SUMMARY

• 14+ Years of experience in Application Design, Development, Integration and Support.
• P roficient knowledge and work experience on various Software Development Life Cycle phases.
• Demonstrate the expertise in Migrating Legacy Mainframe applications to Cloud (AWS).
• Extensive experience in developing and maintaining applications using Mainframe technologies like COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, Stored Procedures, VSAM and other Mainframe utilities following Agile and Waterfall model.
• Worked on major Integration, Migration, Regulatory, Mandatory projects/programs.
• Expertise in implementing Optimized, Cost Effective end to end quality solution for businesses.
• Adaptable to new technologies in short span and implement them in real - time projects. I am quick learner with solid analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Effective communicator and working experience with steering committees and upper management.
• Served various businesses in Retail, Banking and Insurance domain providing them with Technical solutions for Software Development projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM Mainframe MVS, Z/OS, Windows, Linux
• DB2, IMS-DB, IMS-DC, Teradata, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• VSAM
• COBOL, APS COBOL, SQL, JCL, CICS, Easytrieve, REXX, Unix shell scripting, C, C++, OpenFrame, QUICKJOB, XML, Core Java,
• Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, ELB, RDS, VPC)
• Fileaid, QMF, SPUFI, IBM Debugger, Informatica, Xpediter, Endevor, Changeman, ISPF/TSO, INFOMAN, SORT, FTP/SFTP, DB2 Store Procedure, IOF, SMARTTEST, AbendAid, SAVERS, Prodsar, SDSF, Teradata SQL Assistant, Service Now, SysAid, JIRA, HP Quality Center (QC), Infoprint, POMS, GitHub, HighJump, Vision Plus, MQ Series, JOBTRAC, JHS and FileZilla, Microsoft Visio
• Control-M, CA7, OPC, UCC11, Cron
• Fastload, Multiload, Fastexport, BTEQ
• Agile, Waterfall
• Retail, Banking & Credit Card Services, Insurance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various stages from requirement gathering till production implementation and support for the application
• A nalyze complex business requirements and develop High level (HLD) and Low level (LLD) design documents
• Design and development of various COBOL, DB2, CICS programs (Batch and Online), PROC’s and JCL’s for new enhancements and maintenance processes/requirements
• Create store procedures to retrieve and update data in database as per business requirement
• Responsible for maintaining the ordering, inventory, and vendor databases developed in Teradata, DB2
• Lead the migration activity for existing legacy apps from mainframe to INFOR ERP
• Creating AWS EC2 instances (Linux and Windows), RDS Instances, ELB (Elastic Load Balancer) using AWS SDK
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto-scaling groups, Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier
• Providing technical leadership to the team in order to produce system designs and code that is capable, robust, reusable and flexible
• Developing and implementing test validations of the applications, including Unit testing, SIT and UAT testing
• Act as single point of contact for the critical issues raised by Business/DC Manager
• Adopting agile methodology with existing applications to handle all development work with daily statuses as well as weekly sprint planning with the product owners.
• Conduct daily status meetings, Business meetings, Support turnover meetings
• Independently handle complex issues and resolve them effectively with in the specified timelines
• Lead the initiative for Optimization of batch jobs by Identifying long running queries, scripts, Spool space issues, skewness issues etc. Optimize the performance of batch jobs by reducing MIPS
• Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for various Supply Chain applications
• Participate in Holiday readiness stress testing activities which is to determine the application transaction thresholds by using SOASTA (Cloud based testing service)
• Manage knowledge repository for the project creating high quality documentation in various stages of life cycle

Skills: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedures, Easytrieve, REXX, Informatica, Z/OS, IOF, SmartTest, Changeman, Endevor, JHS, Core Java, MySQL, Unix, HighJump, Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, ELB, RDS, VPC), Xpediter, Fileaid, SPUFI, QMF, MQ, SORT, IMS-DB/DC, InformixDB, QuikJob, OpenFrame, XML, UML, SysAid, JIRA, MS Visio, Teradata, Infoprint, GitHub, OPC, Cron, Control-M.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in system analysis, design, development and implementation of Confidential Logistics and warehouse management system
• Create release-based project/product implementation plan
• Developing and implementing complex mainframe applications using Cobol, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS, MQ
• Create complex reports in VIEW DIRECT based on business request which are being used by Business
• Setup data transfer mechanism like FTP/SFTP
• Suggest job scheduling changes in existing batch process to reduce batch cycle run time
• Performance tune any long running SQLs and improve the performance
• Implemented and Enhanced the Existing Scripts which are developed in SQL
• Existing Kmart applications using IMS-DB and IMS-DC, lead the migration activity to move the mainframe processing over to OpenFrame which runs on Linux servers. This effort was need in short time period in order to help reduce IMS licensing cost.
• Help team to build AWS infrastructure using various resources, VPC EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, Security Group, Auto Scaling, and RDS
• Provide Production support after the production rollout; perform RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for any issues. Based on RCA rewrite/fix the code
• Lead the MIPS reduction initiative to find for redundant jobs; saving cost for company
• Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for various Supply Chain applications
• Drive Architecture discussions with the solution architecture teams to define integration patterns and train the development teams towards the delivery
• Planning and Implementation of Continual Service Improvement initiatives which includes investment of a greater number of hours for enhancements in order to have more automation
• Managing Support Turnover Requirement (STR) document i n order to hand over the project to Production S upport team

