Experience Review

**+ years of experience on analysis, design, development, support, conversion/ migration projects, preparing test plans, automation scripts, test cases for the systems such as legacy, web, client/server and cloud computing environments. Experience in software development/testing methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile. Experience in various types of testing (Smoke, Fullstack Integration, API, UAT, and Performance) and worked on multiple automation and defect tracking tools (HP, Selenium, Jira). Experience in writing workflows to automate day to day infrastructure activities. Responsibilities include understanding of client requirements, team building, and developing effective solutions to the user requests. Experience in managing and coordinating multiple projects between onsite and offshore. Excellent professional ability to work independently as well as working in big teams.

Skills Summary

Languages: Mainframes COBOL, JCL, CICS, ADS plus, Java, JSON, JBehave, Cucumber, HTML, XML, Unix Shell

Databases: DB2, Stored Procedures, Oracle, Cassandra, HDFS

Automation Tools: HP UFT, HPOO, Selenium IDE, Webdriver, Protractor

Build Management Tools: Maven, Jenkins

Editors: Eclipse, Visual Studio, TSO, VI

API: Rest, SOAP, Swagger, Postman, Swagger, Mashery Local

Database Query Tools: QMF, SPUFI, Platinum, SQL Developer, cqlsh

Data Warehouse: Informatica, Data Stage

Middleware: TIBCO, MQ Series

Performance tools: Strobe, Loadrunner (VuGen) and WCF Storm

Tracking Tools: HP ALM, Quality Center, JIRA,Putty

Version Controllers: SCLM, Endeavor, Changeman, GIT, SVN

Mainframe Debugging Tools: Xpeditor, IDM debug tool, CA-Intertest

Job Schedulers: CA-7, Control-M, HPOO, Cron

Software: Client Builder, Cisco Prime, ServiceNow, Gems,Splunk

Content management systems: Share Point, Confluence, MS Project

Operating systems: Windows, MVS/VSE, Unix/Linux

Servers: JBOSS, Tomcat

Domains: Manufacturing, Insurance, Finance, Healthcare, Credit, Retail, Infrastructure

Educational Qualification

Master of Technology from Mysore University, India

Bachelor of Technology from S.K.University,A.P, India

Work Experience

Macys, USA Sr Analyst/Team Lead June 2010 to till date

PDF Application:

Omni Channel

Today’s Macy’s Inc merchandising solutions are fragmented across Channels. This fragmentation not only creates a distinct disconnect between our Merchant, Store and Logistics organizations, but also impacts am ability to manage inventory inefficiencies.

The business recognizes that communication and collaboration between the Stores and dotcom merchants is essential to the success of Omnichannel. To enable systems to meet this objective, the product definition will be aligned across dotcom and stores to bridge the gap that exists today due to a channel specific product view.

Omnichannel will require aligned product definition sold by either channel or both channels. This product alignment will be shared across Channels within a Brand. Therefore, Item Creation and Management will ensure that product definition is aligned by using common services and workflow processes to control the set-up and maintenance.

OTL

OTL project encompasses changes that need to be made to legacy systems to support markdowns of merchandise at the location level. Applications that currently get retails from the Pricing structures will need to change to call the new Pricing services to retrieve the pricing data at the location level stored

Responsibilities:

Participated in the requirement discussions, analyze the requirement documents and create use cases

Prepare Project Estimations, Approvals and Signoff

Coordinate meeting with Product owner and Scrum master to go over detail level QA Progress in each Sprint Participate in Sprint Planning meeting after each Sprint completion

Prepare Test Environment to execute the test cases and reserve test environments in Test Scheduler

Establishing a methodology along with tool selection (starting with manual testing with intent on bringing in an automation framework as well) and then implementing the solution

Modify existing Batch DB2 and Online Cobol programs

Analyzed existing legacy programs to write BRD’s and test cases

Prepare Test Plan, Test Scenarios and Test Metrics document

Prepare Test Data for the test cases

Written complex SQL’s to validate the back end data

Review test cases/scripts prepared by team members

Create Manual test cases and executed them using HP ALM

Created Automation regression and smoke test scripts using Selenium web driver/Cucumber

