Software Engineer Project
Resume:
Prasad Samant
SUMMARY
. A highly talented and accomplished IT professional with 7 years of
extensive experience in the areas of Analysis, Design, Development and
Implementation of software systems with proven skills & work
experience in P&C Insurance Business. Extensive experience in
writing/interpreting pseudo codes and testing of various applications.
Experienced in writing use cases for reverse engineering and
replatforming projects.
. Analyst Experience: Experience as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).
Systems Analyst experience. Extensive experience in creation of
Functional Requirement Documents, System Requirement Documents, Test
plans and other documentation such as traceability matrices.
. Leadership Experience: Involvement in mission critical project and
varied experience of coordinating with multiple teams at various
locations in the lead capacity and project status reporting to the
stake holders. Assisted project managers and stakeholders in project
planning using project planning tools.
. Technical Skills: Proficiency in IBM Mainframe technologies along with
relational databases and open system technologies, Property & Casualty
insurance along with Healthcare Insurance domain.
. Soft Skills: Excellent team player with good communication, planning,
leadership and problem solving skills.
. Insurance Experience: Studied both personal and commercial insurance
processing as a part of INS certification. Well versed with various
types of property and casualty insurance lines of business. Worked
with claims and underwriting teams along with policy administration
department for data processing and submission to reporting agencies &
state departments. Presently pursuing CPCU designation from AICPCU.
SKILL SET
Technology: IBM Mainframes
Operating Systems: MVS ESA, Windows
Languages: JCL, COBOL, CICS, C, C++, VB, PL/SQL, COLDFUSION
Interfaces: VSAM, ISPF/TSO
Databases: DB2 V8, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, IMS, ORACLE, MS Access
Tools: VSS (Configuration Management), Xpeditor (Debugging
Batch/Online), FILE-AID (Dataset and DB2
management), SPUFI, QMF (DB2 query facility),
ICETOOL, File-Manager, Intertest, Easytrieve,
BMC utilities for DB2.
Version Controls Tools: Changeman, Ellipse.
Generic: Microsoft applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Outlook and Visio, MS Project
Additional Skills: SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) documentation control owner for
MetLife's Auto and Boat policy writing team.
Worked with Relativity Tool for reverse
engineering of a system. Ability to write test
cases for various business scenarios to
ascertain the preservation of required business
functionality during major system changes.
ORACLE certified developer. Completed INS
certification in P&C insurance and pursuing
CPCU designation awarded by AICPCU.
EDUCATION
> Master of Science in Software Engineering from BITS, Pilani
> Master of Science in Physics with Electronic Communication as
specialization from the University of Mumbai.
> Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA) from CMC Ltd.
India
Professional Achievements:
Completed INS certification awarded by AICPCU and pursuing CPCU
designation.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client: Ace Insurance Group, Roanoke, VA May 2008 to
Present
Platform: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, ColdFusion, VB, DB2, IMS, VSAM, CICS, JCL,
DFSORT, Easytrieve, ELIPSE, FILEAID, INSYNC, SQL Server
Role: System Analyst/Programmer/ Module lead for coordination with offshore
team.
Ace Insurance Group is a leading provider of insurance services in the
property and casualty insurance area. Ace offers a broad spectrum of
products in Property and Casualty (P&C) lines of business. As a system
analyst and onsite coordinator/ module lead, I was involved in maintenance
& enhancement of Ace's 'Recording Financial' system (RIS) to support
introduction of new products and servicing of the existing products. RIS
system deals with insurance as well as reinsurance premium, reporting to
state, Insurance Service Office (ISO) etc. I have extensively worked with
insurance reporting agencies such as ISO and TICO in my tenure with ACE
Insurance Group. The TICO reporting system work included business
requirement analysis, design and development along with complete
documentation of the new process etc.
Additionally, I was assigned a project to Analyze business requirements,
plan and design an online inquiry system using ColdFusion to extract data
from the DB2 tables and display results on the online inquiry screens. This
project was designed, developed and deployed in 3 months to the
satisfaction of the users.
Responsibilities:
> Work with the Business Analysts to define system requirements and
prepare functional and technical specifications to accommodate the
new processes from BRD.
> Analyze the system to estimate the efforts required to incorporate
the requirements
> Prepare test plans and document test results
> Conduct work product reviews to ensure requirement and quality
adherence
> Prepare test strategy to identifying test data, performance
parameters, integration/system testing tasks
> Design and code new COBOL/IMS and Easytrieve programs and change the
existing programs to incorporate new functionality
> Perform unit, integration testing
> Provide regression and system testing support
> Coordinate tasks with offshore, provide resolutions and ensure timely
and quality deliveries
> Track project related data/issues and report it to business testers
Client: Excellus BCBS, Rochester, NY Oct 2007 to April 2008
Platform: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS, VSAM, JCL, DFSORT, ICETOOL,
FILE-MANAGER, ELIPSE, Easytrieve.
