PRAVEEN

(COBOL/Mainframe Developer)

Current Location: Marysville, OH

SUMMARY:

An enthusiastic professional offering 7.8 years of extensive and diversified experience in programming, coding and batch system analysis in Mainframe Technology; aspiring to establish a career in a growth oriented organization to utilize acquired skills and knowledge in achieving organizational goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology

IBM Mainframes

Database

DB2, IMS, Oracle and VSAM

Tools

INFOMAN, Control M, Control D, ENDEVOR, File-AID andXpeditor

Programming Language

COBOL,JCL, CICS, SAS and REXX

Operating Systems

IBM MVS

Extensively worked with Mainframe technologies like COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and CICS.

Fully exposed to Software Development Life Cycle in Water fall model and Agile Method.

Experience in software development including analysis, design, coding and technical support.

Expertise in analyzing business requirements and understanding existing legacy systems.

Extensive experience in Designing business applications, preparing test cases, typical build activities including delivery of source code, test results and implementing the changes in production.

Good exposure on relational databases DB2, Oracle.

Experience in interacting with teams from multiple geographies.

Self-motivated, innovative, hardworking and flexible with strong interpersonal and communication skills.

EDUCATION:

Master of Computer Applications -Kakatiya University - INDIA -2008.

Bachelors of Computer Science -Kakatiya University – INDIA - 2004.

TRAINING:

Under gone domain specific training like Life Insurance, Banking and Manufacturing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project: Global Production Control System

Client: Honda of America Manufacturing Inc.,Ohio

Domain: Manufacturing

Duration: Jan 2014 to till date

Environment: IBM Mainframes, DB2, Endevor, COBOL, IBM MVS, JCL, File-AID, CICS, XP-editor, Easytrieve

Global Production Control System is a critical application for Honda of America Manufacturing to monitor and control production level in area of material services for their business corporate planning functional area across North America plants.

Role: COBOL developer for mainframe applications

Responsibilities:

Currently leading Planning and Inventory modules for GPCS system and working with experts from corporate strategy planning and execution to drive overall process improvement aligned with strategic business goals of the organization.

Performing Requirement Analysis, preparing Technical Design document, involved coding and testing phases and Architectural study for Honda of America's existing and new projects initiatives.

System testing, integration testing and performance testing for all changes - Will perform all required testing of the GPCS application in support of changes to its environment.

System Maintenance Request (SMR) will be created using System Modification tool for all changes done with appropriate unit, system, performance test results and stakeholder approval.

Understand configuration of systems to both meet project deadlines and support business goals/objectives.

Convert business requirements to functional & technical design.

Analyzing the Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS) and Additional Design Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.

Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.

Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.

Designing New Components using COBOL and DB2 database design concepts.

Updating the existing JCL’s to handle the Next Generation changes

Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER/Trace Master set up.

Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.

Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document

Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.

Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.

Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.

Generating metrics on the performance of the system.

Involved in the implementation of these changes in production by packaging the application etc.

Involved in warranty Support for the release

Project: Margin

Client : Credit Suisse

Domain : Securities

Duration: Aug 2012 to Dec 2013.

Environment: IBM Mainframes, DB2, Endevor, COBOL, IBM MVS, JCL, File-AID, CICS, XP-editor, Easytrieve

The Credit Suisse Group AG is a Swiss multinational financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 250 branches in Switzerland and operations in more than 50 countries.

The bank is organized into three divisions, Investment Banking, Private Banking, and Asset Management. Shared Services, which includes functions such as IT, marketing and legal/compliance, encompasses all three major areas.

The Margin system is a mainframe-based component to the Credit Suisse NTPA suite of core processes. NTPA Margin manages and maintains customer money balances and security positions in multicurrency. It processes customer trades, security movements, and funds paid/received by customers. Calculations are provided for Federal, NYSE, and house calls, debit and credit interest, and mark-to-market. An online facility provides entry of security and money movements for customers. It supports all products except Swaps and Futures.

Role: COBOL developer for mainframe applications

Responsibilities:

Modification / Development and Review of Code, Unit Testing and preparing test plans.

On line / Production implementation and Version control.

Effective Communication with Client regarding issues.

Providing them suitable and permanent solution for problem.

Updating and reviewing the induction manuals.

Designed the Technical Specification

Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team

Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis

Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.

Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements

Manage the resource for offshore team.

Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.

Specifications (ADS) for finding any ambiguity, incompleteness or incorrectness, so that requirements are technically feasible.

Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.

Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.

Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.

Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document

Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.

Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Shakeout Testing.

Real time bug fix support during acceptance and end-to-end testing.

Generating metrics on the performance of the system.

Project: TAC-C and Fuel Settlement

Client : BritishPetroleum - US

Domain :Energy and Utilities

Duration: Jan 2012 to July 2012

Environment: IBM Mainframes, DB2, Endevor, COBOL, IBM MVS, JCL, File-AID, CICS, XP-editor, Easytrieve

BP North America R&M has five US FVC applications, SCDB, OPDS2, Fuel Settlement, TAS-C and DISTVA hosted on Amoco Mainframe to support the business processes such as Inventory & Materials Management, Terminal Transactions & Reconciliation and Master Data Management.