Execute automation regression suite locally as well as in CI Pipeline(Jenkins)

Create TIBCO Queue’s and Topics and validate the messages using Gems tool

Performed fullstack integration test across multiple application teams and vendors to conduct E2E

Conducted Walk-Through Meetings with the Team to review Test Plan and Test Cases

Conducted web services testing(JSON,Postman,REST)

Participated in QA Process Improvement, QA Audit and Prepared QA Metrics

Prepare Suggestion Documents to improve the quality of the application

Manage and provide support to 14 member offshore team

Provide support to developers in order to fix the identified defects

Provide Testing Summary and Defect reports to Management team

Provide Sign-off’s to implement the code to UAT as well as Production

Prepare UAT plans and support to users during the UAT

Participate in post-production validation

Environment: COBOLII, DATACOM, JCL, DB2, Stored Procedures,PROC, Endevor,.Net,Java,Selenium Web Driver,Cuccumber,HP ALM,UFT,Jira.Loadrunner(VuGen scripts),WCF Storm,Share Point,Confluence,GIT,JBOSS,wsdl,SOAP,REST,Putty

AMEX Conversion:

The Credit Amex 2010 project will replace Visa Cobrand cards with American Express (Amex) Cobrand cards. New credit regions will be created to support American Express Cobrand cards. Amex cards will be issued to selected customers with Cobrand Visa cards. The Visa cards will expire and become unusable outside of Macys stores.

Responsibilities:

Added value to the project by turning the requirements to test cases with fewer ambiguities

Co-ordination with offshore team

Modify existing Batch DB2 and Online Cobol programs

Prepare Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Execute UAT test cases

Conduct peer review and review deliverables before delivering to the client for implementation

Preparation of weekly status reports for client

Planning the implementation schedule and monitoring timelines

FTP’d conversion files to different vendors and resolved their issues

Coded NDM scripts to transmitted the files

Create BPC request and FC tickets

Implementation support

Environment:COBOLII,CICS,VSAM,DB2,SQL,JCL,PROC,FTP,ControlM,Endevor,NDM,Xpeditor,Bug tracker.

Allstate, USA Sr Developer Feb 2009 to June 2010

EDPPI

Customer Communications is the Business Unit responsible for programming the Pre-Issuance package, among several other things. Pre- Issuance is a sub-group of EDP that is responsible for programming the Legal and Administrative T-Docs and ultimately pulling together the coding to create the pre-issuance package to that will be mailed to the customer.

Pre- Issuance receives the data to create the policy for NTNI Output. EDP1 programs those requirements for both Legal and Administrative T-Docs. Requirements identifying which t-docs are sent for each specific policy is sent form the Regional offices and the cover Letter requirements are sent from the marketing /Customer Experience office. Once the data from the NTNI is received, EDP1 automatically pulls specific codes and creates a print stream that will create the required documents and sends it to MWOPC to print the documents that is mailed to the customer. The document is printed based on the programming codes that Pre-Issuance sends to the printers at MWOPC. A second print stream is processed by EDP to create a PDF of the Pre-Issuance package by a Xenos Process to be sent to EDMS for storage. This is also an automated process.

Responsibilities:

Create design documents as per the functional requirements

Managing multiple projects and coordinate with different application managers

Allocation tasks to resources and time sheet approvals

Performed Co-ordination activities to five members of offshore team

Mentor, motivate and lead the team to achieve project and individual goal

Preparing Project Estimations, Approvals and Signoff

Prepared process workflow diagrams using Visio

Modify existing Batch Cobol programs

Modify EDL Scripts

Modify existing JCLs and PROCs

Prepare Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Conduct Walkthroughs in all phases

Setup Test Environments and Converted Production data to QC and co-ordiante with PQS

Sending Pre-Issuance packages to the business to get their approval and extensive interaction with business