Skills: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedures, Easytrieve, REXX, Informatica, Z/OS, IOF, SmartTest, Changeman, Endevor, JHS, Core Java, MySQL, Unix, HighJump, Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, ELB, RDS, VPC), Xpediter, Fileaid, SPUFI, QMF, MQ, SORT, IMS-DB/DC, InformixDB, QuikJob, OpenFrame, XML, UML, SysAid, JIRA, MS Visio, Teradata, Infoprint, GitHub, OPC, Cron, Control-M.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the project from Offshore
• Responsible for managing 24x7 application support and enhancements. This includes complex batch cycle and key deliverables
• Accountable for enterprise level SLAs
• Enhance/Create Cobol-DB2 batch programs, COBOL-IMS DB & DC programs, Stored PROCS per the requirement
• Review the code and test results from team members
• Debug programs using various debugging tools
• Conduct testing (Unit testing, QA Testing)
• Lead the Planning and Implementation of Continual Service Improvement initiatives which includes reduction of incidents, investment of a greater number of hours for enhancements in order to have more automation
• Project Management (Score card, Project planning)

Skills: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Unix, DB2, Core Java, Teradata SQL Assistant, CICS, Easytrieve, REXX, Xpediter, Fileaid, QMF, SPUFI, QuickJob, Service Now, JIRA, Syncsort, Prodsar, UML, DB2 Stored procedures, PRINTMAN, GitHub, IOF, Changeman, Jobtrack, OPC, Control-M.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create knowledge transaction plan for project to have it transitioned from vendor partner
• Coordinating with offshore team on daily basis for Updates and critical issues.
• Involved in various stages from requirement gathering till production implementation and support for the application
• Coding programs using COBOL, VSAM, JCL and DB2
• Participate in the Business/Status meetings & code walk-through
• Providing technical leadership to the team in order to produce system designs and code that is capable, robust, reusable and flexible
• Ensure alignment to Quality Shared Services best practices, tools and standards
• Lead the initiative for Optimization of batch jobs by Identifying long running queries, scripts, Spool space issues, skewness issues etc
• Manage knowledge repository for the project creating high quality documentation in various stages of life cycle

Skills: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedures, Easytrieve, REXX, Informatica, Z/OS, IOF, SmartTest, Changeman, Endevor, JHS, MySQL, Unix, HighJump, Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, ELB, RDS, VPC), Xpediter, Fileaid, SPUFI, QMF, MQ, SORT, IMS-DB/DC, InformixDB, QuikJob, XML, Teradata, Infoprint, OPC, Cron, Control-M.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading the project from Offshore. Coordinating with the onshore to gather the requirement
• Provide Technical leadership to team while developing Batch and Online programs using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM
• Development of database programs, procedures, packages, using Teradata
• Conduct code reviews followed by testing (Unit testing, QA Testing)
• Extraction, loading, cleansing, and data modeling for data warehouses.
• Project Management (Score card, Project planning)
• Documentation of the Purpose of tasks so as to facilitate the personnel to understand the process and incorporate the changes as and when necessary

Skills: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Unix, DB2, Core Java, Teradata SQL Assistant, CICS, REXX, Z/OS, Xpediter, Fileaid, QMF, SPUFI, QuickJob, Service Now, JIRA, Syncsort, Prodsar, UML, DB2 Stored procedures, PRINTMAN, GitHub, IOF, Changeman, Jobtrack, OPC, Control-M.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team at offshore which used to provide the Claims MI Reports
• Coordinating with Onshore to understand requirements
• Resolving data issues team used to get while creating the reports; which many times required COBOL program analysis and program fix
• Make changes to existing programs/JCL Procs (Batch programs) as per requirement using COBOL, DB2, JCL
• Project Management (WSR, KT (Technical/Business, Grooming)
• Documentation of the Purpose of tasks/program changes so as to facilitate the personnel to understand the process and incorporate the changes as and when necessary

Skills: APS COBOL, Perl Scripting, DB2, S QL, J CL, Informix 4GL, Z/OS, C, C++, IBM Debugger, HP Quality Center (QC), ISPF/TSO, Syncsort, CA7.

Confidential

Associate Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Create Functional and Technical Specifications based upon requirement
• Development (Batch and Online) using COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM
• Perform code review
• Preparing Test cases and Test Plan, Testing (Unit testing, QA Testing)
• Conducting knowledge sharing sessions
• Regular and ad-hoc reporting status/progress to Team Lead/Project Manager
• Supporting the base release code; which includes checking QC (Quality Center) for any defects and fix them in specified SLA timelines

Skills: Vision Plus, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, JCL, CICS, REXX, Z/OS, QMF, Changeman, Fileaid, IBM Debugger, SDSF, HP Quality Center (QC), Syncsort, FTP/SFTP, Prodsar, Smarttest, CA7.