SUMMARY:

• 15+ Years of IT professional experience with full project lifecycle development in Mainframe technologies, Requirements analysis, and Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, and production support of software applications.
• Experience in Analysis, Sizing, Design, build code, Reviews, Debugging, Testing and Deployment and Production Support.
• Experience in developing, implementing, and managing complex projects within time and budgetary constraints.
• Experience, with strong analytical skills and a broad range of Mainframe expertise
• Experience as a Business System Analyst with solid understanding of Business Requirements Gathering, Evaluating Data Sources, Translating Requirements into Specifications & Application Design
• Creating Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirements Specification (FRS), and technical requirement specification for application development.
• WritingCICS/COBOL/JCL programs for generating ad hoc reports and extracts for the businesspersons for important audits and for other business improvements purposes.
• Performed risk analysis of the requirements to identify the key business risks areas for the project and prioritized the application development and testing.
• Responsible for tracing project requirements to RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) for all functional and development teams
• Knowledge of end - to-end systems development life cycles (me.e., Water fall & Agile and other modern approaches to software development)
• Create batch/online programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS and IMS/DB
• Experience in Mainframe testing Involved and support of Unit testing, Shakedown testing, System integration (SIT), User acceptance (UAT), Regression testing Thorough understanding and hands-on experience working with sequential files, VSAM files, and DB2, IMS & SQL Server
• Experience in Documentation of High/Low level design documents and Functional specifications
• Experience in Stored procedures, SQL Queries and MQ series
• Hands on experience using version control tools like CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, Debugging tools IBM Debug, XPEDITER, Production tools like CA view, SAR, CA-7, CONTROL-M, and File Manager, FILE-AID, FA, SPUFI, QMF, ABENDAID, PLATINUMDB2Tools, TERADATA.
• Provide application software development services or technical support.
• Develop program logic for new applications oranalysedand modifies logic in existing applications.
• Meeting application SME/Technical Lead for business/Technical requirements
• Create High level Design documents or Technical specification documents.
• Prepare low level design documents based on functional specifications.
• Prepare SORT cards for data analysis that support requirements.
• Create Test Plan/Test case document for the developed code.
• Write one time/live programs to extract the data from IMS/DB2 data bases.
• Write several report programs using COBOL and flat files.
• Prepare Test/Production JCL for the program execution.
• Involve in various testing activities like requirements extraction, Test design, Test execution, Defect creation, defect tracking, Defect Closure, and test reporting.
• Works directly with SIT/UAT and Integration testing teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: IBM Mainframe MVS, z/OS, OS/390

Languages/Interface: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS/DC, Eazytrieve, File-Aid DB2/VSAM, File manager, Endevor, Tri-Tune, DB2, IBM Utilities, Fault Analyzer, SPUFI, SDSF, QMF, SFTP, FTP, and CA-7

Databases: SQL, DB2, IMS/DB

Protocols: FTP, NDM

Cloud Computing: Amazon Web Services

Services: CICS Web Services, MQ Series

Tools/Utilities: SYNCSORT, SPUFI, QMF, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, CONTROL-M, CA-7, Endevor, File-aid, TSO, ISPF, TERADATA, Fault Analyzer, Expeditor, Service now.

SDLC: Waterfall, Agile framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Assists in the development of implementation plans. Oversees the development and execution of training and user acceptance testing plans
• Providing assistance to IT staff in regards to Change Management policies and procedures
• System Requirement document creation
• Prepared details level design
• Code creation
• Analysis of inhouse web based data for cloud move.
• Support UAT team
• Perform recon of data between on premises and cloud.
• Conduct Data Quality check between data received Blackline Vendor and data residing on truist.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Mainframes Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement analysis, technical specification design and coding & unit testing.
• Interaction with business and product owners in agile process.
• Involved for writing some business logic of statement service.
• Involved in coding of COBOL, CICS, DB2,JCL, preparedUTP & UTR and testing Using DEBUG tool.
• Download CyberArk security Privileged Access forCOBOLMainframe Batch jobs.
• Coding programs using COBOL, VSAM, JCL and DB2 and Batch programs.
• Verify logs on CICS screens.
• Used ENDEVOR for version control and FILEAID for file management.
• Monitor the system test for all test regions and Loads fee loads, Rate loads & Drug loads in both test and production regions.
• Responsible for developing complex COBOL batch programs and implemented them using JobControl Language (JCL)
• WritingEasytrieve/COBOL/JCL programs for generating ad hoc reports and extracts.
• Configuring new Jobs required for this project and Job schedulingactivitiesinCA7scheduler.
• Made changes to online CICS maps for customers.
• Involved in impact analysis, iterative regression and main regression testing, Volume test and dummy runs for new and enhanced JCLs.
• Maintained, developed, tested, and implemented programs in COBOL,Easytrieveand CICS withVsamand DB2.
• Followed agile methodology as Kanban for Sprint planning and retrospective and sprint closures.
• Participated in the decommission of Online COBOL modules and convert them to batch processing.
• Streaming data into S3 bucket for AWS with Confidential standards defined by client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2,Easytrieve,VSAM, Tables/AS, CICS,Endeavor,TSO/ISPF, File-aid & Xpeditor, Z/OS, Tech TSO, File-Aid, CA-7, AWS, Splunk.

