SUMMARY

• Professional experience in business application software design, development, Integration, testing and maintenance with diverse functional experience in Insurance, Banking, finance, Healthcare
• Developed various new COBOL DB2, CICS DB2 & easytrieve programs
• Designed and Developed brand new JCL Batch Job streams for Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quartely and Annual execution
• Lot of experience on a new Development, Maintenance and Production Support projects
• Extensive work on DB2, created & maintained around 225 tables and relationships
• Key resource on the projects by virtue of technical knowledge, hard work, dedication and team work
• Strong experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Waterfall as well as Agile methodologies
• Delivered End to End Solutions apart from just making program changes
• Always carried lot more responsibilities in terms of coordination, proactive actions, team activities in the project than just Development role
• Developed several Technical design document
• Extensive experience in Interaction and experience with the business as well as technical people
• Provided Technical Support across multiple projects
• Expertise in SPUFI, QMF, and FILEAID as testing tools and for data manipulation and Data cleansing.
• Experience on IBM, CA, BMC tools
• Proficient in IBM utilities and Tools like XPEDITER, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN, SYNC SORT, FILEAID FOR DB2, DB2
• Applied Agile methodology in Mainframe application development
• Has done documentation like User Requirement Specification Document, Technical Design Document, System Test Case document with ISO 9001 quality standards.
• Involved in all the stages of the software development cycle, namely design, specification, coding, debugging, testing (test plan and test execution), integration, Regression and system testing, documentation and maintenance of the programs.
• Evaluated numerous complex system problems and user requirements. Developed the ability to develop structured and modular solutions. Built program specifications, requirements analysis and internal design to meet rigorous client standards.
• Supported delivery of batch and online programs, customized reports, application/data conversion and process improvements.
• Supported maintenance of several applications in handling of user requests, system enhancements, front - end and back-end interface modifications and production installation.
• Modification of elements that are identified as impacted. The conversion is to be done based on the conversion guidelines provided
• Created complex test plans, requirements and design test cases. Managed execution of different testing phases (unit, integration, systems, interface and compliance testing).
• Developed project schedule as an onsite team lead. Ran and supported project/problem status meetings with management, development team, DP support and auditors
• Performed roles such as Knowledge Representative and Defect Prevention Representative
• Handled configuration management activities

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, SQL, EASY TRIEVE, JCL,VSAM

Scripting Languages: HTML5, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, Shell

Web Technologies: JSP,Java,J2EE,Servlets,EJB,Spring,Hibernate,WebServices, AJAX,JPA, Spring, Hibernate, Struts

RDBMS/DBMS: DB2, SQL Server, Oracle

Configuration Management Tools: ENDEVOR, ChangeMan, IVMENU, VSS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/2000, MVS/ESA, OS/390, Z/OS

Tools: FILE - AID, Easy Plus, Xpeditor, TSO/ISPF, Visual Studio, MS Office, Smart Test, Librarian, EXTRA, Bluezone, Passport, Eclipse, MQ, Telon, Visio, JIRA, Silk Central

Utilities: ISPF/PDF, TSO/E, SPUFI, QMF, IMS DB, DB2 Tool, OPC/ESA, BMC, QMF, SPUFI, SORT, FTP, Comparex, FTP, IBM Optim, Debug, Fault Analyzer, CNTL-M,SYNCSORTOLTP

CICS Others: REXX, VSAM, TCP/IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Interaction with the Business and Development team on various requirements
• Develop, Modify COBOL DB2 programs as per the requirements
• Develop, Maintain and Monitor Project Schedule
• Coordinate, prioritize JIRA Issues
• End to End Impact Analysis
• Provide System Support
• System Conversion Support
• Support UAT
• Develop Test Plans
• Coordinate test efforts

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design to customize the system as per the client’s requirements
• Develop COBOL Db2 and Easytrieve Programs
• Complete ownership to deliver the end result by making changes in the system, analyzing the client date, mapping the modules with the existing system and making the desired COBOL DB2 Easytrieve program changes
• Develop, modify and Execute JCL Jobs
• Coordinate and Participate in Agile Processes
• Extensive End to End analysis
• Execute and Review User Acceptance testing results
• Issue Resolution, timely planning and coordination
• Develop various modules to receive various feeds and load those successfully into HPS system
• Provide domain expertise

Confidential

Sr.Developer, Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on all Modules from Medical Claim
• Involvement and Participation all stages of this massive system, such as Design, Analysis,Development, UAT,PST, Post Production
• Production Batch Jobs Support, Interface Support
• Worked on multiple Change Requests
• Interaction with the State on the Claim submission and execution
• Performed Various Impact Analysis
• Developed / Modified COBOL DB2 programs, Easytrieve programs, Jobs, Procs
• Claims Db2 database management, knowledge on almost all Claims tables
• Data Element Creation, update, Maintenance responsibilities
• Supported the Critical Path String Testing, System Testing Liasion

Confidential

Developer, Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on variety of System related Issues
• Worked with the State on daily basis on variety of issues on the system
• Completed thorough System Analysis
• Develop / Modify COBOL DB2 programs
• Tremendous exposure to the entire application
• Researched and modified the different programs from various subsystems
• Provided solutions to the various system problems
• Provided quick fixes to the production problems
• Interact, communicate, co-ordinate with outside supporting applications such as Medicare,

Confidential

Team Lead, Programmer, Analyst & System Designer

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirement and converted to technical specs
• Used DB2- client to extract the Db2 data
• Implemented Agile Methodology
• Automated the jobs using the scripting languages
• Participated in all SDLC phases of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation
• Data extraction from different environments and databases such as DB2,VSAM,IMS,Oracle
• Proposed various designs to meet the requirements

Confidential

Progrmmer, Analyst and Tester

Responsibilities:

• Detected and changed the existing production problems
• Solving System Completion codes and User Completion Abends
• Performed unit testing, integration testing
• Using JCLs updated entire application’s files used by CICS screens
• Enhanced the tape process by deleting the redundant steps from JCL
• Used NDM to get the data from production into test region
• Updated sensitive VSAM master files using Cobol programs
• Executed full batch cycles for the application for Unit and System testing

Environment: COBOL, JCL, SORT,VSAM, Easytrieve, PDSE,librarian,Comparex,Smart Test

Confidential

Developer, Analyst, Tester, Prod Support

Responsibilities:

• Production Installation Coordinator
• Modified production trails
• Optimized the production jobs by changing the design, modifying code
• Preparation of technical specifications
• Used QMF and Spufi extensively
• Developed embedded SQL programs to interact with DB2 database
• Modules modifications/enhancements as per the new requirements
• Production Support
• Sox Coordinator

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Preparation and execution of Unit test plan
• Designed the production JCL Job flows
• Analyze & design the data flow from Mainframe to Unix (perl Script) and then to Db2 for the team
• Preparation of detailed design document for the entire application
• All the activities of a Group lead for Unix & Mainframe teams such as co-ordination, planning, status updates, task delegation
• Resource allocation as and when the changes in the requirement received
• Designed the deliverable document

Confidential

Developer, Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Co-ordination with onsite team for ongoing & forthcoming assignments - Delivery, schedule, identification of risks
• Developed 75+ new control cards and moved into the production
• Developed several new jobs/ JCLs for the application apart from modifying the existing
• Developed 45 new Cobol programs for the enhancement to the application
• Optimized the production JCL
• Establishment of CM environment, Backup and Restoration activities
• Conducting Knowledge sharing sessions within the application
• As a Knowledge representative, prepared case studies, conducted & delivered presentations at Account level