EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Sr. IBM Mainframe Application developer , with 10+ years of hands on experience in application development. Extensive experience in the IT industry , involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC .
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• Experience in rapid development and implementation using Scaled Agile( SAFe ) Methodology
• Strong experience in Mainframe Technologies like COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, JCL, EZTRIVE .
• Experience in Mainframe supporting tools like Changeman, Xpeditor, Endevor, Control M, TWS, CA 7, File - Aid, SPUFI, QMF,IBM Debugger, IBM Optim and File-Manager .
• Knowledge on various other tools like RTC, RSA, Eclipse, Splunk, SmartBear, ServiceNow .
• Good working experience in ETL tools like Informatica .
• Certified Service Now Admin
• Experience in Application performance tuning.
• Knowledge DB2 Stored Procs
• Experience in creating Project Status Reports using SAP BO and Tableau.
• Experience in creating Dashboards/SharePoint Pages using Microsoft SharePoint
• Experience in creating automation tools using script languages.
• Extensive involvement in File transfer and File Handling systems like SFTP and NDM transfers
• Pervasive knowledge of IT industry awareness with Insurance.
• Ability to quickly adapt to different project environments and an excellent team member.
• Strong analytical, communication and organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task and manage concurrent deadlines and multiple priorities
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with customers and team members.
• Highly motivated, self-starter and willingness to learn new technologies
• Exposure to both Insurance and Banking Domain projects
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

SKILL:

Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL

Scripting Languages: JavaScripting,VB Scripting, Unix Shell scripting, JSP

DB2, IMS,Oracle, MS: SQL Server, VSAM, MS Access

Data Integration Tools: Informatica Power Center 9.x

Cloud Computing: Service Now ITIL tool

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Web Development: HTML, CSS, SharePoint Design,WCM

Eclipse, RTC,RSA,SPUFI, FILE: AID, FILE MANAGER, ENDEVOR, SCM,DB2 OPTIM,XPEDITER,CHANGEMAN,TWS,CA7,QMF,SFTP,FTP,WDI,SmartbearSplunk

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Skill Summary: z/OS,COBOL,CICS,DB2,VSAM,ECLIPSE,RSA,RTC,IBM UTILITIES,BMC Control M,SPLUNK,Smartbear, Q++, C++, Service Now

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis using functional specification and gathering requirements.
• Participated in program increment planning events.
• Created technical specification documents for the application modules as per the business requirements.
• Designed and coded Business rules application modules and Core applications using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM, EZTRIVE, Business rules application.
• Modifications to JSP pages for UI changes.
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test results.
• Extensively used FILE MANAGER, SCM, SPUFI, OPTIM and DB2 Admin, RTC, RSA, SmartBear, Splunk during Application development and testing.
• Created JCL’s for batch processing as per the customer standards.
• Creating Wiki Pages for the Project
• Preparing demos and demonstrates the stories for each iteration for Product Owners and Business Team.
• Batch support using BMC Control M Scheduler during System Test and Integration testing.
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test environment by the team during SIT, Release Testing and Implementation.

Mainframe Lead

Confidential, PASADENA, CA

Skill Summary: z/OS, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, RTC, IBM UTILITIES, JobTrac, CHANGEMAN, SPLUNK, Smartbear

Responsibilities:

• Involved in requirements from initial phase of the project and Interacted with Business users to understand business needs and prepared technical specifications.
• Designed and Coded Application Modules using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM.
• Extensively used File Aid, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, Job Trac,WDI.
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements.
• Setting up Process to be followed from Offshore.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests using Changeman.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery
• Involved in Application Testing.
• Creating reusable components.
• Involved in Production implementation and Production Support.

Mainframe & ETL Developer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Skill Summary: z/OS,COBOL,CICS,DB2,VSAM,ECLIPSE,RSA,RTC,IBM UTILITIES,BMC Control M,SPLUNK,Smartbear, Q++, C++, Informatica PowerCenter 9.x, Service Now

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis using functional specification and gathering requirements.
• Created technical specification documents for the application modules as per the business requirements.
• Designed and Coded complex application modules and Core applications using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM, EZTRIVE
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test results.
• Extensively used FILE MANAGER, SCM, OPTIM, SPUFI and DB2 Admin during Application development and testing.
• Created JCL’s for batch processing as per the customer standards.
• Executed workflows using Control M schedule
• Batch support using BMC Control M Scheduler during System Test and Integration testing.
• Involved in peer review and mentoring new joiners on application modules
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test environment by the team during SIT, Release Testing & implementation.
• Involved in requirements from initial phase of the project and vendor Interacted with Business users to understand business needs and prepared technical specifications.
• Gather requirements, Analyze, Design, Code, Test highly efficient and highly scalable integration solutions using Informatica, Oracle, SQL, Source systems Oracle10g, Main frame (DB2) systems, MS SQL server databases, flat files, Unix Shell Scripting. Responsible for Functional design, technical design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Design, development of mappings, transformations, sessions, workflows and ETL batch jobs, shell scripts to load data into Source/s to Target Database Tables using Informatica, PL/SQL, Unix Shell scripts, Control M scheduling.
• Documentation of Source to Target matrix, mapping specifications, mapping inventory.
• Created complex Informatica mappings using Lookup, joiner, Rank, Source Qualifier, Sorter, Aggregator, and Router transformations to extract, transform and loaded data mart area

