SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of experience in all stages of Software engineering and Software Development/testing Life Cycle - System Study, Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance, Production Support, Testing, Quality Assurance and Implementation of core Business Software and Enterprise Applications using IBM Mainframes.
• Technical, Onsite Lead involving responsibilities such as system requirement analysis, client interaction, business logic analysis.
• Involved in estimation, analysis, design, development and implementation of mainframe applications
• Specific technical expertise in working on Mainframes - COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and CICS.
• Strong experience working with version control tools such as SCM, Changeman, and Endeavor.
• Experience using mainframe tools such as SPUFI, QMF, Xpeditor, Fileaid, Infoman, JobTrac, FTP, TOAD for DB2, Quality control, SAR, TSO/ISPF, B92, Service now (IT Service Management), Tivoli Workload Scheduler(TWS) & Automic (UC4) Scheduler tools.
• Expertise in RDBMS (DB2, MSSQL, Oracle) Application design and development - Implementation, Design and Performance Tuning.
• Good experience working with BI tool Informatica Powercenter.
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact with end-users, managers and technical personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, JCL, SAS, C, SQL, Excel macros, HTML

File Systems: VSAM, Flat files, CSV

Operating System: Windows, Z/OS, OS/390, MVS

Databases: DB2, MS SQL Server 2012, Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.x

Tools: TOAD, B92, SAR, File-Aid, JobTrac, PLATINUM, QMF, Ultra edit, DF Sort, Sync SortMerge, Citrix Receiver, TSO/ISPF, JES2

Scheduler: TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler), UC4 Scheduler

Configuration: SCM, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN

Problem Management: ITSM (IT Service Management)/SNOW (Service Now), INFOMAN

Testing & Debugging: Quality Center, Xpeditor, IBM Debugger

Project Management: Project Plan, MS Visio, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Overland park, KS

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SPUFI, SCM, FILE-AID, QMF, IBM Debugger, B92, TOAD for DB2, ITSM/SNOW tool, flat files, CSV files, Ultra Edit, TWS(Tivoli Workload Scheduler) & Automic(UC4) Scheduler, Informatica powercenter.

Sr Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Review of Business Requirements and development of Business Requirement Document and Technical Design documents.
• Involved in estimation, analysis, design, development and implementation of mainframe applications
• Participated in impacted analysis, performance tuning and enhancements.
• Co-ordinate with business team, testing team and DBA.
• Coded programs using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM and testing the same.
• Monitor and support batch components and fix the system defects and answer the business queries.
• Providing production support for the applications based on specific SLA's. Communicating directly with clients for faster issue resolution.
• TWS/UC4 jobs scheduling in dev, stage and prod environments.
• Executing jobs and applications using EBM Tool Kit.
• Created UNIX scripts for utility UCMD in JCL to copy and move files from Unix to Windows servers and vice versa.

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Environment: & Skills: Z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, SPUFI, SCM, FILE-AID, QMF, IBM Debugger, B92, TOAD for DB2, ITSM/SNOW tool, Excel Macros, Ultra Edit, TWS(Tivoli Workload Scheduler) .

Sr Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Review of Business/user Requirements and develop System requirements documents.
• Preparation of business analysis and design documents for requirement.
• Responsible for impact analysis.
• Involved in review of design documents and estimate of work requests.
• Manage schedule and effort
• Developed Technical Documentation and Technical Training to the end users.
• Coded programs using COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS and testing the same
• Responsible for preparing production and test JCL’s for batch programs.
• Testing of Client data by running batch jobs
• Prepared Unit Test plans, test case and test scripts and run the model cycles.
• Participated and coordinated specification reviews, Code reviews and test case.
• Involved system and UAT testing with business.
• Provided many reliable and effective bug fixes for the job Abends.
• Expertise in Batch Performance Tuning.
• Providing answers to business queries.
• Followed the quality procedures for all the deliverables.

Confidential

Environment: & Skills: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Visual Gen, SQL, Visio, File Aid, Expeditor, QMF, ABEND AID

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Review of Business/user Requirements and develop System requirements documents.
• Involved in performing reverse engineering of the module to extract existing business which is in Visual Gen tool and documented them for designing new system effectively.
• Preparation of business analysis and design documents for requirement.
• Responsible for impact analysis.
• Involved in review of design documents and estimate of work requests.
• Coordinate with Onsite to make sure on time deliverables
• Manage schedule and effort
• Developed Technical Documentation and Technical Training to the end users.
• Coded programs using COBOL, DB2 and testing the same
• Responsible for preparing production and test JCL’s for batch programs.
• Testing of Client data by running batch jobs
• Prepared Unit Test plans, test case and test scripts and run the model cycles.
• Participated and coordinated specification reviews, Code reviews and test case.
• Involved system and UAT testing with business.
• Provided many reliable and effective bug fixes for the job Abends.
• Expertise in Batch and Online Performance Tuning
• Providing answers to business queries.
• Followed the quality procedures for all the deliverables.

Confidential

Environment: & Skills: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, SPUFI, File Aid, Expeditor

Module Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for impact analysis.
• Involved in review of design documents and estimate of work requests.
• Manage schedule and effort
• Coding and testing using COBOL, DB2, JCL.
• Testing of Client data by running batch jobs
• Prepared Unit Test plans, test case and test scripts and run the model cycles.
• Participated and coordinated specification reviews, Code reviews and test case.
• Involved system and UAT testing with business.
• Provided many reliable and effective bug fixes for the job Abends.
• Followed the quality procedures for all the deliverables.

Confidential

Environment: & Skills: Cobol, DB2, File-aid, Spufi, Quality Center, Flat files

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the Review of Business Requirements and development of System design documents and Technical Design documents.
• Involved in coding COBOL-DB2 programs and testing with front end team.
• Modified existing programs and tested for online messaging system.
• Participated and co-ordinate specification reviews, Code reviews and test case walkthrough’s with Confidential Technology team.
• Prepared Unit Test plans and Unit Test case and test scripts.
• Involved in unit testing, system and UAT testing.
• Provide Daily status report, check list documents and weekly status reports to the Project Lead.
• Analyzed project plan to gather the business requirements and Prepared Detail Design document from the requirement specification..

Confidential

Environment: & Skills: COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, SPUFI, File Aid, Changeman, Xpeditor.

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work Allocation
• Impact Analysis of the request.
• Responsible for the deliverables
• Review programs, testing, support documents prepared.
• Follow Syntel Quality procedure for the requests.
• Coding and Testing - Cobol, JCL, DB2 and VSAM.
• Defect tracking and analysis.
• Reporting project status to PL and customer.
• Conducting module review meetings.
• Customer/Onsite communication.
• Mentoring new joiners.

Confidential

Environment: & Skills: Z/OS, COBOL, SAS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, SPUFI, File Aid, Endevor, PLATINUM, SAR, INFOMAN .

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Coding and Testing - Cobol, SAS, JCL, DB2, VSAM
• Documentation
• Test Data Preparation