SUMMARY

• 10+ years of IT industry experience in providing Application development and maintenance (ADM) by executing various stages of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analyzing impacted components, Preparing high level and low level design documents, coding, preparing and performing unit testing, system testing and user acceptance testing, and finally deploying code into production which meet customer needs by adhering to the company standards and policies.
• Also worked on legacy migration projects from Mainframe to Java/Microsoft Shops.
• Certified ISTQB (International software testing qualifications board) application tester.
• Provided 24*7(365 days) production support for applications that should meet service levels.
• Providing Root cause, temporary resolution and permanent fixes to the queries/problems raised by the business users (Via BMC Remedy, IBM Tivoli & service now) who are spanned across 30+ Countries.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication skills; highly motivated, results oriented and enthusiastic team player; Ability to work effectively in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to foster innovation, encourage diversity of thought and incorporate new ideas to practice.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a very good team player and had successful interactions with Business users, Business managers, marketing team, finance team, peers and customer support team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: COBOL, CICS, JCL, Eazytrieve, Assembler, C, Java, SQL, Rexx, WEBGL, PL/SQL, C#, ASP.NET

Web Technologies: XML, HTML

Data Visualization Tool: Tableau

Databases Used: VSAM, DB2, Oracle 11g, MYSQL (logical & physical modelling of databases)

Configuration Management Tools: Endevor, Changeman, Visual source safe, SharePoint

Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, Trace master, IBM debugger.

Mainframe Utilities: File manager, File aid, SPUFI, QMF, WINSQL, DFSORT, ABENDAID, IOF/SDSF, IDCAMS, DB2 Load/Unload, FTP/NDM, ICETOOL, MQ, stored procedures.

Mainframe Emulators: Humming bird, QWS 3270 & PASSPORT

ETL Tools: DTS and SSIS Packages.

Microsoft Office Tools: MS word, Excel, power point, Access.

ITIL Tools: IBM Service center, BMC Remedy, Service now.

Batch Job Scheduling Tools: CA7 and ZEKE

Integrated Development environments (IDE’s): Eclipse, Compuware workbench, Visual Studio

Database Management Tools: TOAD, WinRDBI

Hardware and networking: TCP/IP, Firewalls & VPN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dublin OH

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Provide the production support to the Bill payment and Ebill banking and enrollment applications.
• Created shell programs that allowed for faster development and improved risk mitigation.
• We are using agile methodology (version one) to develop business applications.
• Created a tool to generate mod routines with extended null indicators with newly introduced UPSERT function of new version on IBM DB2 11.2.
• REST API’s (Microsoft Shop) calls our Mainframe World API’s.
• Works with ACH (Automated Clearing house) & designs file layouts by following NACHA Rules.
• Creating stored procedures that can invoke DB2 from Microsoft world.
• Used load & unload utilities on DB2 Tables.
• Closely worked with DB2 DBA Team to Create tables, modify the data, delete the data & purge Data periodically from production Databases.
• Made sure Explain is used on the SQL quires to have them fine - tuned to 100% efficiency before they hit DB2 tables in production every time.
• Used SPUFI & QMF frequently to provide reports to business users.

Confidential

Senior software engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed the batch programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2.
• Modified the existing CICS screens and online programs.
• Generated the business and user reports using EASYTRIEVE and SAS.
• Monitoring the Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly jobs and fixing the production problems.
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed, stored test data in HP Quality Center.
• Running weekly, monthly and quarterly meetings with client manager, Business managers and with the employer respectively.
• Successfully migrated data from VSAM KSDS files to Oracle Database.
• Extensively designed, coded and tested both batch and online programs.
• Experience with service management (Incident, problem, release and change) processes.
• Transferred files from mainframes platform to other distributed platforms using FTP & NDM.
• Developing dashboards with help of tableau tool, in order to present in the weekly (client) & monthly (company) project status calls.
• Experience with providing technical walkthroughs to team members, customers, partners, vendors and management.
• Estimating both enhancements and development projects with help of CP estimation sheets.
• Demonstrated the leadership and management skills by directing junior resources.
• Actively provided knowledge transitions to new team members.
• Developed operational documents for the business applications supported.

Confidential

Senior software engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing components like (Procs, JCLs & control cards) and also modified CICS screens (i.e. BMS Maps) as per the business requirements.
• Performed Quality assurance activities like peer reviews, defect tracking and made sure that deliverables are defect free.
• Performed daily and weekly maintenance activities such as testing the 3rd party Compass tool for its release of new patches.
• Extracting the data from MYSQL and mainframe DB2 as per the business user needs and sending the reports to business managers to make decisions.
• Deleting the components related to obsolete streams to save DASD space.
• Used DTS and SSIS (ETL) Packages to extract reports from MYSQL Database.
• Knowledge of concept and design of Database like ER-Modeling, RDB’S and Normalization.
• Debugging both batch and online programs using Trace Master and Xpeditor.