SUMMARY:

An enthusiastic professional offering over 7 years of IT experience aspiring to establish a career in a growth oriented organization to utilize acquired skills and knowledge in achieving organizational goals, while attaining personal and professional growth provide an opportunity for enhancing learning graph and career advancement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Having 7 years of IT Experience involved in all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle in terms of Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation in Mainframes Environment.
• Extensively worked with Mainframe technologies COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and CICS, IMS, SQL.
• Fully exposed to Software Development Life Cycle in Water fall model and Agile Method.
• Experience in software development including analysis, design, coding and technical support.
• Expertise in analyzing business requirements and understanding existing legacy systems.
• Extensive experience in Designing business applications, preparing test cases, typical build activities including delivery of source code , test results and implementing the changes in production.
• Experienced in different phases of software development cycle including Strategic Systems Planning, Designing, Programming, Testing, Implementation, Documentation and Presentation to Production support as a part of software development model.
• Strong experience in collecting functional requirements and turning them into technical solutions that exceeds client expectations.
• Experience with designing, developing, testing, and implementation of large scale business and technology integration initiatives.
• Good exposure on relational databases DB2, Oracle and SQL.
• Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in-group as well as independently.
• Experience in interacting with teams from multiple geographies.
• Self-motivated, innovative, hardworking and flexible with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• A self-starter and team player, Able to plan and execute complex tasks.
• Multitasking and the ability to prioritize goals that help organizations to reach their desired goals.
• Excellent communication skills and is very good at interacting with all levels of management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Environment : Operating system MVS OS/390 , Languages/File System CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SQL , Tools ELIPS, Easytrieve, Xpeditor, ELIPS,File-Aid, SPUFI,SQL,ETL, SQL Developer, TOAD, Putty

Role :Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the Functional Requirement Specifications FRS and Additional Design Specifications ADS for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts.
• Updating the existing JCL's to handle the Next Generation changes
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER/Trace Master set up.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.
• Involved in the implementation of these changes in production by packaging the application etc.
• Involved in warranty Support for the release

Confidential

Environment :Operating system MVS OS/390 , Languages/File System CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM , Tools ELIPS, Easytrieve, Xpeditor, ELIPS, File-Aid, SPUFI

Role :Sr. Developer

Methodology : AGILE Process

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Technical Specification
• Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases ,test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Manage the resource for offshore team.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.
• Specifications ADS for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.
• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.
• Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.
• Generating metrics on the performance of the system.

Confidential

Environment : Operating system MVS OS/390 , Languages/File System CICS, COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, SQL , Tools ELIPS, Easytrieve, Xpeditor, ELIPS, File-Aid, SPUFI, SQL, Infromatica ETL, SQL Developer, TOAD,PUTTY

Role :Sr. Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.
• Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.
• Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.
• Designing New Components using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM Database design Concepts.
• Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER set up.
• Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.
• Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document
• Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.
• Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.
• Enhancement and Implementation of the new inbound and outbound program in CICS Web Services environment.
• Discussed with business Analyst and Line of business to understand the exact requirements and wrote down the functional specification
• Involve in designing the Technical Specification
• Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team
• Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis
• Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.
• Creating test cases ,test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements
• Coordinated with the testing team for QA testing.
• Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.

Confidential

Environment : Operating system MVS OS/390 and Z/VSE , Languages/File System CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSE-JCL, VSAM, SQL , Tools ELIPS, Endeavor, File-Aid, SPUFI,Inter Test, V-tune, VM-CMS, ICCF

Role :Developer Offshore

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed user requirements and developing test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality.
• Involved in preparation of test Plans and test cases in test director.
• Involved in preparation of positive and negative test cases.
• Participated in system testing, Regression testing and UAT.
• Participated in preparation of test data and document test data.
• Execution of test cases in Test Director and validates the data in the testing region.
• Interacted with developers for fixing the bugs.
• Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.
• Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.
• Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.
• Analyzed the data using SPUFI and Hogan.
• SQLs are written using SPUFI to query the DB2 database on Mainframe environment.
• Involved in the review process of junior team members work.
• Create JCL to run batch in test environment.

Confidential

Type : Development

Environment : Operating system MVS OS/390 and Z/VSE , Languages/File System CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSE-JCL, VSAM, SQL , Tools ELIPS, Endeavor, File-Aid, SPUFI,Inter Test, V-tune, VM-CMS, ICCF, Test Direct

Role :Mainframe Tester/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Working with business analysts and users to gather and understand business requirements.
• Responsible in developing mapping tables from Legacy Copy books to DB2 system.
• Developed JCL's by using DFSORT to compare the Policy numbers which are resided in File Systems Before Conversion and on DB2 System After Conversion to make sure about the statistics of the Conversion of Policies.
• Developed various audit reports in Cobol and Cobol-DB2 used by clients to make decisions critical to the smooth migration of legacy data to APS.
• Developed JCL's and COBOL programs to get the statistics of Policy Conversion into DB2 system.
• Involved in the design process of integration of Policy system and Billing System into a single module.
• Designed the process to run parallel jobs in production which will include Policy, Billing and Customer Communication systems. These parallel jobs will reduce the window time of conversion.
• Involved in extensive Unit and Integration testing of the data to ensure that conversion programs are having required functionalities.

Confidential

Environment : Operating system MVS OS/390 and Z/VSE , Languages/File System CICS, COBOL, DB2, VSE-JCL, VSAM, SQL , Tools ELIPS, Endeavor, File-Aid, SPUFI,Inter Test, V-tune, VM-CMS, ICCF

Role :DeveloperOffshore

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.
• Analysis and development of enhancement requests.
• Created test cases and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Responsiblefor Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.
• Coordinatedwith the Client teams during the production moves.
• Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.
• Involved in Analysis, Coding, Testing, Maintenance and Enhancement.
• Involved in quality aspects, such as Test Case and defect log preparation for the CR's.
• Test case preparation execution for change requests.