SIRISHA LAKKIREDDY

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Customer focused process oriented, experienced Senior Software Engineer with proven track record of over 8.6 years of IT experience in software development, maintenance and production support projects. Involved in all phases of Software Life Cycle and software development life cycle Including analysis, design, development, testing and implementation using IBM Mainframes technologies.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Above 8.6 years of IT professional experience with sound knowledge of Programming, Testing and Problem solving in environment of IBM Mainframes.

Experienced in using various methodologies in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), CMM Model and ISO quality standards.

Working on Agile environment.

Experienced in using Use case Methodologies for capturing functional requirements.

Experienced in the analysis, design and development of COBOL, PL1, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IMS DB/DC and the tools CHANGEMAN, ENDEVOR, SYNCSORT, FILE-AID, NDM, XPEDITOR & Job Scheduling tools CA7.

Having good leading experience for a team of 10 members.

Worked in domains like Telecommunication, Creditcard.

Developed technical specifications by working with the business analysts to gather requirements.

Experienced in batch FTP processing & setting up NDM.

Experienced in Batch and online programs debugged using Xpeditor and File-aid.

Provided 24*7 maintenance & production support to Mainframe applications.

Proficiency at various levels of application development i.e. on requirement analysis, analysis and design, system and integration testing, implementation and documentation.

Good working experience on ENDEVORto maintain the source code and version control.

Developed Test Plans and participated in thorough unit, system, regression testing through production implementation.

Involved in preparing performance test plans from User Acceptance Test Cases and Function Specs using MS WORD, MS EXCEL and QC.

Involved extensively in UAT.

Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently or in a team environment.

Used to working in a fast paced environment and meeting deadlines.

Ability to rapidly learn and be productive in new areas.

Excellent Team Player, confident, quick learner with a proactive approach to get things done with minimal supervision and able to manage pressure.

SKILL SET

Technical

Language & Technologies COBOL, MVS/JCL, CICS, VSAM, IMS DB/DC, JavaScript, Java, HTML, SQL, XML

Operating Systems MVS, Z/OS, Windows, Linux

Data Bases IMS DB, DB2, My SQL

Development Tools File Aid, Insyc, REXX

Software Engineering Methods Agile Methodology, Waterfall Model

Version Control Systems Endevor

Debugging Tools Expeditor

Experience Summary

AMERICAN EXPRESS, PHOENIX,AZ November 2015 - Till date

Project: CM/CARS (Card Member Maintenance/Corporate accounts receivable) .CM/CARS is a sub application of GCPT

( Global corporate processing systems).This application creates accounts and provide corporate cards for big organizations and maintains the transactions for purchases and other expenses related to the organization. It Processes posting and billing of transactions also provide the reports to the clients as per their requirement.

Joining in to the user stories meetings for requirement finalization.

Providing analysis as per the existing functionality during meetings of agile process.

Making changes to existing green screens for enhancements

Good leadership skills and leading a team of 10 members

Tracking the activities and assigning the tasks as per the requirement

Providing estimations for the enhancements and new projects.

Working on Agile methodology and conducting Sprint meetings.

Creating User stories for the requirements in the Rally tool.

Monitoring the activities and follow-ups on timely manner to reach schedules on time

Involving in Scrum meetings for the requirement gathering and understanding.

Developing COBOL programs for new requirements and code changes performing for existing programs written with technologies like COBOL,DB2,JCL,IMS DB/IMS DC.

Implement new DB2 stored procedures and maintenance and enhancements of existing DB2 stored procedures.

Analyzing existing code developed in IMS and making documentation of the functionality for further development in latest technologies

Carry out impact analysis to make sure that the existing code is not affected.

Functional and technical support to team members.

Coordination and communication with client and the team.

Assist in defect resolution process, conducted root cause analysis & look-ahead meetings to prevent the defect & to meet the quality goals.

Worked on web services to interact with front-end application developed in JAVA

Involving in all phases of Testing team like UNIT, System,Integration and UAT for the defect analysis and fixing

Providing business analytic resolutions as per the new requirements

Implementing Automation technologies for functionalities using REXX to simply the process.

Environment: Z/OS,MVS, COBOL,JCL, DB2,IMS DB,IMS DC, CHANGEMAN,BMC,IBM Fault Analyzer,CHANGEMAN,SYNCSORT,EZTREIEVE,CA-GEN,CA-Platinum, SYSVIEW,Contol-M and REXX.

Wells Fargo, Minneapolis, MN November 2014 – Nov 2015

Senior Mainframe Developer

Project: The Electronic Window (EW) is the repository for all information reporting data for wholesale applications and it is derived repository, data comes from many source applications. It is a core authorization repository for treasury mainframe applications. It provides data and also access modules for data retrieval. Different applications using this EW application like TIR (Treasury information reporting), (WLI) Wholesale lockbox reports RI (Returned items).

Analysis and designing of technical specs.

Worked in waterfall model.

Performing code changes as per requirement for existing programs and developing new programs.

Extensively worked for external stored procedures using DB2.

Involving in peer reviews and UAT review meetings.

Defect tracking is performed using ALM tool.

Analysis of existing programs and documenting for new enhancements.

Decommissioning un wanted code or programs and documenting for future reference.

Developing COBOL programs for new requirements and code changes performing for existing programs written with technologies like COBOL,DB2,JCL,IMS,CICS,JAVA and Web services.

Implementing Automation technologies for functionalities using REXX to simply the process.

Environment: Z/OS,MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2,IMS DB,CICS, ENDEVOR, VSAM, ECLIPSE Juno,IBM Fault Analyzer,CHANGEMAN,SYNCSORT,Java,XML,Webservices,Contol-M and REXX.

Verizon, Inc., Manhattan, NY May 2006– Sep 2011

Senior Systems Analyst

Project: The Customer Record Information System (CRIS) is the system which maintains customer information and accounting information with centralized database named as SNE and applying the rates to the products during service order processing and creates the account files. Pass the accounting information as a files to downstream systems for further processing.

CRIS which is a BELL ATLANTIC processing system and stores the entire customers information for NE/NY around 20 RAO's(Revenue Accounting Offices) which includes 11 from NY and 9 from NE states and billing information resides in CRIS the IN and OUT of every active users account information with IN and AROUND VERIZON limits.

Analysis and design of user requirements, specifically relating to participant notices of action/forms

and eligibility determination.

Use Case Methodologies for capturing functional requirement.

Involved in part of java coding while preparing Java procedures/Methods at front-end to call stored procedures at backend which are developed in Mainframes (COBOL/DB2).

Implement new DB2 stored procedures and maintenance and enhancements of existing DB2 stored procedures . Also involved with front-end applications during implementation of COBOL/DB2 stored procedures in QREP/MQ environment.

Involved in coding of new modules from the scratch and coding to implement the new functionality or change the existing functionality of the programs.

Involved in modifications of existing programs developed in PL/I.

Jobs scheduling using BMC tool Control M and working on Control M desktop module to set cyclic jobs scheduling.

Carry out impact analysis to make sure that the existing code is not affected.

Implementation of new business requirements into production whether they be to strengthen the rules for eligibility determination or to send out participant correspondences.

EDUCATION:

MCA (MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS) from S K University, India

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