SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated IT professional with total of 10.6 years IT experience System Analyst & Developer.
• Have experience in Analysis, design & development phases for Apache Hadoop ecosystems (SQOOP, PIG, HIVE, SPARK and Elastic), Rest API, and IBM Mainframes (COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM and JCL) technologies.
• Had very good experience in Agile and waterfall models.
• Have experience in working with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business and other stakeholders to create
• Proficient in using Agile methodologies and expertise in the role of Product Owners & Scrum Master,Burn Down Charts.
• Extensive experience with SQL, PL/SQL, ETL and database concepts.
• Experience in working on XML, XSDs and Web services (WSDL/WADL).
• Exposure to Confidential .
• Involved in major Healthcare projects like, HIPAA 4010 to 5010 conversions, ICD9 to ICD10 conversion, Healthcare Reforms - Preventive Care and wellness care benefits, Health Exchanges; Claims Processing, EDI Transactions, Provider Networks and directories redesign, Provider searches.
• Experience in requirement gathering techniques like and customer interviews for various business processes
• Responsible for complete life cycle of solution that includes analysis, the platform selection and design of technical architecture, development & coordination and Warranty support.
• Experience in creating using MS Visio/Enterprise Architect (BPM Tools) for Business Process Improvement.
• Strong knowledge of coordinating and performing various Testing techniques such as Smoke Testing, Functional Testing by creating Test-Cases, Test Scenarios, and analyzing/reviewing Bugs/Defects, closely work with Development and QA Teams to ensure bugs were fixed.
• Experience in laying out best practices, standards and re-usable artifacts and Contribution to COE by developing re-usable utilities, frameworks and best practices.
• Worked extensively Confidential, understanding client requirements, providing cost effective solutions.

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

• Efficiently managed Onshore & Offshore teams.
• Coordinated with offshore team for requirement enlightenment, queries clarification, created work assignments for the team, maintained timelines / milestones, reviews deliverables and ensured compliance with quality standards.
• Created weekly Team status reports, project estimates, projections and metrics.
• Collaborated with various teams including business, developers, database administrators and middleware; led fast-track product releases with onshore and offshore team members
• Self- driven and self-motivated person with dedication and smart work which helps to deliver the product in the specified time
• Currently managing a Cognizant SA team of 8 members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Requirements analysis, Design & Development, functional specifications.
• Team Management, Onsite and Offshore coordination.
• Involving in requirement gatherings, JAD’s, brainstorming sessions, requirement reviews, system walkthroughs and customer interviews for various business processes and Production Support.
• Risk assessment and management.
• Ability to work independently and in team based environment.
• Drive innovation and streamline overall testing process.
• Experience with agile development process.
• Act as a liaison between project teams and Business users.
• Have vast experience in dealing with client’s in onsite location.
• Languages - COBOL, JCL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Core Java, Scala
• Databases - DB2, VSAM, HDFS, Oracle, Elastic
• Operating Systems - OS/390, MS Windows, UNIX.
• Apache Hadoop Ecosystems - SQOOP, PIG, HIVE, Spark
• Tools - SQL PLUS, SQL, MS Office, XPEDITOR, Change man, File Aid, SPUFI, QMF, BMC Editor, INGENIUM, MS Office, Quality Center, ALM, CA Agile Central - Rally, SoapUI, Splunk, SystInet, Rest API, XML, Altova XML Spy, JSON.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Lead System Analyst, SME & Developer

Environment: & Tools: Apache Hadoop, MapR, Sqoop, Pig, Elastic, Java, Shell Scripting, MS Office, SoapUI, CA Agile Central (Rally), Swagger, XML, JSON.

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an SME on the provider search API team, and involved in Use Case and requirements discussions with Business Users & Product Owners.
• Involved in writing Features, User Stories, and Tasks with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and different stakeholders.
• Participated in different meetings like JAD & Brainstorming sessions, daily standups, PI planning, sprint planning and user story grooming, retrospective.
• Involved in analyzing the Data and transforming the data from different sources.
• Worked on different sources of data files, XML and HBase data.
• Involved in the mapping of Data from source to required JSON schema format and also mapping of data from API request to response fields.
• Involved in API response schema creations.
• Developed Pig & Spark Scripts to transform the data into required JSON structures and loaded into Elastic.
• Performed unit testing.
• Evaluated business requirements and prepare detailed functional/technical design specification documents including database design, data modeling and mappings.
• Perform smoke testing by running the API’s using SOAPUI to make sure major functionalities are developed as per the requirements.
• Point of contact between business and Development & Testing teams.
• Involved in deployment activities and supported post deployment activities.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Lead System Analyst (SME) & Developer

Environment: & Tools: Cobol, DB2,Apache Hadoop, MapR, Sqoop, Pig, Shell Scripting, MS Office.

