PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience in developing Enterprise applications and Mainframe based applications involving Software Development Life Cycle activities like analysis, design, coding, testing, process control and implementation phases under diversified technologies.
• Experience with business verticals like Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services.
• Expertise in COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, REXX, SAS, CLIST, XGEN, MQ, IMS, DB2, STORED PROCEDURE, XML.
• Used Endevor, SCLM, and SCAM for Versioning the code.
• Used XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, and TRACEM for debugging the code.
• Expertise in all the phases of SDLC preparing requirement specification documents, designing use case diagram, class diagram, sequence diagram, state transition diagram and test cases.
• Excellent in leadership, inter-personal, problem solving, and communication skills
• Expert in maintaining good coding standards in the project.
• Excellent Team player with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the development process.
• Undergone training in Time Management, Project action Planning, QMS - Quality Management Systems, Cross culture, Interfacing with client, Assertiveness skills and Effective Team meetings.
• IBM DB2 V 7.1 Certified Professional.
• Brain bench certified in various mainframe Technologies.
• Awarded Star Performer in my current project.
• Awarded Project of the Year -2010 for my project in SALLIEMAE out of 400 projects presented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Professional Experience

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Salliemae Class Servicing Disqualification Letter generation to customers

Reinstate BIP Disqualifications letters is to generate communications to the customers advising when a benefit has been lost and the reason for disqualification.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Responsible for coding in COBOL, DB2, CICS new programs.
• Responsible for ESP Scheduling to Schedule the jobs.
• Created adhoc program in short time frame from the scratch and executed successfully.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

IW Application Maintenance

claims count on the daily process is captured in the database tables. The System includes various subject areas like claims, patient, drug, provider and billing. The process of ICD10 logic is implemented.The system is enhanced for various requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of Mainframe technical lead.
• Lead a team of 6 and gained an insight about the business requirements.
• Interact with application designed with Teradata, UNIX, Oracle, Cognos and Informatica.
• Executed reorganization, diagnostics, and maintenance for various DB2 issues and Teradata issues.
• Played a key role to support production problems on daily basis, defect reporting and tracking to closure.
• Responsible for providing the status reports on weekly and monthly basis and also imparted knowledge transition for the new members.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQ, SAS, Teradata, Oracle, VSAM, JCL, File master, Endevor and CA7.

Confidential

IMMS- Black line project:

The Blackline process will use the existing system as input and get the account details with the transaction amount from the bottom up process and the filter is applied in the top down process to exclude the detail which is extracted in the bottom up process. And the end of every day, Blackline will send reports and global extract process files to the PeopleSoft system.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of Technical lead.
• Involved in the business meeting and proposed solution for various scenarios.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis.
• Allocate offshore tasks and validate finished products delivered to customers.
• Executed reorganization, diagnostics, and maintenance for various DB2 issues.
• Modified CICS screens to add new fields as part for Functional currency.
• Created documents concerning technical specifications, product design, and implementations.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, MQ, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, TraceM, Endevor, WSF.

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

Sallie Mae purchased the servicing rights of loan volume from Citibank's student lending branch, Student Loan Corp. To support the conversion of loans from Citi, changes were needed to allow the conversion of the loans via acquisitions database to the CLASS Commercial system. Existing edits were revisited to make sure the loan is purchased. The new Edits and the Screen changes and the reports are created to execute this process successfully.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Responsible for coding new programs in COBOL, DB2, SAS, CICS in batch online mode.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.
• Created adhoc Program in short time frame from the scratch and executed successfully.
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Offered help to team to solve their issues and defects.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

DL Award id Update - CLASS-ED loans that have been de-converted from the system and sent to off-system such as to TPD may be returned to CLASS-ED through acquisitions. The Acquisitions system will load the new footprint of the loan into new loan slot. The existing Award ID column AWD AWRD ID on the table is required to be unique therefore if the loan returns through Acquisitions, there will be a conflict with two loans trying to use the same Award ID. The New Award Id will be updated for the loan which already exists in the CLASS.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis, design.
• Prepared key artifacts like design documents, business case, Use cases etc for customer sign off as a mandatory requirement following traditional SDLC methodology.
• Responsible for coding in COBOL, DB2 new programs as batch programmer.
• Suggested clients for changing the existing system to incorporate DL awarded update without changing the DLCOD, DLCS system functionalities
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Responsible for performance testing with huge volume of data.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

Confidential is a servicing requirement for consolidating loans that are received via Transfer and Payoff process. This requirement triggered a change in the business validation to verify if a loan was in a proper format so that it can be transferred to TIVAS system.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of a System Analyst.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis and design.
• Responsible for preparing key artifacts like design documents, business case documents.
• Responsible for writing new batch programs in COBOL, DB2.
• Used ESP Scheduling to Schedule the jobs.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB tool, QEDIT, SPUFI

Confidential

Direct lendering Common Origination and Disbursement System DLCOD , CLASS system changes were required to support the interface for the Direct Loans. Sallie Mae will not originate any DL loans. System will receive the loan as a XML file via FMS system from COD. Salliemae system will have to perform an initial validation and convert the incoming source to corresponding class layout as mainframe file and load into the Class system. On receiving loan from FMS system, Salliemae will have to send an acknowledgement to FMS.

