EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Over 6.7 years of experience in Information technology industry involving in all phase of SDLC cycle for mainframe application.
• Expertise in analyzing existing systems and procedures, enhancing teh systems for supporting new features as per customer requirements and to increase teh operational efficiency and implementation of new sub - application.
• Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation.
• Gained exposure in teh end-to-end development of software application from requirement analysis to system study, designing, coding, testing, de-bugging, documentation and implementation.
• An TEMPeffective communicator wif exceptional relationship management skills wif teh ability to relate to people at any level of business and management. Excellent offshore-onshore coordination between teams located at various locations.
• A technocrat in Application Development, Maintenance and Production support in Mainframe (JES3, COBOL, DB2,IDMS,JCL, CICS, MQ Series, SQL, PL/SQL,VSAM, Rexx, Macro).
• Thorough hands-on experience on EXSTREAM FORMATTING TOOL, RDZ and QTP.
• Experienced wif Defect Management Tools - Quality Center for reporting and defect logging.
• Z/os & MVS IBM Mainframe systems and Web applications (Explorer --x, HTML, XML), Unix, Win 95/98/2000/NT, 4.0/2000/ME/XP, DOS platforms
• Extensive Database testing/Analysis: RDBMS, DBMS, DB2 using SQL Developer, SQLPlus (SQL), Transact - SQL (Query Analyzer), Toad
• Functional noledge of MQ(messaging queue) application.
• 2 years of Strong Unix Shell Programming Experience.
• Worked in Finance domain throughout teh carrier.
• Experienced in Property management System(PTMS) as well.
• Worked in critical financial application like Supertrump and Flap. Both these application does teh credit check of a customer along wif all financial calculation at teh time of booking of a deal. They halp in making teh decision in lease or loan approval.
• Worked in various schedulers like Appworx and Ca7.
• Worked directly on third party applications provided by TMAX and other vendors. Applications like Openstudio,Winscp, Star Team, team City etc.
• Proficient in designing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts and Test Scenario for application development.
• Experienced in 24/7 production support of mission critical mainframe applications.
• Experienced in migration and conversion of mainframe applications.
• Experienced in training, leading, mentoring and managing offshore teams across multiple countries(USA,INDIA and Mexico)
• Well versed in Waterfall software development and Agile methodology approaches.
• Experienced in leading multiple project teams in building and supporting mainframe based applications.
• Experienced in Smoke Testing, System Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Version Control tools: Star team, Team city

Defect Management Tools: Quality Center

RDBMS: SQL Server, MS Access.

Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 98/NT/2000, Win XP, UNIX, Z/os, MVS.

DB Tools: MS Access, Microsoft SQL server, PL/SQL Developer, SQL Developer, Transact - SQL (QueryAnalyzer),OLQ,DMLOLanguages/Dev Tools: COBOL, JCL, REXX, SQL, PL/SQL,MQ series.

Scripting Language: UNIX shell scripts

Other: Microsoft Office, Visio 2000, RDz, QTP,NDM,SFTP,FTP,CHANGEMAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Mainframe Lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Doing impact analysis on teh new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiatedby teh clients.
• Maintaining and Enhancing teh PMS system.
• Co - ordination wif other teams working under teh same system.
• Checking standards of COBOL, DB2 and CICS, IDMS Programs.
• Analysis of COBOL module for complete Test coverage.
• Creating new Cobol program and JCL wif better performance.
• Developing case diagrams and preparing High level and Low level diagram.
• Worked in critical financial application like Supertrump and Flap. Both these application does teh credit check of a customer along wif all financial calculation at teh time of booking of a deal. They halps in making teh decision in lease or loan approval.
• Worked in various schedulers like Appworx and Ca7.
• Worked directly on third party applications provided by TMAX and other vendors. Applications like Openstudio,Winscp, Star Team, team City etc.
• Expertise in web services SOA architecture.
• Writing schell scripts for different processes wifin application like failure mail notification, ftp/sftp transmission script, monitoring script building, Finance report writing etc.24X7 support in Production.
• Build MQ supporting processes for one of teh interfacing application which uses MQ.
• Developing test strategies for efficient and error free testing (like preparing Unit test plans and doing Unit test reviews, Integration testing)
• Integration testing of all system batch jobs.
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on business requirements
• Prepare Process documentation
• Doing Impact analysis on new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated bythe client.
• Handling Production abend and providing immediate fix.
• Code Walk-thru of programs to resolve defects.
• Managing teh configuration and controlling teh version using version control tools i.e. Star team, Team city.
• Handling offshore-onshore coordination between teams located at various locations.
• Solving Client queries.

