SUMMARY

• 9+ years in Software Development on Mainframes and related technologies with expertise in COBOL, CICS, PL1, JCL, DB2, VSAM.
• 2+ years in leading teams in onshore/offshore cross - cultural/geographical setup.
• 4+ years in developing software for Banking and Financial Services Industry.
• 5+ years in developing software for Insurance, Retail, Healthcare & Manufacturing Industries.
• Excellent knowledge in working with DB2,VSAM Databases for both Batch and Online processing
• Very good exposure in working at CHANGEMAN and ENDEVOR version control tools
• Extensive knowledge in SQL
• Expertise in querying through SPUFI and QMF
• Strong knowledge in TSO ISPF
• Expertise in working with File-aid and File Manager for Browsing a Data File, Allocating a VSAM cluster, Editing, comparing, scanning and updating datasets, reformatting, extracting selected subset of records, Cross reference facility
• Very good knowledge in MQ series Messaging services in implementation Service Oriented Architecture(SOA) in a Distributed system and WebSerivces
• Extensive knowledge in Java programming
• Excellent work exposure in IBM utilities such as IDCAMS, SYNCSORT,ICETOOL,IEBGENER, IEBCOPY,FTP and lots of Productive tools creation using REXX
• Excellent knowledge in debugging tools like XPEDITER,IBM Debugger and INTERTEST tools
• Good knowledge REMEDY,SM7,PEREGRINE,LOTUS NOTES IT Management tools
• Strong knowledge and working experience with the various mainframe schedulers OPC, Control-M, Zeke and ESP etc.
• Knowledge and exposure to CMMI, Project Management practices and Six Sigma quality control.
• Knowledge and exposure to ITIL Frame work - Incident, Problem, Change and Configuration Management etc
• Proven excellence in ability to learn new things and made recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code
• Extensively Involved in QC and QA activities
• Excellent experience in Water Fall and Agile Models
• Exposure working in US and international locations such UK, Italy and India

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Application Languages: COBOL, CICS, PL1, JAVA, JCL, SQL

Databases/File Systems: DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM,DATACOM

ToolsFile-aid: , File Manager, SAR, Abend-aid, Intertest, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF, SORT

Schedulers: ZEKE, OPC, CA7, ESP, Control-M

O/SMVS: , Unix/Linux, Windows

Business Domains: Manufacturing, Health Care, Banking & Finance and Insurance

Certifications: INS 101/102, Banking 101/102, ITIL Framework, Excel Macros

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, OH

Sr. Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote brand new COBOL batch programs and modified existing programs for Confidential ’s Personal Lines Core Policy Processing Application.
• Involved in full cycle SDLC - From Requirements Analysis through Deployment to Production.
• Monitoring daily 6 cycles and fixes and On-Call Production Support.
• Debugging the Batch/Online programs using IBM Debugger.
• Maintaining / Developing the back-end CICS screens
• Running the Mini-cycles for testing and Parallels before production moment.
• Worked/Coordinated with Business and Quality Assurance groups on day-to-day product developmental activities.
• Planning, scheduling and working with offshore teams
• Coordination with Changeman Team for the package approvals, deployment
• Developing the one off reporting programs based on the business requirements
• Working on the Redesigning phase of the legacy systems
• ITSM ticket management activities

Environment/Technologies: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Java, MQSeries, UNIX, ITSM, Changeman, IBM Debugger, File-Manager, Zeke

Confidential, IL

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Receive the daily ADHOC requests through Microsoft outlook from the business users/customers - Acknowledging and working on it
• Receive change requests trough SAFE tool, Preparation of BRD (Business Requirement Document) and getting the approval from Business users.
• Preparation of TDD (Technical Design Document)
• Code changes for COBOL, Eztrieve, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, DB2, JCL, CICS programs based on the requirement in TSO/ISPF environment being the ENDEVOR as the version control tool
• Development DB2 Stored procedure programs using COBOL
• Involved in Peer Review and Testing UAT CPR(code promotion request)
• Involved in UAT approval, PROD CPR, Board approval and PROD Migration
• Majority times ADHOC business requests are the queries on the existing Batch/Online systems - Analyzing the code using the XPEDITOR
• ADHOC requests for reports - generating reports using/coding the Eztrieve programming
• SAFE is like common database/tool where all the Change Requests are raised, tracked and updated with the status.

