PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Solutions - driven professional with 10+ years of experience in designing/ implementing technical solutions for top clients like Confidential, Confidential VALIC, Well point, D&B US, Confidential ~Llyods.
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications
• 3+ years of experience as Scrum Master (Certified Scrum Master via Scrum Alliance, 2015) handling technical and business driven project. Ability to introduce and educate team to follow agile development process and follow scrum ceremonies.
• Excellent working knowledge in core application design, development, Testing and production support.
• Has work experience in Insurance, Banking, Information, Cards and Payments Domain applications.
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications, diverse work experience with different functionalities of applications with development and production support projects
• Experience in handling projects in various roles as Team member, Team Lead, Technical specialist, Programmer and Software consultant
• Hands on experience with OS/390, Z/OS, COBOL,SAS, CICS, DB2, IMS/DB,IDMS, JCL, VSAM, SORT Utilities, Easytrieve, File-AID, File Manager, Native Store Procedures, Endeavor, CA-7, IBM Utilities, FTP, HTML, Changeman, Panvalet, MQ Series, MS Office (MS-word, Excel, Power Point), CA Agile Central (Rally).
• Self-motivated, highly committed to responsibilities, ability to work independently and ability to perform well within cross-functional teams.
• Effectively interacting with other Testing team members, Development, Support Team and Stakeholders.
• Trained newly joined team members on the existing framework and the expected deliverables.
• Proactively participated in generating Weekly Reports, Monthly metrics and Data Sheets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SAS, CICS, Easytrieve, Native store proc, FTP, HTML.

Databases: DB2, IMS DB, Datacom, IDMS, VSAM.

Tools: & Utilities: SORT Utilities, File-AID, File Manager, Xpediter, QMF, SPUFI, MQ Series.

Schedulers: Control M, Jobtrac, CA7.

Test Management Tools: HP ALM, HP Quality center, SOAP UI, CA Agile Central (Rally).

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Z/OS, OS/390.

Configuration Management tools: Changeman, Endevour, Pan Valet, Alchemist, Share point.

Methodologies: SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodology.

Domain Experience: Banking, Finance, Information, Insurance, Healthcare, Credit cards & Payments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Work with IT and Business users to evaluate complex user requests, projects, and clarify objectives and functional requirements for new or modified computer programs
• Independently formulate detailed program specifications using structured analysis and design methodology. Prepare project documentation when needed.
• Perform analysis of complex systems issues or changes.
• Achieved program/cost effectiveness by enhancing existing modules independently.
• Performed analysis of complex systems issues or changes.
• Responsible for coordinating and leading Backlog grooming, Spring planning, daily stand up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.
• Involving in Migration activities of Loyalty platform transformation from legacy to Distributed systems.
• Provide technical assistance to resolve operating issues. Provide on-the-job training for new or less experienced programmers who join the team.
• Mentor team to improve their understanding and skill and ensure they are familiar with resource materials including manuals and systems documentation.
• As a Technology lead, to provide estimate of the project tasks and assigns the tasks to team members based on the priority. Provide technical guidance to team on technical issues
• Prepare the tech designs, test plans and test cases documents. Load them in Quality Center.
• Developed multiple batch and online programs in Mainframe technologies

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II,SAS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, CA-7, Auto-sys, Xpediter, Store Procedure File-Aid, File-Manager, Abend-aid, Sysdump, Control M, SYNC SORT,SDSF, SPUFI, QMF, FTP, XML, MS Office (MS-word, Excel, Power Point), CA Agile Central (Rally).

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer.

Responsibilities:

• Work with IT and Business users to evaluate complex user requests, projects, and clarify objectives and functional requirements for new or modified computer programs
• Independently code new or modified computer programs into existing systems and test program effectiveness. Perform analysis of complex systems issues or changes.
• Provide technical assistance to resolve operating issues. Provide on-the-job training for new or less experienced programmers who join the team.
• Mentor team to improve their understanding and skill and ensure they are familiar with resource materials including manuals and systems documentation.
• Prepare the tech designs, test plans and test cases documents. Load them in QC.
• Developed multiple batch and online programs in Mainframe technologies

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II,SAS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, CA-7, Auto-sys, Xpediter, Intertest, File-Aid, File-Manager, Abend-aid, Control M,Sysdump, SYNC SORT,SDSF, SPUFI, QMF, FTP, XML, MS Office (MS-word, Excel, Power Point)

Confidential

Senior Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Ensures quality of deliverables is made during every phase of the project and it is in accordance to the agreed commitments with the Customer.
• Investigation of Customer queries on potential system problems
• Developed programs using COBOL, JCLs, SAS, PROCs, DB2, and CICS. Developed CICS BMS Maps using SDF II tool.
• Developed programs using MQ Series in Online and Batch environment.
• Responsible for Test Execution (Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing) in mainframe applications as well as in Web applications.
• Participated in peer reviews of Designs, Code, test results.
• Experience in using STROBE tool for DB2 performance tuning.
• Use Xpediter and Intertest tools to debug CTG programs.
• Involvement in Production support activities during and after the implementation of jobs. Used CA-7 for job monitoring and scheduling.
• Code SQL SPUFIs to generate ad-hoc reports for business user’s verification and matrix purpose.
• Perform Cause Analysis Report to identify the root cause and fix the issue permanently if possible.

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, SAS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, MQ-Series, Assembler, CA-7, Auto-sys, Xpediter, Intertest, File-Aid, File-Manager, Abend-aid, Sysdump, SYNC SORT,SDSF, SPUFI, QMF, Mercury Quality Center(QC), NDM, FTP, HTML, XML, MS Office (MS-word, Excel, Power Point).

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Developed programs using COBOL, JCLs, SAS, PROCs, DB2, and CICS. Developed CICS BMS Maps using SDF II tool.
• Responsible for Test Execution (Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing) in mainframe applications as well as in Web applications.
• Participated in peer reviews of Designs, Code, test results.
• Experience in using STROBE tool for DB2 performance tuning.
• Work with front-end (Java/J2EE) development team to resolve issues in development and integration testing.

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II,SAS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2,IDMS, Endeavor, SDSF, SPUFI, QMF, INTERTEST, MS Office (MS-word, Excel, Power Point).

Confidential

Software Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures quality of deliverables is made during every phase of the project and it is in accordance to the agreed commitments with the Customer.
• Developed programs using COBOL, JCLs, PROCs, DB2 and CICS. Developed CICS BMS Maps using SDF II tool.
• Developed programs using MQ Series in Online and Batch environment.
• Responsible for Test Execution (Unit, System, Integration and User Acceptance Testing) in mainframe applications as well as in Web applications.
• Participated in peer reviews of Designs, Code, test results.
• Use Xpediter and Intertest tools to debug CTG programs.
• Involvement in Production support activities during and after the implementation of jobs. Used CA-7 for job monitoring and scheduling.
• Code SQL SPUFIs to generate ad-hoc reports for business user’s verification and matrix purpose.
• Performed Incidents Analysis and production cycle monitoring
• Perform Cause Analysis Report to identify the root cause and fix the issue permanently if possible.

Environment: Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, COBOL II, SAS, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, CA-7, Auto-sys, Xpediter, File-Aid, File-Manager, Abend-aid, Sysdump, SYNC SORT,SDSF, SPUFI, FTP, MS Office (MS-word, Excel, Power Point).