SUMMARY

• Around 10+ Years of IT experience in Design, Development, Maintenance, Enhancements,Production Support, Conversion Troubleshooting of IBM Mainframe Applications.
• Strong problem solving & analytical skills with the flexibility to work cohesively as part of a multidisciplinary team, complimenting the skills of others.
• Have a working experience of MAINTENANCE project for 4 years.
• Have a working experience of PRODUCTIONSUPPORT project for more than 2 years
• Expertise in Mainframe Technologies especially UNISYS Mainframe and other like COBOL, ECL, DMS,DPS,TIP, RDMS &Mapper.
• Expertise in COBOL, SAS, WFL,CANDE,ERGO,DB2, CICS, JCL, PL/1, REXX, VSAM, IMS/DB, IMS/DC .
• Expertise with full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and documentation including requirements gathering, analyzing the project requirements, analyzing the existing systems, Detailed Designing, Writing of Global Design Documents, Functional Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, Development, Testing of the applications and Documentation of Applications Software
• Excellent knowledge in Regression Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Production Implementation and maintenance of mainframe applications. Support activities on Integration Testing and UAT.
• Experienced in code implementation in staging environments and maintenance and Production implementation and post implementation support
• Good understanding and practice of Quality Assurance Processes. Acquired knowledge through the Defect Prevention activities, Quality Control(ISO 9001, CMM), Configuration Control, Coding Standards, Maintenance standards etc.
• Proficient in IBM utilities and Tools like IBM SAFR, CNTL - M, RMS, XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, CA-INTERTEST, ABEND-AID, PANVALET, SYNC SORT, FILEAID FOR DB2, PLATINUM FOR DB2
• Expertise in creating Unit Test plans, Integration Test Plans, System Test Plans and Executing the test cases, documenting test cases and test results in HP ALM, Tracking the defects, Prioritizing the defects using HP ALM and Fixing of the defects
• Knowledge in job Scheduling, Performance Tuning, Normalization/De-normalization concepts, database design methodology.
• Excellent Organizational, Analytical, Teamwork skills along with good communication and interpersonal skills, Very good team player, Ability to handle tasks independently.
• Strong domain knowledge on Insurance, Financial Services and Banking, worked on Auto Insurance, Homeowners Insurance, Consumer Loans and Transportation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• ENVIRONMENT/OS: UNISYS Mainframe OS 2200 (UNISYS),CHANGEMAN,XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR
• Databases: SQL SERVER 2005,2008AND 2010,Syabase, Oracle, MS Access, Mainframe,DB2, SQL, PL/SQL,DMS 1100, RDMS
• Languages: C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, VB.NET, C++, AJAX, XML andWeb Services. C++, Java, .Ne 4.0.4.5, COBOL,XGEN, MVC5.0,COBOL 85, ECL, DPS, TIP
• GUIs: Facets 5.0.1/4.8.1/4.71/4.51/4.31, PAGA, Sales Force
• Operating Systems: Unisys Mainframe, IBM Mainframe, Windows, Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris
• Packages: MS Office, MS Project, Lotus notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, Lansing

Responsibilities:

• Design, development, unit testing, supporting system testing, resolving production issues and post production support of mainframe host batch / online processing of integrated customer platform applications using COBOL, SAS, JCL, CICS, DB2, XML, Java, Web service, MQ
• Participate in the meetings with Business users to gather business requirements,discussing about the pending requirements and set the priorities for the requirements
• Involved in design, coding and testing of COBOL/DB2 Stored Procedures
• Prepare / modify JCLs and PROCs for special requirements i.e. data fixes, deletion of data based on retention date.
• Participated in Code walkthroughs and test case review meetings
• Attending the weekly status meetings for project status updates
• Supporting production batch cycle to solve any abend during the batch cycle and making sure that the online are up for Business users as per the SLA
• Analyzed the DC 2/3 online and batch applications, Prepared the High Level Design Documents, Component Specifications, Developed and tested the changes and documented the test cases and test cases results and conducted the reviews using the COBOL, SAS,WFL,CANDE,DMSINQUIRY,ERGO, JCL, DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS/DC,
• Wrote unit test plans, integration test plans
• Responsible for coding and implementation of Auto flow charts.
• Used the Service Management tool HP Service Manager to support Incident,Problem, Change, Configuration and service level management processes
• Extensive experience in high volume of mainframe coding, testing in mainframe environments like COBOL,XGEN,JCL, CICS, IMS - DB, IMS-DC, SPUFI, DB2, TSO/ISPF, EASYTREIVE, Control performance tuning, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Worked in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Participated in Identifying poor performing SQL queries mainly to 24*7 batch processing jobs by getting the STROBE statistics of DB2 queries and improved the performance of the long running DB2 queries

