SUMMARY

• IT professional with 10+ years industry experience in planning, analyzing, developing, testing and implementing High Quality Solutions in support of the Business Objectives
• Experience in IBM Mainframe and Micro focus COBOL Technologies.
• Experience in all phases of Software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Experience in Insurance Domain including Universal Life,Annuties,RPS etc.
• Experience in CSC insurance product vantage - one and WMA…….
• Experience in RPS (repetitive payment system) and DSS for Agent Licensing .
• Experience in CSC’S agent commission product- Performance Plus (Pplus)
• Experience as a Team lead/Module Lead/Programmer Analyst handling Development and Maintenance projects
• Experience in preparing technical documents for the programs.
• Expertise in MVS JCL (Z/OS and OS 390), COBOL, MICROFOCUS COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Flat files, Easytrieve, TSO/ISPF, IBM utilities
• Experience in File-Aid, CA7, Jobtrac scheduler
• Experience in DB2 tools SPUFI, QMF, DB2 Utilities
• Experience in version control tools Changeman and Endeavor
• Experience in debugging tools Xpeditor (online and batch), Intertest
• Also familiar with UNIX Operating system commands
• Experience in Unit Testing, System testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing
• Experience in Production Support, Recovery and Resolution, SLA compliance
• Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to coordinate and lead technical team members
• Also extensively used Quality Center, Quick Test Pro (QTP) to manage defect lifecycle and reporting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: IBM Mainframe (Z./OS,OS/390), Windows 9x/2000/XP/NT

Programming Languages: JCL, COBOL, SQL and REXX

Databases: IBM DB2, VSAM and Flat files

Mainframe Tools: Easytrieve, DCCS, CA7, Endeavor, Xpeditor, Intertest, Changeman, DB2 utilities, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBR14, Abend-Aid, File-Aid, SAR,QMF, SPUFI

Programming Tools: MICROFOCUS COBOL EXPRESS AND NET EXPRESS.

Other Software: MS Office, Lotus Notes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Team lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for:
• Analysis- Analyze and resolved issues related to new product implementation of life insurance and requirements mentioned in the Service request.
• Design- Preparation of High Level design, Detailed Design, Test spec, Documents.
• Coding- Doing coding for Enhancements and modification to meet the Business Specifications.
• Testing-Unit testing and System Testing Integration testing and QA Regression also involved in Production Support .
• Coordination with onsite.
• Involved in code changes to existing programs and writing new programs in COBOL,VSAM and DB2
• Used the tools for coding/testing: IBM Mainframe and MICROFOCUS MAINFRAME EXPRESS COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM.
• Responsible for developing JCLs and PROCs for testing using IDCAMS, IEBGENER and IEBCOPY, DB2 Utilities, SORT Utilities
• Responsible for maintaining test data in the DB2 UDB using DB2 utilities LOAD, UNLOAD, CHECK, REPAIR and tools QMF, SPUFI
• Worked on Adhoc Requests involving Sort, COBOL and EASYTREIVE coding
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing
• Responsible for creating test cases, test plans, and test data
• Involved in creating and maintaining Changeman Packages
• Responsible for project documentation including Application design Specs, Program specification, Test Plan, and contribution to Product Knowledge repository

Environment: IBM Mainframe and MICROFOCUS MAINFRAME EXPRESS COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM

Confidential, Arizona

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis
• Preparation of Functional & Technical specification documents
• Interaction with client
• Identifying defect data and fixing them.
• Involved in major enhancement subprojects as a part of release upgrade which involved extensive coding using COBOL and DB2 and working with front end people using Java.
• Generation of different kinds of reports on request from the users.
• Data Integrity Work like fixing the production data.
• Prepare technical documents for the programs.
• Understand Business & Analysis of existing system
• Preparation of Test Data using FILE-AID, SPUFI, DB2 FILE-AID
• Performance testing and cost saving measures to the programs that use more resources.
• Implementation of the code using CHANGEMAN
• Maintain issue log between offshore and onsite using Issue Manager
• Coordination with dev team and test team
• Conducting Technical discussions
• Responsible for working with Clients to understand and record the requirements and conduct feasibility study
• Responsible for unit testing and debugging.
• Involved in System testing, Integration testing and QA Regression
• Responsible for Business Analysis and preparing Test cases

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and implementing the process related to PPLUS
• Responsible for interfacing with Business Users and understanding the requirements
• Analyze the Process flow for the Project
• Involved in Knowledge Transfer during the initial phase of the project
• Technical and Functional Requirements analysis
• Status reporting, review meetings, and delivery management
• KT to Offshore team.
• Support Activities for Application enhancements
• Monitoring the Production jobs and providing fixes to issues
• Responsible for preparing the Impact Analysis Document and Technical Specification
• Responsible for Fixing Job abends and other production issues 24/7
• Solving trouble tickets - Recovery and Resolution with SLA compliance, logging and maintaining tickets.
• Incorporated COBOL, DB2 program changes while resolving production abends
• Worked with JCL utilities like IDCAMS, IEBGENER and IEBCOPY
• Worked with Endeavor for version controlling
• Worked with DB2 Utilities LOAD, UNLOAD, IDCAMS and tools QMF, SPUFI
• Conducting System Tests - Test planning, design, execution
• Knowledge Sharing and Mentoring

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM

Confidential

Developer & Tester

Responsibilities:

• Preparation and Review of Design Documents, Test cases
• Involved in Design, Development and testing for the new programs developed
• Involved in receiving client’s System change Requests, Requirement analysis for offshore System change Requests and reviewing the requirements.
• Responsible for coding for enhancements using COBOL, VSAM and sort utilities
• Knowledge sharing and mentoring.
• Code Reviews & Inspections
• System Test and UAT support
• Maintain defect log

Environment: IBM Mainframe and MICROFOCUS, COBOL, JCL and VSAM

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, coding, testing, implementation and documentation
• Involved in code changes to existing programs and writing new programs in COBOL, VSAM, JCL
• Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing
• Responsible for creating test cases, test plans, and test data
• Involved in creating and maintaining Changeman Packages
• Responsible for project documentation including Application design Specs, Program specification, Test Plan, and contribution to Product Knowledge repository

Environment: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, VSAM, JCL