RPG Programmar

Mansi Walia

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Professional Profile

Enthusiastic and highly motivated team leader, project leader, system integrator, senior analyst programmer. Experienced in different domains like finance, manufacturing, insurance and retail for various projects like production support, development, enhancement, maintenance, migration, re-engineering and performance enhancement with around 8 years of work experience.

Extensive knowledge and experience in coding, solution designing, developing and improving current business processes while understanding business needs and industry trends.

Have comprehensive experience in preparing HOTS, System, technical and user documentation.

Good communication skills. Effectively interact with stakeholders, end users, business analysts, and technical resources to gather requirements. Propose, prepare and present the application solutions.

Worked on different methodologies for SDLC like Agile and waterfall

Comprehensive experience in creating test cases, test plans for unit test, system test, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and performance testing.

Performed incident analysis, triage, and assignment of incident to the appropriate technical team/group. Worked on L2 and L3 incidents for various applications.

Expert in creating new ways to improve the systems and business with the business team.

Worked independently and within the team and successfully manage multiple priorities and multiple concurrent objectives

Experienced in coaching peers, mentoring new joiners and lead the team of developers.

Expert in implementing complex systems within the given time frame using limited resources and nevertheless achieving maximum results.

Highly analytical and result-oriented professional with excellent interpersonal and client service skills.

Excellent time management, task planning and prioritization skills. Able to work effectively with minimal supervision

Technical Skills

Operating Systems

OS/400, MS-DOS, UNIX, Windows

Languages

RPG, RPGLE, CLP,CLLE, COBOL, SQL, RPG Free format

Database

DB2/400, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access

Tools

CICS, Query/400, DFU, SDA, RLU, IFS, Aldon, EZVIEW, MKS Implementer, Job scheduler, X-Analysis, Hawk Eye, iSeries Navigator

Others

ILE Concepts, Embedded SQL, FTP, JAVA, EDI, XML, UML

ERP

JDA MMS, CODA, REX and JDE

Domains

Retail, finance, insurance, mutual funds and manufacturing

Accomplishments

Star performer for Delivery Excellence – 2014

Employee of the year – 2009

Professional Certifications

IBM certification in RPGLE

Work Experience

HCL Technologies – Technical Lead (April’2010 – December’2015)

Debenhams Retail PLC

December’2014 - December’2015

Debenhams is a leading international, multi-channel fashion retailer. Retail Express application is used within the company for stock management, price availability, stock visibility and order tracking. DCC, CODA, Kofax, MIS are the various financial applications used for maintaining the general ledgers and keeping track of all financial transactions coming from various channels like B2B,EDI(XML) etc.

Roles:

Involved in high level analysis by examining existing business models and flows of data

Define the scope and objectives of a project. Propose the solutions and provide the cost estimates.

Prepare solution design documents to meet business requirements.

Coordinating the work flow from onsite to offshore team and assigning work to the team

Provide technical consultation to help customer improve the performance of the application.

Coding, unit testing, supporting system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Provide and present planning solutions during pre-solutioning phase.

Develop a strategic approach to determine the scope and the deliverables

Involved in business process mapping and GAP analysis Providing production support to various AS/400 applications during office hours and on call.

Perform release management activities for required maintenance or emergency releases

Fidelity Worldwide Investment

January’2012 – November’2014

Fidelity Investments is one of the world’s largest providers of financial services like investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing etc. The core system provides predominantly transfer agency functionality. It deals with dealing, pricing, register, holdings, settlement, fee processing and money laundering etc.

Roles:

Provide high level and low level solution design for the enhancements that are required for the application

Preparing the test cases for each project and performing unit testing and system testing

Conducting user acceptance testing with the client end users

Impact analysis and preparing technical specification documents.

Coding, unit testing, supporting system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Resolving incident tickets for non-production environments.

Performing project management activities such as updating project related artifacts and preparing weekly status report, work plan and release notes

Working with business to understand the scope of project and help in estimation.

Working with business analysts, end users and other stake holders to gather the requirements.

Jones Group (Jones Apparel Group)

April’2010 - January’2012

Jones Apparel Group, USA a Fortune 500 company, is an American designer, marketer and wholesaler of branded clothing, shoes and accessories. Nine West Retail System is AS/400 based application used by Nine West subdivision of Jones Apparel Group for their daily stores operations like Inventory management, pricing management and order management.

Roles:

Designing program specification and technical specification.

Coding, preparing test cases, unit testing.

Enhancement, development and maintenance of AS/400 retail application.

Supporting system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Providing daily production batch support, resolving issues in production batch.

Providing on call support to AS/400 application outside of business hours.

Mentoring new team members and assuring the quality of project.

Involved in migration of AS/400 application to SAP

Worked as a configuration controller and assure all the processes are followed as per the company standard.

Propose new ideas for application performance improvement or business ease.

2nd Employer: Ciber - Associate Consultant (September 2009 – March 2010)

Cabela’s

September 2009 – March 2010

Cabela's is a US based direct marketer and specialty retailer of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor recreation merchandise. They use AS/400 ERP for merchandise management system which is JDA-MMS.

Working on OAs (Opportunity assessment) which is less than 500 man hours.

Following the software development life cycle end to end. Like coding, unit testing, support integration testing and user acceptance testing. Prepare release notes and other documents.

Analysis, coding and review of maintenance/change requests raised by the users.

Test case preparation, execution and documentation for maintenance/change request

Applying PTF – Program’s temporary fixes on the JDA MMS application.

1st Employer - Vritti Solutions Ltd. (February 2008 – September 2009)

TATA AIG Life

December’2008 – September 2009

TATA AIG is an Indian general insurance company, and a joint venture between the Tata Group and American International Group (AIG). The project was for the file tuning of EOD to reduce processing time.

Analysis of programs in RPG/400, CL/400 and, COBOL/400.

Suggest and propose new ideas for performance improvement.

Code, test and documents the new programs or existing programs.

Documentation of the programs updated or added.

Comparing the result of changed process with production results.

Help business with regression testing.

Pfizer India Pvt. Ltd. Company

February’2008 – December’2008

Pfizer is an American global pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York. An AS/400 application was developed to manage or track the inventory movement, supplied to suppliers for manufacturing of goods.

Responsible for coding, testing and documenting the new code.

Analyzing and documenting the existing application

Processing the data on the subfile for any change made on data interactively.

Generate reports based on user’s requirements.

Support integration and user acceptance testing.

Visiting client side and meeting business users to gather the requirements.

Train juniors on AS/400

Education history

Master in Computer Application

Punjab Technical University- Jalandhar, Punjab

Bachelors in Computer Application

Guru Nanak Dev University- Jalandhar, Punjab

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