Project Developer

Professional Summary

WebMethods Professional, Project Coordinator, Senior Developer, Team Lead with total of 9.5 years of overall IT experience.

Expertise in the areas of Requirement Gathering and Analysis, Translating Requirement into Technical Specifications, Project Lifecycle Management, Software Research, Development, Design and implementation.

Played the role of solution-driven business analyst with experience in leading cross-functional teams in the development and documentation.

Have worked extensively in analysing client’s business requirements and creating scope, processes, alternatives, and risks documents.

Expertise in the areas of Software Development, Design and implementation involved with EAI (Enterprise Integration) and B2B (Business to Business) Integrations using webMethods product suit.

Expertise in webMethods Integration Suite in versions (6.x, 7.x, 8.x and 9.x) involving components - Integration Server, Developer, Broker, MWS, Adapters, MQ and Trading Networks components.

Extensive experience in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) process.

Experience in creating Functional Specification Doc, High Level Design Doc (HLD) and Low Level Design Doc (LLD).

Hands on experience in using and handling Flat Files, SOAP (web services), REST, EDI and XML file formats and have worked extensively on integrations with Salesforce APIs.

Proficiency in using Adapters like web Sphere MQ, SAP, JMS, JDBC, Seibel with various database applications.

Experienced in writing SQL Queries.

Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with different teams - Business Stakeholder, End Users, Other Applications Teams, Testers and System Analyst.

Have diversified domain knowledge on Insurance, Retail, Banking & Finance, Manlog and Healthcare.

Highly organized, versatile and results-oriented team player with an energetic and articulate approach to work.

Have the ability to acquire new skills within short time scales, adapt to rapidly changing work practices and build and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues and customers.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills with excellent communication skills.

Experience in implementing projects in Onsite/Offshore model and proven ability to work both independently and in team based environments and Experience working in waterfall and Agile environment.

Mentoring team members both at Onshore and Offshore to deliver quality end products.

Professional Certifications:

SUN Certified Java Programmer

Cognizant Certified webMethods Professional

Technical Skill Set:

SoftwareAG Product Suit Components - IS, Broker, Trading Network, Developer, Designer, Adapters (JDBC, SAP, MQ, Salesforce, Mainframe) and My webMethods Server (MWS), webMethods Deployer, Business Process Model (BPM)

Reporting Tools: HPQC, Jira and HPSM.

Operating System: UNIX, Windows.

Programming Languages: Java, EDI, DSP, HTML and XML, PL\SQL

Networking Protocols: HTTP, FTP,AS2,SFTP

Database – Oracle 9\10g, Microsoft Access DB.

Automation Testing Tool: HP QTP 10.

Design and Modelling –

UML – Use Cases, Sequence & class diagrams, Data Model

Microsoft Visio.

Version Control – Tortoise SVN

Other Tools: SOAP UI, Altova Xml Spy, Microsoft Visio, Willy, Tortoise SVN, Putty, WinSCP.

Standard Methodologies –

Waterfall Model - This model provides phase based approach for a well-known requirement where changes can be mitigated at each phase.

Agile Methodology - This model provides opportunities to assess the direction of a project throughout the development lifecycle.

Functional Skill Set:

Interacting with the client to consult, coach, and advise on strategy, business alignment, enterprise architecture, information technology solutions, and the associated impact on the organization and its stakeholders.

Integration vision and plan for development and infrastructure improvement.

IT Strategy & Roadmaps, Vendor Evaluations.

Architecture and designing the solution, coordinating with the team, working on development of Interfaces

Managing offshore team to implement the changes as to satisfy customer needs

Managing overall operations for executing projects involving design & architecture, Monitoring / tracking projects.

Assignment Details:

The details of the various assignments that I have handled till date:

Project # 1

Tech Mahindra Ltd.

Customer

Genentech, South San Francisco, CA

Period

Nov 2014 – Till Date

Role

ESB Integration Support Lead

Responsibilities

oWorking as Primary Point of contact at onshore to respond to business\users\stakeholders for any ESB Issues.

oInvolved in requirement gathering for the new projects coming in and analysing the requirements and creating functional specification doc, High Level Design Doc (HLD) and Low Level Design Doc(LLD) for the same.

oHave worked in designing and developing the interfaces and providing end to end testing for the same.

oInvolved in deployment of the same to higher environments.

oResponsible for providing operational support to all ESB Interfaces.

oInvolved in identifying the pain areas for the Interfaces in Prod and suggesting system changes and functional changes for the same.

oResponsible for tracking the Incident and Service Desk Tickets, maintaining the GSRs and also creating and presenting the status report for the same.

oResponsible for working in enhancement of existing webMethods Interfaces or developing new interfaces in webMethods 9.9 platform.

oResponsible for doing Root Cause Analysis and presenting reports for any High Priority Issue in Prod.

oTook active part in webMethods Platform Migration (Migration from version 8.2 to 9.9).

oInvolved in data centre move project.