Environment/Technologies: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, ITSM, Endevor, File-Aid, Xpeditor, ESP

Confidential, CA

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Daily System Health Check for all the TSO/ISPF environments and AWD(Automatic Work Distribution) system by logging into remote machines
• Monitoring scheduled JCL Jobs and Fixing the issues in case any - usually data issues SOC7,SOC4,SB37,SOCB,SOC1 and DB2 issues -811,-805,-818,-803,ASRA abends in CICS,22,23,35,42,97 in VSAM,U0778,U0456,AC,AK,AD in IMS DB etc
• TSO/ISPF as the environment and LIBRARIAN as the version control tool in this project
• Collect project requirements through Remedy Database - acknowledging and attending CAB (Central Approval Board) meetings
• Comparing the daily reports in the Mainframe environment using the File-Aid as well as using the Excel Macros - Creating JCL’s and writing Excel Macros as needed
• Reporting back to the business and IT on the volumes of claims created, reasons on holding them, number of claims as category wise etc. - statistics will be taken by creating the reports using SPUFI/QMF SQL queries
• Analyzing the code using the XPEDITER for business reporting purpose
• Preparing the test data for various scenarios for the business analysis using the File-aid
• Creating test scripts and test cases from the User stories, Epics and functional specifications
• Review the test plans & test cases loaded into Rational Quality Management IBM tool
• Monitoring and updating the QC(Quality Centre) tool for any defects
• Provided feedback after review on requirements, design, and scope documents and participate in Scrums and represent in Scrum of Scrums
• Using Rational Quality Manager for creating test scripts, test cases, traceability matrix and reporting
• Responsible for updating and maintaining the Rational Team Concert (RTC) defects found during User Functional Test and Regression test
• Communicate with UAT and SQA testers
• Enter Stories, task and number of hours in RTC for each 2 weeks sprint and track them every day
• At the end of the sprint create reports based on the work completion and present to the client
• Work in Agile Environment

Environment/Technologies: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Endevor, File-Aid, Xpeditor, QC, OPC

Confidential, KY

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Receive the AR (application requests) through the Lotus Notes database - Responsible right from Acknowledging, preparing the HLTD (High Level Technical Design) Document till the Production Migration and working in the warranty period of the post production
• TSO/ISPF is the mainframe environment and ENDEVOR as version control tool and application languages as COBOL,PL1,EZTRIEVE,IMS DB/DC,DB2,CICS and JCL used in this project and has the total 4 environments present - TEST,CYCLE, UAT and PROD – each stage has its own movement approvals and procedures
• Monitoring the Remedy for any defects and updating the timely status – debugging tools used here XPEDITER/INTERTEST for both Batch & Online issues
• Several Interfaces to this Order Management Application – conducts quarterly DR tests and week/month/year end support
• ADHOC requests from the user for the data based on various business scenarios – retrieving the data using DFSORT/ICETOOL straight forward and simple scenarios or also writing the Eztrieve program as needed

Environment/Technologies: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, PL1, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, MQ Series, File-Aid, INTERTEST, Clear Quest, Control-M

Confidential, Petroleum, IL

Developer

Responsibilities:

• End users directly log their issues through help desk they comes to IT through Remedy/SM7 Databases – based on user issues - analyzing & fixing the code in COBOL, PL1,Poswer Builder – Majority of the issues raised by users would be DB issues – query the DB for the required and updating accordingly
• ITIL framework methodology is used here for monitoring and controlling the issues inflow
• 24X7 On-call Production Support
• Updating PRIMUS scripts for the end users for their ease of use and this helps them as a FAQ
• Working on Application Change Requests, documentation, code changes, testing and production movement activities
• Running the parallels for both TEST and PROD versions in the test environment for the comparison of the results before the PROD movement as a practice for all the Application Change Requests

Environment/Technologies: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, PL1, CICS, JCL, VSAM, PowerBuilder, DB2, Endevor, File-Aid, IBM Debugger

Confidential, UK

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Attending the Customer Training on the application, preparation of SMTD(System Maintenance and Technical Design) Document, Playback and off-shoring from London,UK
• Working on Sev 1 & 2 tickets and 24/7 support from onshore
• Working on OLTP(Online Transaction Processing) project which is the most critical projects in Confidential banking business
• Working and enhancement requests and code changes in COBOL/PL1
• Designing and coding the CICS screen for Confidential work orders
• Involved in resolving CICS online errors in Production and Test environments
• Analyzing the code in COBOL-DB2,PLI-IMS and Assembler programs based on requests from users
• Onsite-Offshore Coordination

Environment/Technologies: TSO/ISPF, COBOL, PL1, Assembler, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Endevor, File-Aid, IBM Debugger

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Change requests and perform code changes and testing.
• Deploy code to QA and Production environments.
• Provide on-call production support.
• Interacting and coordinating with a 5 member offshore development team.