transferred data from legacy systems to SAP R/3 using Batch Data Communications.
• Developed Classical reports and ALV reports to create and download the Purchase Info record information on specific material and vendor.
• Developed BDC programs to upload the Vendor master data & Customer Master data from legacy system to SAP R/3 using flat file.
• Conceptual knowledge in ALE interfaces and Confidential 'S, Configured Partner profiles, Ports, Logical systems and RFC destinations.
• Extensive knowledge on Configuration of Finance Accounting areas like General Ledger (GL), Account Payable & Account Receivable (AP&AR), Bank accounts, Tax and others.
• Configuration of the General Ledger module - Defining Chart of Accounts, Account groups.
• Created General ledger master data of various B/S and P&L accounts both at chart of accounts level and company code level.
• Configuration of Account Receivable and Account Payable modules and the various Payment techniques like Incoming, Outgoing, Down Payment, Payment Fast Entry, bill of exchange, Automatic Payments.
• Creation of Customer/Vendor Accounts Groups, Number Ranges, and Customer/ Vendor Masters Creation.
• Configuration of terms of payments for Customers/Vendors.