Software Engineer Technical Support

Gurucharanam Tripuramallu

COBOL Developer/Technical Lead

**********@*****.*** Cell No: 301-***-****

Professional Summary:

10+ years of experience in IT industry with strong Technical and Functional skills on Open VMS and Mainframes environments

Experience in Open VMS and Mainframes

Experience in migrating COBOL application to JAVA Platforms

Expert in providing solutions for COBOL migration projects

Experience in VAX COBOL, VAX BASIC, DCL and JCL

Experience in Oracle, Vax RDB, SQL Developer and DB2

Experience in Decforms, ACMS and Unix

Experience in converting COBOL programs to PEGA table process for Member Enrollment

Experience in business model tools MS VISIO, HP Quality Center, Remedy and Team Foundation Server

Experience in agile software development practices such as Scrum, test driven development (TDD), and continuous integration/continuous deployment

Development Lead for a team with 5 onshore and 4 offshore resources

Expert knowledge in the business process and software development life cycle (SDLC)

Ability to lead, co-ordinate and support offshore and onshore development teams

Proven skills of understanding Business requirements and translating them into technical specifications

Acted as SME for all projects worked so far and arranged multiple knowledge sharing sessions

Documentation activities, conforming to CMM level 5 standards

Technical support for QA and UAT testing

Provide assistance to team with issues needing technical expertise. Providing on-the-job training for new or existing team members

Hardworking, Quick learner and excellent team player having ability to meet tight deadlines and work pressure

Master new concepts quickly and rapidly resolve problems. Strong work ethic and ability to quickly adapt to new environments

Strong customer focus, adaptable, flexible and willing to learn

Problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with other teams to resolve complex issues with innovative solutions. Ability to perform design and code quality reviews

Healthcare domain experience:

Healthcare Essentials certification – 101 (Accenture internal)

Healthcare Essentials certification – 201 (Accenture internal)

Claims Adjudication - Commercial, Department of Defense and Workers Compensation.

Enrollment Process - Patient and Prescriber enrollment

Payment processing - Auto posting 835 remittances

Member Enrollment – Pre 5010 and 5010

Prior Authorizations

Domains:

Healthcare

Manufacturing

Retail

Education:

Bachelor of Technology (Electronics and Communications Engineering), Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem (2005)

Technical Skills:

Hardware

VAX, Itanium I64, ORACLE

Programming Languages

VAX COBOL, VAX BASIC, DCL, DEC Forms and JCL

Databases

RMS (Record Management System), Vax RDB and Oracle RDB, DTR and DB2

Tools

CCMS, DEC Scheduler, MMS, MQ, MS Office and VISIO

Operating Systems

VAX/VMS, Open VMS,UNIX and Windows

Core Competencies:

Cobol Technical Lead

Expert in providing ideologies and solutions for legacy migration projects (Open VMS COBOL to Java)

Leadership & Team Building

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Onsite & Offshore Methodologies

SDLC Waterfall / Agile Methodologies

Professional Experience:

Expediteinfotech Inc Feb 2016 – Till Date

Role: Technical Lead/COBOL developer

Client: Healthnet Inc(Woodland Hills, CA)

Project: ABS Production Support

ABS is the core payer system that caters to Health Net’s Western Region Membership. The system is built on VAX/VMS platform and uses BASIC and COBOL. The goal of the project is to enhance/develop the functionalities in ABS. There are multiple projects under AO like HIPAA 5010 to enhance ABS to the new 5010 HIPAA standard, Open enrollments projects, to enhance the system to accommodate new plans, new enrollments during the end of every year. Other responsibilities are to work on the existing operational issues, performing bug fixes, implementing minor projects. As part of HN AO ABS projects, performing the onsite lead role for the membership sub- system of ABS, providing solution to the existing problems, developing value add to the business users and customer support.

Type of the project:

Health Net ABS Production Support

Converting VAX BASIC and VAX COBOL programs to PEGA Table Process

Responsibilities:

Addressing production support issues as per the SLAs.

Worked with EDI/EFT teams to translate the member files into VAX formatted files. File translation includes the HIPAA validations for 5010 and before 5010 layouts.

