SUMMARY:

• A Principal Software Engineer having more than 11 years of experience with strong expertise in Mainframe Technologies and SQL with functional experience spanning Financial Services Domain (Brokerage and Credit card system) and Insurance (Billing Services).
• Experience as Technical Lead: Worked as a Technical lead resolving business critical problems, technical issues and analyzing requirements for projects.
• Experience as Offshore Module Lead/Developer: Experience in working as a module lead, gathering requirements from onsite/business and distributing the work to the team.
• Experience in Agile and SDLC models: Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding, Unit Testing, Integration and System Testing, UAT Support, Performance testing and Implementation experience.
• Strong Design Skills: Hands on experience of having worked on complex system designs, batch scheduling, complex online applications and system enhancements.
• Strong Analytical Skills: Ability to visualize, gather information, articulate, analyze and solve complex problems.
• Documentation Experience: Preparing Estimates, Use Cases, Design Documents, Test Cases and Other Project Documents.
• Good knowledge in coding Dynamic Cursors, Recursive Cursors, Stored Procedures and Native SQL in DB2.
• Experienced with Mainframe tools like Xpeditor, DFSORT, Syncsort, FileAid, CA - ESP, Control-M, Endevor, SPUFI, Platinum, IBM Optim (Princeton), Intertest, IBM debug tool, STROBE.
• Have desirable experience in DB2 Performance Tuning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Database: DB2, VSAM

Languages: JCL, COBOL, SQL, Java

OLTP: CICS

Database & File Tools: SPUFI, FileAid, Data Studio, Platinum, IBM Optim, Stored Procedure, Native Sql

Middleware technologies: MQSeries, XML, Java webservices

Configuration Management Tools: Endevor, Changeman

Workload Scheduler: CA-ESP, Control-M

Operating Systems: Z/OS, Windows

Other Tools: Xpeditor, MQ Series, Easytrieve, DFSORT, SYNCSORT, IBM Debug tool, STROBE, Quality Center, Service Manager, NDM, FTP, SFTP, Enterprise JIIRA, ServiceNow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented software functionality within Margin to migrate Margin calls & Deficit security system from Mainframe to distributed system.
• As part of the Mainframe migration efforts had extensive meetings with both the Business and Users teams to gather requirements.
• Assist support team and development teams in analyzing and fixing critical care field issues. Assist in subsequent root cause analysis.
• Assist customer service team in responding to customer requests for proper network planning and operations.
• Analysis and Understanding the requirements & functional specifications.
• Review the business document with a team of business end users, application developers and technical analysts.
• Preparation of TS (Technical Specifications) based on the existing functionality and requirements.
• Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch programs, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/modules.
• Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements.
• Worked closely with the Distributed team for developing new Native Stored procedures & web services.
• Development of the new NSP for the new GUI developed as part of mainframe migration.
• Debugging and implementing the system using IBM Debug tools.
• Involved in preparing test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.
• Impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
• Perform Peer review and log any issues and track till it is closed.
• Log JIRA for testing defects identified and track till it is closed.
• Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests using Endevor.
• Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery.

Confidential

Software Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Participating in design discussion meetings with Upstream/downstream partners.
• Understand the requirements/enhancements, analyze the existing functionality.
• Organizing meetings to discuss design solutions.
• Preparing High level design specifications and low-level specification document
• Provide inputs for project Estimations; doing impact analysis.
• Extensively worked with DB2 database Teams. New tables were created/old were modified to include some additional fields.
• Developed COBOL, DB2, CICS programs.
• Prepare scripts, test plans & test data, Conduct unit, integration and regression testing.
• Participating discussions with QA regarding test cycles and providing inputs to QA.
• Prepare & Review JCL, test plans & test data, Conduct unit, integration and regression testing.
• Responsible for Defect tracking and resolutions.
• Release support and release scheduling review.
• Participate in daily offshore/Onsite status call.

Confidential

Software Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Oversees/Coordinates the completion of unit testing, integration and system testing, according to detailed test plans to ensure high-quality systems
• As a senior mainframe developer involved in backend mainframe development & Native stored procedures
• Assists business partners with User Acceptance Testing
• Acts as a knowledge source for identifying Aetna and individual application development standards
• Independently supports the implementation of systems into production, including integration of purchased solutions
• Anticipates, analyzes, and reacts to the potential impact changes to technology and/or products may have on the business and the computing environment
• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives for assigned projects
• Works closely with technical partners to coordinate and plan ongoing and scheduled system maintenance activities and assists other team members who perform ongoing system maintenance, research, problem resolution and support tasks for existing systems