SUMMARY

• Total 8+ years of work experience in IT industry as a Sr. Mainframe application developer.
• Work experience in Health Insurance and retail domains.
• Hands on work experience on various mainframe application development, maintenance, enhancement, support, integration, migration and transition projects.
• Work experience in different roles such as Mainframe project/technical/module Lead, Sr. Application developer and team member.
• Hands on experience using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, SQL, IMS DB/DC and various mainframe version control, debugging, scheduling, map designing, ticketing tools & utilities.
• In - depth understanding of SDLC phases and methodologies.
• Extensive hands on experience in Agile Methodology involving estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.
• Solid work experience writing new batch and online mainframe application programs, modifying & supporting existing programs.
• Work experience of various onshore-offshore model based project executions.
• Good at translating business or functional requirements into technical requirements and creation of various projects specific documents.
• Confident and capable of leading and mentoring less experienced and fresh hires in a team, work independently and member of a team.
• Capable of conducting & coordinating project meetings with business users, analysts, SMEs, clients, third party or external vendors and application interfacing teams.
• Personal Strength includes - highly motivated, always willing to learn and adapt new technologies, ability to work in challenging environment, confidence delivering quality deliverables, ability to gain confidence of customer, excellent technical, analytical, communication, coordination, problem solving, decision making & team management skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MVS, z/OS

Platform: IBM Mainframes

Programming Languages: JCL, COBOL,CICS,IMS DC

Database: DB2, IMS/DB,VSAM

Version Control Tools: Change-man, Endeavor

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, IBM Debugger, Fault Analyzer, CEDF

Schedulers: CA7

Ticketing Tools: JIRA, BMC Remedy, Service Now

Other Tools and Utilities: ISPF/TSO, SDSF, Fileaid, File Manager, QMF, SPUFI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Mainframe Technical Lead & Sr. Mainframe Application Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, Service Now, JIRA, Fault Analyzer

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with SMEs to understand the requirements & application functionality.
• Participate in project specific meetings to provide progressive status of assigned tasks.
• Participate in brainstorming sessions, design approach discussions to finalize the approach.
• Analyse the existing programs to understand the current functionality, write the new programs, modify existing programs, debug changed programs to identify and fix the issues and review the programs.
• Work on assigned tasks and estimations, track them to ensure the timely delivery.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC.
• Setup team meetings to clarify the outstanding questions and review the deliverables.
• Work on high level and detail level design documents, test plan and test result documents.
• Work on new development, enhancement, maintenance and support requests.
• Setup test data, test scenarios, perform unit/integration testing and capture test result documents.
• Assign tasks to team members and track to ensure timely delivery.
• Work on other BAU related development and enhancement tasks.
• Work on JIRA tickets assign tickets to developers and track them to ensure timely deliverables.
• Highlight and work on project issues, concerns, impedance impacting project timelines.
• Schedule code walkthrough sessions with team to take them through modified code & testing approach.
• Work on release activities, production release documents and post release verifications.
• Provide warranty support and work on post production issues.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Application Developer

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, SPUFI, File-Aid

Responsibilities:

• Work with Subject Matter Experts to understand the business requirements
• Communicate and coordinate with onshore, business users, analysts, SMEs and architects.
• Understand business requirements, application functionality and architecture to work on the requests.
• Work on high priority work requests/trackers to ensure on timely delivery to the business.
• Work with onshore on the resolution of requests/trackers, review the deliverables, download prod policies for testing and work with SMEs on need basis.
• Develop online and batch programs/jobs, create/modify screens, work on data and code fixes, provide temporary/permanent solutions or work around to the user problems.
• Work on High level and Detail level design documents, test plan and test result documents.
• Work on requirements, estimations, development activities and reviews of the components.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL,COBOL, VSAM, DB2,CICS.
• Setup test scenarios, environments for various testing, provide support to QA and business testing.
• Schedule code walkthrough meetings with SMEs/client to get the code change signoffs.
• Work on production release approvals of business users, analysts, QA, Portfolio managers.
• Work on production releases, release and audit specific documents.
• Provide warranty support to the release components.

Confidential

Module Lead

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, QMF, SPUFI, File-Aid,, CA-7, Code Explorer, BMC Remedy.

Responsibilities:

• Perform impact analysis, work on task estimates, and request prioritization with business users.
• Capture functional requirements into technical documentations.
• Provide 24/7 on-call support to avoid or reduce application downtime and business impact.
• Participate in application critical calls, coordinate with interfacing applications to resolve issues within defined SLAs.
• Work on high priority/urgent/critical tickets/incidents, service requests, project requests and compliance related issues.
• Lead a team of 3-4 members in onshore-offshore model.
• Assign tasks to team members and track to ensure timely delivery.
• Train new hires; provide SME assistance to team members to ensure timely deliverables.
• Conduct and participate in project meetings, status meetings, business and state meetings.
• Provide quick assistance to business during business hours and off hours.
• Perform impact analysis, root cause analysis, work on batch/online code changes & conduct peer code reviews.
• Work on production ABENDS with the temporary or permanent fixes.
• Prepare impact analysis, root cause analysis, technical specification, test plan & test result documents.
• Work on new development, enhancement, maintenance and support requests.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS.
• Setup test environments and perform unit, integration, regression testing and support QA/UAT testing.
• Work on production requests and get the necessary signoffs/approvals.
• Work on and support weekly, bi-monthly and quarterly production releases.
• Work on release activities, release documents, production checkouts and extend support to production QA testing.
• Scan system to identify improvement areas, propose system/ process improvement ideas and work on those ideas to reduce operational cost & time, increase stability.

Confidential

Sr. Mainframe Application Developer

Environment: JCL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, File-Manager, Endeavor, IBM Debugger, SPUFI, Fault Analyzer, CA-7

Responsibilities:

• Communicate with business users to understand the business requirements.
• Prepare program specification, test plan and test result documents.
• Work on development, enhancement and maintenance requests.
• Perform impact analysis, code efficient programs, jobs and procs per requirements.
• Devise an efficient algorithm to meet the customer requirements by doing intense impact analysis and creating a design document for the same.
• Implement the code changes required to meet the design requirements in the most optimized way.
• Design and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC.
• Unit test the code with all possible test cases and fix issues seen on the fly.
• Setup test environments, perform unit, integration, regression testing.
• Extend support to QA and UAT testing.
• Work on production release requests, get necessary approvals and support release activities.
• Work on production release documents, checkout components post release and notify stakeholders.