SUMMARY

• 13 years of expertise in Analysis, Design, Development, Enhancement, Unit Testing, System testing, User acceptance testing in IBM Mainframe Technologies
• Strong in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Stored PROCS, CICS, SQLs, IMS DB
• Involve in all phases of Software development Lifecycle, Agile methodologies
• Domain expertise in Financial Services(8 years), Healthcare(4 years)
• Having experience in Conversion & migration type of projects(Financial Services & Healthcare)
• Strong documentation skills in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio that complements design and expression of ideas
• Quick learner of new environments/technology needs and flexible team player

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, Stored Procedures, SQL, REXX, Easytrieve, Webservice, IBM MQ

Databases: VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC

Tools: & Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SYSNCSORT, ICETOOL, File Aid, Changeman, TWS(scheduler), Tivoli Output Manager, Abend Aid, Endeavor, Control M, SAR, File Manager, Smarttest, Intertest, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF, Data Studio, Fault Analyzer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Lead/Consultant

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, MQ, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, FileManager, Endeavor, Control M, SAR, SMARTTEST, INTERTEST, Data Studio, Fault Analyzer, REXX

Responsibilities:

• Participate in daily status calls for issues impacting Membership enrollment process. Since this is the open enrollment period the application encounters high number of issues which need to be fixed ASAP
• Regularly interact with Business partners to understand the Business impact of the issue and prioritize the issues
• Fix the issues based on the priority and make sure the Business process works fine after the implementation
• Work with onshore & offshore team and explain the issues, priority and fixes need to be done
• Involve in Impact analysis, preparing Unit test plan covering all the functional areas impacted and reviews it with the stakeholders
• Review the code and test results from team members
• Document unit test results with the test from development for all the scenarios in the test plan
• Implement the code to Quality Assurance environment and do System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Support UAT testing with Operations
• Once all stake holders sign off, follow the firm wide deployment procedure and implement the code to production
• Monitor the application after implementation and validate results in impacted areas
• Identify the system gaps and suggest improvement for any existing process
• Performance tune any long running SQLs and improve the performance of the program

Technical Lead/Consultant

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, Stored Procs, DB2, IMS DB/DC, CICS, VSAM, MQ, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, FileManager, Changeman, Control M, SAR, SMARTTEST, INTERTEST, Data Studio, Fault Analyzer, REXX, Endeavor

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Business requirement meeting with Business stake holders and Understand the requirements
• Transform the Business requirement into Technical Design and present it to Business stakeholders for Approval
• Work with onshore & offshore team and explain the technical design and prepare the Level of Effort
• Involve in Impact analysis for the requirement, preparing Unit test plan covering all the functional areas impacted and reviews it with the stakeholders
• Enhance/Create Cobol - DB2 batch programs, COBOL-IMS DB & DC programs, Stored PROCS per the requirement in ChangeMan and test it in development environment
• Review the code and test results from team members
• Document unit test results with the test from development for all the scenarios in the test plan
• Implement the code to Quality Assurance environment and do System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Support UAT testing with Operations
• Once all stake holders sign off, follow the firm wide deployment procedure and implement the code to production
• Monitor the application after implementation and validate results in impacted areas
• Involve in any technical issues and suggest improvement for any existing process
• Performance tune any long running SQLs and improve the performance of the program
• Involve in the process of migrations and suggest improvements and solutions for any business or technical problems

Technical Lead/Consultant

Confidential

Technologies/Tools: COBOL, JCL, Stored Procs, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Easytrieve, Webservice, MQ, SPUFI, QMF, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, FileAid, Changeman, TWS, TOM, SMARTTEST, INTERTEST, Data Studio

Responsibilities:

• Understand requirement with business/Operations and transform them into technical form
• Impact analysis for the requirement, Create Unit test plan covering all the functional areas impacted and reviews it with the stakeholders
• Enhance/Create Cobol-DB2 batch programs, COBOL-CICS programs, Stored PROCS per the requirement in ChangeMan and test it in development environment
• Performance tune any long running SQLs and improve the performance of the program
• Debug programs with Smarttest (Batch), Intertest (Online) and Data Studio (Stored PROCS)
• Document unit test results with the test from development for all the scenarios in the test plan
• Implement the code to Quality Assurance environment and do System Testing, Integration Testing and Regression Testing
• Support UAT testing with Operations
• Once all stake holders sign off, follow the firm wide deployment procedure and implement the code to production
• Monitor the application after implementation and validate results in impacted areas querying Database with SPUFI/QMF
• Periodic DB2 performance reviews and Table archival.