Cobol, Jcl, DB2, Vsam, Cics, SQL, Tso/Ispf, Xpediter, Fileaid

Priya Gaur

Milpitas, California +1-434-***-**** ***********@*****.***

An Enterprise IT professional with over 5.5 years of experience in Software Engineering (Development, Maintenance, Testing, Engineering Operations) across IT / High Tech and Financial Services industries. Key Competencies –

Expertise in developing, implementing and providing all kinds of support for business application software for clients. Collate, gather and undertake exhaustive analysis for requirements and documentation.

Actively involved in Solution Design phase for client’s requirements.

Provide direct development and support of the software applications/tools, involving all phases of software development life cycle for development functions related to large complex applications & software.

Expertise in writing Test plans and Test cases based on system specifications.

Involved in extensive code reviews, engineering reviews for quick resolution and urgent bug fixes.

Experienced in production support activities.

SPOC for the onshore-offshore coordination for various test phases.

Excellent Analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.

Extensive exposure with geographically distributed teams of varied size and maturity.

Ensuring a high performance culture, with customer centricity and innovation focus.

Proven ability to concurrently handle multiple high-visibility projects. Professional Experience –

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC):

Client – Southern Farm Bureau (SFB), USA

Role: Professional - Product Developer

SFB used the Exceed System (CSC proprietary product) for Policy, Billing, Clients, MIS and Claims processing. The work in this project involved development and enhancement of all the existing systems under Exceed.

Responsibilities:

Requirement Gathering and Analysis of the new functionalities and interacting with SFB IT team to help create a roadmap for the end product.

Prepared Technical Design Documents after going through the requirements and sharing the same with the team.

Coded new functionalities based on the defined functional specifications in the Exceed Architecture.

Writing Test Plans and Test Cases and providing extensive testing support for functional and Users Acceptance Testing.

Worked on production issues and provided an in-depth analysis with an appropriate solution.

Root Cause Analysis of the issues and providing its detailed reporting to the SFB IT dept.

Performed impact analysis of the issues already present in production, prioritizing them and providing a fix in production before it could impact end-user.

Worked on long-pending cases of SFB in production and provided a solution either by fixing or providing a new functionality.

Mentor team members and provide best practices guidance for software development.

Assigning tasks to the team based on the priority on a regular basis. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC):

Client – Zurich NA, USA

Role: Product Developer

Farmers team provided Technical Support to Business testers who work from various locations which included Environment and Batch Support. The Environment preparation included Data Refresh, Data Migration, JCL setup and shake out batch run. The Batch execution part supported Cash Processing, Force Renewals, APPS, FPPS and EZPAY, Releasing Pending Investigation, Releasing Post-Dated Transaction.

Coding new requirements, preparing Design artifacts.

Production Support.

Conducting induction training for new joiners.

Abend analysis and resolution in a timely manner.

Preparing process documents for knowledge repository.

Ensuring timely and defect free delivery.

Automated the shakeout activity in green screens reducing manual work and cost to the project saving $24000 per week.

Attend business and technical meetings with the client managers and project teams to resolve issues and risks.

Overseeing the defect reporting, fixing and pattern analysis for minimizing rework and reducing cost of non-conformance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS/TOOLS –

COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, InterTest, TSO/ISPF, Xpediter, FileAid, SPUFI, Endevor, Mercury Quality Center/HP ALM, QMF, CA7.

QUALIFICATION –

Masters in Computer Applications.

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