Responsibilities:

• Acted as an SME on provider directory data.
• Analyze mainframe directory extract programs and business logics.
• Translate all the existing business logics and rules into new big data technologies.
• Conducted meetings with downstream application teams and business on requirement gatherings for the directory data.
• Finalize and map the directory fields needed on the directory extracts.
• Wrote System requirement documents and review with Business & downstream applications (Intelligent Directory).
• Developed Pig & Spark Scripts to transform the data into required JSON structures and loaded into Elastic.
• Performed unit testing.
• Help the SA team in writing detailed functional/technical design specification documents.
• Help the Quality Assurance and Development teams on any requirements or design questions.
• Involve in the design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance support.
• Point of contact between business and Development/Testing teams.
• Involved in deployment activities and support post deployment activities.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Senior System Analyst & Developer

Environment: & Tools: Cobol, DB2, Apache Hadoop, MapR, Sqoop, Pig, Elastic, Java, Shell Scripting, MS Office, SoapUI, SystInet, Splunk, Dynatrace, HP ALM, XML, JSON.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the extensive analysis of all the existing mainframe provider search programs.
• Act as an SME on provider search programs, different business rules & logic.
• Translate all the existing business logics and rules into new big data technologies.
• Analyze and group the provider data into different business objects based on the type of data (Provider Demographics, Credentials, Contracts, Designations, Networks & Directories).
• Create visual hierarchy Schemas and help the developers in applying transformations, filter, merging business objects and flattening the data into JSON documents.
• Involve in Elastic Schema mappings.
• Analyze the business requirements on the consuming applications use cases.
• Identify the request and response fields needed for the API.
• Creating mapping documents for API request, Response to Elastic fields.
• Developed Pig & Spark Scripts to transform the data into required JSON structures and loaded into Elastic.
• Performed unit testing.
• Perform API certifications to adhere Optum developer standards.
• Act as a liaison between business and consuming application users, developers and quality control assurance teams.
• Participate in the walkthroughs and meetings with consuming applications to understand the request, response fields and business rules needed.
• Involve in the design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance support for Confidential system.
• Perform smoke testing by running the API’s using SOAPUI to make sure major functionalities are developed as per the requirements.
• Point of contact between business and Development & Testing teams.
• Involved in deployment activities and support post deployment activities.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

System Analyst

Environment: & Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CICS, XPEDITOR, Endeavor, File Aid, MS Office.

Responsibilities:

• Involve in the Confidential system enhancements based on business user’s requirements.
• Analyze the existing system and provide the design solutions for new or enhanced systems.
• Act as a liaison between business users, technical staff and Quality control assurance team.
• Interact with the end business users and understand the business requirement documents.
• Define the scope based on the requirements. Perform risk assessments and track and resolve all the risks.
• Create Application level functional and non-functional requirements.
• Provide work allocations to the team.
• Support developers on the coding based on the requirements.
• Help other developers on technical questions.
• Participate in code reviews and make sure team follows the coding standards.
• Perform smoke testing to make sure major functionalities are developed as per the requirements.
• Generate status reports and metrics.
• Involve in the design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance support for Confidential system.
• Point of contact between business and Development/Testing teams.
• Involved in deployment activities and support post deployment activities.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Onsite Module - Developer Lead

Environment: & Tools: COBOL, DB2, JCL, XPEDITOR, Endeavor, File Aid, SPUFI, MS Office.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in client meetings and discuss the requirements.
• Understand the business requirements and functionalities.
• Understand the HIPAA 4010 to 5010 conversion rules and implement the new solutions.
• Analyze the existing system and provide the design solutions for new system.
• Involve in coding and unit testing, coordinate with offshore team.
• Review of Offshore deliverables and support of system testing.
• Involve in deployment activities and support post deployment activities.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Team Lead, System Testing

Environment: & Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, File Aid

Responsibilities:

• Understand the business need and functionality.
• Review of new or modified programs.
• Preparation of test Plan, test scenarios and test data for each test plan.
• Execute the test plans in test regions.
• Log defects for failed test cases in Quality Center and communicate with the developers to fix the issues.
• Attend status meetings, solutions design meetings.
• Provide Check out during deployment.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Team Member, Developer

Environment: & Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, File Aid, Quality Centre, INGENIUM

Responsibilities:

• Fixing the claim amounts of insured’s whose claims were processed incorrectly due to the system issues.
• Performing insight analysis on the existing system defects and suggesting solutions for permanent fix.
• Prepare the metrics on monthly basis based on the root causes of the issues.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Team Member, Developer

Environment: & Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, File Aid, Quality Centre, INGENIUM

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the existing inflation modules and coding the new stand-alone batch modules for handling Inflation process as an enhancement.
• Develop new JCL’s, which handles the SORT operations, GDG version creations and FTP the files to the other servers.
• Fix the existing defects as part of enhancement.

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Team Member, Developer

Environment: & Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CHANGEMAN, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, File Aid, Quality Centre, TD, INGENIUM

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the existing inflation modules and coding the new stand-alone batch modules for handling Inflation process as an enhancement.
• Develop new JCL’s which handles the SORT operations, GDG version creations and FTP the files to the other servers.
• Perform the insight analysis on the existing production defects, suggesting solutions and fixing it.