SUMMARY

• Accomplished software engineering professional with 11+ years of experience in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) including Requirement gathering, Estimation, Analysis, Designing, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Support.
• Certified AWS developer Associate.
• Around 2.5 year of experience in Core Java, Restful API using JAX - RS, Spring, CICS webservices, AWS cloud services (including AWS Java SDK) and Devops, Serverless architecture using AWS Lambda.
• Around 9+ years of experience in application development and support on IBM mainframes.
• Good understanding of various Java application development and CI/CD pipeline tools like GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, AWS CLI, Chef, Nexus, Artifactory, Terraform, Unix shell scripting, Groovy.
• Good knowledge of Microservices based architecture.
• Good understanding of Acceptance test driven development process (ATDD) using Cucumber.
• Has 11 plus years of experience in Financial Domain with 2 years of experience in core banking domain and 8 plus years of experience in Credit Card domain.
• Ability to learn and work on newer technology quickly. Self motivated to learn and experiment new technology and ideas.
• Extensive experience in global delivery model and working with teams across various locations and time zones
• Strong experience in creating Restful micro services & AWS lambda functions from scratch using Java, creating CICD pipeline for them and deploy to AWS cloud.
• Strong skills in developing and supporting applications using COBOL, DB2, CICS, Stored Proc, JCL, PROCS, REXX, Ezytrieves, MQ series, VSAM, IBM utilities, Xpeditor, FileAid, SORT, ChangeMan, Control-M, JobTrac, Strobe, BMC Apptune etc.
• Strong exposure to batch jobs development and support using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Proc, IMS, DB2, Sort and Mainframe utilities.
• Extensive experience in developing CICS green screens and CICS webservices.
• Exhaustive usage of external stored procedures to interact with distributed environment.
• Extensive usage of EZYtrieve for report generations.
• Extensive usage of REXX for mainframe automation.
• Extensive experience in conversion and deconversion projects for onboarding and offboarding of PLCC & Cobrand credit card accounts to/from Confidential infrastructure.
• Experience in onboarding new payment vendor in capitalone infrastructure to receive credit card bill payment from customers via vendor platform.
• Has had an opportunity to be part of projects involving Merchant partner bonus payment (using variety of criteria) for onboarding customer in AMEX network.
• Worked on project to create new core banking application called OHCB for Confidential .
• Was part of Confidential global team to enhance features & functionality of the WHIRL platform supporting entire creadit card processing. Whirl platform was backed by VisionPLUS product.
• Extensive experience in production support of credit card processing for Confidential money India(Client SBI india).
• Exposure to various CMM procedures and artifacts through working experience in CMM level- 5 environment.
• Extensive experience in exploring application optimization opportunities and proposing cost benefits to clients.
• Extensive experience in business and system documentation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, REXX, EZYtrieve, JCL, Stored Procedures, Distributed - Core Java, Spring, Junit, JAX-RS framework, Unix Shell scripting, AWS Java SDK, Serverless Architecture using AWS lambda, AWS CLI, Groovy, Chef, Python

Database: DB2, VSAM file system, IMS, AWS databse and storage services

Operating Systems: Z/OS, Windows, Linux

Miscellaneous: Mainframe,FileAid, File Manager, Expeditor, STROBE, MQ series, ChangeMan, SQL, QMF, Abend Aid,, Sync Sort, Control-M, Job Track, TWS, Expeditor, BMC Apptune,Distributed,GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Eclipse, DevOps, Chef, CICD pipeline, ATDD using Cucumber, Restfule microservices, AWS Cloud services, Nexus, Artifactory.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a software engineer Involved in all stages of software development lifecycle like application analysis, application design, development of solution, maintenance, testing, implementation planning, production deployment and production support to cater to the changing market regulations and business requirements.
• Enabled the conversion of credit card accounts from the First Data platform to Confidential infrastructure (Whirl Platform).
• Supported deconversion of credit card accounts from Confidential infrastructure(Whirl) to Synchrony bank.
• Supported onboarding of new payment vendor to receive payment of credit card bills of Confidential accounts and pass the payments to Confidential .
• Worked on core platform modernization effort and created multiple CICS webservices & Java based restful microservices.
• Create backend Mainframe interface using CICS to connect to Rest API clients.
• Create Restful API using Java & JAX-RS.
• Configure CI/CD pipeline(DevOps) for Restful API & AWS lambda functions to deploy API on AWS stack.
• Designed & developed GUI based Self service tool for business customers to place servicing notes on bulk of accounts using Spring, java & AWS lambda.
• Extensive involvement in implementing complex business logic involving transaction management, payment posting and dispute processing.
• Worked on multiple high risk events impacting multiple customers and ensured timely resolution of the events.
• Created adhoc reports for business using EZYtrieve while working on high risk events resolution.
• Interact with various business stackholders while delivering projects.
• Peer to peer review of deliverables from team and ensure defect free delivery.
• Perform periodic production support activities
• Incorporate Agile methodologies

Confidential

Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in application impact analysis, high level cost estimations, high level and low level desig, development, Testing, implementation planning, production deployment and support.
• Enabled compensation and reporting capability for multiple critical partners involving different type of compensation rules.
• Extensive usage of COBOL, DB2 batch programs for daily data extraction process and monthly compensaction calculation & reporting processes.
• Created REXX based automation tools to streamline repetitive processes.
• Involved in performance tuning of DB2 applications resulting huge saving for customer in terms of CPU cost & processing time.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PPMIS application in a very short span of time.
• Provide relevant application inputs during requirement gathering to help business analysts capture the business requirements accurately.
• Design application changes as per business requirements and create relevant documents.
• Perform Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation.
• Create test plans and execute the test scripts.
• Perform reviews of the deliverables in various project life cycle phases.
• Perform periodic production support activities

Confidential

Senior Systems Analysts

Responsibilities:

• Involved in application analysis and impact analysis during requirement gathering phase.
• Worked on high level and low level design documents.
• Coding and Unit testing.
• Mainframe automation of manual processes.
• Code reviews and document reviews to ensure defect free delivery.
• Worked on development and support of mainframe batch and online components.
• Implementation planning.

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• While working in Core banking project me was part of product & patameters application which was used for setting up various banking products and configuring its processing parameters. It involved multiple CICS green screens and CICS webservices for Addition, inquiry and update of various product parameters.
• While working in Global core development team of Cards Unit of Confidential me worked on multiple development and enhancement projects involving credit management subsystem of VisionPLUS product. Credit management system offers many critical functionalities like interest calculation, transaction posting, Payment posting, Fees, Delinquencies, Billing and statements, card issue reissues etc. which are core to credit card business.
• Application analysis & impact analysis
• Creating design documents meeting target architecture
• Coding and Unit testing. Documenting test scripts and test results.
• Integration testing support.
• Created and enhanced many Cobol, DB2 & VSAM batch programs.
• Created multiple CICS DB2 green screen transactions and corresponding inquiry/update.
• Worked on performance tuning of CICS DB2 programs to improve performance of online applications and reduce CPU consumption.
• Review of code and documents to ensure defect free deliverables.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Consumer Finance uses Vision plus 8.2X (a product of FDI) for Credit, Debit and Loan operations of state bank of India.
• The project is a 24/7 support for application and production issues involving batch monitoring. It is a mission critical project and involves providing of fixes and solutions of Abend in stipulated time based on the priority of the Abend when encountered during batch runs, so as to adhere to the SLA signed with the client .The project serves India region and involves regular interactions with clients
• Production batch support. executing test batch assigned by the client.
• Analysis and resolution of production issues.
• Providing permanent solution to the production issues.
• Documentation and reporting of the production issues.