Roopal Bafna Phone: +1-248-***-****

acvpd4@r.postjobfree.com

Senior Mainframe Programmer

Having 7.8 years of experience covering all phases of SDLC - Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Implementation on various software application systems using Mainframe Technology.

Sound understanding of technology and business for financial and insurance products such as Life, Annuities, Property and variable investment products. Successful track record of handling deliveries, product development and business process consulting in Insurance domain across USA and India.

Specialized in the Insurance domain and certified LOMA 280 and LOMA 290 conducted by Life Office Management Association (LOMA).

Having 3.6 years of work experience in US with leading financial services organizations (for Transamerica client between April-2011 to June-2012 and Dec 2012 to Oct-2013 at Cedar Rapids, USA) with Nationwide Mutual Insurance (Oct-2014-till May 2015) and Mercedes-Benz Financial (May2015-tillnow).

Expertise in Agile Methodology (Scrum) along with Water Fall Development approach.

Completed Cyberlife basics and advanced certification. Got Nomination for Cyberlife and DSS SME for Jan-March (2014) quarter.

Extensive experience in Endevor, Changeman, and Debug tool, DFSORT, Fileaid, Control- M, Fault analyzer, File manager,CA7.

Experience on ALM (Application life cycle management tool) for testing and Defect management.

Excellent communication skills, strong analytical and problem solving capabilities.

Experience in System, Unit Test Plans and User Acceptance cycle testing including creating Test Plans, Documenting all test results, Analyzing output test data using fileaid, creating datasets to test, setting up JCL, and Moving modules using Endevor. Good knowledge in System testing and Regression testing.

Expertise in production support on call activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms/O.S : Windows XP/ 2K; DOS, MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage).

Methodologies : Waterfall, Agile

Languages known : COBOL, JCL, CICS, Eazytrieve, JAVA.

Database : VSAM, DB2, IMS, SQL,MS Access.

Version Control Tools : Endevor, Changeman,DCCS.

Debugging Tools : IBM Debugger, Xpeditor

Other Tools : DFSORT, Fileaid, Control- M, Fault analyzer, File manager,

FileZilla, ALM (application life cycle management), SPUFI, IRAD,

DB Visualizer

Office Tools : MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

Educational Qualification

Master of Computer Application (Year 2008)

Bachelor of Computer Application (Year 2005)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client 1: Mercedes Benz Financial Services

Organization: Apex Technology Systems

May2015 – Till now

Senior Mainframe/JAVA Developer

Visa Status –H1B

Project: Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is one of the leading captive financial services providers in the world, and the global financial services company of Daimler AG. Main center of activity is in North America, the largest automotive market in the world.

Change Notice system allows a controlled method to make financial adjustments to customer

accounts which affect GL (General Ledger) accounts. Customer included Retail, Retail lease loan holder, and wholesale dealer, Daily Rent a Car dealer from US and CANADA.

Technical Environment: MVS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2,IMS, File aid, Endeover, DCCS.

Role: Senior Mainframe/JAVA Developer and Agile Coach “Development of project artifacts as part of Agile.

Responsibilities:

Bringing Agile and Scrum development approach within the team, helping team member to understand Agile.

DCCS to Endeover migration activities.

Worked on both front end back end interface of the system.

Modify existing application code or interfaces or build new application components from detailed requirements.

Analysis of requirements, support of the design, development of the code, testing, debugging, deployment, and maintenance of those programs and interfaces. Documentation of the work is essential

Participation in most aspects of programming and application development, including file design, update, storage, and retrieval

Ability to maintain the developed solution on an on-going basis is essential

Enhance processes to resolve operational problems and add new functions taking into consideration schedule, resource constraints, process complexity, dependencies, assumptions and application structure

Creation of Unit Test plans for testing the new product implementations.

Responsible for deploying the code; Integration testing & fix post-delivery issues.

Client 2: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

Organization: Apex Technology Systems

Oct-2014 – May2015

Senior Mainframe Developer

Visa Status –H1B

Project: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company & Affiliated Companies is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio.

Nationwide uses FPS (Fire processing system) to handle various property product type including Homeowner, tenant, condominiums, mobile homes, dwelling Fire, Inland marine, boats. It has several parts which includes print, rating validity, policy administration for property insurance products.

Technical Environment: MVS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2,IMS, File anager and Fault analyzer.

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer “Coding, Testing, implementation and making sure defect free and on time delivery.

Responsibilities:

Attending Scrum calls to provide the Development updates on day-to-day basis to Scrum Master and Product owner

Being Agile, was a part of Sprint Planning and Retrospective meetings

Collaborating with Deployment and support team on need basis

Oncall responsibility and making sure cycle gets completed on time.

