Mainframes Application Developer - with 10+ Yrs of Experience

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Experience Summary

**+ years of experience in leading various Development projects on Mainframes using JCL, COBOL, IMS DB & DC, DB2, CICS, VSAM, ASSEMBLER, IDMS, EASYTRIEVE, PL/I, File Aid, Endeavor, ChangeMan, Xpeditor and JIRA.

4+ years of experience in various Testing projects on Mainframes, Java & .NET platforms.

Expertise in the Credit Cards, Health Care, Auto and Home Insurances domain Projects.

Expertise in Application Development and Testing involving various features/functionalities of VisionPLUS modules – CMS, LTS, CDM, ASM and TRAMS.

Expertise in Agile and Waterfall - Development and Testing projects.

Expertise in the Onsite-Offshore model and Project Liaison activities with the Implementation of various Projects at Onsite and Offshore locations.

Expertise in brainstorming project meetings with Business Experts, System Architects and other stakeholders of the project for business requirements feasibility analysis and/or for the quick turnaround of the issues/challenges hindering the production implementation.

Extensive experience in performing quality reviews on Development team deliverables (code changes, unit test & integration test results) and Testing Team deliverables (planned test Cases and executed test results) and incorporating the necessary changes ASAP, to quickly turnaround the issues/challenges or defects hindering the project progress.

Extensive experience in Data Mining and Database Correction/Update activities through SQL queries and/or New One-Time adhoc programs (using JCL, COBOL, IMS DB, DB2, Sort utilities, etc.) to Turnaround the Issues ASAP.

Extensive experience in Automating the repeated Manual Tasks and Business adhoc reports, to improve the system productivity and Deliver the Tasks with speed.

Extensive experience in the Incident Tickets Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of QA Defects & Prod Issues.

Technical Skills

JCL, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, CICS, IDMS, ASSEMBLER, EZTREIVE, REXX, PL/I, XML, JIRA, SPUFI, File Aid, Endeavor, VisionPLUS, Xpeditor, SQL, CA7, Fault Analyzer, HP ALM (QC), File Manager (DB2 & IMS), CHANGEMAN, MQ Series, Stored Procedures, etc.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka.

Project Details

Project Name

Individual & Small Group (ISG)

Start Date

March 2017

Role

Application Developer – Lead

End Date

Till Date

Client, Employer

Deloitte; Probys (ACS Group)

Team Size

Project Location

Woodland Hills – USA

Project Description:

ISG (Individual and Small Group) Enrollment and Billing is a Health Insurance policy processing system used by Agents, Underwriters, and Service Centre Personnel to create, view or modify the Enrollment and Billing details of Health Insurance Policies.

Key objectives of the Project is to - 1) Build new capabilities (functionalities) of the system, per Business and/or CMS driven requirements for all product families; 2) Adapt quickly to market demand (i.e. increase the Product Speed to Market) by reducing and consolidating complex functionalities through New changes in Table base, so that the New Products or Product changes are implemented quickly through minimum Development & Testing Efforts as per HIPPA standards; 3) Resolve ASAP the Production issues reported by the Business and/or End-Users, in-coordination with the Business Experts and concerned stakeholders, so as to improve the customer happiness and retain the customer base;

Responsibilities: -

Review the Technical Feasibility of the Sprint Backlog User Stories and their User Acceptance Criteria with Product Owner and other stakeholders.

Perform Impact analysis of the User Stories, on the existing system functionality (involving the programs - JCL, COBOL, IMS DC, etc. and databases – IMS DB, DB2, Stored Procedures, etc.) to understand - Impact of New requirements on existing functionality, Risks/Issues hindering their Implementation, Performance issues of SQL Queries (for DB2) and IMS DB functionality calls.

Design Feasible Technical Solution from the existing programs and Databases or through new programs (using the concepts of JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, SQL, etc.)

Provide ROM (Efforts Estimation) for Development, SIT and Prod Implementation related Activities.

Resolve the Technical Issues and Challenges hindering the coding and testing of user stories, during Development and Testing Phases.

Code and Test the Complex User Stories, involving the business-critical screen change programs and the New Tables addition to the ISG Databases Schema.

Optimize the code of JCL, COBOL, IMS DC, DB2 programs and fine tune the performance issues of SQL queries and IMS DB functionality calls to enhance the performance and error handling features for the incoming high-volume files during the open enrollment period.

Perform quality review on Development team and QA team deliverables and work with concerned stakeholders to turnaround the issues ASAP.

For Code Fix and/or Database Correction issues, provide the Impacted volume by querying the Production Databases (DB2) using the SQL queries or creating One-Time adhoc programs (using JCL, COBOL, IMS DB and/or DB2, etc.). Also, implement the necessary Databases (DB2 or IMS DB) correction to Turnaround the Issues ASAP.

Technical Skills: -

JCL, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, EZTREIVE, XML, ASSEMBLER, SOAP, SPUFI, File Aid, Endevor, CHANGEMAN, JIRA, Fault Analyzer, MQ Series, Stored Procedures, Control-M.

