SUMMARY:

• Having 12+ years of total experience in IT Industry on various IBM Mainframes application development, enhancement and maintenance. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved wif full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC. 
• Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of Mainframe applications. 
• Having strong experience on preparing technical and functional specifications for complex projects.
• Hands on experience on developing new programs using COBOL, IMS DB/DC & DB2 for the requirements and also, providing support for the existing system.
• Having good experience on BMC, DELTA IMS tools to work on various DB2 & IMS DB activities.
• Hands on experience wif COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, REXX, CLIST and MVS. Worked on Technical Tools like FILE - AID, XPEDITOR, JHS, SDSF, NDM, XMIT, MYXCOM, ABEND-AID, CHANGEMAN, FINWORLD, INFOMAN, MANAGENOW, PL/1, JOBTRAC, ServiceNow and Control-M, Linux
• Good domain experience in Banking &Financials and Telecom/mobile.
• TI Consumption Reduction and Demand Management Champion for Financial Capture applications.
• Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support. Strong technical skills in developing Mainframe batch processes using COBOL, JCL, DB2 and IMS.
• Having very strong experience on Agile process. Involved in Sprint planning, daily standup, backlog grooming and retrospective meetings.
• Certified external CSM (Certified Scrum Master), Scrum Alliance.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills while handling teams in offshore-onshore model and tracking the project deliverables using sprints and release milestones. 
• Performed multiple roles across all the phases of software development life cycle as well as managing end to end deliverables using Waterfall as well as agile development methodology.
• Tracking all the production related incidents via ServiceNow and working directly wif client to provide them regular updates wifin defined SLA’s.
• Excellent knowledge on project management tools like Clarity, Microsoft Project Plan, MS Office, and SharePoint for managing project financials and reporting.
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills, wif demonstrated team dynamics and initiative.
• Experience in Manual & Automation testing using tools QC and QTP
• Undergone training in Core Java, Big Data/Hadoop and Informatica.
• Enjoy learning new skills, especially those dat make me a more valuable resource to my employers and clients.
• Good analytical skills and a quick learner.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ 

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involvement in all the phases of software development and end to end module delivery.
• Developed Batch processes (jobs) for New Load setup in Fincap.
• Developed Batch programs using COBOL and IMS DB/DB2.
• Created Test jobs using JCL for Unit, System and User Acceptance testing cycles.
• Made use of XPEDITOR for program debugging for abends.
• Have been using ChangeMan as versioning control tool to keep track of Mainframe components like JCL, PROGRAM, PROCEDURES etc.
• Application Developments, enhancements and modification.
• Unit testing of the developed/modified program.
• SIT and UAT Support along wif support for post-production validation.
• Review code, Technical design and test plan documents.
• Providing technical support and coordination among team
• Working as Mainframe Tech Lead,
• Managing team of 8 people working at offshore locations.
• Project Sizing, Estimation and Capacity planning at the project level.
• Co-ordination wif Business, technology teams and Subject Matter Experts in Requirement analysis, planning and preparing Functional and Technical specifications.
• Preparation of deliverables like Project charter, Requirement Report, Design report, Test Planning wif support of SIT & UAT.
• Reporting to Onsite and/or the Client and Mentoring the Team members as part of the project.
• Daily work allocation to the Team members and monitoring the progress.
• Preparing the Project Plan and track the Project progress/updates as required.
• Providing Knowledge Transition about Application flow and Business process for new Team members.
• Collecting Project Quality Metrics and reviewing the same for process improvement.
• Ownership of the Roll-out activities and warranty/Post warranty support.
• Worked on multiple medium to large size projects under Global Merchant Services portfolio. The projects were Mainframe Application Development to develop new features and maintain the applications to meet the Confidential Business & Strategic development needs.

Environment: Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, REXX, Tools - BMC DB2, IMSUTIL, FILEAID, SPUFI, FINWORLD, DELTA IMS, Xpeditor, ABEND-AID, SORT, Jobtrac and Control/M

Confidential 

Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing business requirements and identifying solutions for the same.
• Involved in coding and testing.
• Performing Impact analysis of Business needs/requests.
• Creating test documents for capturing test results.
• Developing test plans and Testing of enhancements.
• Resolving the environmental issues
• Creating test regions to perform the Unit testing, SIT and UAT.
• Documentation as per the quality procedures.
• Supporting SIT, UAT & Regression.
• Taking care of the implementation activities.
• Resolving production Abends
• Implementation of the enhancements in the real time environment.

Environment: Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB,FILEAID, SPUFI, Jobtrac, XPEDITOR, ABEND-AID,CICS

Confidential 

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Design documents for the flow of changes based on the analysis as per the Quality Procedures.
• Enhancing the existing Code as per requirement.
• Developing test plans and Testing of enhancements.
• Documentation as per the quality procedures.
• Supporting SIT, UAT & Regression.
• Taking care of the implementation activities.
• Implementation of the enhancements in the real time environment.
• Resolving production Abends.
• Preparing logs for daily issues and sending daily report to the leads.

Environment: Mainframe - JCL, COBOL, DB2, EspMenu, FILEAID, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, ABEND-AID,VSAM,CICS

Confidential 

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Generating the daily/monthly reports as per client request.
• Coding as per client requirement.
• Developing test plans and Testing of enhancements.
• Extracting the data from mainframe to Spread sheets.
• Documentation as per the quality procedures.
• Supporting SIT, UAT & Regression.
• Analyzing the existing code and understanding the business.
• Taking care of the implementation activities.
• Preparing the standard documents for Internal and external audits.
• Monitoring the production and report the issues to the peers.