SUMMARY

• Currently working as a Sr. Programmer Analyst/ID Developer
• Worked extensively with COBOL, Confidential COBOL DB2, CICS, JCL, VSAM and EASYTRIEVE Plus.
• Experienced with different Relational databases like DB2, Oracle.
• Very good knowledge of Insurance & Health Care Domain; Retail Sector; Banking & Financials and iterative Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Have actively involved in launching various life & annuity products by following end to end business procedures.
• ExtensiveSQL experience in querying, data extraction and data transformations.
• Good in Technical Documentation; Developed various User Manuals.
• Extensive knowledge of the entire Software Development Cycle right from Requirement Gathering, Converting Business requirements into Technical specifications, Impact Analysis, Root cause Analysis for problems or incidents, Estimation, Design - High Level and Detail, Code development, Maintenance, and support, Unit testing and Integration Testing to User Documentation.
• Identifies production issues related to Front End processing and ensures accurate tracking and reporting of these issues.
• Extensive experience in reviews for Technical Requirements, Impact Analysis, application Design and code walkthroughs.
• Expertise in Technology Consumption Management (TCM) activities which increase the system performance effectively.
• Extensive experience in using Microsoft Technologies like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Very energetic, hardworking and highly self-motivated team player with strong problem solving skills and very good communication and leadership skills.
• Strong leadership qualities, capable of handling and managing the teams. Very good at building team motivation/spirit and guiding the team to success.
• Quick learner and keen observer, determining external & internal customer needs and well versed in internal & external relationship building. Good team worker and like to be part of a team, which always tries to explore out of box. Flexible, dynamic and self-motivated with a flair for taking calculated risks and achieving success. Attention to detail, timeline sensitive and ability to manage technology projects from inception to transition.
• Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments. Energetic and perseverant self-starter known for exceeding goals and objectives.
• I have been awarded as Syntel Star Syntel Values & Team Awards:: Q3 '08 Winners

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: IBM OS/390 & Z/OS

Operating Systems: MVS/ESA, Windows XP/NT/95/98.

Languages: COBOL,JCL,SQL Confidential COBOL, SAS

Database: DB2, UDB, STORED PROCEDURES, IMS, SQL Server 2012, Oracle, OLTP, CICS

Tools: FILEAID,FILEDB2,QMF,XPEDITOR,CHANGEMAN,ENDEAVOR,INFOMAN,MANAGENOW,LIBRARIAN, REXX,JES2, CLIST,WLM, HP QC, HP ALM, PAC2000,REMEDY 7.6,JIRA

Access Method: VSAM

Reporting Tools: INFOPAC, EZYTRIEVE PLUS, MOBIUS

Others: JOBTRAC, CA7, ZEKE, Control-M, Java Script

Web: Java Script, HTML

Database Tools: TOAD,SQL Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Birmingham AL

Responsibilities:

• Service development for Net-Cash subsystem as a part of Commercial Business Area using Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• Analyze Business Requirement and convert the same into technical specifications such as data model and services that are being used.
• Involve in Design and Development of complex business solutions using COBOL, CICS online routines to support the front end JAVA platform.
• Co-ordinate with other IT teams such as Database, User Interface and Testing teams.
• Take high level direction - bridging over multiple channels/projects
• Analyze Process flows that have been built and suggest how to improve the process, such as fine tuning the code as well as DB2 SQl’s.
• Serve as Business Analyst creating documentation for Net-Cash System.
• Worked on both distributed and mainframe platforms

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Xpeditor, VSAM, SAS, ChangeMan, SPUFI, DB2 Platinum, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, Remedy 7.6, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL, Java Script

Confidential, Appleton WI

Responsibilities:

• Suggested solutions for improving the system performance and executed.
• Involved in the Review of Business Requirements and development of System design documents and Technical Design documents.
• Analyzed existing programs and responsible for preparing Analysis & Design document for the TOPS GAPS for Whole Life Products as well as interface for TOPS Suspense which is MIT.
• Modified existing programs using COBOL, DB2 as per the Requirement and Design specifications of WMA Trad Products.
• Participated and co-ordinate specification reviews, Code reviews and test case walkthrough’s with TOPS Technology team.
• Participated in Code and test cases reviews.
• Participated in coding and testing online and batch programs.
• Prepared test JCL’s for batch programs.
• Involved in unit testing, SystemTesting
• Followed the Method one quality procedures for all the deliverables
• Involved in unit testing and system testing and documentation

