Cobol,Jcl,DB2,Vsam,Cics,Spufi,Bmcadm,Changeman,File-Aid

Karamveer Hooda

Tempe, AZ 480-***-**** *********.*****@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Solution-oriented Healthcare Services Professional with excellent understanding of BFSI and Healthcare Domain. Having 10+ year of experience in Mainframe and the areas involve development, QA, testing, and implementation.

Interested in Mainframe testing or normal testing profile jobs. Having knowledge of Selenium with RALLY, QC and Agile process.

Willing to work in east cost location.

Experience with Project lifecycle, right from inception of project till the deployment.

Created functional requirement, Collaborated with Quality Assurance Lead and business SMEs to develop test cases to verify the requirements implementation.

Experience in IBM Mainframe technology involves COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, SQL,CICS, Mainframe testing, good hands-on experience on QA tool like RALLY.

Experience in Fraud and Privacy system of card management systems

Ability to adapt to new processes and technologies.

Experience in both Waterfall and AGILE methodology.

4+ Year of exposure as Business analyst, responsible for deliveries release wise. End to end project deliveries that include discussion with Business, stake holders, Design, CQA teams, Environment teams, and deployment teams

Self motivated and good technical, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills applied to simplify business processes

ITIL V3 Foundation.

AHIP (Healthcare Domain).

PROFESSIONAL KEYPOINTS

● Software Development Process ● Quality Assurance ● Project Management ● Resource Management ● Relationship Management ● Business/System Analyst ● System Integration Tester

TECHNICALEXPERTISE

Tools: HP Quality Center, Changeman, XPED, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, SQL, MS Office, RALLY, QC, VSAM, Rally defect management.

Domain Expertise: Banking, Finance, Insurance, Retail, Healthcare.

Language: SQL, IBM Mainframe, JAVA, C, C++, COBOL, Unisys COBOL, LINC, Badger, JCL, CICS, MQ Series, Endevor.

Database: DB2, Oracle

Technical Skills Systems: Windows 2000, 2003 Server and Professional, Windows XP, Lotus Notes, Citrix, MVS, MS Office, Microsoft VISIO.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

PG Diploma from CDAC ACTS Pune.

B.E. (Computers Science & Engineering): From MDU University.

PROJECTEXPERIENCE

Development and QA lead

TCS India, ● July 2011 – Present – Client (NBS and AMEX)

1 Year of onsite experience with UK client at location Swindon from 2012-13

Coordinating with Design, CQA and development team for timely delivery of Projects.

Doing development in Mainframe using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM technology.

Involved in Development design and complex logic design

While working in AGILE process prepared the stories, execute the SIT test cases and present the stories to business for acceptance.

Providing L2 support for CIS (Customer Information System) in NBS.

Support QA team to remove Bug during SIT phase.

Onsite/Offshore coordination and coordination among the different system team for smoothly execution of project.

Prepare Project plan release wise.

Prepare internal audits documents.

Formulated comprehensive test scenarios based on the given client requirement and implemented new features and enhancements to determine overall functionality and performance.

Involved in all phases of SDLC of waterfall model project.

Participate HLD review to validate the solution and raise concern regarding potential challenges with the functional design

Communicate the project status to overall stake holders and escalate if there are issues with the project

Helping team members in technical issues,

Application Support/Development and Problems resolution within TAT (Turnaround Time).

Daily Status calls for Project Updates with Client.

Weekly Status Calls, Monthly Governance Review calls

Daily standup calls, Process Implementation, Risk/Issue Management, and Reporting to senior management.

Analysis & defect-free implementation of Business requests.

Provide Functional & Detailed Design after detailed analysis on the business requirements.

Enhancement of existing COBOL programs as per business requests.

Interact with business and development team to acquire the business needs through envisioning session and understanding the BAU process.

Prepare Test plan Sprint wise.

Consultant

Headstrong, Noida, India ● Feb 2010 – July 2011, Client (CVS Caremark)

Successfully delivered technology driven solutions to healthcare providers helping them reduce operational costs and increase productivity and profitability. Responsible for management including complete strategy, operations and financial planning to build a sustainable onsite, offshore healthcare resource model.

Experience of working in stratus COBOL. Use VOS compiler for the application.

Analysis & defect-free implementation of Business requests.

Provide Functional & Detailed Design after doing the detailed analysis on the business requirements.

As a team member, involved in different stages of SDLC like Analysis, Designing, Coding and Testing.

Enhancement of existing COBOL programs as per business requests.

As part of cost saving initiative by Discover, involved in performance tuning of embedded SQL in COBOL-DB2 programs.

Preparing project related documents.

Address performance related issues. Answer to the queries raised by the business team, merchants on a SLA basis. Help in resolving connectivity issues for merchants.

Senior Software Engineer/Tester

Syntel Limited, Pune, India ● Dec 2008 – Feb 2010, Client (Allstate)

Working as a team member in development project involves COBOL, DB2, and JCL technology.

Prepared test plans and test cases.

Executed System Integration Testing.

Involved in the preparation of System Integration Test Scenarios/ Test Case documents, perform testing, raising defects and tracking the status of the defects till its closure and verification of the code fix for the defects in Membership module.

Experience of working in HP QC (A testing tool).

Provided Solution for SIT Issues while involved in development.

Brainstormed and identified the working of existing systems in place, for the purpose of application consolidation.

Understand the business and requirements and thus assist the fellow team members in analysis, design and development approaches for the requirement.

Developed the test cases for the enhancement and performed extensive Code Reviews.

Software Engineer

Nihilent Technologies, Pune, India ● Feb 2006 – July 2008, Client (Nedbank)

Prepared technical specification, coding, and done unit testing.

Be a part of reverse engineering project, enhancement project, and project from scratch that involves fresh coding.

Involved in peer code and test cases review.

Performed Requirement Gathering and Analysis at offshore working with the onsite team.

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