Role: System Analyst/ Onsite Coordinator
Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) is a leading provider of healthcare
insurance services in the USA. Excellus BCBS offers a broad spectrum of
products in Healthcare insurance. As a systems analyst involved in
maintenance & enhancement of claims processing system. The responsibility
included servicing of the existing products and designing solutions for the
enhancements in the system. Further, the responsibilities also involved
communicating with business analysts from the Business Efficiency Team
(BET) and offshore team for ascertaining the proper flow of information and
knowledge about the system for providing solutions.
Responsibilities:
> Work with the Business Analysts to define system requirements and
create functional specifications
> Analyze the system to estimate the efforts required to incorporate
the requirements
> Design technical specifications for new programs and accommodate
changes in existing COBOL programs
> Write test cases to test business functionality
> Define test scenarios for unit testing i.e. test planning.
> Conduct work product reviews to ensure requirement and quality
adherence
> Prepare test strategy to identifying test data, performance
parameters
> Provide test data setup
> Review and validate test results
> Use Elipse to make sure the promotion of correct version of code
(version control)
> Provide regression and system testing support
> Coordinate tasks with offshore, provide resolutions and ensure timely
and quality deliveries
> Participate in project schedule/resource planning using tracer and
Plainview (proprietary tools) of Excellus BCBS.
> Track project related data/issues and report it to project management
Client: MetLife, Clarks Summit, PA Mar 2007 to Sep 2007
Platform: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, DFSORT, ICETOOL, XPEDITOR
Roles: Senior Software Engineer/ System Analyst/Subject Matter Expert
(SME)/ Team Lead
MetLife is a leading provider of insurance services in the global market
and USA. MetLife offers a broad spectrum of products in Life and Property
and Casualty (P&C) lines of business. As an onsite coordinator and subject
matter expert, involved in maintenance & enhancement of MetLife's Auto &
Boat Policy Writing System to support introduction of new products and
servicing of the existing products. MetLife's Auto & Boat Policy Writing
System functions to process policy data which is further stored on DB2
database and in VSAM files, for future processing of the policies. The
project involved reporting of data to DMV, ISO etc.
Responsibilities:
> Work with the Business Analysts to define system requirements
> Analyze the system to estimate the efforts required to incorporate
the requirements
> Participate in project schedule/resource planning
> Prepare functional and technical specifications to accommodate the
new processes
> Prepare test plans
> Conduct work product reviews to ensure requirement and quality
adherence
> Prepare test strategy to identifying test data, performance
parameters, integration/system testing tasks
> Code new COBOL/DB2 programs and change the existing programs to
incorporate new functionality
> Provide test data setup
> Perform unit, integration testing
> Provide regression and system testing support
> Coordinate tasks with offshore, provide resolutions and ensure timely
and quality deliveries
> Track project related data/issues and report it to project management
> Additionally, work as a control owner for different Risk(s) Test
Evidences and install processes under SOX compliance for MetLife Auto
and Boat policy writing team.
> Coordination for SOX documentation related activities such as
creating test evidences, communicating with business for the required
details to be presented to auditors.
Client: MetLife, Clarks Summit, PA MAR 06 to MAR 07
Platform: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, JCL, DFSORT, ICETOOL, XPEDITOR
Roles: Sr. Software Engineer/ Programmer Analyst/Subject Matter Expert/Team
Lead
MetLife's Certificate of Insurance (COI) system is MetLife's reporting
system that submits data to the states as per the state prescribed format.
As a Programmer Analyst, OSC and SME involved in enhancement and
maintenance of the system, it was required to work closely with business
analysts and multiple system contacts in order to incorporate the business
requirements into the system. The COI system reports the policy data to the
state using different storage media varying from diskette to tapes and
technologies such as FTP and HTTP.
Responsibilities
> Analyze existing system to incorporate business requirements
> Coordinate with System Architects to translate the business
requirements to application architecture
> Make recommendations for the development of new code or reuse of
existing code
> Provide estimates to incorporate business requirements
> Prepare high level and detail level design documents
> Create test plans
> Create test strategy and define performance testing parameters
> Code new COBOL/DB2 programs for the new processes.