Responsibilities:

• Played a role of System Analyst and Development Lead in this Project.
• Responsible for guiding offshore team for both the technical and as well as business issues.
• Responsible for requirement gathering, analysis and design and coding.
• Validated XML file sent by FMS System to identify the data issues.
• Received good accolades and appreciation from clients.
• Responsible for ESP Scheduling to Schedule the jobs.
• Worked on Pride to maintain the element list for each release.

Technology Tools Used: XML, COBOL, REXX, DB2, SAS, VSAM, JCL, File master, Intertest, Endevor, GTB

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Base Support - Guardian industries Medco FTP Connection BCBSM 's is for the Confidential, The 1000 byte guardian output file will be generated on the weekly basis and it will be send to Guardian via MEDCO. The project is all about extracting the data from the MOS Data store based upon the given input and creating an output file which has to be sent across to MEDCO using a FTP connection. The Input file has the group number that will be updated through CLIST .The CLIST is used for checking if the record already exist else it will perform adding the group number, similarly deletion option is handled to delete if any group number is to be deleted.

Responsibilities:

• Handled many Ad-Hoc Requests and worked on development simultaneously.
• Responsible for preparing Technical Review documents according to the business specifications.
• Involved in gathering the requirements from the client and documenting the same as the use cases.
• Instrumental in completing the BRD and TDD with no comments and delivered before the SLA period was involved in High level and low level designs of the project.
• Validating reports from report generating programs.
• Participate in Peer Reviews for different tasks and provide the feedback to meet standards.
• Create many Adhoc programs in short timeframe to solve the temporary issues with the Edit errors occurred during the execution of functionalities.
• Created the CLIST tool in short time frame and executed successfully and got appreciated.
• Worked on IMS DB/DC programs from the scratch.
• Create the MAILIT control cards to FTP the reports as the part of execution of the jobs.
• The coding standard was followed for the new programs.
• SAS Programs are created to format the report and also created a report for the records inserted in the DB2 provider table but not transmitted.
• Worked on SAS testing.
• Create VSAM Cluster files which are used as the input in the CICS program, the records will be displayed in the screen based on the selection.
• Worked on many SORT utilities.
• Handled knowledge sharing session and guidance sessions for trainees in the project.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, CICS,CLIST, IMS DB/DC,ENDEVOR,SPUFI,SDF2,Xpeditor, JCL,REXX,SAS,DB2,VSAM, File master, QMF.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

MOS Production support BCBSM's is all about providing primary level 1 support for the various applications like Interfaces Vendors, Member ship and billing, Finance, Claims. The issues have to be fixed in a speculated period of time.

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Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Technical Review documents according to the business specifications and attend the meetings with the Subject Matter Experts, Business people to evaluate the risk involved.
• Responsible for guiding the offshore team for both the technical and as well as business issues and provided them a way for permanent solution to production support.
• Played a active role in coordinating the activities, understanding the existing business requirement
• Handled Critical IM issues Provided the Solution before the SLA period
• Interact with the clients for production issues, provided them with my ideas to solve the issue.
• More than thirty IM issues were resolved and closed in two months. We got the client appreciation to solve the issues in short life span.
• Participate in Peer Reviews for different tasks and provide the feedback to meet standards.
• Maintain the Quality documents according to the standards for the project requirements.
• Create the Emergency change order and analyze the code and delivering the code in short time span.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, IMS-DC and DB, CLIST, ENDEVOR,SPUFI,SDF2,Xpeditor, JCL,REXX,SAS,DB2,VSAM,TWS,Control M, Control D, File master, QMF.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

• Confidential is a maintenance engagement for Electronic Workflow Manager EWM and Operational Reporting System ORS , two systems critical to the claim adjudication process of Aetna Inc. The scope of work includes Production support, Maintenance, Development and testing. Electronic Workflow Manager, EWM, is a workflow system that validates claims submitted by members or providers and sends them to the appropriate claim adjudication system. The adjudication systems Aetna uses are ACAS and HMO. When a claim comes into the EWM system, it undergoes claim validations, member and provider verification, duplicate checking and routing to corresponding adjudication systems.
• EWM has online and batch applications. The online part consists of non-interactive systems that validate the data on a received claim. The interactive system is used for claim processors to manually correct errors on claim records. The batch application is used to do periodic activities such as backing up data, archiving old data and purging duplicate tables.
• The project involves maintaining the current system and enhancing it with features that would increase the efficiency of the entire workflow system. It also involves providing support by resolving issues and show stoppers as when they happen.

Responsibilities:

• As a team member, involved in the activities of Analysis, Design, Development, Unit integration testing, Implementation and extended support to Post-Implementation.
• Played a key role in coordinating the activities, understanding the existing business requirement and translating them into design specifications.
• Handled Production Support by fixing jobs within the SLA times.
• Coordinated with onsite in resolving critical production issues.
• Handled knowledge sharing session and guidance sessions for trainees in the project.
• As a key team member, involved in Development, Testing and Baseline Production Support activities.
• The SDF2 tools are used to create the new screens for the Online CICS programs.

Technology Tools Used: COBOL, CICS, CLIST, DB2, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, SDF2, Expeditor, JCL, DB2, VSAM, File master, QMF.Stored procedures.