SUMMARY

• Over 9 Years of IT experience in technical design, onsite relationship management and insurance business.
• Hands - on experience in Mainframe technology
• Expertise in System life cycle skills comprising analysis, estimation, technical design, testing and Implementation and documentation of business application software.
• Pivotal in analyzing business and technical requirements and simultaneously deriving testing requirements
• An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, technical, negotiation, and client relationship management skills.
• Built several automated solutions for time saving and easy reconciliation
• Highly self-motivated, action oriented with excellent problem solving skills and passion to technology.
• Insurance; Confidential, Systems Designs and development; Over 6 Years; Premium/Claims Processing, finance repository and Reporting for P&C Insurance business team
• Automotive; Confidential IT; 20 Months; Customer Adoption Team
• Finance; Confidential, IT; 15 Months; Student Loan Funding and Processing
• General Insurance; NUI, IT; 5 Months; Information management, finance repository and Reporting for General Insurance business team
• Z/OS, MVS, Cobol, DB2, JCL, CICS, IMS DC, VSAM, Eazytrieve Plus, MSBI, SSIS, SSRS,SQL server 2012/2014, 9 Years
• Mapping Clients requirements and providing best solutions involving evaluation and definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements.
• Framing architectural decisions, providing leadership, direction, strategy, and vision in the areas of technology and product development to facilitate and enable growth and business agility.
• Handling business analysis sessions for understanding client business processes and mapping them to project management standards.
• Suggesting appropriate technology based solutions for enhancing functional efficiency and achieving business excellence.
• Interfacing with clients for suggesting the most viable solutions/products for securing repeat business
• Providing internal and cross domain knowledge transfer on functional aspects on the applications where in monitoring onsite work.
• Understanding requirements of effective user interface/modules, apt in translating user research and observations into meaningful interfaces/modules.
• Earned a Knowledge badge of a "Rookie" for the spirit of sharing and continuous contribution to Knowledge management.
• Been a Configuration Controller for the team and Configuration auditor for external team with in Confidential .
• Planned the initiative to set the knowledge base about business flow about current project and few of the repetitive enhancements process which can be used to train new team members coming in.
• Articulated coding standards/review checklist/Process documents for the team

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Technical Lead/Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Gather enhancement requests/Change requests post discussions/meetings with users.
• Prepare specification documents detailing the enhancements and generate the detail design, test Plan and test case documents for business requirement in technical terms.
• Analyzing the requirements of the work request and performing impact analysis and share estimates and project schedules with client and onsite manager.
• Use Onshore Model processes, practices, procedures and tools to collaborate with offshore team to effectively plan, coordinate, monitor, and execute onsite-offshore projects involving the development of system.
• Leading a team of 4 members spread across different cities to Develop, Enhance and Maintain work requests.
• Responsible to extract FSD, LLD, Test case & Test results from the team.
• Coordinating with onsite and offshore to deliver the work product without any review and logical defects from the code/artifacts/test product developed by team members without any schedule delay.
• Responsible for ensuring all the impacted elements to be tested across TEST environment at different stages involving Unit, system & integration testing. Also to deploy the elements into UAT and End to end testing.
• Responsible for coding the elements in COBOL, Easytrieve, JCL and DB2 and perform testing in test environment, which involves Unit Testing, System/QA and UAT testing.
• Deployment of the elements to production using Endevor tool, creating package to move elements to production
• Develop, create and modify application and specialized utility programs.
• Interact with cross application/other client partners to resolve integration and data issues.
• Coordinating with DBA and Offshore team on all dependencies.
• Providing the post implementation support for the mainframe & mainframe based applications on Service Level Agreement.
• Involving in knowledge management activities.
• Creation of Ad-hoc business reports for users.
• Perform the first level analysis for the reported defects in the applications associated with the corporate reporting projects. Get clarifications from users on the same.
• Work on Ad-hoc analysis which comes as a quick business clarification and that requires considerable application knowledge
• Resolve critical requests (requests for urgent changes to the applications) from business/ end users.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Some of the major changes that were involved were developing New Common Screens and Programs that should support both Confidential and Mack Trucks.
• Played a stellar role in coding and unit testing of the application
• Effectively created test plans/cases and test data.
• Managed query resolutions with offshore and onsite coordinators for business processes and requirement changes.
• Resolved production support-customer care tickets.
• Handled Peer reviews

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, estimating, designing, coding, and deployment of the project.
• Preparation of Technical design document, Reviews, preparing Test plans, Test cases, Test data and Unit testing.
• Provided post-implementation support.
• Quality control activities and Software Configuration Management.
• Resolution of queries with Offshore and Onsite coordinators and Clients for business processes and requirement changes.
• Generation of specifications for offshore tasks, Review of offshore deliverables, Preparing KT documents and responsible for KT.
• Resolving Production support-Customer care tickets.
• Mentoring new team members and Coordinating for GDD for the entire Release.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analysis, designing, coding, and Unit testing.
• Resolution of queries with Offshore and Onsite coordinators.