Over the years, several R&M applications have been moved out of the mainframe and integrated with SAP. Some notable applications are Amoco Credit Settlement, BP Credit Settlement, ESPRIT and Chargeback/Fraud. As a result, the overall utilization of the mainframe by R&M has come down significantly.

Migration of applications Fuel Settlement and TAS-C includes following functions:

Re-Engineer/Re-Write the following applications using .NET Technology and SQL Server as the database

1. FUEL SETTLEMENT

2. TAS-C

Migrate old XPTR reports associated with Fuel Settlement application to distributed platform.

Role: COBOL developer for mainframe applications

Responsibilities:

Analyzed the business functionality of applications.

Prepared Functional Specification Documents.

Coded and Tested the COBOL programs in Dev region to track the business requirements.

Requirement Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Documentation.

Interacting with Business leads for better understanding of the current system issues.

Impact analysis of the new requirement or change request on the existing programs initiated by the client.

Designing New Components using COBOL, DB2 and VSAM database design concepts.

Performing functional testing and unit testing for batch and online programs using XPEDITER set up.

Identify and verify the impact based on the changes in downstream/upstream applications.

Prepare and review the Detailed design specification document

Coordinating the offshore activities and providing them guidance on day to day activities.

Performing Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing.

Enhancement and Implementation of the new inbound and outbound program in CICS Web Services environment.

Discussed with business Analyst and Line of business to understand the exact requirements and wrote down the functional specification

Involve in designing the Technical Specification

Involve in reviewing coding and testing for offshore team

Managing the status call between offshore and customer on a weekly basis

Coordinated with the client team during production moves and supported.

Creating test cases, test data along with coding, testing, implementation of new requirements

Coordinated with the testing team for QA testing.

Discussion with senior management for getting project feedback weekly basis.

Project: CCD (Centralized Customer Database)

Client : Aviva Life Insurance

Domain : Finance Solutions (Insurance)

Duration: Nov 2010 to Dec, 2011

Environment: IBM Mainframes, DB2, Endevor, COBOL, IBM MVS, JCL, File-AID, CICS, XP-editor, Easytrieve

CCD is a central sales and marketing database for Norwich Union Life, holding details of customers and potential customers, leads, contacts, agency and channel relationships, summary of policy holdings, and central repository for fact find data. CCD supports following business/IT processes.

Role: COBOL developer for mainframe applications

Responsibilities:

Maintenance of client’s information comes through different sources like RIO, TMU and DS online.

Financial consultant’s relationship with agencies.

DS online to view/update clients and financial consultant’s information.

DS online to redistribute the leads.

Maintenance of compliance folders.

Extract information and joint ventures and partners.

Analyzed user requirements and developing test plans, test cases, and test procedures to test the functionality.

Involved in preparation of test Plans and test cases in test director.

Involved in preparation of positive and negative test cases.

Participated in system testing, Regression testing and UAT.

Participated in preparation of test data and document test data.

Execution of test cases in Test Director and validates the data in the testing region.

Interacted with developers for fixing the bugs.

Involved in Preparation of Test Summary Report.

Created traceability matrix between requirements and test cases.

Generated detailed reports of the bugs, the pass-fail reports and the Test results.

SQLs are written using SPUFI to query the DB2 database on Mainframe environment.

Involved in the review process of junior team members work.

Create JCL to run batch in test environment.

Project: Ex – GA

Client: Aviva AUKL

Domain: Finance Solutions (Insurance)

Duration: June 2008 to October 2010

Environment: IBM Mainframes, DB2, Endevor, COBOL, IBM MVS, JCL, File-AID, CICS, XP-editor, Easytrieve

Norwich Union Life (NUL) is a leading life insurance and pension provider in UK and part of the Aviva Group of Companies. LIFE/70 is a software package developed and supplied by CSC (Computer Science Corporation). The product was developed in early 70’s to support the need for Life and Pension policy administration from various insurance providers. CSC licensed LIFE/70 to Norwich Union with rights to modify the package to suit their business needs.

Each of the companies, General Accident (GA), Provident Mutual and Norwich Union, maintained individual LIFE/70 systems before their merger. All these systems are merged together into Norwich Union. All These systems collectively support various products such as Protection, Investment and Savings, Pensions and Retirement products. Each of these typically has core policy life cycle processes and support functional processes like General Ledger, Commissions handling etc.

Role: COBOL developer for mainframe applications

Responsibilities:

Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements.

Analysis and development of enhancement requests.

Created test cases and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.

Responsible for Version control, movement of code and components from deployment area to integration system and production system.

Coordinated with the Client teams during the production moves.

Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests.

Involved in Analysis, Coding, Testing, Maintenance and Enhancement.

Involved in quality aspects, such as Test Case and defect log preparation for the CR’s.

Test case preparation & execution for change requests.

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