Enhancement and maintenance of FPS application. Coding of the components in Mainframes. Optimizing the developed code as per the coding standards defined and then making the necessary changes in the code to make it follow the required standards.

Creation of Unit Test plans for testing the new product implementations.

Responsible for deploying the code; Integration testing & fix post-delivery issues.

Client 3: AEGON/Transamerica Life and Protection (TLP)

Organization: CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation)

Nov 2009 – Aug 2014

Senior Mainframe Developer

April-2011 to June-2012 and Dec-2012 to Oct-2013 at Cedar Rapids,(USA) as Team Lead/Onsite Coordinator (L1 visa)

Project: Aegon's businesses focus on life insurance and pensions, savings and asset management products. The group is also active in accident and supplemental health insurance and general insurance, and has limited banking activities. Aegon has major operations in the United States (where it is heavily represented through World Financial Group and Transamerica) its U.S. headquarters are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Technical Environment: MVS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Control-M, File Manager, Eztrive, Endeavor and Fault analyzer

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer “Communicating with development managers, delivery managers, business consultants, project managers and the support team.”

Responsibilities:

Analyze Business requirements given by the Client & Business users.

Coordinating with the offshore team, resolving offshore queries & ensure timely deliverables of the project

Prepare technical and business specification. Interact with the business users and translate business requirements to Technical specifications.

Setting up timelines for the execution of the project

Giving regular status updates to the client and ensuring that the project is on track.

Coordinating with the offshore team, resolving offshore queries & ensure timely deliverables of the project

Participating in the quality control process to ensure that the deliverables meet the quality standards of the project.

Coding of the components in Mainframes. Optimizing the developed code as per the coding standards defined and then making the necessary changes in the code to make it follow the required standards.

Creation of Unit Test plans for testing the new product implementations.

Responsible for deploying the code; Integration testing & fix post-delivery issues (if any)

Being Expert in Production Support activities, provided day time support to the applications Cyberlife 9701, 0001, 0201 and DSS and ensuring that the applications are up and available as per their schedules.

Client 4 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company

Organization: CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation)

Aug-2008 – Oct 2009

Software Developer

Project: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company & Affiliated Companies is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio

Nationwide uses CyberLife is their core application to handle the daily life insurance business processes starting from new business processing all through policy expiry/maturity. CyberLife is a complete life insurance system addressing the requirements of the American Life Insurance business. CyberLife is a complete software solution that provides functionality from new business through claim processing including product definition, new business/underwriting, administration, billing and collection, distribution management, correspondence and reporting.

Technical Environment: MVS, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2, Control-M and Fault analyzer.

Role: Mainframe Developer “Coding, Testing, implementation and making sure defect free and on time delivery.

Responsibilities:

Maintenance of the existing Insurance Claim system.

Requirement gathering, analysis, resolution and testing for system defects reported by Nationwide Verifying/analysis of the business related cases.

Executing change request to make system enhancements to support changes in business processes such as Actuarial, Billing, Claims, Policy Administration etc.

Understand client requirements through interaction with customer business analysts.

Fixing of tickets as per their priority decided by business and user team.

Client 5 :Web Based Recruitment system For S.G.S.I.T.S Organization: S.G.S.I.T.S Aug-2007 –2008

Software Developer

Project: The Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS)(GSTI) is a public engineering institution located in Indore, India. It was established in 1952 as a technical institute offering licentiate and diploma courses in engineering. It is considered as 2nd best engineering college in Madhya Pradesh after MANIT Bhopal.

This project is aimed at developing a web-based and central recruitment Process system

for the HR Group . Some features of this system will be creating vacancies, storing application data, and Interview process initiation, Scheduling interviews, storing Interview results for the applicant and finally Hiring of the applicant. Reports may be required to be generated for the use of the HR group.

Technical Environment: JAVA, SQL, Servlet, JSP

Role: Developer “Coding, Testing, implementation and making sure defect free and on time delivery.

Responsibilities:

Preparing System Requirement Specifications and Functional Design for various modules of the entire project.

Coding, Unit testing and Project documentation.

Understand client requirements through interaction with customer.

APPRECIATION/AWARDS

Appreciation letters/accolades for high quality performance in above projects

Client Appreciation: Certificate received from the Client (TLP), received “Courage award”.

Received best reviewer of quarter award for CSC.

Received certification for dedicated work in DSS area.

Received certification for proving excellent supports on call activities.

Awarded as best team player of the month.

References: Available on request.

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