SUMMARY:

• Having six years of experience in the Mainframe Technology.
• Extensive experience on Mainframe related skills such as COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 and CICS.
• Extensive experience in handling the tools such as DFSORT, Icetool, File - Aid etc.
• Good experience in implementing large scale legacy applications using Mainframe technologies.
• Having good exposure to software development life cycle, especially in the areas of requirements specification, Design documents and development.
• Handled multiple projects working in a team as well as working independently.
• Worked extensively in onshore and offshore model. Handled big teams in onshore.
• Ability to learn new technologies and processes rapidly and implement them in the project.
• Highly motivated with very good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to interact effectively with all project team members.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong knowledge on Credit Card business.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, REXX

Database: DB2, VSAM

Tools: File-Aid, ChangeMan, Intertest

Utilities: DFSORT, Ezytrieve, Icetool

Operating Systems: Windows NT/XP, MVS OS 390.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Baltimore

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated with the users to get requirements of the change requests.
• Analyze the requirements and prepare functional specification document.
• Prepare technical specification documents.
• Extensively developed COBOL/CICS programs using both DB2 and IMS . Reviewed code and Test plans developed by others for defects.
• Wrote complex DB2 Stored Procedures
• Created all kinds of JCLs like Sort jobs, DB2 utility jobs and Production JCLs.
• Analyzed, tested and debugged Online and Batch programs
• Done various levels of testing like Unit testing, System testing and Integration testing.
• Done Onsite/Offshore Coordination with Offshore team in India to get the low-end development work done from there.
• Created production JCLs installed and scheduled them. Monitored the jobs and programs and fixed the abends instantaneously if they failed.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, Ezytrieve, DFSORT, Icetool, File-Aid, ChangeMan, Intertest.

Confidential, Baltimore

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirement gathering and architecture analysis.
• Took up the responsibility of the design and architect role in development.
• Prepared key artifacts like design documents, business case, Use cases etc for customer sign off as a mandatory requirement following traditional SDLC methodology.
• Responsible for coding in COBOL, DB2, CICS new programs .
• Implementing the design changes, enhancing and testing of programs in business areas that were allocated to me.
• Maintenance for both COBOL & CICS programs and unit testing the changes.
• Assist offshore team in the deployment of code to Production environment and provided support for the code thereafter.
• Create extracts from VSAM or flat files using DFSORT, File-Aid, and Ezytrieve etc.
• Involved in Writing Unit Tests and scripts for SIT testing.
• Performed other functions such as systems analysis and documentation and technical research.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Ezytrieve, CICS, DFSORT, REXX, Intertest

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interactive with team at onsite to gather requirements and develop program change specifications.
• Prepared key artifacts like design documents, business case, Use cases etc for customer sign off as a mandatory requirement following traditional SDLC methodology.
• Responsible for coding new COBOL & CICS programs and unit testing them.
• Maintenance on existing COBOL, CICS and DB2 programs.
• Wrote complex DB2 Stored Procedures
• Created all kinds of JCLs like Sort jobs, DB2 utility jobs and Production JCLs.
• Analyzed, tested and debugged Online and Batch programs using Expeditor
• Done various levels of testing like Unit testing, System testing and Integration testing.
• Done Onsite/Offshore Coordination with Offshore team in India to get the low-end development work done from there.
• Created production JCLs installed and scheduled them.
• Involved in 24X7 Production support from offsite.
• Involved in fixing abends and giving recommendations to resolve potential problems.
• Assist the junior programmers in developing and testing codes

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, Ezytrieve, VSAM, File-Aid

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with team at onshore to gather requirements and develop program change specifications.
• Responsible for coding new COBOL & JCL Components
• Creating Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Result
• Responsible to deployment of code to Production environment and provided support for the code thereafter.
• Involved in Writing scripts for SIT testing and support for UAT testing
• Created Ad-hoc jobs on Ezytrieve to validate production data
• Preparing and maintaining documents related to quality such as Function Point Analysis and project requirements etc
• Created the DB2 tables and indexes.
• Developed extensively in Batch (COBOL and JCL) and Online (CICS-COBOL) modules accessing DB2 and IMS.
• Worked extensively on all kinds of JCL utilities - SORT, IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER.
• Generated number of reports using COBOL, DB2 and IMS.
• The Components are migrated successfully into production
• Created more than 10 new screens for CICS Programs and executed successfully
• Solved many ABEND issues while conversion, helped team in debugging the issues.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Ezytrieve, VSAM, ChangeMan, REXX and File-Aid

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and provide explanation on client queries
• Communicate to onsite and Business for solution or explanation
• Analysis the production abends and find the root cause.
• Communicate with client to get approval.
• Develop the code to resolve the abend.
• Creating Unit Test Plan and Unit Test Result
• Deployed the Code changes in Production.
• Monitor that job in production
• Requirement Analysis, Systems Analysis, High Level Design and Detail Design.
• Wrote new programs in COBOL CICS and DB2 to implement billing functionality
• Wrote complex DB2 Stored Procedures
• Created all kinds of JCLs like Sort jobs, DB2 utility jobs and Production JCLs.
• Problem identification of production issues and Bug-fixing.
• Met 98% of SLA.
• Maintenance and Support for COBOL/JCL/DB2/CICS/VSAM programs.
• Maintenance and Support for CICS Online corrections facility.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, ChangeMan and File-Aid