SUMMARY:

• System Analyst experienced on various domains - Retail, Health Care and Banking domains.
• In depth knowledge about various phases of IT projects which include gathering business requirements, its analysis, planning, building up software and implementation, encompassing both waterfall and AGILE SDLC methodologies.
• More than 11 Years of Mainframe experience.
• Extensive experience on COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, SQL, SDFII tool etc.
• Hands-on experience in developing complex COBOL-DB2 Programs.
• Gather requirement and prepare functional document and assesses feasibility of the changes and its cost.
• Recommend solutions to the business issues and propose how to proceed on making changes to the existing system.
• Experienced in Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design and Development using SDLC methodologies and architecture standards.
• Write High level and Technical design documents and maintains them in repository after versioning.
• Develops test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs. Identifies issues as appropriate
• Troubleshooting and fix the production support issues within SLA. Develops and suggests alternative approaches in resolving problems.
• Understanding the business process and updating SAD (System Appreciation
• Documents)
• Involved in user reported Issues - Root cause analysis & its fix
• Managing Mainframe batch jobs & Online transactions
• Fixing Job failures/Transaction abend of severity 1 & 2 - Data Issues & Problem Management
• Extended support to System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Reviews and attend client meetings.
• Quality assurance by defect tracking.
• Ownership of the checklists.
• Project Co-ordination with various application teams involved

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

COBOL: Ezytrieve, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB,SQL,SYNCSORT, MQ Series.

Tools: TSO, ISPF/PDF, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, Librarian, SPUFI, QMF, CLIST

Smart Test, File Manager, File: Aid, HAL, ABEND-AID, SPICE, SELCOPY, Fault Analyzer, Xpeditor, HP Quality Center, CA-7, Control-M, INFOPAC, MS Visio, FTP, Connect Direct and NDM

ETL Knowledge: INFORMATICA POWERCENTER 9.x, UNIX, Oracle, Teradata v13, SQL Developer and Teradata SQL Assistant and Data Modelling tool ERWIN 8;

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe Analyst

Confidential, Anthem, CA

Responsibilities:

• Perform system Impact analysis for the new requirements to confirm the feasibility and submit work effort estimates to Customer
• Conduct walkthrough of the Business/Application impact document with the business team, System owners and Application development team
• Raise and document the risk involved in the application development and communicate this with business and System owners.
• Enhance the existing batch/online programs using Cobol, JCL, DB2 and CICS
• Develop new batch jobs using JCLs and Procedures. Schedule the jobs in Control-M with the help of Operations team.
• Online screens are developed using tool Screen Definition Facility(SDF).
• Prepare Unit test plans and Unit test results.
• Participate in reviewing the application development activities and log the issues/risk in defect tracking tool QC.
• Extended support to SIT and UAT and close the issues in timely manner.
• Coordinate the code promotion activities using CHANGEMAN packages.
• Take care of all release activities pertaining to the deployment.
• Update the system document with new/change in functionality and get this approved from the subject matter experts

Mainframe Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gather and prepare functional document and assesses feasibility of the changes and its cost.
• Recommend solutions to the business issues and propose how to proceed on making changes to the existing system.
• New complex functionalities using COBOL, Ezytrieve, DB2 and IMS DB are written to extract data from multiple files sent by INFORMATICA team and then applied the business rules to the input data source.
• Coordinating development activities with multiple application/technical team
• Code construction and its Unit Testing and closing the issues which affects the delivery timelines.
• All new jobs are scheduled with help of Data center team
• All version control activities are done using tool ENDEVOR
• Managing MF batch jobs & Online transactions
• Support SIT and UAT activities.
• Reviews and attend client meetings
• Involved in user reported Issues - Root cause analysis & its fix
• Responsible for Production Support Activities such as monitoring Daily Batch jobs, ensuring completion of batch cycles as per the schedule, fix job Abends and data related issues

Senior Mainframe Developer

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Application support activities and enhancements for fixing the business issues.
• Worked on Severity 1,2 and 3 problem incidents and fixed them without missing the SLAs and inform all stakeholders.
• Write/modify COBOL/Ezytrieve programs to fix issues and its testing
• Debug Job abends using job log in Fault Analyzer and debug tool Xpeditor
• Report day to day Production support activitiesto the management
• Monitored and fixed daily batch jobs and coordinated with in scheduling daily/weekly and monthly jobs in ESP.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of Application
• Client Interaction and Status Reporting

Mainframe Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ensured architectural adherence through blueprint and design reviews.
• Analyzed existing system and prepared and presented Impact Analysis.
• Support of bug fixes and data issues reported.
• Experienced in Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design and Development.
• Write High level and Technical design documents.
• Developed new batch and online functionalities using COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM and JCL
• Developed Online Screen using Basic Mapping Support(BMS) macros.
• Develops test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs. Identifies issues as appropriate
• Assists in resolving production support problems. Develops and suggests alternative approaches to resolving problems.
• Understanding the business process and updating SAD (System Appreciation
• Documents)
• Worked on project under SOA architecture.
• Involved in user reported Issues - Root cause analysis & its fix
• Managing MF batch jobs & Online transactions
• Fixing Job failures/Transaction abend - Data Issues & Problem Management
• Reviews and attend client meetings.
• Quality assurance by defect tracking.
• Ownership of the checklists.
• Project Co-ordination with various application teams involved