Project planning, tracking and status reporting to client and senior management

Planning the implementation schedule and monitoring timelines

Conduct peer review and review deliverables before delivering to the client for implementation

Create APTFs and implement the code into diffeent sites(ROCs)

Post implementation support

Environment: COBOLII, VSAM, JCL, DB2, PROC, SCLM, EDL, XCOM, IBM Debug tool, APTF, Strobe, Microsoft share point, Mercury QC Center and Visio

IMB

Allstate was founded in 1931 as part of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and became in public traded company in 1993. Allstate is the nation's largest widely held personal lines insurer and one of the nation's leading insurers in urban areas.

The United States Post Office has implemented a new barcode system called Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB).This Intelligent Mail Barcode is a new way of barcoding the mailpeices.

Currently USPS allows mailers to use either POSTNET barcodes or IMBs (or a combination of both) on automation mailings to qualify for discounts. The discount savings for automation mailings is significant; in 2007, Allstate saved approximately $20 million in discounts for automation-priced mail processed from the OPCs.

The main objective of this project is for Allstate to implement full service IMB changes for letter and flat mailpieces mailed through the Allstate Output Processing Centers (OPCs) to save millions in discounts automation-priced mail process.

To accomplish these goals, all application delivery areas and OPC’s that currently generate POSTNET barcodes on outbound and inbound mail pieces will be required to implement IMBs in place of POSTNET barcodes.

Responsibilities:

Created design documents as per the functional requirements

Mentor, motivate and lead the team to achieve project and individual goal

Allocation tasks to resources and time sheet approvals

Performed Co-ordination activities to ten members of team

Prepared process workflow diagrams using Visio

Project planning, tracking and status reporting to client and senior management

New and modify existing Batch Cobol programs

Modified EDL Scripts

Modified existing JCLs and PROCs

Prepared Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Prepared test status reports during test execution process

Conduct Walkthroughs in all phases

Setup Test Environments and Converted Production data to QC and co-ordinate with PQS

Conducted TAP test for mailing packages

Co-coordinated with Business Users to get system signed off

Conduct STROBE test to check the performance of DB2 jobs after and before the IMB changes

Conduct peer review and review deliverables before delivering to the client for implementation

Planning the implementation schedule and monitoring timelines

Create APTFs and implement the code into different sites(ROCs)

Post implementation support

Environment: COBOLII,DB2,VSAM,JCL,PROC,SCLM,EDL,XCOM,IBM Debug tool, STROBE,APTF, Microsoft share point, Mercury QC Center and Visio

McKesson Corp., USA Sr Developer Sep 2006 to Jan 2009

Health Quest

McKesson is one of the world’s leading healthcare services company that provides pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and hospitals the technologies that automate the hospital and inventory management system. HealthQuest is a product of McKesson is a mainframe-based hospital information system.

The aim of the HealthQuest Maintenance Project Release 12.1, 13.0, 14.0 and 14.1 which is an ongoing and regular project is to modify the existing and develop new batch and online programs and screens to comply with the updated guidelines issued by the federal govt. as part of HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and as part of ongoing enhancements taken up by McKesson to increase the functionality and customer friendliness.

Responsibilities:

To understand functional specifications given by the client & understand the business needs

Develop and modify existing programs and screens to make them HIPAA compliant, according to the technical and functional specs developed

Coded new and modify existing Online and Batch Cobol programs

Coded new and modify existing JCLs and PROCs – MVS and VSE

Coded new and modify existing BMS Maps and ADS Plus Screens

Test ADS Plus screens using ADS Plus Test Master

Prepared Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Worked on designing the new and modify existing screens on Client Builder environment

Coded smart code to develop GUI screens

Worked on ICD-9 to ICD-10 conversion

Created and executed unit test scripts and validate the script results

Prepared and executed function test plan to test the scripts and validated the results

Project planning, tracking and status reporting to client and senior management

Conducted peer review and review deliverables before delivering to the client for implementation