Project Name

Commercial Auto Product Versioning

(FPPS Solution Design)

Start Date

May 2015

Role

System Analyst (SME)

End Date

March 2017

Client

Zurich Farmers

Team Size

Project Location

Woodland Hills – USA

Project Description:

Objective of the Project is to Introduce Product Versioning for Commercial Auto vehicles, so that business can quickly launch new Rating Parameters for different set of coverages based on market conditions, with no need of extensive Development & Testing efforts.

Responsibilities: -

Participate in brainstorming sessions with business teams and other stakeholders (Product Manager, Program Manager, others) for business requirements gathering and their implementation feasibility analysis.

Perform Impact analysis of the business requirements to understand their implications on existing application modules and Coordinate with stakeholders to resolve all the Technical issues hindering their implementation asap.

Analyze and create the detailed documentation of business rules and system logic embedded in JCL, COBOL, CICS & IDMS programs.

Review the analysis document with all the concerned stakeholders, so as to use it as a basis for a system rewrite.

Provide necessary support to the business analysts for the creation of functional documents in alignment to the business requirements.

Provide cost & time estimation for the various activities of the project.

Perform quality reviews on Development team deliverables (code changes, unit test & integration test results) and suggest the necessary changes.

Perform quality reviews on QA (Functional, Regression & Performance) Teams deliverables (Planned Test Cases & executed results) and suggest the necessary changes.

Provide necessary support to Development and Testing Teams for quick turnaround of the defects.

Create and Execute own test cases for critical functionalities of the project in different testing regions and work with development and testing teams for quick turnaround the issues.

Proactively monitor the application systems for any operating in-efficiency and other potential issues upon Production implementation of the project and turnaround ASAP.

Work with Helpdesk & Business teams to analyze and fix the production Incidents, reported by End-Users and turnaround the issues asap, to ensure better customer experience.

Provide RCA (Root Cause Analysis) document to senior Management for Production & QA defects.

Fix the repeated Production Job abends and also Automate the repeated tasks so as to improve the productivity of the system.

Technical Skills: -

JCL, COBOL, CICS, IDMS, DB2, REXX, EZTREIVE, XML, ASSEMBLER, SOAP, SPUFI, File Aid, Endeavor, Xpeditor, HP ALM/QC, CA7.

Project Name

CAM Baseline Services Healthcare

Start Date

June 2011

Role

Lead Consultant – Development

End Date

July 2015

Client

Kaiser Permanente

Team Size

Project Location

Pasadena – USA and Hyderabad – India

Project Description:

Objective of this project is to baseline the CAM Services of the online paramedical system, so

as to enable better access and management of health care records of the patients.

Responsibilities: -

Various activities associated with the design, development, testing support and production support (maintenance) of the application.

Communication with business consultants, project managers and other stakeholders of the Project.

Design, Code & Test the Complex Projects.

Allocate the Work to the Team Members based on their Work Scope.

Review the Deliverables (design, code and test results) of the Team.

Review QA (Functional, Regression & Performance) Test Cases & Results.

Attend Defect Review & Project status meetings to Turnaround the defects and other issues hindering the project progress ASAP.

Handle all Prod Issues during the Post Production Implementation of the Project.

Participate in 24x7 on call support and turnaround the Production Issues ASAP.

Fix the repeated Production Job abends to reduce the Abends Count.

Automate the repeated Tasks to improve the team efficiency.

Participate in Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and High-Risk reviews.

Technical Skills: -

JCL, COBOL, IMS DB/DC, DB2, CICS, File Aid, Endeavor, Xpeditor, HP ALM/QC, CA7.

Project Name

Electronic Customer Management Service (eCMS)

Start Date

July 2009

Role

QA Team Lead

End Date

May 2011

Client

Zurich Farmers

Team Size

Project Location

Hyderabad – India and Woodland Hills – USA

Project Description:

Electronic Customer Management Service (eCMS) is a CRM system that allows Agency’s to manage and automate their strategies. The Usage of SIMS will make it easier for Agencies to attract and retain customers in a nearly effortless and organized manner, thereby increasing the Business & Productivity of their Staff.

Responsibilities: -

Analyze the Business Requirement (BRD) & System Requirement specifications (SRS) Documents and prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) document.

Identify the Business requirements which needs focused testing and prioritize the testing accordingly.

Analyze the Automation feasibility for the business requirements.

Identify the best suited Testing Approach for different types of testing and prepare Test strategy document.

Estimate testing effort from the team for all the business requirements.

Resource planning and assigning roles and responsibility to team as per the skills required for different testing.

Coordinate with team for Test Plan document preparation and its review meeting with business team and other stakeholders.

Coordinate with different stakeholders for test environment setup (refresh) and Test Data availability before the commencement of testing phase.

Review the executed test results, defects logged, failed defects retest, issues hindering testing progress, so on. with team on daily basis.

Conduct defects review meeting with different stakeholders to turnaround the defects asap and resolve other issues hindering the progress & completion.

Evaluate updated test cases with results in QC and the Defects Retest and Closed

Prepare Test Closure Report for project signoff from the Project management.

Document the lessons learnt from the Project to avoid similar issues repeating in future projects.