> Identify test data and provide test data setup
> Perform unit, integration testing
> Perform performance testing and tune DB2 programs for performance-
related issues
> Provide system and regression testing support
> Conduct work product reviews to ensure requirements and quality
adherence
> Participate in implementation planning and release management
> Coordinate production implementation of the system
> Handle post-production implementation fixes and data issues thereof
> Provide performance monitoring, analyze production system problems,
and recommend workable solutions
> Provide system documentation and user documentation for all
development modules
> Coordinate tasks with offshore, provide resolutions and ensure timely
and quality deliveries
> Track and report project data/milestones
Client: MetLife, PA Sep 05 to Mar 06
Platform: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, JCL, XPEDITOR
Role: Software Engineer/ Group Lead
The Reverse Engineering project involved extensive analysis of multiple
insurance data processing system for processing of policy data of various
states. This involved analysis of existing programs and data flow to
prepare a blue print for system migration project for Auto and Boat
Insurance lines of business. The project was a major initiative with
stringent deadlines. This project required a very good understanding of P&C
insurance business along with input data processing for claims and billing
along with policy rating.
Responsibilities
> Prepare detail level design and technical specifications along with
functional specifications for the system changes.
> Code as per the drafted system requirements/ technical
specifications.
> Prepare exhaustive functional test cases based on requirements
> Carry out extensive unit and integration testing
> Conduct work product reviews, develop checklists etc. to ensure
quality output
> Provide technical solutions and conduct training sessions
> Writing detailed test case scenarios to introduce new functionality
without altering the existing functional application of the system.
Client: MetLife, PA Sep 04 to Aug 05
Platform: IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, JCL, XPEDITOR
Role: Software Engineer/ Group Lead
The Texas Tiering project involved changing the flow of the system for
processing of policy data of the state of Texas. This involved changes in
the existing logic and introduction of new code to implement the business
requirements. The project was a major initiative with stringent deadlines
as it was a legal compliance. This project required a very good
understanding of P&C insurance business, mainly auto and boat insurance.
Responsibilities
> Prepare detail level design and technical specifications along with
functional specifications for the system changes.
> Code as per the drafted system requirements/ technical
specifications.
> Prepare exhaustive functional test cases based on requirements
> Carry out extensive unit and integration testing
> Conduct work product reviews, develop checklists etc. to ensure
quality output
> Provide technical solutions and conduct training sessions
> Writing detailed test case scenarios to introduce new functionality
without altering the existing functional application of the system.
Client: MetLife, USA Aug 03 to Aug 04
Platform: COBOL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, JCL, XPEDITOR
Role: Associate Software Engineer/ Programmer
As an Associate Software Engineer involved in maintenance and enhancement
of the CICS front end application called Auto and Boat Data Entry System
The application processes the data through validations for insurance
coverage(s) and applicable limits for those coverage(s) on auto and boat
insurance policies. The front end system interfaces with multiple external
and internal subsystems in order to validate the data entered through the
screens and provide a quote for the customers during the new business
(first time policies) and endorsement (existing policies) transactions.
Responsibilities
> Communicate with onsite coordinators in order to understand and
confirm the business requirements to generate system specification
documents.
> Create test strategy and define testing parameters
> Identify test and provide test data
> Perform unit, integration testing
> Provide system and regression testing support
> Conduct work product reviews to ensure requirements and quality
adherence
> Participate in implementation planning and release management
> Coordinate production implementation of the system
> Handle post-production implementation fixes and data issues thereof
> Analyze production system problems, and recommend workable solutions
> Provide system documentation and user documentation
ARCOM Technologies PVT LTD, India June 2002 to Sep
2002
Platform: VB, Access, SQL Server, VC
Role: Technical Associate
Developing software for taxation, provident fund and pension calculation
for small and mid-size organizations. Implementation and support of
Customer Relation Management Software (CRM) The coding was done using VB
and VC programming.
> High Level design, detailed design, coding, testing and reviews were
performed
> Communication with clients to understand the business requirements
> Implementation of products at client locations
> Provide system documentation and user documentation
NELCO LTD. India Sept 2001 to Dec
2001
Platform: C, C++, VC
Role: Project Trainee
Developing software for Remote Telemetry Units used by Oil Exploration
Companies. Worked on front end interfaces developed in VC and used for
monitoring the data from the transmission units. Involved in studying and
understanding the proprietary transmission protocol used by the
transmitters and receivers in order to build the required software
functionality.
> The coding was done using C and C++ programming and front end was
designed using VC
> The data was used to monitor the functionality of devices located at
remote locations
> High Level design, detailed design, coding, testing and reviews were
performed
> Involved in complete system documentation and user documentation
References
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