Charanya Rajasekaran

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Senior System Analyst – Cognizant Technology Solutions

* ***** ** ********** ** Mainframe Z/OS, OS/390 as Programmer Analyst, Software Engineer and Senior System Analyst in Cognizant Technology Solutions. Worked in full SDLC including System analysis, technical design, developing, testing, debugging, implementation, training, research, documentation and production support.

Subject Matter expertise in Transaction Lifecycle Management, a reconciliation system

Good understanding of Investment Banking

In depth knowledge in Client reporting platform that is used for both internal record keeping and client reporting purposes

Extensively worked on projects using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, MVS and SQL.

Ability to perform complex systems analysis, good knowledge of agile methodology and programming activities. Good grasp of relational database concepts

Expertise in various MVS/IBM utilities and tools such as TSO/ISPF, XPEDITOR, FTP, ENDEVOR, DFSORT, SPUFI, QMF, ABEND-AID, MS OFFICE, VISIO, FILE-AID and Quality Center.

Experience in database operations like developing DB2 code, querying databases, Load, Unload data, problem trouble shooting, database testing, performance tuning.

Business process analysis with use cases and/or process flows and Gap analysis techniques.

Involved in unit testing, system integration, volume testing, functional testing, regression testing and manual testing support UAT to ensure programs works with no defects before moving to QA.

Prepare documents regarding technical design, high level system flows, project plan, System use cases, requirements & solution, code reviews and issues, unit test plan, test results, modification processes and weekly status reports for project management.

Specialized in developing new applications with focus on design and performance.

Strong organization skills with the ability to work on multiple projects/assignment simultaneously.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to express technical and business concepts.

SKILLS

Databases/Access method: DB2, IMS, SQL and VSAM.

Programming Language: COBOL II, DB2, JCL, VSAM, and SQL.

Tools: ENDEVOR, FILE-AID, FTP, SPUFI &QMF, TSO, NDM, XPEDITOR, CA7 Job scheduler, Quality Center (Defect Management Tool), MS OFFICE suit and VISIO.

Operating Systems: Z/OS, OS/390, Windows NT/XP, MS-DOS, MVS.

Others: Worked in SunGard Product - InvestOne

CERTIFICATION:

COBOL (Internal to Cognizant)

JCL, VSAM, DB2 (Internal to Cognizant)

Work Experience:

Senior System Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions for Client JPMC

Nov 2009 – May 2015

JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) - is a Merger of JPMorgan and Chase is a leading wholesale financial service firm with US $125 billion in revenue and complemented by a strong and profitable U.S. consumer business. JPMC - WINS is a fund accounting system that takes positions in a fund, prices from the street and calculates NAVs based on the nature of the fund. These NAVs are then reported to client sponsors, public agencies, performance measurement systems, investment managers, the warehouse etc. WINS has 7 different flavors based on geographical / customer segmentation to accommodate for difference in the “Books of Businesses” • NAMT • Boston • UKMT • Dublin • Luxembourg • Asia PAC •DaVinci.WINS has a SunGard Product InvestOne at the core, supplemented with JPMC customized components surrounding it. The Global Application Development (GAD) team works on any enhancement to WINS system will be taken up which includes Customization of systems to the respective clients based on their business requirements, Core Development (whenever SunGard changes, JPMC -IS needs to implement these changes to their customer systems), Maintenance of the existing systems, UAT testing for other interfaces and generation of reports during the process.

Responsibilities:

Requirements gathering for application design.

Extraction and documentation of Business process logic/rules from legacy programs to understand the actual business logic in production as opposed to the business rules believed to be in place. Gap analysis.

Create system level, program level and activity level flow charts for batch and online programs using Visio.

Flow charting the complex sequence of jobs in batch EOD process and timings to tune the batch cycles and job dependencies. Upload high level flows onto Share point to give overview to all users.

Update and maintain application and project documentation in Documentation Framework site.

Worked closely with Business requirements and QA team, and Technical design and Architecture teams and interact with SMEs.

Effective analysis of upstream and down system data understands new and existing applications.

Participate in project planning sessions to gather, analyze business requirements, and assist in root cause analysis and resolutions.

Participate in design, coding, technical writing, testing, implementation, and documentation of solutions.

Support testing team in data validation and functionality testing providing data from mainframe system.

Strong SQL query and data analysis skills.

Responsibilities include technical design, development, testing, debugging, documentation, COBOL, DB2, JCL and CICS applications accessing DB2 tables and VSAM files.

Analyze System COBOL/JCL/DB2 program codes, DCLGEN layout, copybooks, File layout and related JCL, PROCs, Control Cards for program changes

Develop various co-related/nested sub queries for accessing data by joining multiple tables.

Prepared test data and analyzing test output before incorporating the SQL query into application programs using SQL/SPUFI.

Promoted and executed the packages, supporting System integration testing, UAT support and source code maintenance in Endeavor environment.

Debug and test the programs with XPEDITOR after making changes for expected results.

Good understanding of QA process for logging, tracking and resolving defects raised by Quality Center system and making sure the functionality is developed as per the requirements.

Prepare detailed design documentation, System test plan and test procedures documents.

Participated in project planning sessions with project managers, business analyst, client and team members to outline the requirements and design.

Interact with Business analysts to understand functional requirements.

Develop and modify COBOL batch applications accessing DB2 database and VSAM files.

Detailed analysis of all the programs, procedures, parms, GDGs, control cards and copybooks.

Develop programs and report Generation programs.

Enhancements to the existing system as specified by the customer using COBOL, JCL, SQL, VSAM, DB2 maintaining the CMMI quality standards.

Performance tuning SQL queries and DB2-Cobol programs.

Attend team and client meetings, preparation of weekly and monthly status Reports.

Unit testing, System testing preparation of test data, test cases, document the test results and production support.

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering

Anna University, Chennai, India.

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