Quality Professional Experience

MALLIKARJUNA REDDY BOBBALA Contact No: 213-***-****

Email id: *******.************@*****.***

Summary:

10+ years of IT industry experience in a Mainframe Technology with an extensive experience and Strong in Estimate analysis design development documentation Testing Implementation Maintenance of Application Software and creation of complex programs.

Strong in development enhancement and management roles with an exposure in end-to-end release management. And also provides 24X7 Production Support Along with on-call support by ability to quickly resolve production abends.

Experienced programmer with outstanding technical skills with extensive knowledge of application development and support in COBOL JCL DB2 VSAM CICS.

Strong knowledge of SDLC Software Development Life Cycle with quality assurance and Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements.

Experienced with File-Aid Endevor Xp-Editor Smartest SORT SYNCSORT ICETOOL File manager, IBM Debug Tool (TIM) CA-7 OPCA and DB2 tools like SPUFI QMF BMC DB2 Platinum.

Good domain knowledge in Financial Services Industry.

Experienced in Agile Development Methodology Waterfall application development methodology.

Have been actively involved in Risk, PWC and SOX audit related activities and participated in Disaster Recovery exercises.

Education:

B. Tech in Computer Science from JNTU University with 72.5% marks.

Technical Skills:

Languages: COBOL JCL

Access Methods: VSAM

Database: DB2

Operating Systems: IBM Z/OS MVS OS/390 Windows

Programmer Tools: Xp-Editor, File-Aid, Smartest, File Manager, IBM Debug(TIM), MQ series

Db2 Tools/Utilities: BMC, PLATINUM, QMF

Version Control Tools: Endeavour

OLTP: CICS

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall Methodologies

ETL Tools: Informatica

Trainings and Certifications:

IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 9 for Z/OS

Scrum Master Certified

NCMP level – 1 certified

Completed ITIL Certification

Professional Experience:

1 – Account Maintenance System [Bank of America - Merrill Lynch, USA]

Duration: Jan 2013 till Present

Team Size: 4

Role Played: Team Lead and Developer

Skills Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IBM Debug Tool, BMC, Endevor, File-Aid.

Account Maintenance System is the central source in which the automation and standardization of the firm’s accounts, general ledger and centers would be integrated with the existing financial systems. AMS provides a level of control for financial Reporting in creation, definition and use of consolidated accounts.

Roles Responsibilities:

Primary Owner of the application Account Maintenance System

Responsible for Estimate Analysis Design Development Testing and perform the implementation of the requirements sent by the clients.

Translate customer business requirements into functional requirements and detailed design documents establish specific solutions and programming testing that makes client acceptance of the results.

Participate in Business/Functional requirement walkthrough and reviews.

Responsible for effective communication between the team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the team and regular project status to the customer.

Development Testing and deployment of associated software components and executable jobs through COBOL JCL DB2 CICS Expediter PLATINUM and Endevor tools and implementing the same in Production

Resolving production failures within the timeframe which adheres to the service level agreement SLA.

Writing/Reviewing test cases and performs testing to verify if the final product is as per the specification or not follow quality management system processes as per IBM standard.

Prepare various status, monthly metrics and SOX compliance reports.

Status reporting with business and involving in various business calls with client.

Responsible for leading a team in delivering solution to our customer on time and drive the team to success.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements with quality.

Follow coding standards and improve code quality using the developed checklist so that the code adheres to certain quality parameters an. Conducting peer-to-peer code reviews to ensure that deliverable error free.

Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure that proper quality procedures of IBM are followed in all the phases.

Participated in Disaster Recovery exercises

Achievements:

Automated month-end activities of application.

Worked on converting programs from DYL280 to COBOL.

Received Silver award for automating the bulk accounts creation process for Q4 2013

Received Silver award for handling Risk and Audit related tasks for Q1 2015

2 - Treasury International Capital System [Bank of America - Merrill Lynch, USA]

Duration: APR 2010 to DEC 2012

Team Size: 4

Role Played: Developer

Skills Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IBM Debug Tool, BMC, Endevor, File-Aid.

Treasury International Capital Reporting System (TIC-S) provides timely and accurate information pertaining to the purchase and sale of domestic long term securities by foreign customers and the purchase and sale of foreign long term securities by domestic customers to the Federal Reserve Bank. This data must be filed monthly with the Federal Reserve Bank.

