SUMMARY

• Around 9+ years of IT experience which includes
• 2+ years of experiential knowledge of the Project Management and established Project Management methodologies.
• 7+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and production Support of Software developer in Oracle, Java and Mainframe platform.
• Extensive knowledge and experience as project/program manager with extensive expertise in IT through project Manager PPM tool and by SDLC process.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Oracle, Autosys, Java, I - compare, COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, DB2, VSAM, IDMS, FILE-AID, TSO/ISPF, OPCT (Scheduler), ESPP (Scheduler), CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, QMF, IBM UTILITIES, MQ Series, Easytrieve, interest, start tool, Xpeditor, REXX, Stored Procedures.
• Good domain knowledge of the Banking & Financial services and little knowledge of the Healthcare.
• Extensive knowledge in for java, C++, jsp, servlet, jdbc, jms, ejb
• Extensive knowledge in designing and developing DB2 objects using Erwin tool.
• Performance, Monitoring and Tuning SQL quires.
• Strong ability in managing projects from concepts to launch, defining requirements, estimating resources and project size, planning, executing project, review every aspect of delivery and adhering quality standards, coordinating with stakeholders and involving them as per need of project phase, status reporting using project dashboard and forecasting.
• Strong ability in creating project proposals, coordinating scoping sessions, soliciting estimation from the various impacted areas, creating project plans, budget/cost templates, resource plans and Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
• Strong ability in developing tools using REXX.
• Developed expertise in client interaction.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, multitasking and strategic planning skills.
• Very good exposure to all quality procedures and QC, JIRA tools.
• Very good exposure in optimizing DB2 queries using Explain method.
• Team player with good analytical, technical and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and outlook, Powerpoint and Visio (Flowcharts).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows 9x/NT/2000, ZOS

Languages: Java, PL/SQL, XML/XSD, JCL, COBOL, CICS, Stored Procedures, REXX, SQL, Flexcube*, UNIX*

Technologies: J2EE, JNDI, RMI, JDBC, XMLBeans, Mainframes

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, RCP, EJB, JSF, Primefaces, Sleak

Middleware: JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic

Development Methodologies: SDLC, Agile

Database: DB2, IDMS, VSAM, MySQL, Oracle

Network Protocols: SNMP, SFTP

Reports: Jasper Reports, Syncsort, Easytrieve

Business Tools: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Outlook, MS Visio, Lotus Notes, QC, Jira, PPM (Project & Portfolio Management Centre), Jira, QC.

Software Tools & Utilities: Eclipse IDE, JProfiler, MS Office, Crucible, Fisheye, IcompareChangeman, XPEditor,File-Aid, SPUFI, Control-M, Start ToolINSYNC, Erwin, Intertest, OPCT, ESPQ, IBM UTILITIES, FTPTSO/ISPF,$AVRS, SPUFI, QMF, Explain, AUTOSYS*

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Environment: Oracle, Hibernate, Java, DB2, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, Change man, IBM UTILITIES, FILEAID, QMF, AUTOSYS, UNIX, FLEXCUBE, QC, ICOMPARE, AUTOSYS, FLEXCUBE

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Testing and Quality assurance.
• Resolving project related issues during testing.
• Coordinating with various other concerned groups as and when required.
• Carried out the test schedule where planned changes going to production were routed.
• Prepare the Analysis and understanding documents.
• Developed Tools to validate the conversion data b/w VSAM and Flexcube DB.

Confidential

Environment: Oracle, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, CICS, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, IBM UTILITIES, ENDEVOR, INSYNC, START TOOL, Platinum

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for achievement of technical performance, business and new product development and operational goals.
• Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database.
• Tracked the issues and defects encountered during the data migration through the Issue Tracker tool. Reported the status and progress for the issues daily and manage the issue trackers till the issues or incidents are resolved and closed.
• Identification and consolidation of the missing functionalities between Stock transfer and Scrip system.
• Identified the list of activities required including testing that needs to be performed for different migration strategies.
• Collected information pertaining to the activities identified from each of the application SMEs.
• Acted as Liaison between the application development teams and the testing center of excellence to formulate best practices (Regression test bed building, Automation of data setup, Planning Schedule for the batches to achieve optimal productivity in Support as well as testing teams).
• Identify gaps in the knowledge base and processes and ensure closure of the same.
• As technical lead of the Migration project, coordinated and lead resolution calls for critical production support issues which spanned multiple days by involving teams from business, Infrastructure.
• Worked with the Shareowner Services SMEs to identify the approach to extract the data. Since the huge data was being extracted, a proper and efficient approach was required to manage the data extract and transmission within the agreed time window.
• Identified the test case coverage from all the application areas from each SMEs and validation of the testing effort provided by the QA team.

Confidential

Environment: Java, Eclipse, COBOL/400, JCL, VSAM, DB2/400, SQL/400, CICS, TSO/ISPF, XPEDITER, IBM UTILITIES, ENDEVOR, INSYNC, START TOOL, Platinum, MQ, COBOL, DB2.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in full project life cycle involving Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases.
• Resource and project planning for optimum usage of resources and seamless delivery for meeting the project deadlines.
• Creating Change Request (CRs) as and when required.
• Involved in preparing the technical design documents and carrying out walkthrough meeting with the IT & Business managers.
• Tracking the work in progress and attending status meetings.
• Developed, Modified and tested Java, COBOL and CICS programs and JCL codes per the requests of business departments.
• Resolving project related issues during design and testing.
• Creation of High level and Detailed level flow diagrams for programs.
• As a Java Tester tested many WEB application and developed some scripts for easy validation tool.
• As a COBOL developer coded many programs in DB2, CICS, and (very few) MQ series, and worked with DBA\'s to resolve database related job efficiency problems.
• As developer will request scheduler to set up job definition, schedules and triggers.
• Monitor and ABEND resolution of batch/online processing.
• Extensive coding using COBOL, JCL and VSAMs.
• Assurance of fast and error free delivery of requirements within limited amount of time.
• Used Endeavor to create, stage, and deploy COBOL packages in to production site.
• Preparing System test cases and performing UAT activities.
• Gathering Signoffs from Business.
• Provide technical assistance to the team for solving abends or to increase the performance of the application/program.
• Coordinating with various other concerned groups as and when required.
• Giving KT (Knowledge Transition) to newer team members
• Ensure that the project documentation is maintained as per the Project Life Cycle and all documents are version controlled and maintained.
• Analysing the issue mentioned in Ticket and applying appropriate solution.
• Preparing End of schedule report and carrying out minutes of meeting with the team. (Both offshore and onsite) at the end of the schedule.
• Use SQL (complex queries) to query the database.

Confidential

Environment: DB2, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, File-Aid, ChangeMan, Xpeditor, Control-M, $AVRS and Oracle (SQL and PlSQL).

Responsibilities:

• Researching on Various Equipment’s to properly view and migrate the data, as circuiting
• Analysis of problems encountered while implementing any modified or new functional components.
• Making sure that the entire Software Development Life Cycle is being followed and quality of the product is maintained.
• Preparation of Test plans and maintaining all the quality related documents
• Testing and Verification of changes made.
• Preparation of Documentation (PMM Document) for Code fixes.
• Maintaining Quality Standards as per the Company & Clients policy.
• Played a major role in developing KP (Knowledge Portal) for our team use and also developed MESS tool which is used to send the messages/information’s to other mainframe user.