Quality Assurance Project

Pramod Kumar Sinha, PMP

Voorhees, NJ - *****. Home: 856-***-**** Work: 215-***-**** Cell: 309-***-****

Work Status: Employment Authorization Card (EAD) Email: ************@**********.***

SUMMARY

I am a software consultant with over eighteen years of experience in managing all phases of the

project management (SDLC) and roles of Application Development Sr Specialist, Business

Analyst, Onsite-Offshore coordinator, production on-call service support for existing application. I

have experience in IBM Mainframe environment, and worked on VS COBOL II, DB2, IMS-DB,

JCL, MS-SQL development projects, comprising of system study, designing, analysis, coding,

testing phases and support.

Proven areas of expertise are given below:

• PMI Certified PMP professional since August 2005.

• VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, AGILE, SDLC, development methodologies, principles

of SLA (SOA), Endeavor, DB2 Stored Procedure, File-Aid, BMC Utilities, Syncsort,

IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, Expeditor, IBM DB2 Utility, Icetools, IMS-DB, MS-Visio (Data

Flow, Process Flow, etc), MS-Office, etc.

• Proficient in Requirement Gathering, Planning, Design, Development, Functional

Specification, Program Specification, coding, testing, and documents system

requirements for conversions, development projects, customer service requests (CSR)

and Production On-call support using SDLC, AGILE, ITIL process and methodologies.

• Member of Disaster and Recovery Process management Team at ACE Insurance,

Conseco Insurance.

• Experience in conversion of large complex System to New System.

• Production Support and abend fixing :

o IBM Mainframe - CRIS, Global Risk Advantage, CK4, Vector,

o Midrange - AREMIS

• Experience in Developing Work procedure for Testing phase, Quality Assurance, Risk

Management and Contingency plan.

• Experience in working with team Outside USA since 1998.

• Project Management – Manage the team at the capacity of Project Manager / Leader.

• Working experience with SEI-CMM Level

• Experience in Re-engineering and reverse processing for the object code.

• Experience in Rational Unified Process (RUP) for Large Complex project, Agile Unified

Process (AUP) for small project, ITIL process for service, maintenance for existing

application.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Commerce, 1988, Ravishankar University, Raipur.

Post Graduate Diploma (Honors) in System Management, 1991, NIIT Madras.

Technical Skills

• Language and Database: VS-COBOL II, JCL, DB2, VSAM, DB2 Stored Procedure, MS-SQL

Stored procedure

• IBM Utilities and Tools: SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, File-aid, Syncsort, IBM JCL Utilities, Expeditor,

BMC Utility, IBM DB2 Utility, Endeavor, ZEKE, Control – M, Panvalet.

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• Other Utilities and tools: MS-Office, MS-Project, Primavera Teamplayer, Lotus-Notes, BLDISS,

BLDDOC, HP-Service Desk, Problem Management, Incident Management, Change Management

• Operating System: z/OS, MVS/XA, WINDOWS-XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1. Nov’05- present Sr. Application Developer ACE INA. Thru BSS, NJ

Description: ACE INA is the U.S.-based division of the ACE Group of Companies, which

provides insurance and reinsurance for a diverse group of clients around the world.

Platform: VS COBOL II, JCL, DB2, IBM JCL Utility, IBM DB2 Utility, MS-SQL, Stored

Procedure, IBM JCL Utility, Expeditor, Panvalet, IMS-DB, MS-Office, MS-Visio.

Project Global Risk Advantage (GRA application) and CRIS

My roles and responsibilities as Sr. Application Developer:

• To perform analysis and study of the end-user business requirement and translating

them into functional specifications, program specification, code development, testing in

Mainframe and SQL server.

• To perform Unit Testing, Integration testing, System testing, Performance testing, Quality

Assurance and implementation in Mainframe and SQL server.

• To work features interactions with users to trouble shoot system problems.

• To perform production support work ranging from fixing the production failure, solve user

queries.

• All the enhancement, new development followed the process and procedure of SAS 70

audit,

• All production abend and its fixes must follow the process and follow the path of reporting

Problem Management, Incident management and Change Management process. Any

change in application for production implementation must have the peer review and

authorization from IT and Business Management.

• To provide Project status report to client on weekly basis.

2. Dec’03- Oct’05 Software Specialist SFI, IL Thru Patni

Description: Statefarm Insurance, Bloomington, IL is one of the leading Insurance companies in

USA. They sell insurance for Auto, Fire, Life, Health etc to its customers.

Platform: VS COBOL II, DB2, JCL, IBM 3090, Expeditor, Control M, IBM JCL Utility, IBM DB2

Utility, Expeditor, BMC Utility, Control – M, BLDISS, BLDDOC, Autoflow, Lotus Notes, IMS-DB.

Project: Multiple Projects

1. Conversion of Legacy System – AIMS (Agency Information Management System,

IMS-DB) to SAMS (Sales and Assignment Management System DB2)

2. Development - Enterprise Absence System

3. Development - Enterprise Error Handling routine

4. Development - MAPINFO and Renter’s Build Binder

My roles and responsibilities as Software Specialist:

• To perform system study of old system and analyze the requirements of new system

which includes requirement gathering, data mapping from old AIMS (IMS-DB) to new

SAMS (DB2) for Conversion project.

• To involve in preparing requirement modeling, database design for new system.

