• Over 10 years of dedicated experience on QA methodologies on mainframe application in business analysis, quality assurance, testing, validation.
• Exposure to requirement analysis, impact analysis, development of mainframe applications.
• Functional experience includes Health Care, Telecom, Finance systems and retail industry.
• Extensively worked on COBOL, JCL, UNIX,CICS, VSAM, DB2, IDMS, XML, NATURAL,ADABAS, Web sphere, VSSS, J2EE and tools like Expediter, File-aid, X-Mods, FTP,NDM(Connect: Direct), ESP, Vantive, ESP Workload Director, NMC, OMEGAMON, TSO/ISPF/SDSF,CLIST,DFHSM,STAR,IMF,SDF,MQ Series, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEHPROGM, RACF, Autosys, Jobscan/PREP, SDSF,DTCC process,JES, FTP, TOAD,Teradata, Quality Center, CA-Intertest, Clear Quest, Toad, Vantive.
• Experience in different testing levels like Unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, volume testing, load testing, stress testing, systems testing & user acceptance testing.
• Excellent technical skills on testing backend process using JCL, Fileaid, SQL.
• Having extensive knowledge on Manual Testing using CICS screens on IBM Mainframe using DB2 and flat files.
• Experience in developing, documenting, and enforcing guidelines for QA methodologies to ensure high standards for usability, quality and customer experience.
• Excellent technical and analytical problem solving skills.
• Strong planner and organizer with demonstrated ability to master new concepts quickly, to increase efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
• Exposure to various QA methodologies like ITUP, Waterfall.
• Worked in teams and adhered to the planned development time frame.
• Exposure to job scheduling using ESP, CA7 and JCL.
• Highly motivated team player with strong communication, organizational and analytical skills
• Strong PC skills including MS Word, MS Excel, MS Windows and MS PowerPoint.

Education

Bachelor of Technology

Skills Summary

Operating system

MVS, OS/390, Z/OS, Windows 2000/XP

LANGUAGE(S)

Cobol, JCL, SQL,XML,NATURAL, UNIX

DATABASE(S)

DB2, IDMS, Oracle, Teradata, ADABAS

OLTP

CICS, Middleware

GUI

Account Management, VSSS(Client Server)

File System

VSAM

Utilities/Tools

Xpeditor, X-Mods, Changeman, Endeavor, QMF, SPUFI, FTP, NDM (Connect: Direct), FILE-AID Utilities, SDF, Vantive, Tivoli NMC, ESP, ESP Workload Director, STAR, TSO, DASD, Tape Management, RMF, PROC, Job Folder(RUNBOOK), Autosys, ISPF, Client server, Winrunner, Load Runner, QTP, OMEGAMON, SDSF, NMC, MQ Series, IDCAMS, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, IEHPROGM, IEBCOMPR, DFHSM, Quality Center, Clear Quest, Toad, Vantive

PC Skills

MS Word,MS Excel,MS Powerpoint,MS Windows

Professional Experience

Client: Confidential, Atlanta, U.S.A
Project: OTL
Duration: Nov 2010 to till date.
Role: QA

Environment: TSO/ISPF,MVS,COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Teradata,Oracle, ETL, MQ Series, XML,OTL,UNIX, Endeavor, Bug Tracker, Expediter, QTP, Control-M, Toad, DTS.

• System Analysis and creation of use case diagram as per business.
• Capture testable requirements as per business requirements and system specifications.
• Review/update test requirements and get sign-off from project team.
• Fill gaps in test requirements.
• Co-ordinate with intra departments on test data & create test data in test environments.
• Setting up test environments.
• Component installation in test regions.
• Creation of master test plan and test cases as per BR/SFR.
• Develop/update automated test scripts.
• Peer reviews.
• Batch job execution using JCL.
• Batch validation
• Functional testing.
• Test execution & defect tracking using bug tracker.
• Test online screens.
• Load testing, stress testing and end-end testing in EDW environment.
• Execute automated test scripts using QTP.
• Validation of test results and update RTM with test case-ids and status.
• Creation of test summary report.
• UAT support.

Client: Confidential,St.Louis, U.S.A
Project: BPI
Duration: June 2009 to Oct 2010
Role: Test Lead

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, UNIX, XML, NATURAL, Changeman, VANTIVE, NDM(C: D), FTP, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, MQ Series, CAMS, Quality Center, Expediter, Clear Quest, Autosys, Winrunner, Load Runner, QTP, Vantive, VSSS (Client Server), J2EE, Websphere, AOTS, Toad, Teradata, Account Management.

Billing Products Initiative (BPI) is an Enterprise Billing System created by Classic-S that provides customers with a suite of products that converge Classic-S billing charges into a single view. Billing charges include wire line, access, pre-bill and long distance.

• Develop high level specification as per business and system requirements.
• Coding and unit testing.
• Code migration to test environments.
• Analyze requirements and external specifications to determine feasibility for testing and identify gap in requirements from testing standpoint.
• Analyze test data requirements and established process to create test data required to support testing.
• Co-ordinate with external teams on trigger files requirements and track the same.
• Develop detail test plan, risk analysis document.
• Develop & execute test scenarios for scratch & enhanced work packages.
• Validate the test cases as per design specifications.
• Develop system test strategy to validate end-to-end processing for each of the business processes that are part of the new platform.
• Conduct peer reviews of test plans.
• Conduct weekly call between different teams to track the day to day system test execution, testing issues.
• Perform backend testing for batch programs using SPUFI, QMF on DB2.
• Modify JCL’s and Created new JCL’s according to run the required tests and submitting the batch jobs using JCL\'s.
• Job scheduling and monitoring.
• Test SDF screen in test regions.
• Follow ITUP test process.
• Create test data to support the testing phase Test Cases using FILE-AID.

• Created one-time programs to load the existing monetary variables to new format.
• Analyze production problems and create error scenario and fix them before implementing them in prod.
• Load one time data to new files and tables
• Automated test scripts execution using QTP/Winrunner.
• Test defect tracking using QC/Clearquest.
• UAT support of quarterly and off releases.
• Involved in preparing test plans and test cases according to the functional and business specifications
• Participate in status meetings and project release meetings
• Provide production support for the changes implemented
• Monitor of Daily, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Jobs
• Involve in creating various Daily, weekly, monthly batch reports using COBOL and JCL
• Analyze and tuned SQLs for all DB2 application programs

Client: Confidential,San Diego, U.S.A
Project: CRS
Duration: Jan 2008 - May 2009
Role: Tester

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, IDMS, DB2, ADABAS, NATURAL, Changeman, Quality Center, QTP, Expediter, Connect: Direct, DTCC, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, OMEGAMON, ESP, ESP workload director, NMC.

Customer Record System (CRS) maintains customer database which is responsible for real time updates as well as batch updates on daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• Create master test plan as per business/system/functional requirement.
• Create RTM.
• Create end-end test plans.
• Create/update automated test scripts.
• Execute test cases/test scripts.
• Log defects in QC.
• Validate test results.
• Create test summary report.
• Create/update necessary documentation for QCM approvals.
• Monitor adhoc jobs.