Environment:JCL, TSO,VSAM, COBOL, SQL, DB2, IDMS,SQL,CICS,DC-COBOL,DFSORT,TCP/IP DFsort, EzyTrieve, QWS,winscp,putty,Star Team, Team city, notepad ++,CHANGEMAN,FTP/SFTP/NDM.

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Doing impact analysis on teh new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated by teh clients.
• Checking standards of COBOL, DB2 and CICS, IDMS Programs.
• Analysis of COBOL module for complete Test coverage.
• Creating new Cobol program and JCL wif better performance.
• Developing case diagrams and preparing High level and Low level diagram.
• Developing test strategies for efficient and error free testing (like preparing Unit test plans and doing Unit test reviews, Integration testing)
• Integration testing of all system batch jobs.
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on business requirements
• Process documentation
• Doing Impact analysis on new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated by teh client.
• Handling Production abend and providing immediate fix.
• Code Walk - thru of programs to resolve defects.
• Managing teh configuration and controlling teh version using version control tools i.e. Star team, Team city.
• Solving Client queries.

Environgment:JCL, TSO,VSAM, COBOL, SQL, DB2, IDMS,SQL,CICS,DC- COBOL,DFSORT,TCP/IP,FILEAID, DFsort, EzyTrieve, QWS,winscp,putty,Star Team, Team city, notepad,++,NDM,SFTP,FTP

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Doing impact analysis on teh new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated by teh clients.
• Checking standards of COBOL, DB2 and CICS, IDMS Programs.
• Analysis of COBOL module for complete Test coverage.
• Creating new Cobol program and JCL wif better performance.
• Creating new Cobol programs for transmissions using FTP/SFTP/NDM tools.
• Developing case diagrams and preparing High level and Low level diagram.
• Developing test strategies for efficient and error free testing (like preparing Unit test plans and doing Unit test reviews, Integration testing)
• Unit testing of complete nightly batch cycle.
• Integration testing of all system batch jobs.
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on business requirements
• Process documentation
• Doing Impact analysis on new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated by teh client.
• Creating adhoc report on CCU data.
• Handling Production abend and providing immediate fix.
• Code Walk - thru of programs to resolve defects.
• Managing teh configuration and controlling teh version using version control tools i.e. Star team, Team city.
• Solving Client queries.

Environment:JCL, VSAM, COBOL, SQL, DB2, IDMS,SQL,CICS,DC-COBOL, DFsort, EzyTrieve, QWS,winscp,putty,Star Team, Team city, notepad ++,NDM,SFTP,FTP

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Doing impact analysis on teh new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated by teh clients.
• Checking standards of COBOL, DB2 and CICS Programs.
• Analysis of COBOL module for complete Test coverage.
• Creating Stored procedure and fine tuning application queries for better performance.
• Code Walk - thru of programs to resolve defects.
• Developing case diagrams and preparing High level and Low level diagram.
• Developing test strategies for efficient and error free testing (like preparing Unit test plans and doing Unit test reviews, Integration testing)
• Developed Test cases and Test scripts based on business requirements
• Process documentation
• Doing Impact analysis on new requirement or change request on teh existing programs initiated by teh client.
• Creating adhoc report on CCU data.
• Handling Production abend and providing immediate fix.
• Managing teh configuration and controlling teh version using version control tools i.e. Star team, Team city.
• Solving Client queries.

EnvironementJCL, TSO,VSAM, COBOL, SQL, DB2, IDMS,SQL,CICS,DC-COBOL,DFSORT,TCP/IP, DFsort, EzyTrieve, QWS,winscp,putty,Star Team, Team city, notepad ++,NDM,SFTP,FTP