OBJECTIVE:

Seeking challenging assignments for a career encompassing personal & professional enhancement in across the IT Industry.

SUMMARY:

• 6 months’ work experience in Informatica Power Center (ETL)
• Good Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development of Cobol programs (Mainframe & Microfocus) & Confidential and DB2 Queries, implementation, testing, integration testing, deployment, documentation and Maintenance of applications.
• Good knowledge and best practices of testing environments and Quality processes
• Expert in Microfocus Net Express, Enterprise Analyser, Cruise control and Autosys.
• Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.
• Experience working in the domain of Banking & Financials, Insurance and Manufacturing.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Mainframe Application design, Cobol program Development, Testing and Production support. Experience working on developing and testing, DB2 version migration and testing.
• Good Working knowledge in Webservices.
• Expert in Trouble shooting and Providing Optimal solutions.
• Ability to multi - task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
• Easily adaptable to New Technologies.
• Perform impact analysis in Mainframe & Microfocus platform and provide solutions to user's change requests.
• Good working experience using NetExpress for Impact analysis, Cobol Program Debugging, Copybook generation, Cobol compilation, Dataset modification and Data mapping.
• Excellent working knowledge in Cobol, DB2, VSAM & Confidential .
• Expert in using MS Visio and Other MS office products.
• Basic knowledge in Windows Bat scripts and Unix.
• Very good experience in trouble shooting and Cobol System & DB2 performance tuning (MIPS reduction) of Mainframe & Microfocus Legacy systems.
• Good Experience in Credit Card domain. Developed Chargeback processing system for one of the major Payment service provider in Europe.
• Work experience in various Version Control Tools like, Perforce, Endevor, Changeman.
• Work experience in Production deployment/promotion using Cruise Control, Endevor.
• Expert in using HP Application Life Cycle Management tool.
• Work experience in Access management and Release management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Software Design, Development, Testing, Debugging and Deployment in
• IBM Mainframe platform on OS 390
• Microfocus Platform
• Banking, Insurance and Manufacturing
• COBOL, Microfocus COBOL, SQL, JCL
• IBM DB2, Endevor, File-Aid, File Manager, XPEDITOR (Batch and Online) , Changeman, AbendAid,General IBM Utilities
• CA-7, SAR, REXX, VSAM
• Quality center, SOAPUI Web Service), AQT, WSDL (Web Service), Confidential
• MQ Series,
• NetExpress 6.0, Enterprise Server, Perforce, Enterprise Analyzer, Cruise Control, DM Express
• CA-7, OPC and Autosys
• Informatica Power Center 9.6.1.HF3, Oracle.

EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Confidential, New Jersey

Platform: IBM Mainframe & Microfocus

Project Lead /Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Software Maintenance and Enhancement (Mainframe & Microfocus Cobol).
• Database migration (DB2 V9.5 to V10.5).
• Working on incidents and User queries.
• Impact Analysis and Microfocus Application Decommissioning.
• Support ETL- Informatica Power Center
• Propose technical solutions to project team (Offshore & Onsite) and/or offer alternative solutions when needed.
• Knowledge transition to the team members and the technical partners. Currently working as subject matter expert for Microfocus technologies.
• Design, coding in Microfocus Cobol, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Confidential, Code review, Testing and Production release.
• Knowledge transition of Microfocus tools - NetExpress, Enterprise Analyser, Perforce, Enterprise Server and Cruise control to the new team members who are coming from different software platform.
• Process improvement activities.
• Lead the project DB2 Database migration and implemented successfully.
• Certification in IKM Agile Professional
• Work Experience in ETL (Informatica Power enter 9.6)
• Fixed the issue with Production Deployment tool, and hence closed one of the major Audit Gap.
• Set up a production parallel region for multiple systems that was a major achievement.
• Set up the Production file restore and Backup process.
• Automated the process of cataloguing the dataset and physical allocation.

Confidential

Project Lead, Access Management and Quality Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project coordination and Quality Assurance.
• Development in IBM Mainframe platform, Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Confidential .
• Timely communication clients and response to User queries
• Knowledge transition and process improvement.
• Impact analysis and documentation, Review of Design, Codes in Cobol and Test plan.
• Coordinate Defect Prevention Meeting and maintain Defect log.
• Coordinate Risk meeting, Weekly Status meeting and QA Gate meetings

Confidential

Development and Maintains of existing application

Responsibilities:

• Code review and Defect fixing.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Preparation of Technical Specifications based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Problem Diagnosis and working with other engineering groups.
• Prepared test cases, test data and performed Unit, System and UAT testing.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery
• Organize Quality assurance meeting.
• Coding in Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM and Confidential
• Perform Confidential, Code and Test case review.
• Utilized DB2 utilities to load and unload the tables & also did some performance tuning utilizing the analysis generated by the DB2 EXPLAIN function
• Development and Maintenance are done on IBM Mainframe Platform

Confidential

Platform: Mainframe and Microfocus

Mainframe and Microfocus Developer

Responsibilities:

• System study and Component Identification.
• Categorization of Mainframe components.
• Impact Analysis and Performance tuning.
• Maintenance of Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM and Confidential .
• Convert the Cobol programs, Control cards, Procs, Confidential to Microfocus specific forms.
• Participated in unit testing and regression testing.
• Get signoffs from the Downstream systems.
• Monitor the jobs in Autosys and fix the failures.
• Project runs on IBM Mainframe platform.

Confidential

Development and Maintains of existing Issuer application

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of requirement, Prototyping and creating Confidential
• Actively involved in learning the Application.
• Take part in Full SDLC
• Implementation support
• Coding in Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM and Confidential
• Handling user queries
• Prepare unit test case documents and perform unit and integration testing to ensure application meets the functional and technical requirements
• Delivered several complex Cobol programs and Confidential
• Designed and developed the system which receives the XML data streams and convert to COBOL (Request) and then reads the DB2 tables and passes back the data to the front-end by converting the COBOL to XML (Response).
• Project runs on IBM Mainframe platform

Confidential

Development and Maintenance of existing Confidential application

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance & Enhancement project.
• Analyse the requirement and create Technical Specification
• Development in Cobol, JCL, DB2, VSAM and Confidential
• Testing of Cobol programs, Confidential, Db2 SQLs and Implementation.