Quality Assurance Project

Prasad Reddy

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Austin, TX 78736 Email:******.*.*****@*****.***

Sr.Consultant - AIX & Z/OS - Websphere Middleware

Dedicated and motivated professional with a strong background in Middleware Architecture, Systems Design, Development, tuning, Installations, planning upgrades and patching/upgrading. Automating Support Scripts, Assisting in updating design and functional specs. Support, Rolling On-Call Production Support 24X7, Working with IBM PMRs & support SR Tickets with respective vendors, Managing, and Mentoring. USA Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) with 18+ Years of successful experience consulting on multifaceted IT projects in the Financial, Insurance, Healthcare and Retail sectors; streamlining internal processes to enhance overall productivity, and fostering positive working relationships with a wide range of clients, colleagues, and key business partners. Able to easily adopt emerging technologies as well as conceptualize and develop profitable new frameworks. Consistently recognized for outstanding contributions to the bottom line and solid reputation for resolving complex technical issues. Commended for organization, perseverance, efficiency, and priority management skills.

Areas Of Expertise

* IBM Mainframes, pSeries, iSeries

* Quantitative Analytics

* Datapower, WSRR,WMB, MQ

* Design & Development

* Systems Engineering

* Service Oriented Architecture

* IBM Websphere Middleware

* VSAM, DB2, CICS - based apps

* Data Analysis & Reporting

* Platform & Product Installs

* Agile & Waterfall

* Coding & Maintenance

* Performance Tuning

* Documentation & Standards

* Client & Vendor Relations

* Training & Team Building

* Technology Integration

* Project Management

* Strategic Planning

* Production Support

* Risk Mitigation

* J2EE, Web Services, SOA

* Quality Assurance

* Process Optimization

Professional Experience

State of michigan, obamacare/aca hub project – Lansing, MI JUNE 2013 – Present

WebServices/WMB/WMQ/DataPower SME Contractor (contract assignment through Deloitte)

Plan, Prepare(design,coding), deliver, performance tuning of SOA – WebServices through MQ7.5, WMB 8 on Linux systems and DataPower XI gateway. Testing through SoapUI and LoadUI, using XML tools of RAD and XMLSpy.

XML data driven Webservices – xpath routing in WMB and DataPower, WS Security implementation. SSL Keystore identities for WMBs.Giving a AccountTransfer webservice to Federal hub. To give this service, internally consuming several validation and data/XML enrichment by consuming webservices of IRS, DHS and SSA.

* MAGI(Medicaid Adjusted Gross Income) and AGI - calculations by consuming webservices of other departments and enriching Account Transfer WSDL XML. SOAP/http WMB/IIB Message flows.

* Extensive Auditing of the Account Transfer requests being serviced. Namespaces and XSD validations.

* Exception handling, database storages/logging of events and data.

* DataPower gateway to publish, route and secure webservices. SSL Keystore authentications. Identities to servers and Message Broker nodes.

* Centralized ANT/shell - build scripting to promote BAR files across different environments and to simultaneous deployments, dynamically changing configurable parameters of the flows and exported properties of the individual nodes in the flow.

* AAA and MPG(Multi Protocol Gateway) functionalities of the DataPower XI50/52 Gateway appliance.

* Supporting Mulitple Versions of AccountTransfer WSDL and other partners WSDL and security certificates across multiple development, testing and releases.

* WSSE - WS-Security implementation, inter-operability, SOA governance using IBM WSRR.

* HIX, NIEM XSD namespaces, nested namespaces, translation and mappings of xml fileds across name paces.

* Delivering Webservices of the State, serving federal benefits and private health insurance sector.

* HA (High-Availability thru hard&soft clustering), Load balancing, performance monitoring the solutions.

* BMC Patrol suite of products for monitoring.

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CHARMING SHOPPES – Bensalem, PA JUNE 2008-MAY 2013

Senior EAI Middleware Architect (direct report to The Director – IT Operations)

Plan, Prepare(Spec, design,coding), deliver, performance tuning and Support(24X7 rolling on-call) of middleware IT Solutions across Z/OS mainframes, pSeries AIXes and iSeries iOSes for a $3.5 billion multi-channel retail organization supporting multiple retail divisions, 2400 stores, three distribution centers and five e-commerce websites. Update/Support existing infrastructures built on various IBM platforms augmented with core Java and overseeing the system that uses tiered computing utilizing Parallel Sysplex mainframes, pSeries LPARs, iSeries with Websphere MQ 7, WMB 8, WSRR, Datapower XI50 & XI52 appliances, DB2, VSAM data storages and CICS transcations. Manage multiple platforms, Staging multiple environments (production,pre-prod,UAT and developmet), support project deliveries with the goal of 24X7 availability/monitoring, improving risk models and systems performance.

* Evaluated between GT Software’s Ivory suite and CommerceQuest/Metastorm’s ProcessManager for Data (PM4Data) and ProcessManager for CICS(PM4CICS).

* We decided to go with Metastorm’s suite with WMB and WMQ as messaging backbone between Mainframe and distributed AIX systems.

* Led creation and maintenance of a standardized middleware Websphere messaging platform & solution for the Charming shoppes' needs. Acted as the key player in the design, development, enhancement, testing, and production support for the Charming shoppes' Websphere messaging integration suite.

* Serving as a member of the Enterprise IT middleware team while resolving support issues, providing technical guidance,new product/project concepts, resolving patch/incremental upgrades issues, and ensuring optimal systems performance.

* Working closely with the Server, Enterprise Security and QA teams to implement the requisite messaging middleware technologies, project deliverables and version upgrades.