Adding the elements to INFOMAN for moving into production region

Worked on NOMAD reports

Implementation support

Worked on release activities

Performed Co-ordination activities to twelve members of offshore team

Environment:COBOLII,CICS,ADS,JCL,PROC,XPEDITOR,SCLM,INFOMAN,CLIENT BUILDER,NOMAD,FTA,IBM Debug tool,CA-Intertest,Microsoft share point and Visio

Caterpillar, USA SSE May 2005 to Sep 2006

CVSP

BIG’s CVSP 2005 Survey project is a mainframe-based application containing several batch processes to produce certain targeted surveys. The objective of the project for 2005 is to: Revise the processing of the current piloted surveys as well as additional developing surveys. All surveys will prepare and deliver a mailing list (names & addresses) of customers who meet the criteria for the given subject matter of the survey.

Responsibilities:

To understand functional specifications given by the client & understand the business needs

Coding and testing of new programs

Coordinate with offshore team

Interaction with Vendors to resolve data problems

Prepared Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Preparation of status reports for client

Preparation of AQA documents viz., Review reports

Environment: COBOLII, DB2, VSAM,JCL, QUICKJOB, XPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN, AJS

Norwich union, UK Module Leader Mar 2003 to April 2005

Norwich Union (NU) is an UK based insurance company with its headquarters at Norwich, UK. NU is one of the largest UK insurers with about 58 billion (GBP) of funds under management. NU is into several key businesses like Life Insurance & Pensions, General Insurance, Investment Management, Direct Insurance and Healthcare. Its principal operations are spread over several countries across Europe, Middle East, Australia and North America.

MI:

Managerial Information system (MI) is a Development Project. This System receives interfaces from all the business systems viz. N200 as well as non-business systems viz. Finance.

Finance: is a centralized module of Norwich Union Insurance that

Receives all financial data (like payments, estimates, reinsurance) from the various sending systems that comprise the Norwich Union network

Processes it and

Transmits the resulting data to the actuaries and accounting departments. The systems interface with external financial institutions makes it a very crucial entity involving extremely tight processing deadlines and fast turnovers in case of issues.

Processing involves

1.Fin. auditing that act as 'health checks' to ensure integrity of financial data.

2.Determining cumulative amounts for payments estimates after applying appropriate reductions, taxes and reinsurance.

3.Reformatting data as required by external financial institutions like Banks and external departments like Actuaries and Accounting.

4.Creating 'census' figures that give details on the change in revenue over past quarter, past year, etc.

5.Determining earnings for various periods that give accounting a picture of the financial health of the company.

Responsibilities:

Preparation of Design Documents

Analysis of source data and programs

Training to new resources and allocating work to team members

Coded COBOL/CICS/DB2 and followed standards according to NU COBOL Source code check

Prepared Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Regression Testing for several processes & audit trails

Involved in QA Process Improvement, QA Audit and Prepared QA Metrics

Setting up and running the Suites for various feeds

Mapping of source data to target-WH

Conducted Load and Stress test

Environment: COBOLII, JCL, DB2, SQL, EASYTRIEVE, ALCHEMIST, CA-7, XPEDITOR, FILE-AID

Westfield Insurance, USA SE June 2002 to Mar 2003

Westfield Insurance Company is basically Farmers Insurance Company which has been started in 1868 in Ohio, USA. Later they have expanded their business into Automobile Insurance. Now they are also one of the best competitors in Insurance sector in USA. Primary objective of this project to convert the older versions of COBOL likes OS/VS, VS-COBOL to OS/390 COBOL. Testing of COBOL programs and implementations so that they are compatible with the existing systems.

Responsibilities:

Actively involved in Impact analysis

Conversion was done from old versions to IBM-COBOL for all impacted programs

Prepared Unit Test plan, Unit Test and validate the test result

Unit testing and implementation was done for all programs

Environment: COBOL II, OS/VS, MVS, VSAM, JCL, CICS, FILEMASTER, TSO/ISPF, OS/390, QUAL,ULTIMIZER

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