SUMMARY

• 10 years of experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of application software in Mainframe platform.
• Extensive knowledge and experience as a developer with expertise in Financial Industry, Retirement Insurance sector.
• Expertise in Mainframe platform which includes COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, SQL, DB2, CHANGEMAN,XPEDITOR,FILEAID, DFSORT, IBM - UTILITIES, REXX, SAS, CONTROL-M, Endevor, NDM, Easytrieve. Good experience with relational databases DB2.
• Monitoring the Nightly and Day batch cycles, PPMC tickets, Service Now Incidents, knowledge on jMajic and JIRA
• Primary contact person for monitoring and system availability.
• Extensive hands on experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) implemented Waterfall and Knowledge in Agile(Scrum)
• Strong analytical and communication skills for understanding the business requirements
• Skilled at maintaining quality standards of functionality and analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements and custom designing solutions with hands-on experience in programming skills, requirements gathering, application integration and customization
• Installing, reverting packages in various environments.
• Creating reports using SAS and Easytrieve for the business requirements.
• Worked for Large Financial Services Company as a Developer, Analyst and Project coordinator for multiple projects on Complex applications in Insurance domain
• Providing Technical Support for users and customers by tracing, validating, updating the requirements and implementing the enhancements
• Experience in leading the team, working with clients to gather requirements, scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project
• Continual improvement in various technologies and domains as per the business requirements or needs
• Perform Disaster Recovery Drills (Business Continuation Testing).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Groupware(Mainframe): COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, FILE-AID, JOBTRAC, IBM UTILITIES, ISPF, CONTROL-M

Scripting Languages: JavaScript

Database: DB2, My Sql, SQL Server 2012/2014, Oracle 11g

Frameworks: .Net

Source Control Software: Changeman, Endevor

Tools: Quality Center, XPEDITER, CHANGEMAN, QMF, SPUFI, PLATINUM, SAS, EASYTRIEVE, Endevor

Control: M,NDM, FILE-AID

Other: Data-stage, C#, HTML, XML, Cyberfusion (File transfer), FTP, SMTP, REXX, Visual Studio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Durham, NC

Sr. Systems Services Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Client Interaction for the mainframe daily operations and Abend analysis. Doing DB2,VSAM and Sybase refresh as per the user request
• Estimation of the task, preparation of design document and test cases.
• Requirement Gathering, Initial analysis of the technical specifications document (TSD) to understand the requirements.
• Developing new module in mainframe to meet the client requirements. It involves complete Life cycle of SDLC with masking algorithms included in the program.
• Develop test cases and Test for the same.
• Coding and testing of applications using COBOL, DB2, JCL and VSAM.
• Participation of the programs into Development, Integration and Acceptance installation after successive execution one by one.
• Monitoring/guidance to team member and quality process checking.
• Interacting with Client for requirement gathering.
• System monitoring & support and create Rexx, EasyTrieve programs as per the business requirement

Environment: Mainframe (JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Xpeditor, Changeman, File-Aid, IBM-Utilities)

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements. System analysis and design for new business requirements.
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Setup the Environments for QA team and coordinate in testing.
• Documented the procedures for execution of various processes and adhoc reports for the business requirements.
• Worked on requests that involved changes in CICS Applications
• Self-initiated the CICS project to convert paper based history report printing process to electronic copies.
• Creating SAS reports
• Onsite lead for the developments and enhancements
• Created Datastage Mapping for extraction, transformation and loading of data from heterogeneous sources to target.
• Used Datastage to develop and maintain mappings for ETL from sources to target
• Logging defects on HP ALM tool
• Understanding of different documents linked to the previous system and creating different Visio diagrams in understanding the data-flow and this helped in enhancing UAT plan
• Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system
• Performing Disaster Recovery Drills.

Environment: Mainframe (JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, CICS, Xpeditor, Changeman, File-Aid, IBM-Utilities)

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Production support on applications that manage - Transaction repository Fund performance Fund experience rating Financial reporting
• Work research & analysis, problem and user support requests
• Provide break fix, data fix for production issues
• Periodic status reporting to the onshore team and project manager
• Change request management
• Handle application enhancement projects - managing and coordinating timelines and milestones with offshore developers
• Identify and initiate application/system performance optimization.
• Production monitoring and support on all three functions. Provide Break fix, data fix for production issues
• Worked on Data Extraction, Data Transformations, Data Loading, Data Conversions and Data Analysis
• Logging defects on HP ALM tool
• Work change requests, research & analysis requests and application enhancements.
• Defect prevention representative for offshore team

Environment: Mainframe (JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2, Xpeditor, Changeman, File-Aid, IBM-Utilities).