SUMMARY

• 8+ yrs of experience in the Information Technology Industry in Retail, Banking and Life Insurance domain and Mainframe Z/OS technologies.
• 4+ years of experience in QA and Software Testing.
• 2+ years of experience in QA lead, test strategy, test planning and test Design.
• 2+ years of experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• 4+years of experience in test execution analysis, Defect tracking, Capturing test metrics, reporting and experience in QA signoff
• Experience in Mainframe application development and design.
• Knowledge of JAVA, JSP, C, C++
• Knowledge of tools like ATG BCC and ATG CSC.
• Done ATG Commerce training.
• Involved in the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), starting from the requirement gathering, designing, coding, integration, testing, deploying and supporting the application.
• Performed tasks like scheduling and estimation of project work products, coordinating and communicating with various team to ensure quality deliveries.
• Experience with HP Quality Center, Bugzilla.
• Experience in Oracle SQL.
• Cleared DB2 Exam 700.
• Oracle Database SQL Certified Expert.
• Highly motivated team player with good written and verbal communication skills focusing on meeting project timelines.
• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment
• Good analytical skills
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment.
• Experience working at onsite for a year.
• Familiar with OOP Concepts.
• Knowledge of German Language.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL, REXX, JAVA, JSP

Utilities: ATG BCC, ATG CSC, Alchemist, Xpeditor, Endeavor, File Aid, CA7, ISPF, SPUFI, Panvalet, Change Control

Operating Systems: Windows

Databases/Technologies: DB2, IDMS, Oracle

Methodologies: SDLC (Waterfall, Agile)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with Clients for requirement gathering.
• Understanding the Requirement Specification from Business Perspective.
• Estimating efforts needed for testing.
• Creating Test Plan and Test Cases.
• Executing the Test Cases and Defect Tracking.
• Preparing Test Reports, Module Status Reports.
• Execution of test scripts.
• Preparing Test Result Documents.
• Performed Regression Testing for UAT .
• Involved in test data preparation using ATG BCC and ATG CSC.

Confidential

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with Clients for requirement gathering.
• To Prepare Estimations, Test Plans, UAT Plans and Implementation Plans.
• Development, testing and implementation of application enhancements.
• Involved in Test case Designing process.
• Reviewing all test conditions and data.
• Performing Functional testing and Regression testing.
• Preparation of test data.
• Root cause analysis and permanent fix for issues in production.
• Updating and monitoring the project status.
• To Arrange daily/weekly calls with business users and offshore based on the requirement complexity
• Ensure relevant reviews are performed with respect to all the deliverables.
• Managing the Offshore Team
• Responsible for the Offshore Delivery
• Report Risks and escalations to the manager and take appropriate steps to mitigate them
• Checking for compliance of standards using tool or methodologies defined by client and incorporating Confidential best practices in discussion with client

Confidential

IT Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Co - ordinate with onshore project coordinator
• Creating estimations & delivery plan and assignment of work. Monitoring the progress of the work.
• Creating Test Plan and Test Cases
• Executing the Test Cases and Defect Tracking
• Reporting-Preparing Test Reports, Module Status Reports and Metrics.
• Ensure relevant reviews are performed with respect to all the deliverables .
• Coordinating the implementation activities with client, onshore and offshore.
• Status Reporting
• Co-ordinate with onsite or client in resolving issues or solving critical tasks.
• Analysis of Abends.
• Suggesting the value-adds and process improvements in the team/client and executing the same.
• Building and Maintaining Test Environments
• Monitoring Batch, Raising and Resolving Tickets
• Resolving environment related Errors and Abends.
• Making online available and Pre and Post Batch Activities.

Environment: IBM mainframes DB2, COBOL, REXX, CICS, CA7, File-Aid, Oracle

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• To understand project requirements and provide estimates and IT solution
• To study impact of change and provide estimates
• Build IT solution
• Perform Unit Testing and Regression Testing
• Performing review activities for code and test plans and ensure quality compliance.
• Live Implementation support and investigation in case of any problem/bug.
• Coordinating activities with offshore/Onshore team.
• Getting the detailed requirements from the client.
• Impact Analysis
• Preparing Estimations, Test Plan and Implementation Plans
• Preparing the technical specifications and getting it reviewed by the business people.
• Development, testing and implementation of application
• Coding and preparing the unit test plans.
• Performing the unit testing.
• Performance Tuning of System
• Fixing bugs during all phases of testing and in production.
• Carrying out quality process like Reviews, Audits
• Coordinating with onsite/offshore team
• Arranging the daily/weekly calls with client and offshore based on the change complexity.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, REXX, DB2