Confidential, Mc Lean, VA

Senior Mainframes Developer

Responsibilities:

• Transform complex business requirements into highly scalable technical solutions. This includes. Data modelling, creating new tables and/or modifying existing tables in database, making necessary backend changes.
• Create use cases, workflow,and conversionrequirements and develop high level (HLD) and lowlevel (LLD) design documents.
• Create program specifications and develop logical flowcharts.
• Creating mapping document equivalent VSAM data fields to DB2 fields.
• Conduct software analysis and develop well designed code using COBOL II, JCL (Job Control Language), DB2, VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method), REXX (Restructured Extended Executor),
• UNIX, CICS (database tables as per application needs in DB2 and Oracle.
• Once created DB2tables,extracting data from IDMS database to DB2 tables in testing environment for test the developing programs.
• Periodically deploying code to dev environment to integrate with other applications.
• Create TFS and Snow tickets to deploy code in Controlled environments like QA and Regression.
• Attend stabilization meetings after deployments to controlled environments.
• Reformatting involves various COBOL programs, VSAM and databases.
• Customer Information Control System), IBM Data Stage, SQL, and PL/SQL by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; contributing to team meetings; troubleshootingdevelopment and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms.

Environment:Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, SORT, MQ SERIES, FILE-AID, JIRA, PLATINUM DB2 Tools, CA-7, Service now.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Senior Mainframes Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted coordinated with the Design team, Business analyst and end users of the system.
• Defining and implementing technical solutions in Mainframe Technologies.
• Preparing root cause analyses for Clear quest ticket management for productions errors and defects.
• Using Mainframe, Web Services, MQ, SOA, SOAP UI, XML, Orchestration and SBI Layers, Request layout, and response layout for web applications.
• Debugging and error handling online transactions and bath programs and conducting code reviews and capture test results.
• Supporting Unit testing, shake down testing, System integration (SIT), User acceptance (UAT), Regression testing and Business checkout.
• Participating in Project Release coordination working with business analysts and different development teams.
• Converting business requirements to business technical requirements.
• Analysed the requirements.
• Coded in accordance with the requirements.
• Performed the Point-of-Sale testing in the Lab.
• Supported Production deployment.
• Provided post-production support and reporting.
• Handled 24/7 production tickets.
• Analysed the production defects and fixing based on ticket priority (P1 P2 P3).
• Performed Quick fix resolution which includes Analysis of code, Coding and Unit Testing and rapid deployment into production.
• Prepared the job schedule and maintained production logs during the nightly batch process phase.
• Provided fast transition of production status to the new shift workers before leaving for the day.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CA-7

Confidential

Mainframes Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysed, Coded and Unit Tested for Various Enhancement tasks and Bug-fixes of Programs in the current application as per the technical specifications.
• Prepared test plan, test data, test procedures and test logs during the whole testing phase.
• Provided Direct Client interactions and co-ordination with offshore teams for various client specific tasks and maintenance.
• Transitioned knowledge to new team members joining the project.
• Set up various Jobs in CA-7 scheduler.
• Generated various ad hoc and critical reports as required by the business users.
• Develop files Batch processing and develop Online screens.
• Monitored the overnight batch streams, reporting jobs, and utility jobs in WINS.
• Provided complete UAT support during UAT testing and pre deployment.
• Tracking logs using OMEGAMON in production region.
• Understood Business Process and gathered knowledge on Remedial side from Client at onsite and transitioning knowledge to other offshore team members.
• Prepared the detail design.
• Performed Coding and Unit Testing for Various Enhancement tasks and Bug-fix of Programs in the current application as per the technical specifications.
• Conducted walkthroughs on all deliverables such as detailed design, code, implementation plan and deployment procedures.

Environment: VAX VMS, COBOL