Groom Junior Resources in the Team to ensure excellent quality in deliverables, high team productivity and efficiency in meeting deadlines.

Technical Skills:

.NET, HP ALM/QC, SOAP, XML, WSDL, DB2, EZTREIVE, SPUFI, JCL, COBOL, File Aid, Endeavor.

Project Name

APPS EDGE

Start Date

June 2007

Role

Programming Analyst

End Date

July 2009

Client

Zurich Farmers

Team Size

Project Location

Hyderabad – India

Project Description:

Objective of the Project is to Create Professionally looking Insurance Documents & Mail them to Customers. Also archive them into Databases for any future referral. With this, all details can be referred again without reproducing, thereby saving significant costs.

Responsibilities: -

Analyze the Requirement Documents and Provide Estimations of the Task.

Allocate the Work to the Team Members, based on their Work Scope.

Design, Code & Test the Complex Projects.

Review all the Deliverables of the Team.

Create the Checklist Documents for Code Delivery, Unit Testing, Production Migration, etc.

Review the Functional (UAT) Test Cases & Results.

Track the Defects during Testing Phase and work with the Team for quick Turnaround.

Attend Defect Review Meetings and Report the Status to the Management, in a Matrix Sheet.

Handle all Prod Issues, during the Post Production Implementation of the Project.

Monitor the Prod Batch Cycle and Turnaround the Issues ASAP, so as to Complete the Batch Cycle within the SLA (Designated Time Frame).

Provide RCA (Root cause analysis) document for QA defects.

Technical Skills: -

JCL, COBOL, ASSEMBLER, DB2, CICS, EZTREIVE, SPUFI, File Aid, Endeavor, Xpeditor, ALM/QC.

Project Name

Auto Policy Processing System

Start Date

Feb 2006

Role

QA Analyst

End Date

May 2007

Client

Zurich Farmers

Team Size

Project Location

Hyderabad – India

Project Description:

Objective of the Project is to Test the Functional Capability of the New Requirements, being Implemented into the System through' different Releases and ensure, they are working as per the Business Requirements and the Standards.

Responsibilities: -

Design, develop and Implement the Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Processes and Requirements Traceability matrix (RTM) documents.

Review the Planned Test Cases with Developers, Business Analysts, and Business Users in Application Design and Document Review Process.

Execute the Test Cases to verify Reliability, Accuracy and Compatibility of Application.

Track the Defects and Follow up with all the Stakeholders on the defects Turnaround, through Defects Review Meetings.

Report the Testing Status to the Senior Management, in a Matrix Document.

Technical Skills: -

CICS, DB2, ALM (QC), JAVA, SQL.

Project Name

Credit Cards Processing System (CCPS)

Start Date

Aug 2003

Role

Programming Analyst

End Date

Jan 2006

Client

Deutsche Bank

Team Size

Project Location

Bangalore – India

Project Description:

Credit Cards Processing System (CCPS) is one of the key projects in creating and managing the various customized credit cards using the features and functionality of VisionPLUS modules like CMS, LTS, CDM, ASM, etc.

Key objectives of the Project is to - 1) Create the new Credit cards as per the various customer needs; 2) Adapt quickly to market demand (i.e. increase the Product Speed to Market) by reducing and consolidating complex functionalities; 3) Resolve ASAP the Production issues reported by the Business and/or End-Users, in-coordination with the Business Experts and concerned stakeholders, so as to improve the customer happiness and retain the customer base;

4) Automate the repeated Manual Tasks and Business adhoc reports, to improve the system productivity and deliver speed;

5) Collaborate with concerned stakeholders to brainstorm and create innovative solutions for complex business requirements/scenarios.

Responsibilities: -

Analyze and Review the Business requirements.

Provide Estimations for the various Development and Testing activities of the project.

Design, Code & Test the various modules as per the Business requirements.

Participate in Peer review of Code and Testing deliverables.

Provide necessary support to Testing Teams for quick turnaround of the defects.

Proactively monitor the application systems for any operating in-efficiency and other potential issues upon Production implementation of the project and turnaround ASAP.

Work with Helpdesk & Business teams to analyze and fix the production Incidents, reported by End-Users and turnaround the issues asap, to ensure better customer experience.

Provide RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for QA & Production defects.

Automate the repeated tasks to improve the productivity of the system.

Technical Skills: -

JCL, COBOL, CICS, VisionPLUS, SPUFI, File Aid, Endeavor, Xpeditor, ALM (QC).

Trainings and Certifications

Professional, Academy for Healthcare Management (PAHM®) from AHIP.

Medicare, Parts C and D Certifications from CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services).

Property & Liability Insurance Certification from AICPCU.

PMI-ACP Agile Certified Exam Prep – PMI REP - 21 PDUs - Online Course.

PMI-ACP Certification (in Progress).

Employment History

Company Name

Designation

Start date

End Date

PROBYS

Application Developer Lead

March 2017

Till Date

SapereData

System Analyst

Nov’ 2016

March 2017

CSC

System Analyst

Jan’ 2006

Nov’ 2016

SOFTPRO

Programming Analyst

Aug’ 2003

Jan’ 2006

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