• To lead the team of 4 resources at onsite at first phase for requirement gathering,

database design, wrote pilot tools for analyzing. Identifying the number of routines, DB2

stored procedure required for conversion project in COBOL DB2.

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• To leading the team of 25 resource (3 onsite and 22 offshore) in second phase, which

includes distribution of work amongst programmers, perform coding and supervise the

development, testing and delivery of modules.

• To involved in all the project deliverables as per SLA in terms of functional specification,

program specifications, code, Test Plan and Test Case, Unit testing, Integration testing,

system. Acceptance testing will go through performance the application, in terms of

accuracy, access speed, quality assurance and quality control process before authorizing

for go-live.

• To provide project weekly status report to Manager and Stakeholder.

My responsibilities as Project / Implementation Coordinator:

• Involves coordinating and implementing the application company wide after successful

System, Acceptance and Performance testing.

• Involves to prepare Implementation Strategy, Implementation Plan, Issuance Summary,

Implementation Check Out List, Security Activation for end-user, Implementation back-

out plan (in case of failure), issuance check out plan, user functionality verification from

business partner after implementing the application to production, communication plan,

configuration inventory item, software configuration plan etc.

• Coordinate with the member team in the projects about their deliverables and get the

approvals from Sponsor, Stake holders for production Implementation using Product

Readiness Document.

Following are the applications implemented by me in the role of Implementation Coordinator:

• Agency Insurance and Financial Review (Company wide 27 region office, 1 Canada

office and One Corporate)

Platform : Mainframe, COBOL, VB, ASP, DB2, Web App - Pilot Implementation on

April 2005 and Companywide implementation on May 2005

• Re-usable components (Mainframe and Web App server) - March 2005

• Life and Necho application (Mainframe Company wide) - May 2005

3. Feb’01-Nov’03 Sr Software Specialist Conseco Inc Thru Patni

Description: Conseco, Inc., is one of Middle America's leading sources for Life Insurance,

investment and lending products.

Platform: IBM 3090, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, ASSEMBLY, DYL280, File-aid, Syncsort, IBM JCL

Utility, Expeditor, SAR report, ZEKE.

Project: Maintenance, Enhancement & Development for CK4 and Vector

My roles and responsibilities as Software Specialist:

• Involves production support work ranging from fixing the production job abend, solve user

queries.

• Analyze the requirements from business user, translating to functional specification,

program specification, code development, testing in Mainframe.

• To perform Unit Testing, Integration testing, System testing, Performance testing, Quality

Assurance and implementation in Mainframe.

• To work features interactions with Users to trouble shoot system problems.

• To provide Project status report to client on weekly basis.

4. Oct’99-Jan’01 Sr Programmer GuideOne Insurance Thru Patni

Description: Guideone Insurance, Inc., is one of Middle America's leading sources for Auto

Insurance products.

Project: Maintenance, Enhancement & Development (LAMDA, Alpha Conversion)

Client: Guideone Insurance Company, Iowa, USA contract via Patni Computer Systems

Platform: IBM 3090, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, ASSEMBLY, DYL280, File-aid, Syncsort, IBM JCL

Utility, Expeditor, SAR report, ZEKE.

Role: Programmer Analyst involves in coding, writing program specification, peer review, testing

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5. Dec’96-Dec’98 Sr Programmer / Group Leader Patni Computer

Systems

Project : Multiple Y2K projects contract via Patni Computer Systems

1. NorthWest Airlines, Minneapolis, MS

2. Al-Bank Al-Saudi Al-Fransi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

3. GE DRIVES

Platforms: IBM-3090, MVS/JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, CA-IDEAL, FoxPro, IDMS, ADS/O,

CULPRIT, COBOL ANALYST 2000.

Role: Programmer Analyst, Offshore-onsite Coordinator. I involved in assessment of the module,

impact analysis, defining work procedure, scheduling and allocation of task. . 80 + COBOL

programs are modified by me in total of 865 COBOL programs and 300 + COBOL programs are

QA’ed by me. Apart from this I was responsible for quality assurance for the work done within the

time limit.

6. Jul’95-Nov’95 Sr Programmer / Team Leader LK Global Software, India

Project: Product Development (AREMIS) - Inventory Management System

Platform: Midrange, UNIX, DOS, LINUX Acu Cobol’85

Role: As a Project Leader, my responsibilities:

• Involve requirement gathering about new modules and enhancements to older modules.

• To distribute same amongst the programmers and supervise the development, testing

and delivery of the modules, solve query raised by team member.

• Wrote about 100 + COBOL program and modified 200 + programs, performed full

application testing, quality assurance and implemented product at various client

locations.

Inventory Management System implemented and supported by me at Cyprus. List of

client mentioned below:

• St. Raphael Resort’s, Limmasol, Cyprus

• Cyprus Potato Marketing Board, Nicosia, Cyprus

• MPM Ltd., Nicosia, Cyprus

• Alexandar The Great Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus

7. Feb’91-Jun’95 Sr Programmer / Analyst Modi Cement Limited

Project : In-house multiple project development.

• Bank Deposit and Reconciliation System

• Payroll System

• Follow-Up System

• DGS & D Billing System

• Marketing and Sales Department MIS

Platform: SN 23 +, RSX-11 M, COBOL 81

Role: As an analyst/programmer, I did the requirement analysis and independently designed,

developed the above system, which included coding and testing of programs for the application

systems. I trained the end-user about its usage

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