SUMMARY

• Over nine years of experience in application development, maintenance and support using Mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS with emphasis on analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation
• Played role as a Technical Lead, Project Lead and Senior Developer
• Experience and exposure of working with USA Client ( Confidential, Confidential, Confidential & Confidential )
• Executed fixed price project solely from start to end and has successfully managed a team of 10+ rookies
• Expertise in Project Management activities like scheduling, monitoring, tracking and status reporting
• Experience in preparations of Technical Specification, Test Plans & Test Cases, and Project Estimations
• Expertise in Unit, System and User Acceptance Testing & Support
• Strong analytic, logical, organizing and interpersonal skills and ability to work under stringent deadlines
• Experience in coordinating and status reporting with onshore and offshore counterparts
• Working knowledge of teh Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience in handling Release Management, PMO and Knowledge management activities at account level

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, Java

Databases: DB2, VSAM, SQL, Stored Procedure

Web: HTML, XML, JavaScript

Operating Systems: Windows XP, MVS, Z/OS

Utility/Tools: Endeavor, Roscoe, TSO/ISPF, File Aid, File manager, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, QMF, SPUFI

Application Packages: MS - Word, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Excel

Skills: Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Review, Implementation and Support

Management Skills: Planning, Coordination, Resourcing, Knowledge management

Testing Tools: XPEDITER, HP Quality Center, SOAP-UI

Others: Confluence wiki, SDLC, Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

Domain: Payment Card Processing, Health Insurance, Retail Banking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Technical Lead/Onshore Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Attend requirement and design walk-through meetings with client to understand new business requirements and discuss teh concerns, issues raised during review phase
• Work with offshore development team for application development and delivery
• Review COBOL-DB2 program and stored procedures developed by team
• Conduct code and design reviews with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for development tasks
• Provide solutions to technical issues and involve in coding & testing of teh application
• Prepare and circulate teh weekly status updates to clients for assigned tasks
• Provide technical support for data extracts and production incidents analysis and resolution
• Planning teh test activities and preparation of test scenarios as per customer requirements
• Quality control teh code and content releases between DEV / QA / UAT / PROD environments
• Coordinate with internal and external customer as necessary
• Coordinate teh review, presentation and release of design layouts, analysis etc.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Stored Procedure, SQL, HP Quality Center, Confluence Wiki

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh business requirements and system specifications
• Resource management and status reporting
• Stakeholder communication
• Review Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Scenarios
• Review project deliverables
• Assist in deployment and provide technical and operational support during install
• Ensure overall quality of all teh deliverables
• Involve in governance calls with all stakeholders

Environment: IBM Optim and Discovery Tools, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understanding teh business requirements and system specifications
• To do an impact analysis for teh new / changed requirements and prepare LLD (Low Level Design)
• Compare client supplied products like BRD, HLD with teh LLD to find out any incompleteness
• Prepare Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Scenarios
• Preparation of adhoc SQL queries according to teh requirements of teh project
• Perform Peer Review and code walk through
• Perform SIT (System Integration Testing) and provide data to onshore counterpart
• Assist in deployment and provide technical and operational support during install
• Involve in post implementation support
• Ensure overall quality of all teh deliverables
• Involve in KT to teh project for all teh New Entrants
• Involved in teh hands on training for all teh New Entrants

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SAS, File-Aid, SPUFI

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• To do an impact analysis for teh new and changed requirements and prepare LLD (Low Level Design)
• Compare client supplied products like BRD, HLD with teh LLD to find out any incompleteness
• Prepare Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Scenarios
• Preparation of adhoc SQL queries according to teh requirements of teh project
• Perform Peer Review and code walk through
• Perform SIT (System Integration Testing) and provide data to onshore counterpart
• Assist in deployment and provide technical and operational support during install
• Involve in post implementation support
• Ensure overall quality of all teh deliverables
• Involve in KT to teh project for all teh New Entrants
• Involved in teh hands on training for all teh New Entrants
• Involved in implementation support, mentoring junior resources, knowledge management
• ODC level support

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SAS, File-Aid, SPUFI, HP Exstream Dialogue, HP Quality Center

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, development, testing and documentation during teh bug fixing tasks
• Preparing High Level technical design and impact documents
• Coding, developing, modifying COBOL / CICS / DB2 programs
• Involved in teh preparation and execution of teh test cases for Unit testing and regression testing
• Involved in code walkthroughs, debugging and error fixing
• Defect support and implementation support for teh code till teh code is move into production

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS, QMF, SPUFI and DB2

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analysis, development, testing and documentation during teh bug fixing tasks
• Preparing High level and Low level design documents
• Coding, developing, modifying COBOL / CICS / DB2 and web services programs
• Configuration management for teh project
• Involved in adhoc activities related to knowledge management for account
• Involved in teh preparation and execution of teh test cases for Unit testing and regression testing
• Involved in code walkthroughs, debugging and error fixing
• Defect support and implementation support for teh code till teh code is move into production

Environment: COBOL, JCL, QMF, CICS, SPUFI, SQL, Java, Web services, MQ and DB2