PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 10 years of hands-on expertise as Mainframe Team leader and Senior Application Developer in Application Development, Testing, Enhancement, Requirement gathering Analysis and support.
• Expertise in Application Development and Testing on projects from various domains which include insurance life and property , Automobile and Retail sector using COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, ENDEVOR, Easytrieve, CA-LIBRARIAN ELIPS , FTP, CA7, CA-VIEW, Fileaid, SPUFI, Visual source Safe VSS , QMF, PLATINUM, INFOPAC, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SDSF, IDCAMS, TSO, ISPF, GSAM,IBM mainframe utilities, HP Quality Center, Microsoft SharePoint, MS Visio, Lotus notes, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows XP/VISTA, Z/OS, Unix, Rexx, Teradata and Xpediter.
• Bachelor's Engineering Degree in Computer Science and Engineering .
• Hold two professional certifications that are internationally recognized IBM DB2 certified associate and DB2 IBM certified developer.
• Extensive experience in all phases of SDLC Design, Coding, Unit testing, Integration testing, Regression testing and System testing, Implementation and roll out of components.
• Outstanding Analytical, Problem-solving, and Decision-making skills. Very good communication and interpersonal skills. Highly organized and detail-oriented and possess excellent time-management skills.
• Worked as direct employee in leading IT firms IBM , Cognizant technology solutions CTS , Tata consulting Services TCS and EDS. Also, Worked directly with clients at client-site in Texas.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

IBM Certified DB2 Developer

IBM Certified DB2 Associate

SKILL SETS

COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, ENDEVOR, Easytrieve, CA-LIBRARIAN ELIPS , FTP, CA7, CA-VIEW, Fileaid, SPUFI,Visual source Safe VSS , QMF, PLATINUM, INFOPAC, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SDSF, IDCAMS, TSO, ISPF, GSAM,IBM mainframe utilities, HP Quality Center, Microsoft SharePoint, MS Visio, Lotus notes, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows XP/VISTA, Z/OS, Unix, Rexx, Teradata and Xpediter.

TRAININGS ATTENDED

• Software development using Agile methodologies
• Software testing methodologies and quality assurance processes
• Information Security, Digital Security and Privacy
• Standards of Business conduct and professional Ethics

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Confidential

Role : Senior Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, Understand and Translate user requirement specifications into program Design for the project.
• Develop high level Design. Interpret the program logic by using pseudo codes and flowcharting data flow.
• Develop new programs and modify impacted programs.
• Devise test plans for Unit testing, Integration testing and System Testing. Ensure test results comply with data quality.
• Take care of Version controlling and quality aspects of the developed programs.
• Responsible for source code migration into production environment.
• Ensure the work products adhere to client quality control and quality assurance standards.
• Attending monthly audit conduction, resolve and follow up observations to closure.
• Prepare and maintain all the essential Quality related documents using Microsoft sharepoint.
• Skill Sets : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, ELIPS, CA7, Fileaid, Easytrieve, SPUFI, QMF, PLATINUM, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, CA-LIBRARIAN ELIPS , SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SDSF, FTP, GSAM, Endevor, IBM mainframe utilities, Z/OS, MS Visual Source Safe VSS , Sharepoint, MS Visio.

Confidential

Role : Mainframe Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Requirement gathering sessions and Analyze end user needs to design software solutions based on the project requirements.
• Translated business and functional design into technical requirements.Prepare requirement traceability Matrix. Carry out effort Estimation for the deliverables.
• Preparing Functional Specification documents.
• Develop High Level and Low-level Design documents and manage the design artifacts using Microsoft Sharepoint.
• Develop design and code the programs in an agile environment. Take care of source code management.
• Prepare test plans for end-to-end testing and Perform unit testing, integration testing, Regression testing and system testing.
• Provide support for User acceptance testing.
• Support source code migration from development to production Environment.
• Ensure the work products adhere to cognizant and client quality control and quality assurance standards.
• Attending monthly audit conduction, resolve and follow up observations to closure.
• Prepare and maintain all the essential Quality related documents as per Cognizant Standards using Microsoft Sharepoint.

