Senior software developer, Lead developer - COBOL, PL/I, PL/SQL
Resume:
Radhika Sethu Madhavan
********@*****.***
Fort Worth, TX 76177
Professional Summary:
Having around 5+ years of IT experience in application development; involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC.
Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration, deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.
Hands on experience with COBOL, PL/I, PL/SQL, JCL, VSAM, Z/OS, ISPF, Rexx.
Proficient in using RDBMS concepts with DB2 SQL. Experience working on developing DB2 Stored Procedures.
IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 10.1 Fundamentals, Brain bench certified Professional in ‘Cobol’, ‘JCL’.
Experience working in the domain of Auto Insurance applications.
Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.
Proven ability to achieve results in very high-pressure environments with technical expertise and business experience.
Has the motivation to take independent responsibility and be a productive team member, accompanying a strong programming and analytical background.
Excellent Problem Solving, Debugging & Analytical skills.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems: Z/OS, MVS, Windows.
Programming: COBOL, PL1,SQL, JCL, TSO / ISPF, Rexx, IBM Utilities.
Databases: DB2, IMS
Tools / Technologies: VSAM, ISPF, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID for DB2.
Domain Expertise: Auto Insurance.
Defect Tracking: Hp service Manager.
Professional Experience:
Client: State Farm Insurance Jun ‘10 to Oct ‘11
Role: Senior Developer Offshore
Data Provisioning is an application area that maintains Auto and Fire Provisioning data and processes used to capture data, reformat data and make data available by transferring data to populate downstream areas like Federated Data Warehouse (FDW), Transactional Data Stores (TDS), Enterprise Modelling Environment (EME) and Property Casualty Actuarial Decision Support Systems (PCADSS) for Data Analytics. The Team also designs and implements adjustments to the Provisioning processing.
Responsibilities:
Analyze requirements and prepare Component specifications.
Worked on complete life cycle of project activities which includes Design, development, Testing, implementation and support .
Performed code and test case reviews for the team
Analyze and answer service requests and application related questions from other application areas/Business Partners and involve in regular status meetings with onsite Lead/Coordinators.
Assisting and Reviewing software deliverables and documentation prepared by team members.
Reviewing unit test cases/results and help with execution of system/integration test cases.
Analyzing and resolving defects identified by test teams and update defect status to appropriate Leads/Managers
Environment: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, ISPF in MVS-Z/OS environment.
Client: State Farm Insurance May ‘09 to May ‘10
Role: Senior Developer Offshore
Description: Auto DBVAL - Auto Databases and Customer Rating Index (CRI) Validation Application support is one of the application areas in State Farm. Auto DBVAL involves validating data and relationships between some of the major Auto and CRI databases. It also has Auto and CRI data Retention process.
Responsibilities:
Analyze requirements and prepare Component specifications.
Analyze and answer service requests and application related questions from other application areas/Business Partners and involve in regular status meetings with onsite Lead/Coordinators.
Assisting and Reviewing software deliverables and documentation prepared by team members.
Reviewing unit test cases/results and help with execution of system/integration test cases.
Analyzing and resolving defects identified by test teams and update defect status to appropriate Leads/Managers
Worked on complete life cycle of project activities which includes Design, development, Testing, implementation and support
Environment: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB, ISPF in MVS-Z/OS environment.
Client: State Farm Insurance Jan ‘08 to Apr ‘09
Role: Software engineer offshore
Description: EPLI Conversion - State Farm initiated PLI to EPLI conversion to all Application Area companywide with estimation of using 31-bit compiler to increase efficiency. This also involves creating program stub for testing the functionality of Fetchables related to EPLI changes.
Responsibilities:
Impact analysis for the application area and creating component specification.
Analyzing the flow of fetchable, fabricating the input data for the fetchable.
Creating the program stub to test the fetchable.
Creating JCL to execute the program stub.
Self code walkthrough, Unit testing and creating Difference report.
Reviewing unit test cases/results and help with execution of system/integration test cases.
Analyzing and resolving defects identified by test teams and update defect status to appropriate Leads/Managers
Environment: PL/I, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, Rexx, RMS, BTS, File Aid, XPEDITOR, DUG, IXP, DBX, DXP.
Organization: HTC Global Services Dec ‘06 to Dec ‘07
Role: Trainee associate
Responsibilities:
Involved in internal projects on Mainframe Technology.
Developed Unit test cases for application programs.
Involved in Code Walk through & test case reviews.
COBOL, PL/I Programming Language workshops and assignments.
Environment: COBOL, PL/1, JCL, DB2, VSAM, IMS DB & ISPF in MVS-Z/OS environment.
Education Details:
Bachelors in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering – 2006, MAM College of Engineering, Anna University, India.
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