Q.A. Engineer Resume Profile, SC - Hire IT People

Summary

12 years of experience in Information Technology
Information System Specialist with strong computer programming skills and exposure to an advanced Information System environment.
Extensive experience working with COBOL, IMS, CICS, DB2, DB2 Utilities SPUFI, QMF, AQT , ASSEMBLER, SQL, RPG/RPGII, RPGLE, RPG FREE, CL, CLLE, OCL
An extensive technical background which includes experience in working with numerous technical areas, coordination of application testing for product upgrades
Experienced working with IMS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, MVS JCL, CA-7, AS/400 computer systems, OS400 operating system
Substantial experience working with the TELON application development system
Supporting a host environment, analysis, design, programming, and testing of system applications and solving problems with escalating issues.
Vast experience in working with Microsoft Excel. Created and updated a work schedule spreadsheet for Travelers Database Administration group, prepared spreadsheets for different meetings, and used Excel to create multiple task lists.

Professional Development and Training

Confidential

Key Competencies

Technical Skills

Hardware: Client Server, Workstations, Dialogue MGR
Applications: VSAM, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Outlook Express , Legacy applications, Lotus Notes, Endevor, CLists, Telon, MFS, MQ, EOS, IMS DB/DC
Languages: COBOL, IMS, CICS, DB2, DB2 Utilities SPUFI, QMF, AQT , Assembler, SQL, RPG/RPGII, RPGLE, RPG FREE, CL, CLLE, OCL
Operating Systems: IMS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, MVS JCL, CA-7

Professional Experience

Confidential

Information System Specialist

Responsible for the Business Insurance Front-End, which included Security, Data Collection, Help, Front End Applications menu, and Real-time Support.
Ensured the best possible Production and Test IMS environments by taking a leadership role in performance, maintenance, change control, monthly version coordination, production implementation, problem control and resolution.
Contributions to Travelers IT CL Migration Project, which was to create a more stable and effective path for testing programs and moving them to production.
Member of a team which implemented changes for the Travelers IT Parallel Sysplex project, which allows systems to run in a parallel environment when the production environment crashes.
Parallel Sysplex technology allows multiple mainframes to act as one.
Performed disaster recovery testing for Travelers BI Front End, Common Database, General Inquiry, PIUS, AIUS, Omni, Upbeat, CIF, Agency Download, and PIF legacy applications.
Created a reporting process to help assist in the on-call batch process for several system applications.
The reports helped to determine which batch jobs ran, didn't run, ran unsuccessfully, and was scheduled to run.
Security Database and DB2 table clean-up. Using COBOL in conjunction with DB2/SQL programs to synchronize a Data Language/1 IMS database to a DB2 relational table with the same data.

Confidential

Software Q.A. Engineer

Temporary position testing HIS 20 software on UNIX operating system. Testing updated data exceptions.