Description

Genentech is a biotechnology corporation which became a subsidiary of Roche in 2009.

Genentech markets itself as a research-driven corporation that follows the science to make innovations. It employs researchers, scientists and postdocs and covers a wide range of scientific activity from molecular biology to protein chemistry to bioinformatics and physiology. Genentech scientists in these various areas of expertise currently focus their efforts on five disease categories: Oncology, Immunology, Tissue Growth and Repair, Neuroscience and Infectious Disease. Genentech's recent hiring and acquisitions indicate intent to expand into microbiology and medical Imaging.

Project # 2

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

Firstdata corporation, Melville, NY

Period

August 2014 – Nov 2014

Role

B2B Integration Lead

Responsibilities

oWorking as Primary B2B Point of contact at onshore to respond to users for any Prod Issues related to transmission, reformatting of EDI and flat files.

oInvolved in requirement gathering for the new projects coming in and new merchants that are trying to do integration with FirstData.

oKnowledge transfer sessions on the new tool: Bizlink.

oActively involved in the migration from GXS to Bizlink.

Description

First Data Corporation is a global payment processing company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. First Data is a provider of electronic commerce and payment solutions. The company's portfolio includes merchant transaction processing services; credit, debit, private-label, gift, payroll and other prepaid card offerings; fraud protection and authentication solutions, credit reporting agency services (through First Data Merchant Services Corporation); electronic check acceptance services through TeleCheck; as well as Internet commerce and mobile payment solutions.

B2B Integration is being done here with various merchants for settlement or funding done through FirstData. GXS based on Unix platform was used extensively for B2B Integration here. B2B is responsible for receiving the files, reformatting the same into different formats as desired by the end bank and transmission of the same.

Project # 3

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

JP Morgan Chase at Chicago, IL and Kolkata, India

Period

Feb 2013 – July 2014

Role

Offshore & Onshore Senior Developer

Responsibilities

oCo-ordination with other offshore team members to develop the enterprise integration platform.

oReview the deliverables from offshore on a day to day basis.

oDesign and develop the interfaces following the industry best practices.

oDiscuss with the client partners on the probable value adds that Cognizant team can implement to smoothen the bank’s business flow.

oTechnical point of contact at onshore\offshore to respond to ISB consumers’ requests and resolve the issue either explaining them the business logic that has been implemented in the code.

oResponsible for requirement gathering from the business and analysing them and provide estimates for each enterprise releases (there are total 3 releases each year).

oDealing with approximately 15-24 consumers of ISB to address the issues that have been faced by them till the production Go-Live for each release.

oPropose the clients on the various accelerators that Cognizant had developed –which would enhance the performance of the existing process; testing of the webServices across the environments (Testing, Performance, and UAT).

oUnderstand the client requirement and expectation and groom the offshore to meet up to the client expectations.

Description

It is the largest bank in the United States by assets, and as of 2012, it ranks as the second largest bank in the world. It is a major provider of services, and according to Forbes magazine is the world's second largest public company based on a composite ranking.

As middleware tool to integrate between different systems, this bank was using webMethods since 2005.

Integrated service Broker (ISB), formed in 2005, serves as the middleware solution for the bank applications as the gateway to access Systems of Records (SORs) across several LOBs. ISB provides a standards-based platform for accomplishing Service Oriented Architecture (Synchronous/web service Style) and Event-Based architecture (Asynchronous/ pub – sub style) built on the Software AG webMethods Product Suite.

Project # 4

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

3M at Minneapolis, MN

Period

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

Role

ESB and B2B Integration Lead

Responsibilities

oTechnical point of contact at onshore for all B2B and EAI related activities.

oGathering requirements and proposing solutions by designing different interfaces to cater system and user requirements.

owebMethods point of contact to respond to user requests and to propose the system improvements.

oResponsible for developing interfaces and designing solutions and also coordinating the development work with offshore and delivering the work on time.

oResponsible for analysing issues and provide prompt solution to the users to fix it at onshore hours.

oResponsible for proposing changes to improve performance and doing end-to-end testing with different global users.

oSolely responsible for all the Production deployments and system fixes at onshore.

oResponsible for working on webMethods version migration project.

Description

This is a $20 billion diversified Technology Company with leading positions in consumer and office, display and graphics, electronics and telecommunications, health care, industrial, safety, security and protection services, transportation and other businesses. It has operations in more than 60 countries and serves customers in nearly 200 countries.

