Quality Assurance Project

Giridharan Sekar

Mobile: 003*-*********

**********.*****@*****.***

Objective

Looking for a position involving Application Development and Management

which offers professional growth with creativity

Professional Summary

> About 9+ years of experience in the IT industry as an Application

Developer in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2

> Expertise in translating functional specification into technical

solution and build

> Extensive domain knowledge in Insurance

> Knowledge on IT Services Management (ITSM). Vast experience in handling

Incident Management, Problem Management, Capacity Management,

Configuration Management and Production Support (outside the official

working hours).

> Hands on experience in MICRO FOCUS COBOL, exposing COBOL program as a

web service and SOAP testing.

> Involved extensively in various phases of SDLC

> Well versed in Mainframe Oriented Technologies COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS

and DB2. Expertise in Application programming using the above.

> Owned the responsibility of Coordinating Offshore Team and accomplished

successful timely deliveries. Performed all development lifecycle

quality assurance for the work of team members, including the review of

high-level designs, detailed designs, code, test plans and results

> Highly efficient in handling Customer queries

> Proven track-record of completing tasks within a fast paced

environment, where multitasking and priority assessments are often

required.

Work Experience

> Working in AEGON (representing HCL Technologies Ltd, India), as a

Senior Developer from July 2008 to Till date

> Worked in HCL Technologies Ltd, India (Offshore) from August 2005 to

July 2008 for AEGON

> Worked in Kanbay Software (I) Pvt Ltd from May 2005 to August 2005 as

an Associate Consultant

> Worked in L & T Info Tech from July 2004 to May 2005 as a Software

Engineer.

Academic Profile

Bachelor of Engineering

Specialization: Computer Science Engineering

University of Madras, India (Batch of 1999 - 2003)

Technical skills

Operating Systems : OS/390, Z/os

Languages : COBOL (in Mainframe & MicroFocus Environment),

JCL

Databases : DB2, IDMS

File System : VSAM

Transaction System : CICS

Job Scheduler : Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS (OPC)

Tools : File-Aid, Expeditor, ASF, BMC, ABENDAID,

SDF-II, CONTROL-M, Endevour, STROBE,

Application Package : MS Office

Project profile 1:

From July 2008 to till date (AEGON, The Hague)

Project : AEGON-Service Center Pension

(CAESAR)

Client : AEGON, NETHERLANDS

Technologies : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

Role : Senior developer; Handling Application Management

and Maintenance.

AEGON has in-house developed software product and named as CAESAR for

service centre Pension. It handles both individual and group pensions.

The system was originally built to handle group (company pensions) and

was later modified to include individual pensions as well. Most of the

business of Service Centre - Pension (SCP) is from group pensions. It

is a tailor-made system for providing pension benefits as per the Dutch

Pension Laws.

HCL has been maintaining the CAESAR system for more than 7 years.

Responsibilities:

In Application Management:

> Handling all Top desk points and Incidents raised in Remedy

> Investigation of all reported issues and providing structural solution

> Stringent adherence to SLA by rendering high quality on time delivery

by incorporating review process

> Speedy solutions during Standby Support for the Production Batch Cycle

> Handling various releases like ADHOC release, Action release, Normal

release and support during implementations.

> Involved in Problem Management, doing RCA for all repeated incidents

> Involved in Capacity Management; reducing the elapsed time of long

running jobs, efficient usage of DASD and Tape storage thereby reducing

cost.

> Creating and maintaining all metrics documents

In Application Maintenance:

> Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most

efficient and cost effective solution for system design

> Translates Functional requirements into Technical Design document and

build

> Coordinating an Offshore team and responsible for planning, allocating

tasks and tracking the progress of each resource on daily basis.

> Involved in the release planning for Application Maintenance.

> Creating and maintaining all metrics documents

Project profile 2:

From August 2005 to July 2008 (HCL Technologies LTD)

Project : AEGON-Service Center Pension

(CAESAR)

Client : AEGON, NETHERLANDS

Technologies : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

Role : Senior Developer

Responsibilities :

Worked on various enhancement projects and Maintenance TD, the

activities involved are

> Estimation preparation based on RFI or Functional Specification

> Involved in preparation of Functional Design along with Business

analyst

> Translates Functional Design into Technical Design and build

> Application development (Coding, unit testing and Capturing test

results)

> Peer review

> Defect logging and DPA activity

> Support on System Testing (Regression & Functional)

> Retrofit

> UAT support

> Support during production Implementation

Project profile 3:

From May 2005 to August 2005 (Kanbay Software (I) Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad,

India)

Project : Project ONP

Client : ERIE Insurance, USA

Technologies : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

Role : Associate Consultant

Project Description:

The scope of the project is to eliminate the ONP "Operation Not

Possible" message from the entire application system. The nature of

work assigned to offshore is to identify the scenarios where ONP is

getting generated and to replace it with the meaningful message.

Responsibilities:

> Preparation of POC "Proof of Concept"

> Preparation of inventory

> Analysis of existing application

> Impact Analysis

> Coding

> Unit Test Case Preparation

> Testing

> Peer Review

> Quality Assurance activities

Project profile 4:

From July 2004 to May 2005 (L & T Info Tech ltd, Chennai, India)

Project : EDJ PEP

Client : Edward Jones, USA

Technologies : COBOL, JCL, IDMS, VSAM, CICS

Role : Software Engineer/developer

Project Description:

The scope of the project is to provide application support to all the

clients' systems. The nature of work assigned to offshore will be

categorized into 4 different levels as follows; Level 1: ABEND

resolution or bug removal; Level 2: Change request; Level 3:

Enhancements /new development programs; Level 4: Large enhancement

projects with specific requirement.

Responsibilities :

> Analysis of requirement

> Coding

> Unit Test Case Preparation

> Testing

> Peer Review

> Quality Assurance activities

> DPA activity

Personal Details

Status of work permit (MVV) : Valid till August 2016

Date of Birth : 12, September 1981

Sex : Male

Marital Status : Married

Nationality : Indian

Contact address : 211, POPULIERENDREEF, 2272 RE,

VOORBURG

Contact Telephone : 003*-*********

Valid work permit : Resident Permit (MVV, Knowledge

migrant)

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