SUMMARY

• 10+ years of IT experience in various projects doing Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance and Production Support in Banking and Finance, Telecom, Insurance, Retail, Automobile and Health care Applications.
• 9+ Years of Mainframe Experienced in business application development with Systems Analysis, Application Design, Development, and Maintenance with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and SAS
• 3+ Years of US Experience under Banking and Security Domain in Mainframes
• Strong knowledge on DB2 data model with defining Schemas and Tables .
• Strong experience in Cobol - Db2 Stored Procedure ( Analysis/Design/Testing) in Real time system .
• Extensive design knowledge in DB2 Load/Unload process with nightly batch process using DB2 Load/Unload utility.
• Expertise in the Mainframe tools like TSO, ISPF/SDSF,VAGEN, Endevor, Xpeditor, Abend-Aid and RPF (Roscoe Programming File)
• Strong knowledge in creating JCL and JCL PROCs using various JCL utilities like DFSORT, FILEAID, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBCOMPR and ICETOOL.
• Strong knowledge in creating High Level Design, Detailed Design and Functional Requirement documents.
• Strong skills in support activities, analysis, technical design, testing, trouble shooting for both batch & online application programs in mainframe applications.
• Extensive knowledge in onsite offshore model of working with updating status to customer along with offshore coordination.
• Attained immense experience in usage of mainframe DB2 tools - SPUFI, File Manager for Db2 & QMF.
• Strong skills in working with various debugging tools in the mainframe environment for trouble shooting using XPEDITOR (CICS/Batch), Debugger and Trace Master.
• Attained production/UAT support experience via usage of supportive tools including JOBTRACK.
• Good knowledge on version control tool like Change Man,ELIPS, Endevor, Roscoe, STABLE along with a strong knowledge on change management tool like CCF (Change Control Facility),
• Strong Experience with CICS Transaction processing with DB2 application including Map/Map set creation.
• Extensive experience with preparation of report using reporting tool/Language like SAS.
• Good experience with report viewing tool like SAR and MOBIUS.
• Strong experience in DB2 application like cursor (Declare, Open, Fetch ), SQL query optimization, Cursor using pointer functionality.
• Good experience in Cobol-VSAM application with VSAM database like KSDS and ESDS cluster
• Developed new inbound/Outbound program in CICS Web Services Environment with support of CICS Transaction Server 3.1.
• Possess very good organizational, analytical, teamwork and Project management skills along with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Having an Attitude of willing to learn, accept the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results within timelines by constantly motivating the concerned teams to provide the best solutions to the clients.
• Good experience working with offshore teams and ability to train the team members on process and technology updates in the project by conducting Knowledge sharing sessions and regular telecom meetings, and extensive knowledge in onsite offshore model of working.
• Scheduling/allocating/monitoring work among the team and being responsible for the successful delivery of the entire project/sub-project(s).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: VS COBOL II, OS/VS COBOL, JCL, SQL, IMS,SAS,Cobol/390

Tools: /Interface: SPUFI, CICS, VAGEN, ROSCOE, STABLE, ELIPS, TSO ISPF, QMF, SPUFI

RDBMS: DB2, Oracle 8i

File System: VSAM

Web Technologies: Java, JDBC, Servlets, Applets, Beans, JSP

Operating Systems: MVS, OS/390, Windows NT

Hardware Platforms: IBM Mainframe S/390, Z/OS

Online Transaction Processing Environment: CICS, CICS Web Services, CICS Transaction Server 3.1

Debugging Tool: Xpeditor, Trace Master (Online ), CEDF

Scheduler: Tivoli Work Scheduler (TWS job scheduler), CA-7, Job track

Other Utilities: Roscoe, RPF, File manager, SAR, Mobius, CCF, ELIPSE, stable, Endevor, Insynch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Design Lead, Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Additional Design Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.
• Updating the existing JCL’s to handle the Next Generation changes
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using DB2 load/Unload utility
• Testing the Stored Procedure using EzProc.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.
• Participating in Internal Audits and External Reviews.
• Involved in the implementation of these changes in production by packaging the application etc.
• Involved in warranty Support for the releases

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, DB2), Tools (GSP tool for Map creation, Trace master (debugger tool), File manager, SPUFI)

Sr. Developer, Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Additional Design Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.
• Updating the existing JCL’s to handle the Next Generation changes
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER/Trace Master set up.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.
• Participating in Internal Audits and External Reviews.
• Involved in the implementation of these changes in production by packaging the application etc.
• Involved in warranty Support for the releases

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM), Tools (GSP tool for Map creation, Trace master (debugger tool), File manager, SPUFI)

Sr. Developer, Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Technical Specification
• Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Manage the resource for offshore team.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.
• Involved with ACH/ARP Customer set up and Customer Testing
• Involved with Image Exchange Application Customer set up.
• Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS), Tools (Roscoe, RPF, ELIPS, SAR report, File manager, SPUFI)

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Made the Requirement Analysis from the scratch
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM Database design Concepts.
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER set up.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Enhancement and Implementation of the new inbound and outbound program in CICS Web Services environment.
• Discussed with business Analyst and Line of business to understand the exact requirements and wrote down the functional specification
• Involve in designing the Technical Specification
• Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Coordinated with the testing team for QA testing.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.

Environment: Operating system (MVS OS/390), Languages/File System (CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SAS), Tools (Roscoe, RPF, ELIPS, SAR report, File manager, SPUFI), CICS Web Services