Enhanced member enrollment system from VAX BASIC and VAX COBOL to PEGA table process.

Worked with business partners to create mapping documentation for AADD (Application and Architecture Design Document).

Perform impact analysis of VAX COBOL, VAX BASIC and Decforms and apply changed to all impacted

Maintenance of existing computer system, including error resolution and enhancements to existing system utilizing VMS COBOL programs

Develop programs in COBOL and DCL, Decforms and Pro Cobol programs on VMS platform.

Expert knowledge in the business process and software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, analysis, testing, implementation of software applications and application maintenance.

Environment : VAX/VMS

Languages : VAX COBOL, DCL and VAX BASIC

Databases : Oracle RDB, Oracle, Datatrieve

Tools : CMS, MQ, DTR and SQL Developer

Accenture Aug 2013 – Feb 2016

Role: Technical Lead/COBOL developer

Client: Express Scripts INC, (St.Louis, MO)

Project: Express Scripts Specialty Distribution System

Express Scripts is a pharmacy benefit manager. The company processes pharmaceutical claims for members at network pharmacies and at their own mail order pharmacies. They provide services to manage drug plans for government agencies (both as administrator of employee benefits and public assistance programs), corporations, and unions. One of their largest clients is the United States Department of Defense's TRICARE program.

Type of the project:

Patient and Prescriber enrollment process is migrated to Java Platform

Migration of benefit investigation that involved order/RX processing, Verification of Rxs, Billing and Finance functionality to Java platform

Responsibilities:

Development Lead for a team with 5 Onshore and 4 offshore resources

Worked with business partners to create mapping documentation for AADD (Application and Architecture Design Document).

Perform impact analysis of COBOL, Decforms and apply changed to all impacted

Maintenance of existing computer system, including error resolution and enhancements to existing system utilizing VMS COBOL programs

Develop programs in COBOL and DCL, Decforms and Pro Cobol programs on VMS platform.

Expert knowledge in the business process and software development life cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, analysis, testing, implementation of software applications and application maintenance.

Preparing low level design specs for proposed requirements/changes.

Assisted management, on a daily basis, in isolation, root-cause analysis, and resolution and provided recommendations to user-facing business and application issues Ownership of delivery until completion/implementation.

Source code management as per the client policies

Directly interfaced with business and technical managers, ensuring on-time approvals for AADD, UTP/UTR.

Post production warranty support

Environment : VMS and Java

Languages : DCL Programming, COBOL and ProCOBOL

Databases : Oracle RDB

Tools : CMS, MQ and DTR

Accenture Aug 2010 – Jul 2013

Role: Architect

Client: Express Scripts INC (PBM), (St.Louis, MO)

Project: Home Delivery System

Express Scripts is a pharmacy benefit manager. The company processes pharmaceutical claims for members at network pharmacies and at their own mail order pharmacies. They provide services to manage drug plans for government agencies (both as administrator of employee benefits and public assistance programs), corporations, and unions. One of their largest clients is the United States Department of Defense's TRICARE program.

Type of the project:

Migrating pre-adjudication process of a billing claim (D.0Claim) from Open VMS system to JAVA.

Implementing HIPAA D.0 standards to the existing PBM system

Responsibilities:

Development Lead and Onshore/Offshore Coordinator.

Involved with client application engineering team for defining new Architecture

Analyze the existing system and prepare Rules Harvesting Documents.

Prepared and executed Proof of Concepts for the new Architecture Viz MQ and Pro*COBOL that supports JAVA application

Involved in discussions with Business Analysts team for requirements gathering preparing functional specifications and changing them into technical specifications.

Preparing low level design specs for proposed requirements/changes.

Perform development (Coding and Unit testing) as per the requirements

Ownership of delivery until completion/implementation.

Source code management as per the client policies

Provided technical support for QA and UAT teams

Post production warranty support

Environment : OPEN VMS and UNIX

Languages : DCL, COBOL, C, IFDL, Pro*COBOL, Shell Scripts

Databases : Oracle RDBMS

Tools : CMS, MMS, Datatrieve, and MQ

IBM Jul 09 – Jul 10

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Client: Express Scripts INC (PBM)(Bangalore,India)

Project: Home Delivery System

Express Scripts is a pharmacy benefit manager. The company processes pharmaceutical claims for members at network pharmacies and at their own mail order pharmacies. They provide services to manage drug plans for government agencies (both as administrator of employee benefits and public assistance programs), corporations, and unions. One of their largest clients is the United States Department of Defense's TRICARE program.

