Sharmila Muralidharan

abh68p@r.postjobfree.com

Ph no: +1-425-***-****

SUMMARY

. Around 6 years of Development, Maintenance, Testing and Production

support experience includes Analysis, Design, Coding, Program

Modification, Unit Testing, Batch Testing and Creation of Test Data and

Test Environment utilizing COBOL, DB2, IMS/DB, CICS, SQL, JCL, SORT

Utilities, VSAM, MVS, Easytrieve, TSO/ISPF, CA7, MQ series, MF Workbench,

Xpeditor, IBM Debug tool, Abend Aid, SAR, SCLM, QMF, FTP, SPUFI,

Comparex, Endeavor, File Aid, Change Man

. Very good Organizational, Analytical, Teamwork and Project management

skills along with excellent interpersonal skills.

. Excellent experience of 6 years in COBOL; 6+ years in MF COBOL;

. Exceptional ability to quickly master new concepts and latest technology.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating system MVS, IBM mainframe, OS/390

Languages COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, PL/I

Databases DB2, IMS/DB

OLTP CICS

Tools/ Utilities TSO/ISPF/SDSF, File Aid, SPUFI, QMF, Easytrieve,

Xpeditor, CA7, Change man, SCLM, Clear Quest, SQL,

Endeavor, SDF, MQ Series, MF Workbench, Comparex,

PowerPoint, MSoffice, Visio, Abend Aid, IBM Debug

tool, Dump Master, FTP, SAR

INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

Insurance, Financial services, Banking and Telecom

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Allstate Insurance

08/08 till 03/10

Client: Allstate Insurance

Role: Sr. Programmer Analyst

Description: This project focuses on providing optimal solutions to the

defects and fixes. ATLAS is a Legacy system. It has been the Life Company's

primary administration system, for life business, since the late 1970's.

All policy level accounting information is produced and maintained. The

functions supported by the system are Policy Issuance, Contract

Administration, Billing and collection, Policy Exhibit & valuation and

General Ledger.

. Involved in all the phases of SDLC including technical requirement

gathering, estimation, design, coding, testing, implementation and

documentation.

. Worked with end users to ensure that solutions met business

requirements.

. Did the enhancements to JCL's and make sure it runs in respective

environments properly.

. For each Business Requirement Document (BSD) did estimation.

. Did impact analysis for the system for some of the functional

requirements.

. Did production support and maintained modules regularly.

. Used SCLM to check in and checkout modules.

. Performed unit testing for new as well as modified modules.

. Participated in Code reviews/walkthroughs.

. Did develop Technical specification documents (TSD).

. Developed Test cases for unit/regression/system testing.

. Used Super C for manual compare and JCL for automation.

. Analyzed the problems and resolved issues in production support.

. Fixed the production bugs and closed production tickets.

. Did lot of dump analysis to fix the production issues.

. Prepared documentation for all the production issues and the tickets I

worked on.

. Used IBM Debug tool for unit testing for both and online and batch

systems.

. Created Clear quest tickets for production implementation.

. Gave support for AT.

. Utilized configuration management tools like VSS.

. Trained the new comers to the project on the process followed in the

project.

Environment: COBOL, PL/I, DB2, JCL/PROCS, CICS, IMS DB, VSAM, IBM Debug

tool, SCLM, Clear quest, Dump Master, Easytrieve, SQL, ABEND-AID, IBM

Utilities, MVS Tools, Endevor, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, SPUFI, FTP, File Aid, QMF,

MS Office.

Alliance and Leicester

03/08 till 08/08

Client: Alliance and Leicester

Role: Sr. Programmer Analyst

Description: This was a data migration project which focused on converting

the legacy systems into the core banking application called ALNOVA. ALNOVA

provides more flexibility and helps to avoid duplication found in legacy

systems, benefiting the business to a great extent.

. Developed some of the complicated programs in Direct Debits Module.

. Performed unit testing for the Direct Debit module.

. Prepared test data for DD module.

. Prepared documentation for the Direct Debit module.

. Developed JCL's for the new module.

. For each Business Requirement Document (BSD) did estimation.

. Used Endeavor to check in and check out modules.

. Did develop Technical specification documents (TSD).

. Identified options for potential solutions and assessed them for both

technical and business suitability.

. Did maintain some parts of the system on a regular basis.

. Developed Test case matrix for unit testing.

. Used Super C for manual compare and JCL for automation.

Environment: COBOL, Db2, JCL/PROCS, IMS DB, SQL, ABEND-AID, IBM Utilities,

MVS Tools, Endevor, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, SPUFI, FTP, File Aid, Expeditor, QMF.

Computer Sciences Corporation

08/06 till 12/07

Client: Zurich Financial Services

Role: Sr. Programmer Analyst

Description: The main aim of the project was to maintain and enhance the

applications as per the requirements. The module I was involved in is

Agentur (Sales). I was solely responsible for the entire module.

. Went onsite to Germany to receive knowledge transfer for this

application from the client Zurich.

. Prepared system appreciation document using MS-Word and Visio.

. Engaged clients directly to understand the business requirements

better for all the work orders received.

. Estimated work orders for all the frozen requirements.

. Prepared Detailed Design document.

. Creation of Technical & System Appreciation reports using PDF, MS-

Word, MS-Excel, Visio and Micrographic Flow-Charter.

. Constructed programs as per requirements well within the delivery end-

date with high quality, received client appreciations for the same.

. Did the unit testing for all modified modules.

. Prepared unit test plans, involved in UAT & system testing and defect

resolution

. Created Migration packages using Endevor and got the approval from the

clients.

. Migrated code to PRODUCTION region on the deployment date. Implemented

migration plans and maintained production code.

. Fixed production issues by identifying root causes and providing

resolutions

. Did prepare production JCL's for some modules.

. Did maintain some parts of the system on a regular basis.

. Developed Test case matrix for unit/regression/system testing.

. Trained the new comers to the project on IMS/DB and Endevor.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Db2, CICS, Pl/I, IMS/DB, VSAM, MVS Tools,

TSO/ISPF/SDSF, File Aid, MQ Series, SQL, Xpeditor, Endevor, QMF, Ms-office.

Infosys Technologies 04/04

till 08/06

Client: AT&T

Role: Mainframe Programmer

Description: AT&T is one of the largest Telecom service providers in the

US. I was working in the Customer and Billing Inquiry application. BIS is a

mainframe-based system which takes care of customer ordering and billing.

The primary objective was to modernize and merge all the independent

billing systems of different operating regions into one.

Involved in various phases of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

including Gathering technical requirements, providing optimum solutions,

High Level Design, Detailed Design,Coding,UAT & System Testing, Review and

Defect Analysis & Fixing.

Used Xpeditor for unit testing for both and online and batch systems.

Utilized configuration management tools like VSS.

Communicated accurate status updates to my Team Lead.

Worked with Onsite team lead to ensure that solutions met business

requirements.

Determined time estimates and schedule for own work and resolved issues in

a timely manner.

Developed & debug JCL's for the new and old modules.

Developed/Enhanced/Maintained COBOL/DB2 batch programs regularly.

Did production support and maintained modules regularly.

Used ISPF Regularly.

Performed unit testing for new as well as modified modules.

Did develop Technical specification documents (TSD).

Did maintain some parts of the system on a regular basis.

Used Defect Tracker tool developed by Infosys to track the defects.

Developed Test case matrix for unit/regression/system testing.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS/DB, IMS/DC, VSAM, MQ Series, SQL,

ABEND-AID, MVS Tools, Change man, TSO/ISPF/SDSF, File Aid, Xpeditor, QMF,

Ms-office.

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