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, UDB, Xpeditor, VSAM, ZEKE, SAS, Endeavor, EASYTRIEVE, SPUFI, DB2 Platinum, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, HP Quality Center, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL

Confidential, Indianapolis IN

Responsibilities:

• Gathering Requirements with business users through Lotus Notes SR’s.
• Impact analysis Documentation.
• Fixing and coding the SR’s using Confidential COBOL as well as MS Server 2008 & 2012.
• Preparing Design Doc as per requirement
• Preparing test cases and test plan and walk them with the business unit
• System testing
• Integration testing
• In depth knowledge of converting the business requirement document to low level business design.
• Excellent exposure to the Insurance Domain
• SQL Server, including DDL and SQL Programming
• Expertise in Source Code Control systems
• Pride in work product and demonstrable organizational and time management skills
• Debug and extend existing applications and codebases

Environment: FUJITSUCOBOL, SQL Server 2008/2012. Beyond Compare Tool, MS Visual Studio, Source Code Control systems

Confidential, Bentonville AR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to lead both onsite and offshore team as part of rollout system.
• A core technical team member
• Involved in the development and testing of a new module for this requirement
• Responsible for reviewing all the tech specs, functional specs and unit test plans to ensure that all the functionalities of an interface has been covered and to make sure that all the standards demanded by the new MQ global architecture has been followed
• Coordinating with the team for successful integration/System testing environment setup
• Responsible for analyzing the impacted system flow and finalizing the list of impacted jobs as well as the changes that have to be done in these jobs which is essential for the final implementation
• Responsible for CR/ Defects and changing and developing programs & JCL’s for the production environment by following Remedy-7 Change Management Procedures.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Business Design Reviews and in the preparation of high level and Low Level design document.
• Preparation of design documents for each requirement mentioned in the Business System Analysis Report (BSAR).
• DevelopedTechnical Documentation and Technical Training to the end users.
• Interviewed Users and BSA’s (Business System Analysts) to prepare test plans, data flow and interface data flow documents.
• Coordinate with managers to escalate issues, in case of any development/ maintenance problems.
• Coded programs using COBOL, DB2, UDB, VSAM and CICS and testing the same.
• Write complex queries using SPUFI to perform various operations on database
• Used XPEDITOR to debug both online and batch programs.
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Developed conversion strategies from VSAM to DB2
• Worked on DB2 stored procedures for same essential process multiple times as it offload database calls to the database server itself also it minimize the load on DB2 database and processor time.
• Expert knowledge in following the Change Management Process through Change Man &Manage Now.
• Working as a Tech Lead

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, UDB, Xpeditor, VSAM, JOBTRAC, EASYTRIVE, Changeman, SPUFI, Endeavor,QMF, File-AID, ABEND AID, MFT, Mangenowand Assembler, MS-WORD AND MS-EXCEL& VISIO,NDM, Manage Now.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the impact analysis, preparing the high level, low-level design document and identifying data quality issues
• Used TEST to debug both online and batch COBOL programs.
• Maintenance of JCLs, PROCs, PARMs and Loads for application
• Create various VSAM clusters and GDG s using File-Manager
• Developed new and modified existing COBOL-DB2-CICS batch and online programs.
• Expertise in Batch and Online Performance Tuning
• Designed new screens and modified some of the existing screens using SDF
• Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
• Loading and unloading the data from/into DB2 tables.
• Developed various programs in converting VSAM to DB2
• Actively involved in the full project life cycle from user requirements to implementation
• Developing interface Application using COBOL-DB2-CICS Batch & Online programs
• Preparation and execution of test plans and test cases
• Preparation and execution of Unit Test Plans, System Test Plan, Unit Test Cases, Integration
• Test cases, Systems Test cases
• Created QMF Procs & Forms for reporting purpose