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Skill Summary: z/OS,COBOL,CICS,DB2,VSAM,ECLIPSE,RSA,RTC,IBM UTILITIES,BMC Control M,SPLUNK,Smartbear, Q++, C++, Service Now

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis using functional specification and gathering requirements.
• Created technical specification documents for the application modules as per the business requirements.
• Designed and Coded complex application modules and Core applications using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM, EZTRIVE
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test results.
• Extensively used FILE MANAGER, XDEPITER, SCM, OPTIM, SPUFI and DB2 Admin during Application development and testing.
• Created JCL’s for batch processing as per the customer standards.
• Batch support using BMC Control M Scheduler during System Test and Integration testing.
• Involved in peer review and mentoring new joiners on application modules
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test environment by the team during SIT, Release Testing & implementation.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Skill Summary: z/OS,COBOL,CICS,DB2,VSAM,ECLIPSE,RSA,RTC,IBM UTILITIES,BMC Control M,SPLUNK,Smartbear, Q++, C++, Service Now

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis using functional specification and gathering requirements.
• Created technical specification documents for the application modules as per the business requirements.
• Designed and Coded Core application modules using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, and EZTRIVE
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test results.
• Extensively used FILE MANAGER, XDEPITER, SCM, SPUFI and DB2 Admin during Application development and testing.
• Created JCL’s for batch processing as per the customer standards.
• Batch support using BMC Control M Scheduler during System Test and Integration testing.
• Involved in peer review and mentoring new joiners on application modules
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test environment by the team during SIT, Release Testing & implementation.

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Skill Summary: z/OS, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, IBM UTILITIES, CA7, ITSM

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the System and translated Business requirements into technical specifications.
• Prepared of High Level Design Documents after discussion with Customer SME’s and Tech Leads.
• Designed and coded application modules and modified Core application modules using COBOL, IMS DB, DB2 and VSAM.
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test results.
• Extensively used FILE MANAGER, ENDEVOR, SPUFI and DB2 Admin during Application development and testing.
• Created proc’s and JCL’s for batch processing as per the customer standards.
• Created system batch Flowcharts using VISIO.
• Batch support using Control M Scheduler during System Test and Integration testing.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Skill Summary: z/OS, COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, VSAM, IBM UTILITIES, CA7, CHANGEMAN, QC, TRAMS-AG

Responsibilities:

• System Analysis using functional specification and gathering requirements.
• Created technical specification documents for the application modules as per the business requirements.
• Designed and Coded Core application modules using COBOL, CICS, DB2 and VSAM.
• Coded conversion program from Assembler/AS400 RPG to COBOL
• Prepared unit test plan and unit test results.
• Extensively used FILE MANAGER, XDEPITER, ENDEVOR, SPUFI and DB2 Admin during Application development and testing.
• Using Changeman in tracking the change management process
• Created proc’s and JCL’s for batch processing as per the customer standards.
• Created system batch Flowcharts using VISIO.
• Batch support using CA7 Scheduler during System Test and Integration testing.
• Performed Root cause analysis to identify the cause of issues in the Test environment by the team during SIT, UAT & implementation.
• Participate actively in system maintenance including bug fixes and enhancements.
• Defect tracking and Analysis and supporting for cycle execution.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Skill Summary: z/OS, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, IBM UTILITIES, CA7, CHANGEMAN, QC, Vision Plus

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the code changes required as per client functionality updates and preparing the Impact Analysis document
• Created technical specification documents for the application modules as per the business requirements.
• Analyzed the existing Cobol, CICS programs, Jobs and VSAM files
• Designed and Coded new application modules, modified existing Core applications using COBOL, CICS and VSAM.
• Involving in Data creation by modifying data in VSAM files, GDGs and Flat files using FILE-AID.
• Perform unit testing for each component and set up the SIT and UAT regions and running the cycles.
• Analyzing test results, identifying issues and suggesting resolution
• Participate actively in system maintenance including bug fixes and enhancements.
• Defect tracking and Analysis and supporting for cycle execution

Confidential

Mainframe Developer

Skill Summary: z/OS, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, IBM UTILITIES, CA7, CHANGEMAN, QC, Vision Plus

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Analyzing requirements.
• Preparation of High Level &Low-Level Design Documents.
• Coded and developed Application modules using COBOL, CICS and VSAM.
• Using Endeavour in tracking the change management process.
• Preparing Unit test plan and test cases and executing the Unit testing.
• Worked on defect fixing during System and UAT.