Skill Sets : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, ELIPS, CA7, Fileaid, Easytrieve, SPUFI, QMF, PLATINUM, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, CA-LIBRARIAN ELIPS , SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SDSF, FTP, GSAM, Endevor, IBM mainframe utilities, Z/OS, MS Visual Source Safe VSS , Sharepoint, MS Visio.

Confidential

Role : Senior Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the user needs for enhancement and design software solutions.
• In case production issues, Analyze and Identify code modules impacted by the issues.
• Handle Coding of components to store and retrieve compensation information pertaining to agents/brokers.
• Create test cases, prepare test data, Execute testing and record test results of Unit Testing, Regression Testing, System Integration testing for change requests.
• Work on enhancements that involve adding new agents/brokers to the compensation cycle.
• Take care of production fixes and provide emergency code fixes in case of production issues.
• Coordinate with the clients teams during the production moves.
• Responsible for Version controlling, source code migration from development region to SIT region.
• Responsible for Implementing the tested modules into production environment.
• Participate in project discussions and weekly status meetings of the project proceedings with the clients.
• Review and Manage the quality control standards of programs and test results.
• Monitor the compensation payout cycles.

Skill sets : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, ELIPS, CA7, Fileaid, SPUFI, QMF, PLATINUM, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, CA-LIBRARIAN ELIPS , EASYTRIEVE, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SDSF, IBM mainframe utilities, Teradata, Xpediter, Z/OS.

Confidential

Role : Onsite Mainframe Team Leader and was the Sole point of contact for the clients for technical deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Interact with SME's, participate in requirement meetings and gather the requirements from SME/architects. Provide suggestions to the requirements from a technical perspective and perform value-adds towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code.
• Work with business analysts in understanding business requirements.Analyze and review of Business Requirements. Carry out effort estimations based upon the requirement analysis.
• Prepare Functional Specification, High level Design and low level design.
• Perform Coding, unit testing, integration testing, Regression testing and system testing.
• Communicate with various business areas, outside vendors, consultants and other technical teams for rebuilding assessment factors.
• Provide support during production moves. Provide Post implementation support for some period of time after implementing the changes into production.
• Automated repetitive tasks involved in the application to reduce the time and effort expended.Sole point of contact for the clients with respect to technical deliverables.

Skills sets: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, Easytrieve, ELIPS, CA7, Fileaid, SPUFI, QMF, PLATINUM, TSO/ISPF, IDCAMS, ENDEVOR, FTP, SYNCSORT, DFSORT, SDSF, Xpediter, IBM mainframe utilities, Z/OS, Microsoft Visual source Safe VSS , Sharepoint, REXX.

Confidential

Role: Mainframe Application Developer in the project.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, Understand and Translate user requirement specifications into program Design for GM sales information processing system.
• Develop high level Design. Interpret the program logic by using pseudo codes and flowcharting data flow.
• Developed programs to retrieve/store the vehicles sales information and maintain CDR, CDR-TD databases. Create programs to retrieve fleet information from AFD file and update information in the GM sales database.
• Devise test plans for new and modified applications programs.Test- Unit testing, Integration testing and debug the sales applications and systems. Ensure test results comply with data quality.
• Take care of Version controlling and quality aspects of the developed programs.
• Responsible for source code migration into production environment.

Skill sets : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, ENDEVOR, FTP, Fileaid, SPUFI, QMF, PLATINUM, IMS DB,Visual source Safe VSS , CA7, CA-VIEW, INFOPAC, SYNCSORT, TSO, ISPF, Easytrieve,DFSORT, SDSF, IDCAMS, IBM mainframe utilities, Unix, Z/OS, MS Visio, REXX.