OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a job which will challenge me and allow me to use my education, skills and past experiences in a way that is mutually beneficial to both myself and my employer and allow for future growth and advancement.

PROFILE:

• 10 Years and 8 Months of enriched experience in IT industry, this comprises of working with Mainframe environment and working in Retail Sector and Banking and Financial Services (BFS) industry.
• Involved in every phases of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) for many development & enhancement projects throughout my IT carrier.
• Involved in primary production support activity on a regular basis for my application area.
• Have around 10 years and 8 months of experience in Mainframe Platform covering Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Quality Assurance, Delivery, Project Implementation and Production Support. I am proficient in core functionalities of Banking & Financial domain focused on Private Banking Information Systems.
• Have the ability to go for the extra mile to achieve the goal and Client’s satisfaction by rendering services that matters for the prosperity of the Client’s business.
• Dedicated and focused; able to prioritize and complete multiple tasks and follow through to achieve project goals.
• Innovative and adaptive; a creative problem - solver who rapidly adapts to changing demands.
• An excellent communicator and a team player; ability to work as an efficient team member with proper coordination.
• Received multiple appreciation & award from client for innovative approach in resolving problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, Ezytrieve, JCL, SQL, DB2 Stored Procedures, ISPF DTL

Databases: DB2

File System: PS, PDS, VSAM

OLTP: CICS

Systems: Mainframe (Z/OS), Ms-Dos, Windows

Tools: & Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SDSF, FileAid, FileAid-DB2, Changeman, Endevour, Xpeditor, AbendAid, ICETOOL, DFSORT, SDF-II, BMC tool for DB2, Mainview and MQ, CA-FILEMASTER, CA-LIBRAN, CA-PLATINAM, CA-7 Scheduler, Zeke Scheduler, HP Application Lifecycle Management, ManageNow, Clarity, TestDirecotr etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Assosiate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Perform reconciliation testing for the data that was converted from source to target and do annuitant level data analysis
• Create test scenarios and test cases for end to end functionality testing for specific tracks under conversion
• Plan and support in conversion of contracts as scheduled

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Primarily supporting the OMNI sub application Client Statement Rendering System product of OMNI. This application manages Statement settings, eligibility to prepare Statement, generate Statement and distribute to different platform, PDF Statement, E-statements, Statement Preference, Mutual Fund Confirm and advices, Head sheets and generate different reports to enable the business to identify issues and fix wherever applicable.
• Acquired Business Knowledge about complete processing in the Private Banking Information Systems. Involved in analyzing the day-to-day BAU requests and production issues involving - online and batch programs, PROC, JCL, DB2, Sybase components, control cards, copybooks, maps, parameter cards, impacted fields and their effects.
• Involved in Package creation & approval to move batch & online components to the production environment.
• Tracking each and every task on regular basis, Defect measurement, Defect tracking, Issue tracking.
• Maintaining necessary documents and deliverables.
• I have also been involved in general BAU (Business As Usual) activities like fulfilling business users request for developing and creating adhoc reports from the OMNI application.
• I am also involved in performance tuning activities to find and tune some long running jobs in production to be able to squeeze the night batch window.
• As part of Sysplex enablement for the OMNI application, a VSAM to DB2 conversion project has been started. I am part of that team leading DB2 query and stored-proc writing and tuning.
• Also one of the key members of the team to resolve real time production issue.

Technology Used: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, DFSORT, ZEKE, DIS

Confidential

Senior Developer / Module-Leader

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in all stages of SDLC starting from Requirement Gathering, Design, Development, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, assistance in UAT and Roll-Out activities.
• I prepared high level design and estimation along with stuffing plan for project.
• I delivered flawless technical specification, high level and low level design documents and detailed test plans.
• I executed tests for several modules and documented the results in Test Director, HP quality center to ensure the quality of the software.
• I implemented and promoted the change requests to production for number for projects and small enhancement tickets.
• I had supported the client systems and provided quick fix for production problems and did the root cause analysis of the problem to fix it permanently. I had proactively coordinated the conference call during major production incidents also Involved in daily/weekly status meeting with client.
• Guide junior team members in projects.
• Arrange Knowledge transfer sessions.
• Keep the AID (Application Information Document) for all the applications up to date.

Technology Used: Cobol, DB2, JCL, DFSORT, FTS Queue, DYL-280, WebSphere etc.