EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• A dignified Information Technology professional having more TEMPthan 7+ years of hands on experience in application development. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved wif full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
• Highly Knowledgeable, good analytical, technical skills and Results - Oriented IT management professional wif good communication skills.
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
• As a catalyst for the growth of business.
• Ability to work independently as onsite point contact or cooperatively as part of a team to meet project deadlines and Common goals.
• Expert in Mainframe Technologies involving Analysis, Design, Coding, Implementation, and testing of Application Software Maintenance wif IMS DB/DC,DB2, COBOL, JCL, EZT and VSAM.
• Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience wif different functionalities of the application, wif Development and Production Support projects.
• Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OPERATING SYSTEMS: OS/390 V2R10, Z/OS Windows.

HARDWARE: IBM Mainframe S390.

SOFTWARE PRODUCTS: MVS/ESA-Version 5.2.2, JCL, Easytrieve, REXX, CICS, CA-7, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities.

Databases: DB2, IMS DB

Tools / Technologies: VSAM, ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID for DB2, QMF, SPUFI, File AID, Endeavor, Expeditor.

Domain Expertise: Health Care

Application knowledge: Claim Processing.

IT disciplines: Software Development and Integration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, TN

Proclaim Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Technical Design Document to meet the requirements of functional requirements documents.
• Development of Code for application changes as required/specified by technical design documents
• Preparations of PGS, involvement in Code, code walk troughs and Unit Testing using the test data prepared by Confidential .
• Interacting wif the on-site co-coordinators to get the requirements and clarification of the work details.
• Raising the issues or design gaps when technical or functional requirements are not met for the proposed changes for the project.
• Performing the technical check out during code implementation in the line of business.
• Involved in Knowledge Acquisition/Knowledge Transition of the Proclaim Preprocessing Domain to the newly inducted team members and attended DP and weekly status meetings
• Participates in code overviews intended to halp the entire team understand each project component.
• Researches and evaluates tools and technologies and recommends the most efficient and cost TEMPeffective application programming solution.
• Creates comprehensive system documentation including technical design documents, defect write-up, and extensive comments contained wifin application code / logic.
• Focus on automation of repetitive development activities in order to reduce manual effort and improve quality
• Improve quality and maintainability of code by usage of standard coding guidelines and review
• Supports for the all testing phases wif focus on faster and “first time right” resolution of defects.
• Supports the Technical services as needed during test and production cycle, code movement and performance improvement
• Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests using Endeavor.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.
• Setting up Process to be followed from Offshore
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team wif business functionality and the new requirements

Core Operations Technical Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for test environment and code management.
• Execute batch test cycles in the environments, and manage related scheduling tools and technologies
• Responsible for the release implementation and movement of code
• Support Disaster Recovery testing and planning.
• Supports wif TSG technology vendor product management.
• Supports wif infrastructure requirements, estimation and planning for all projects.
• Partners wif Information Protection for strategic and existing application security.

Environment: OS/390, Enterprise COBOL, DB2, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, SQL, Expeditor, File-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Endeavor, IBM Utilities, MQ

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ensure availability of document/code for review
• Ensure all relevant documents (checklist provided by the client if any, documents from previous phases, IQA review records along wif substantiation of IQA defects closure, tailored templates if any for the division for the art craft being reviewed or any other important information dat the offshore team should be aware of before performing the review) are available
• Collecting review metrics for the project
• Analysis of client supplied documents
• Collect various process and product metrics in the project Monitoring and tracking the project status
• System Study Understanding business and System Requirements through Interaction wif Clients.
• Low-level designing of the impacted components
• Constructing the solution/component. Performing Unit testing
• Coordinating wif the Clients for System test Activity
• Constructing and reviewing Unit Test Plan using TCS’ Review Checklists
• Reviewing the Code and Unit Test Result at the completion of the requirements.
• Involved in Quality Assurance Activities for the Delivery Centre
• Coordinating wif client for the implementation for the Change/Enhancement requests
• Managing the configuration and controlling the versions
• Conduct technical and process related training sessions for the team
• Understanding the programs through extraction of business rules, entity
• relationship models and process models

Environment: OS/390, COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SYNCSORT, JCL, TSO, ISPF/PDF, SQL, Xpeditor, FILE-Aid, File-Aid for DB2, Endevor, IBM Utilities, SPUFI, QMF.

Confidential

Associate Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of applications using JCL, VSAM, COBOL, DB2
• Follow coding standards and development of programs and jobs using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, and CICS.
• Unit and System testing of programs.
• Debugging of the programs.
• Analyzing modifications, finding effected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Handling Ad-Hoc Requests.

Environment: IBM S390, MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, JCLFILE-AID, EZYTRIVE, CHANGEMAN, and INFOMAN.