SUMMARY

• 13 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals in Infosys, IBM and Accenture.
• Experienced in Mainframe Application Development and Support.
• Proficient in analysing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
• Excellent communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly & utilize the same in a productive manner.
• Resolving incidents, creating change orders and resolving service requests in SNOW, AYS.
• Executing Mainframe Development Projects through SDLC phases - Requirements Gathering, Estimation, Analysis & Design, Build, Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, Implementation and Warranty.
• Performing Mainframe systems decommissioning activities and approving decommissioning requests in MKS.
• Handling various technical aspects like project documentation, system design & integration.
• Verifying change requests and defects; tracking and reviewing test plans, test results and unresolved problems; reviewing test reports & taking corrective actions.
• Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines; extending post-implementation and maintenance support to the technical support team and client.
• Responsible for effective communication between project team and customer.
• Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents, establish specific solutions and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Mainframe z/OS, Open MVS

Programming languages: COBOL, REXX, EasyTrieve, Java

Databases: DB2 / SQL, IMS DB

Online environments: IMS DC, CICS

Other technologies: JCL, ISPF, Mainframe Workbench, VSAM, MQ, J2EE

Tools: Change Man, Info Man, Endevor, Pan Valet, File Manager for zOS, DB2 and IMS, CA7 Scheduler, File Aid, Optim, DFSORT, File Master, Zeke, Zena, VDR Assist, VisionPLUS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing Mainframe batch jobs and COBOL-DB2-CICSprograms.
• Design permanent solutions to frequently occurring problems/critical issues in Mainframe
• Software Development Life Cycle (Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Warranty Support).
• Create change requests in SNOW for making changes to production jobs, procs, control cards and programs.

Confidential

Technical Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing day to day support activities such as monitoring batch jobs, incidents resolution, status reporting.
• Performing Mainframe systems decommissioning activities and approving decommissioning requests in MKS.
• Handling various technical aspects like project documentation, system design & integration.
• Verifying change requests and defects; tracking and reviewing test plans, test results and unresolved problems; reviewing test reports & taking corrective actions.
• Delivering and implementing the project as per scheduled deadlines; extending post-implementation and maintenance support to the technical support team and client.
• Responsible for effective communication between project team and customer.

Confidential

Technical Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing day to day support activities such as monitoring online environment, batch jobs, status reporting.
• Resolve production problems such as batch abends, user queries, etc within SLA (Service level agreement)
• Design permanent solutions to frequently occurring problems/critical issues
• Implement production problem fixes thru complete life cycle (Design, Development, testing, post implementation support.
• Gather requirements for application enhancement/preventive maintenance by interacting with business SMEs (Subject matter experts) and end users.
• Convert business requirements to technical design. Present the design to client SMEs/end users for approval. (Approval is must for process compliance)
• Evaluation and estimation of new implementation or modification of existing Processes
• Coordinate development of the solution. Work with users to test the fix/patch to make sure it meets requirements. Provide gatekeeper sign off. Lead post implementation support.
• Track the project and small system change request schedules, time reporting. Participate in peer-review process of code-fix for the quality of the deliverables.
• Updating the status to the Project manager/ Program manager, client manager and delivery executives with weekly and monthly status reports.
• Will be responsible for analysing gaps in existing system as well as opportunities for improvement. Discuss the same with client SMEs to come up with solutions.
• Conduct status meeting (Daily, weekly and monthly) between development team, Client SMEs and end users to get all the stake holders on the same page

Confidential

Senior Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing migration and development of programs such as analysis, design, coding, testing and moving components to production.
• Review the technical design document to find out whether it’s correct or any change is required
• Code program to extract data from IMS databases and DB2 tables for SAP migration, add it to Pan Valet, and get it reviewed by SME
• Document Unit Test Cases and get Unit Test Plan reviewed by SME
• Test the program as per Unit Test Cases, document test results in Unit Test Results document and get it reviewed by SME by scheduling walkthrough calls
• Provide support during implementation of the code, moving them to production and run the extract programs in production