SUMMARY

• Highly successful IT Professional with 11plus years of expertise in software industry primarily in Mainframe application programming. Played major roles as Business Systems Analyst, Technical Lead, Senior Systems Analyst, and Senior Software developer. . Currently performing a role of Associate Consultant.
• Experienced Confidential analyzing clients' business needs and helping to achieve goals through quality deliverable in cost effective manner
• Experience in developing, implementing, and managing complex projects within time and budgetary constraints
• More than six years of Tech lead experience, with strong analytical skills and a broad range of Mainframe expertise
• Experience with Healthcare systems, HIPAA compliance applications and electronic exchange guidelines
• Vast knowledge and experience in Health Care industry, experienced in testing different healthcare claim processing solutions primarily in PBM process
• SME in PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Management) setup to Anthem IT and primary point of contact for all external PBM vendors and Anthem business/sales team
• Has successfully built a PBM setup with high profile vendors. Ex: Caremark(CVS), ESI, Optum - Rx, Costco, Navitus, Envision, Med-Impact, Beacon and made Anthem as a preferred partner for all new/existing clients
• Automated an end-to-end commingled file-feed setup to have a streamlined RX carve-out process. The framework migrated around 150 plus clients from legacy model to new streamline process. This helped business to implement new/renew clients in a cost-effective manner with a quicker turnaround time.
• 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.
• 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
• Facilitated test plan/test case walk-thru’s for the Business and Development teams to obtain feedback and/or approval sign-off
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with in-depth understanding of system development methodologies, techniques and tools
• Thorough knowledge in Requirement analysis, Planning, Scheduling & Tracking projects
• Independently managed the full project life cycle, from initiation through implementation; including (but not limited to) requirements gathering and prioritization, defining scope and schedule, obtaining approvals, manage development and testing tasks
• Assisted project teams with scope definition, Work Breakdown Structure sessions, budget estimates, project schedules using Microsoft Project, resource allocation, eliciting requirements and writing use cases, risk assessments, risk identification and mitigation, tracking project tasks, project reporting, and documenting lessons learned.
• Responsible for updates of daily and weekly meetings and documents, scheduling, tracking as required
• Skilled in cultivating positive relationships with clients and colleagues; particularly adept Confidential communicating with clarity and diplomacy to individuals from diverse cultural and organizational backgrounds
• Strong leadership skills; able to prioritize, delegate tasks, and make sound decisions quickly while maintaining a focus on the bottom line

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: File-Aid, Xpediter, File-manager, Changeman, Debugger, Endevor, SQL, QMF, SPUFI, SDSF, TSO/SDSF, Abend aid,Control-M, IDCAMS and Sort Utilities, SAR, IOF

Others: Dylakor, Teradata, Informatica, SOAP UI, SBI layers, Request layout, RPC

PC / Workstation: Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, MPP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Meeting application SME’s, review the business requirements and create technical specification document
• Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications.
• Codes, tests, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications.
• Suggests technical alternatives and improves/streamlines processes and systems.
• Conducts planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks.
• provide leadership and/or guidance to other technical professionals
• Created High level Design documents by communicating with Business partners and match it with the business requirements
• Assist development team with managing all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Following the configuration management procedures and setting up guidelines for code switch in the different channels/regions
• Created batch programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IMS/DB, DC and DB2.
• Conduct review of delivery of products till deployment
• Created Test Plan and Test strategy documents.
• Involved in various testing activities like requirements extraction, Test design, Test execution, Defect creation, Defect tracking, Defect Closure and test reporting.
• Work directly with accounting and IT teams throughout integration testing.
• Preparing implementation strategy and providing the production support for post Implementation of the programs

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, FILE MANAGER, CHANGEMAN, IBM DEBUG, Fault Analyzer, DB2, JCL, VSAM as TABLEBASE, BMC MAINVIEW, SAR, EDI, CONTROL-M,DB2 & IMS Utilities.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Responsibilities:

• Provides application software development services or technical support typically in a defined project.
• Develops program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications.
• Codes, tests, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications.
• Maintains, tests and integrates application components.
• Suggests technical alternatives and improves/streamlines processes and systems.
• Conducts planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks.
• provide leadership and/or guidance to other technical professionals
• Meeting application SME’s, review the business requirements and create technical specification document
• Created High level Design documents by communicating with Business partners and match it with the business requirements
• Assist development team with managing all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Following the configuration management procedures and setting up guidelines for code switch in the different channels/regions
• Created batch programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 and IMS/DB, DC.
• Worked with frontend Java and .Net screens
• Conduct review of delivery of products till deployment
• Created Test Plan and Test strategy documents.
• Involved in various testing activities like requirements extraction, Test design, Test execution, Defect creation, Defect tracking, Defect Closure and test reporting.
• Work directly with accounting and IT teams throughout integration testing.
• Preparing implementation strategy and providing the production support for post Implementation of the programs

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, FILE MANAGER, CHANGEMAN, IBM DEBUG, Fault Analyzer, DB2, JCL, Web services, SOA, MQ Series, VSAM as TABLEBASE, BMC MAINVIEW, SAR, EDI, CONTROL-M,DB2 & IMS Utilities, SQL SERVER.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a IT technical lead, I was involved in the following activities:
• Leading a team of 15 members to test various projects requirements
• Preparing high level Project Plan, Scopes and Objectives, Assumptions/Limitations, Establish Timelines.
• Analyzing the Business Requirements.
• Peer reviews for the team members
• Mentoring team members in the project
• Coding and testing.
• Review the requirement traceability for all test scripts.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, DB2, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, File-manager, Changeman

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As an IT Business analyst and Technical Lead include:
• IT business analyst and liaison between Business and IT development team
• Client interfacing and offshore coordination.
• Liaison between client and acted as POC between clients and organization on IT development
• Requirement analysis, effort estimation and Detailed Level Design creation.
• Deployment and release management.
• Conducted Daily Triage meetings for issues and defects BA, Dev team and QA team.
• Requirements elicitation and business impact analysis with interfacing systems.
• Coding, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Review, Walkthrough and Issue Resolution.

Environment: Cobol, JCL, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, DB2, FILE-AID, XPEDITER, File-manager, Changeman

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the daily batch cycles
• Responsible for Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Adhoc schedules Confidential good end as per SLA
• Fixing the issues that comes during batch cycle
• Attending incident tickets and issue resolve meetings
• Sending JOB execution status reports
• Involved in understanding changes in existing programs.
• Development / Unit Testing of source programs move as permanent fix
• Problem solving on existing modules.
• Performance improvement of existing functionality

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Xpeditor, File-Aid, CONTROL-M, DYL 280, Easytrieve, CA7, ENDAVOR, Abend-Aid.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Traveled to Onsite(Germany) and taken Knowledge Transfer from Client and Acted as a POCfor offshore. Preparation of the design documents.
• Preparation of Test plans and Test Results.
• Technical and domain - level problem solving
• Reviews of project artifacts/work products
• Giving knowledge transfers to the team member and assign work accordingly.
• Responsible for the SIT, UAT and production support of the project.
• Environment: Mainframes, COBOL, JCL, IMSDB, IMSDC.