Environment : MVS, COBOL, SAS,CANDE,WFL, CICS, JCL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, SPUFI, QMF, SUPER C, SDSF, IDCAMS, VISIO, SERVICE MANAGER, FILENET, Control M.MQ Series, JAVA, WEB SERVICES

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, BUFFALO,NY

Responsibilities:

• Support the Check - Write batch process and monitor the CheckWrite Batch Job s through Control-M.
• Fixing the production related abends within the time severity.
• Performed Analysis, design, developing, Testing & Implementation to support Mainframe system.
• Work on Change Request (code changes) by following the software development life cycle right from the analysis, coding and testing till production deployment.
• Modified existing components using COBOL, & IMS DB as per business requirements.
• Coordinating the requirement/technical clarifications from the team by communicating to business development team or with SME s
• Solve production related problems/issues for these applications
• Significantly contributed in code reviews, peer reviews test plans and test results, which are developed by me and the team.
• Worked closely with team for planning, scheduling and executing tests in the system test environment.
• Developed detailed test plan, Risk analysis document. Created test cases, testing jobs and executed them. Created reports for analysis of results of unit testing and integration testing.

Environment : COBOL,CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, WFL,CANDE,SPUFI, SDSF, MS-EXEL, MS-WORD, FILEAID, MVS, FILE-AID, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, TSO/ISPF, SAR, STORED PROCEDURES,

Mainframe Developer

Confidential - Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the requirements from the Business partner to design, develop, maintain and enhance the Treasury Services Billing((TSB) application.
• Developing new COBOL - DB2 programs, JCL and other components based on the Technical Design Document.
• Understanding of business requirements to develop High level and low-level designs.
• Conducting High Level and Low level design walkthrough/review via meeting and presentations of proposed implementation.
• Develop Technical Design Document based on Low Level Design Document.
• Create new modules and enhance the existing programs as per the business requirements and the Technical design document within the stipulated time lines.
• Conducting Code walkthrough/review via meeting and presentations.
• Managing the artifact versions through Configuration Management tool- CHANGEMAN.
• Do unit testing and document the unit test results. Prepare System Integration Test(SIT) Scripts. Use ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) software to create and manage test scripts.
• Schedule and monitor the batch jobs through test Scheduler(Zeke). This activity is part of System Integration Testing(SIT). Fix any abend in SIT phase.
• Repeat the batch job execution for User Acceptance testing(UAT)and provides the results to user for validation. Get sign off from user for change implementation.
• Played role of a release manager in application deployment, managing the work allocation, assessments, reviews, documentation and release plans, coordination for successful release and deployment of the application.
• Extensive experience in high volume of mainframe coding, testing in mainframe environmentslike COBOL,SAS,WFL,CANDE,DMSINQUIRY,ERGO, JCL, DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS/DC Control performance tuning, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Building the knowledge repository document for each project requirements. This is to support the business users and production Support team.
• Regular meetings with Project Manager to discuss and update the work progress.

Environment : COBOL,CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, WFL,CANDE,SPUFI, SDSF, MS-EXEL, MS-WORD, FILEAID, MVS, FILE-AID, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, TSO/ISPF, SAR, STORED PROCEDURES