Type of the project:

Implementing HIPAA D.0 standards to the existing PBM system

Responsibilities:

Involved in discussions with Business Analysts team for requirements gathering preparing functional specifications and changing them into technical specifications.

Estimation of development and system testing efforts

Conducted and participated JAD sessions with the Project managers, Business Analysis Team, Finance and Development to team gather, analyze and document the Business and reporting requirements.

Work directly with non-IT business analysts throughout the development cycle

Create Detail Design documents

Perform development (Coding and Unit testing) as per the requirements

Code Review

System Test planning and test case preparations

Preparation of necessary documents for production release

System Test planning and test case preparations

Source code management as per the client policies

Technical support for QA and UAT testing

Post production warranty support

Environment : OPEN VMS

Languages : DCL, COBOL, C, IFDL

Databases : Oracle RDBMS

Tools : CMS, MMS, Data Trieve, MQ

HCL Tech Mar 08 – Jul 09

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Client: Coles Myer (Australian Retailer)(Chennai India)

Project: Inventory Reconciliation

Coles is a retailer in Australia that is having both super markets and liquor stores. This application is developed on VAX/VMS with the technologies COBOL and VAX RDB. It is mainly expecting tracking of business transactions that happens daily and cost calculations of items. Involved in generating reports for all transactions and maintainability of all ledgers and stocks

Type of the project:

Enhancements to existing application

Responsibilities:

Involved in discussions with BA team to gather requirements, to prepare functional specification and converting them into technical specifications.

Conducted and participated JAD sessions with the Project managers, Business Analysis Team, Finance and Development to team gather, analyze and document the Business and reporting requirements.

Create Detail Design documents

Coding, Unit Testing, System Integration Testing and UAT

Environment : OPEN VMS, DCL, COBOL, ORACLE and VAX RDB

Genpact May 06 – Mar 08

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Client: General Electricals Advanced Materials, USA(Hyderabd, India)

Project: OIS MIGRATION

OIS application is used to run on OpenVMS Version 7.3-2 a 32 bit operating System which has been moved to Itanium Server that uses Version V8.3 with 64 bit operating System for the plants MTV (Cpp & Lexan) and BURKVILLE. FORMULA VERIFICATION (FV) System was removed from the OIS and made into a separate application for the above sites. Resolved the Multiple downloads issues for BURKVILLE. At MTV, Cpp & Lexan used to run on cluster nodes, which were upgraded, to different nodes as a part of Migration. The DB Backups have been removed from the Application, which reduced the monitoring task for the Offsite team.

Type of the project:

Migrate application from VAX system to Itanium Server

Responsibilities:

Prepared list of all the elements existed in the system

Build MMS for all the programs

Export all the MMS files to new server

Generate and deploy all the executable in the server location

Coding and Unit testing for enhancements required to the system.

Production bug fix

Documentation activities, conforming to CMM level 5 standards

Preparation of mapping document between RMS files and Oracle tables for the purpose of migration

Environment: OPEN VMS, DCL, VMS COBOL and C

Client: General Electricals Advanced Materials, USA

Role: Software Engineer(Hyderabad, India)

Project: RTS (Ready to Support)

GE Advanced Material has running Operation Information System (OIS) programs responsible for managing the operation of plastic manufacturing at five different Clustered Servers at three locations namely Selkirk, Burkeville and Mount Vernon. This application is core application for plastic manufacturing. The applications on four servers have been developed in VMS/Fortran and for one site it is in VMS/C.

Type of the project:

Production support and Enhancements

Responsibilities:

Monitoring daily cycle jobs

Create User Requested Reports

CR Analysis and Estimation

Coding and Unit testing for enhancements required to the system.

Production bug fix

Documentation activities, conforming to CMM level 5 standards

Preparation of mapping document between RMS files and Oracle tables for the purpose of migration

Environment : OPEN VMS, DCL, VMS COBOL and C

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