Development & Support Resume

SUMMARY

3 years of professional experience in Mainframes development and Enhancement with a great deal of emphasis on quality methods and standards.
Involved in Development, Enhancement, Support and Maintenance projects.
Primary Skills: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, IMSDB and Secondary Skills: SQL
Good analytical and problem solving skills with a good exposure to the key facts of leading teams to meet set objectives and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Good communication skills, debugging skills, Good Banking Domain and Good Finance Domain knowledge.
Good knowledge on Software development life cycle (SDLC).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SQL,SAS

Operating System: Z/OS MVS, Windows XP and MS - DOS

Tools: SPUFI, XPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, PANVALET

Databases: DB2, IMSDB

Access Method: VSAM

OLTP: CICS

Production Tools: ESP, CA7, Control-M

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Development & Support

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMSDB, SAS

Tools: PANAVALET, XPEDITOR, FILE - AID, ESP

Responsibilities:

Coordinated knowledge transfer and gaining a good understanding of the Applications.
Coding Programs from scratch and developing the corresponding JCL.
Preparing the test cases, testing the jobs and reviewing the deliverables.
Reviewing the COBOL programs, JCLs and test cases coded by other team members.
Preparing the FTP for all the Jobs.
Preparing Technical design specifications and Impact analysis documents.
Involved on enhancement of some of the applications which included conversion of SAS programs to Cobol. Activities being analyzing the SAS programs and coming up with detailed design. Performing thorough testing comparing results with production run. Implementation and support of the elements.
Performing Self reviews and peer reviews and review of modules before moving to production.
Involved in abend fixing as part of the production support which included Mainframe batch jobs and online screens
Handling the adhoc request of scheduling the jobs are requested by the customer using some scheduling features of ESP.
Responsible for training new members of the team on system and Technology during induction in to the project.

Confidential

Environnent: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

Tools: CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, FILE - AID

Responsibilities:

Analysis and understanding of Design document.
Understanding Business requirements and functionality.
Creation of Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Cases.
Performing Unit Testing and Documenting the Unit Test Results.
Maintenance and Enhancement Support.
Enhancement of existing programs according to Client specifications.
Impact analysis of existing programs.
Executing Work requests, which involve analysis, Unit testing and documentation.
Interaction with Onsite coordinators to get clarifications on business specifications.
Resolving the ABENDS in Production job, fixing the bugs in the existing programs.