The project comprises of new application development, enhancement requests, maintenance and production support where applicable. The project is being carried out on webMethods 7.x Development Environment using application components like wM Developer, Integration Server, JDBC, SAP, MQ Adapters, and Java Services. Database components include knowledge in SQL and Oracle Developer.

As technology is moving forward, the project work involves creating more effective systems. This is done by creating reusable components and migrating the version of webMethods used as middleware to the Client based systems both in terms of performance and also in terms of cost. Thus the work done in the project provides cutting edge solutions to the Client which help them meet their business requirements with minimal costs.

Project # 5

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans at Kolkata, India

Period

June 2010 – December-2011

Role

Senior Developer

Responsibilities

oSole technical point of contact at offshore to respond to user requests and to propose the system improvements.

oResponsible for analysing the issues to find out the root cause and propose the solutions.

oResponsible for developing interfaces, designing solutions, proposing changes to improve performance and doing end-to-end testing for the interfaces involved.

oResponsible for proposing BPM use to clients and creating business processes using wM 8.x BPM Suite and deploying the same to MWS.

oResponsible for developing the reusable components to be used by other modules

oPackage deployment across environments using wM Deployer

Description

This is a Fortune 500 financial services organization in USA. Its subsidiaries offer financial products and services including life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, disability income insurance, bank products and more to its nearly 3 million members.

Project # 6

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

Burger King at Kolkata, India

Period

June 2009 – May 2010

Role

Offshore L2 Support Lead and Admin personnel

Responsibilities

oOffshore Technical Lead and Point of contact to respond to any Production- Support Issues and Tickets or to Clients.

oCo-ordination with other members to support the enterprise integration platform as a whole.

oHelp to stabilize the integration platform by minimizing the issues giving optimal architectural solutions.

oResponsible for analysing the issues to find out the root cause and propose the solutions.

oResponsible for analysing the issues to find out the root cause and propose the solutions.

oSetting of a dedicated test environment in wM for the testing team, deploying packages and performing end to end testing of various interfaces involved.

Description

This company is one of the three largest quick service restaurants of the world and comprises more than 11800 restaurants worldwide in 74 countries spanning across three continents. BKC primarily operates in a combined business model consisting of owned and franchised stores.

This project includes continuous support for the webMethods interfaces, suggesting system improvements and also developing reusable components to be used by other modules. Active production support includes webMethods admin related tasks to provide root cause for any issue and resolve any issues

Project # 7

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

ING at Kolkata, India

Period

August 2008 – May 2009

Role

Offshore Developer for AdminServer Product Support

Responsibilities

oResponsible for proving Production Support for the developed Interfaces in Production from Offshore.

oAdmin related tasks like checking broker client queue, deleting records from the client queue, server restarts.

oCheck the broker connectivity and then take proactive decisions to reconnect the broker if not connected

oProposing active solutions to the clients to improve performance and change the trigger settings by changing the processing mode, max execution threads, etc

oChecking the service usage to verify if a service is running and take proactive decisions from the last good run time of the service

oClearing the internal doc store and doing the server restarts

oResponsible for developing the reusable components to be used by other modules

Description

Production support of all the webMethods interfaces. AdminServer is a policy in admin system which interacts with all the 3rd party applications via the webMethods interfaces. This project includes continuous support for the webMethods interfaces, suggesting system improvements and also developing reusable components to be used by other modules. Active production support includes webMethods admin related tasks to provide root cause for any issue and resolve any issues.

Project # 8

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Customer

EAI- cognizant Internal

Period

March 2008 – August 2008

Role

webMethods Developer & Java Programmer

Responsibilities

oPreparation of the following various technical and functional documents (where applicable depending on the request types) Requirement Specification document, High Level Analysis and Approach document, High Level Design Document, Detailed Design Document, System test plan and test procedure document

oFurther responsibilities also comprise of ensuring top quality deliverables from Cognizant to client and collection of project metrics.

oFurther responsibilities also comprise of ensuring top quality deliverables from Cognizant to client and collection of project metrics.

oImparting domain and technical knowledge to the fellow team members.

oShouldering overall responsibilities to understand Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Cognizant quality control standards

oDeveloping re-usable components to be used by other project teams

Description

Developed a POC (to augment a response to a RFP) on a business scenario.

It involved the following:

oPick up files from a directory at certain intervals.

oA single file may contain one or multiple records.

oRecords are then processed according to business rules and notifications prepared accordingly based on templates.

oNotifications stored in the relevant tables in the database.

oAfter the processing, the notifications are either sent out to the members as emails or are stored in a file location to be sent across as direct mail

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