OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a good position in IT stream to utilize my skills and abilities that offers technical, professional and personal growth, where I can have a scope to shape my creative thinking, implement my innovative ideas while being resourceful and flexible.

PROFILE SUMMARY:

• 8 years of experience in mainframe applications of development, maintenance & production support projects with skillset COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, REXX, DTL, IMS with various mainframe tools.
• I have expertise in multiple functional areas like Healthcare, Banking & Insurance, my contribution to project is as a TEAM lead and responsibilities include analysis & design, development & deployment.
• I have created multiple reusable asset tools using REXX & DTL languages that result more savings to clients.
• Having 8 yrs of experience in Information Technology industry.
• Wide range of experience on Mainframe Technologies, which includes COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, REXX, DTL, CICS.
• Strong in using the tools like CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, ABEND - AID, FILE-AID, INFOMAN, CA7, INTERTEST, Eztrieve, QMF/SPUFI, BETA91 etc.
• Worked in Maintenance & Enhancement project as profile of engineer which includes Mainframe development and Testing.
• Highly motivated, committed & results oriented software professional.
• Enthusiastic to learn and ready to adapt new technologies.
• Good analytical, programming, problem solving and communication skills with accent on constructive teamwork.
• Hard work, determined, dedicated and duty minded working nature.
• Was able to give valid solution in the limited given time.
• Easily accommodated & relocated to new areas.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL, REXX, DTL and EGL.

Operating systems: WINDOWS 98/2000/XP, Z/OS, LINUX.

Database: DB2, VSAM, IMS, ORACLE 9i,10g

Tools: CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, CONNECT DIRECT, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, XPEDITOR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, DTL.

Tools: FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, ABEND-AID, INFOMAN, CA7 etc.

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Expert in providing 24/7 maintenance and continued support of application system, documentation and analysis, with strong knowledge and hands - on in a Mainframe and supporting tools.
• Closely worked with business stakeholders to understand business requirements to resolve/analyze the production issues
• Extensive Application standardization and process optimization performed reducing turn around time and effort and ensuring effective and efficient operations of the business area.
• Performed several remediation's for incidents to minimize the business impact.
• Strong experience and knowledge of Incident, Problem and change management process.
• Gathering the requirements from client and creating detail design documents
• Frequently setting of meetings with BSA, Design committee and users to explain the status of task and discussing the problems and solutions.
• HLR walkthrough with Business user and creation of HLD,DLD and involved in end to end SDLC process
• Preparation of Change log, Risk log, Issue log and Review log, Code Check list.
• Preparation of WSR and providing status to the Management on delivery.
• Coordinating with the team for Coding, Unit Testing, System Testing and UAT.
• Being complete responsible for delivering the quality deliverables, I have to communicate the clarifications or issues to the client to deliver the quality items within the given time lines.

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2.

Tools: FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, ABEND-AID, INFOMAN etc.

Team member

Responsibilities:

• Studying the WO’s and analyzing the requirements & specifications provided by the client.
• Analyzing the application program as per Business Requirement document & doing modifications and enhancements.
• Preparing JCL’s and making the changes to existing one’s as per requirements.
• Testing the modified programs for the required functionality and running jobs in Test regions.
• Debugging the Batch programs using Xpeditor.
• Interact with the onsite coordinator to complete the WO’s on schedule and ensuring timely deliveries of work.
• Doing self review and peer review.

Confidential

Team Member

Technologies: CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID,COBOL, JCL,

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the business requirements & specifications.
• Preparing test cases according to the business requirements.
• Coding and doing Unit testing and Integrated testing to check the stability of the coding and execution of the test cases.
• Doing self review and peer review.
• Doing QCT Reviews for other projects and prepare required delivery notes.
• Resolving ‘Service Request ‘and handling change requests in maintenance and enhancement environments where the turn around time is very less.
• Handling On calls and job Abends.

Confidential

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2.

Tools: FILE-AID, XPEDITOR etc.

Team member

Responsibilities:

• Coding and Unit testing of Chargeback.
• Involved in the peer reviews for many projects of our team.
• Reviewing the IR’s worked by the ASE’s for the above applications.
• Interacting with SME’s for the completion of IR’s and Projects.
• Analyzing and modifying the application program as per requests.
• Preparing JCL’s and making the changes to existing one’s as per requirements.
• Testing the modified programs for the required functionality and running jobs in Test regions.
• Updating the trackers like IR status tracker, Project tracker, leave tracker etc.
• Help new hires (ASE’s) to become productive.