* Focus on delivering robust WebServices using WBI ESB – SOA and Message oriented Middleware(MOM)

* Creating Configuration managers,DataPower domains, Planning Webservices governance with WSRR, Broker domains, Brokers, EG(Execution Group)s, Deploying BAR files, MRM maintenance.

* Design and development of message flows, message sets, programming WMB nodes with Java J2EE, JMS, ESQL, XML, MRM Transformations and XSLT. SSL implementation for Servers. JSON – REST WS

* WMB and MQ on Z/OS, AIX and Windows – Administration, Production on-call support even during weekends/nights/holidays- 24X7,Upgrades, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, log keeping, recoveries, standardizing practices, knowledge base maintenance, Raising issues and following IBM product support.

* Received the Charming Shoppes “Spirit Medallion” Award in light of outstanding achievements and contributions towards technical objectives and organizational goals.

Webject systems – Bridgewater, MA 2001-2008

Senior Consultant

Worked with clients of Webject systems in their IBM mainframe, Java J2EE, IBM MQ messaging middleware needs.

* IBM Global Solutions, Atlanta,GA (2004-2008) – WMB and MQ Planning, Installations, Administration and support in their SIEBEL CRM QA Test lab.Distributed globally across NA, EMEA regions - Sysplex Z/OS Mainframes, AIX pSeries farms, windows machines - Test director, WinRunner, QTP, LoadRunner.

* Charles Schwab, SFO,CA(2002-2004) – Initially a programmer then Led development of CICS ECI – COBOL programming on Mainframes, AIX MQ java JMS & C programming – RSA Security in MQ Channel Exits.Extending legacy CICS transactions using CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) and DB2/VSAM Updates as WebServices/web – SOA to the partners and customers, simultaneous DB2 Updates using MQ to transfer data across, multi-tiered systems, with robust security and failover mechanisms that should be typical and needed for a financial organization, managing a trillion $ plus of it’s customers using MQ, JAVA, C, MVS/ESA, DB2, TSO/ISPF, FileAid, COBOL, JCL, VSAM Datasets, ROSCOE, CSP/AD, CICS, CTG.

* Olympus/ComputerAssociates, NY (2002) –Developed MQ Messaging Services in HL7 (Health Layer 7) hospital protocol using JMS and IBM MQ in a windows/custom firmware environment for Olympus’ Endoscopy camera equipment.

* CVS/Pharmacy, Woonsocket, RI (2001)- Architecting and developing, documenting Proof of Concept Solutions in then emerging J2EE technologies using EJB Specs, ORACLE, Access, EXCEL, JDBC, JNDI, ODBC, SERVLETS, ASP, ADO, CSS, HTML, VBScript, VBA, JavaScript, Java, IIS, JRun, WebLogic, NetDynamics, Unix Shell, Solaris and Windows

DHARMA SOFTWARE solutions – Bangalore, India 1995-2001

Systems Programmer – Dharma SQL

Development of Dharma’s in-house Relational Database SQL Parsing engine.

Development utilizing Visual Basic front-end and C++ CORBA back-end.

Parsing, syntax/SQL tree generation and optimization modules(for mainframe and mid range computers). Technologies used: MVS, AIX, OS/2, COBOL, DB2, CICS, TELON, FILE AID C, C++, Unix system level programming, Shell scripts, purify and Assembly

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Education & Training

* IBM Certified MQ Series Specialist

* Java Programmer & Developer – BrainBench Certified

* Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science - BSCS 1995 batch, India

* Professional Training:

* WMB/WBI MB/ WMQI / MQSI (historically NEON) Workshop – NT, AIX, Compuware/IBM

* Websphere MQ Programming using COBOL and C in AIX, IBM

* MQ Series Administration on Z/OS mainframes, IBM

* MQ Series Administration on Windows, IBM

* ES/9000(MVS/ESA, TSO/ISPF, JCL, DB2, CICS, CSP) Programmer Workshop, IBM

* AS/400(OS/400, RPG, CL/400) Programmer Workshop, IBM

* UNIX IPC - Inter process communication mechanisms (Semaphores, SharedMemory, Pipes)

* Quick Test Professional(QTP) 5.6 & 6 - Advanced Testing by Mercury-interactive/HP

Technical Proficiencies

Application Servers/Gateways: WSRR,DataPower XI50-52,Websphere WAS, JBoss;Apache & IIS (http)

J2EE Technologies: EJB, JNDI,JMS, JDBC, RMI, Servlets & JSP, JMS, XML, WebServices

B2B Servers: IBM Websphere Middleware Messaging–MQ&MQ Integrator/WMB/IIB

Programming Languages: COBOL, Java, C, C++,RPG, PASCAL, FORTRAN, VB and Assembler

Databases: DB2, VSAM file systems, Oracle, (MongoDB, Hadoop)

Object Oriented Design: UML, Java & J2EE Design Patterns, Message Oriented Middleware(MOM), MDB

Design Tools & IDE: Visio, Eclipse-Based IDEs, Borland, MS Visual Studio

Operating Systems: Z/OS, MVS/ESA, AIX, iOS, OS/400, OS/2, few Unix-es&Linux-es and Windows

Quality: Quality Fundamentals, QA proc.s & doc.s, Test Director, QTP, Load Runner

Other Technologies: WBIMB (WMB including version 8) message flows – message sets, EAI, MQ, CICS Command level and ECI, HL7 Protocol, MOM, ESQL, Web Services, Unix Shell Scripting, JCL, CL/400, FileAid, ROSCOE, ChangeMan,VSS, BMC Patrol, WinSock & BSD Sockets programming, BSD System Calls, MQI-MQAI-Channel Exits Programming

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