Treasury International Capital Reporting System (TIC-D) provide the Federal Reserve Bank with information on the US international portfolio capital positions due to cross-border holdings of derivatives and on net settlement payments resulting from transactions in derivatives. A quarterly report must be filed with the Federal Reserve Bank.

Roles Responsibilities:

Primary Owner of the application Treasury International Capital System

Responsible for Estimate Analysis Design Development Testing and perform the implementation of the requirements sent by the clients.

Translate customer business requirements into functional requirements and detailed design documents establish specific solutions and programming testing that makes client acceptance of the results.

Development Testing and deployment of associated software components and executable jobs through COBOL JCL DB2 CICS Expediter PLATINUM and Endevor tools and implementing the same in Production

Resolving production failures within the timeframe which adheres to the service level agreement SLA.

Writing/Reviewing test cases and performs testing to verify if the final product is as per the specification or not follow quality management system processes as per IBM standard.

Prepare various status, monthly metrics and SOX compliance reports.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements with quality.

Follow coding standards and improve code quality using the developed checklist so that the code adheres to certain quality parameters an. Conducting peer-to-peer code reviews to ensure that deliverable are error free.

Achievements:

Automated month-end activities of application.

Worked on converting programs from FOCUS to COBOL.

Bronze award for automating the TIC-Reporting process for Q3 2012.

Received Silver award for handling all the BAC integration enhancements and testings and delivered successfully with customer satisfaction for June 2010

3 - Account Processing Firm Side [Bank of America - Merrill Lynch, USA]

Duration: Mar 2007 to Mar 2010

Team Size: 5

Role Played: Developer

Skills Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IBM Debug Tool, BMC, Endevor, File-Aid.

Account processing Firm Side system processes various accounts related activities/transactions generated by different trading front-end systems/sub ledgers. This system produces the daily business sheet which reports on account activity showing opening balances and positions. This information (except the balances) is loaded into the FWA (Firm wide activity) database which is access by Bridge system.

APFirm also feeds daily to General Ledger with daily transactions at account level. On a daily basis it checks all firm-settled (1031) inventory positions. It also produces a stock loan report which shows the 1028 and 1031 positions for all firm accounts. APFirm performs the balance check for G/L against A/P, in this way A/P keeps a track of customer’s debits and credits while the G/L tracks the Firm’s debits and credits.

Roles Responsibilities:

Responsible for Estimate Analysis Design Development Testing and perform the implementation of the requirements sent by the clients.

Translate customer business requirements into functional requirements and detailed design documents establish specific solutions and programming testing that makes client acceptance of the results.

Development Testing and deployment of associated software components and executable jobs through COBOL JCL DB2 CICS Expediter PLATINUM and Endevor tools and implementing the same in Production

Resolving production failures within the timeframe which adheres to the service level agreement SLA.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements with quality.

Achievements:

Received Award for conversion of VS COBOL to COBOL-II for Q1 2008.

Received ZEAL (Zeal for Excellence, Achievement and Leadership) Award for fixing overflowing position balances for March 2009.

Received Silver Award for Successful migration of Equity BAS positions from BPS platform to MLPFS for Q1 2010

4 - Wholesale Stock Reconciliation [Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd]

Duration: Nov 2006 to Mar 2007

Team Size: 6

Role Played: Developer and Tester

Skills Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, SPUFI, Endeavour, File-Aid, SAM, CA-7.

The Wholesale Stock Reconciliation (WSR) System was developed to help automate the process of reconciliation of differences between vehicles wholesaled and vehicles registered. It helps identify faults/flaws in system processing. It shows what ‘sales’ have been made by the business during the month being reported on. It is also used to enable the business to calculate the number of vehicles they need available for the following month. Various figures from the reports generated by WSR are added to spreadsheets by Business Users to allow analysis and reconciliation to be done.

Roles Responsibilities:

Translate customer requirements into formal requirements and design documents establish specific solutions and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Deliver new and complex high quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Developed specifications and coding of programs using COBOL CICS JCL VSAM and DB2

Impact Analysis and estimation for requirement sent by the client

Test Case Preparation Unit Testing Integration testing and System Testing

Monitor, support the batch cycle and Resolving the failure of batch jobs.

Personal Details:

Date of Birth: 10th June 1982

Nationality: INDIAN

Languages Known: English, Telugu, Hindi

VISA Details: B1/B2, H1B

Declaration:

I hereby declare that all my details specified here are true and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Place: Houston, Texas Mallikarjuna Reddy Bobbala

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