Project Software Engineer

Summary

**.* years of extensive experience in software development, leading teams offshore/on-site.

Experience in Financial industry in areas related to Core Banking, Life Insurance and pension. Also have some basic understanding of Utilities domain

Extensive hands on experience in IBM mainframes technologies, Hand’s on experience in ETL – Informatica & BI – Cognos.

Extensive experience in various stages of Software development life cycle(SDLC) including project initiation, build, testing, change control, Application Matrices, Risk and Issue log, Preparation of the Release Plan, Resource Matrix, Release implementation activities and warranty support till providing Hand Over to Application Support teams

Designed solutions to transform processes at LBG, which resulted in saving Millions of Pounds, produced better day to day processes and increased team productivity.

Hands on experience in providing training to new team members, have experience in knowledge transfer phase to gain knowledge from System/Application SME, documenting the knowledge gained from KT, sharing the knowledge to new employees and subordinates to cater to technical and functional requirements of the application.

Good communication skills both written and verbal with ability to interact with individuals at all levels. Well experienced in translating statements to detailed level for execution and rolling them up to management status feeds.

Experienced as Project Manager/ Lead at offshore for a UK based Lloyds Client

Responsible for all Client Delivery and Quality Standards

Managing 25 member team across

People Management responsibilities for the 10 Direct Reportees

Capable in handling Stakeholders Management

Responsible for the training/development of all Direct and indirect Reportees

Highly Goal oriented, Creative, Quick learning professional and above all Team Player to get things done by prioritizing and organizing.

Professional Experience

Technical Lead

Eversource – May’16– Till date

Location – United States

Projects

- LNU Western Union Conversion - Eversource Energy has taken an initiative to implement one common Credit/Debit Card solution that will allow Eversource Energy to present one company Credit/Debit Card payment experience to the digital customers. In order to fast track a common Credit/Debit card solution the current (EMA) Eastern Massachusetts Western Union will be implemented for (LNU) Legacy NU. Existing gateway JP Morgan Pay Connection URL will no longer be used by Eversource Energy.

- Checkfree – Initiative from Eversource to migrate all Legacy Northeast Utility (LNU) customers to KUBRA, to generate the Ebill and bill processing. After migration Kubra is going to have complete control of the LNU customer to process the every month on month electricity bill and share the URL to the customer on the ebill that are generated.

- Automatic Clearing House (ACH) conversion – This is a migration project initiated by Eversource where all LNU customer who are enrolled one-time (or) recursive payment of their electricity bill are going to migrate into KUBRA system. After migration Kubra is going to control o all debit card enrollment/De enrollment of one time or recursive payment, bill processing, scheduling of payments that are due for that particular month and acknowledge the payment that are received back from bank.

Roles and Responsibilities

Involvement in preparing the project requirement document, preparing the estimate and requirement analysis

Preparing the high level design document, sharing the knowledge to the team.

Having good exposure in onshore-offshore working model.

Helping team in Design, Build, testing phases of the project.

Having a good experience in User Acceptance testing to connect different system/technologies to transfer and process data as expected.

Having good experience in resolving the queries between teams, connect the team to perform their activities as part of the projects.

Having good knowledge in preparing the Implementation plan, bring everyone on broad to discuss and baseline the plan well in advance, providing update on the checkpoint set in the plan. Making sure plan is progressing as per schedule by addressing the issues immediately.

Proving post live suppose till warrant, later project is going to hand over to Application support team.

Technical Skills - Mainframes - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, DB2 – SQL, Endevor, File –Aid (DB2 & Flat File), Abend – Aid, EXPEDITOR (Batch & Online), HP-QC, DAP programing (SOAP), Web Services

Technical Lead - HCL Technologies LTD

Lloyds Banking Group – Sep’14– Apr’16

Location – United Kingdom & Chennai

Projects

- Tax Year End (TYE) - Aug’15 – Apr’16

- Scotland Act – Mar’15 – Aug’15

- Draw down Investment (DDI) – Sept’14 – Mar’15

Roles and Responsibilities

As Delivery Specialist, oversaw execution of regulatory projects, Rate update activities and Business critical changes in a OffShore-OnShore team model not only supervising all activities but also significant hands on efforts in various technologies.

Managed project budgets of 250K GBP. Extensive knowledge in handling small hopper, Rectification requests, as these request are small in size but quite complex and time consuming to deliver.

Designed High Level Informatica workflows and translated requirements into LLD’s and HLD’s.

Participated in testing efforts to ensure requirements are satisfied throughout by creating/reviewing/revising testing use cases for CICS programs, Informatica workflows and Databases.

Participated in Fire drills of issues, emergencies, escalations of project obstacles.

Capable of maintaining both onshore and offshore teams, preparing project planning, tracking and reporting of the actual spent against the value quoted to the business/project. Effective use of tools available supplied by project.

Management activities

oTaking complete responsibility from project initiation, tracking starting from development lifecycle of build, testing, Change Control, Application Matrices, Risk and Issue log, Release Plan, Resource Matrix, Release Weekend activities and warranty support till total Hand Over to Support teams

oGood knowledge in Estimating the project of different kinds – High, Medium & low. Capable in quantifying the size of project like Efforts required till implementation, cost of activities, doing resource profiling, good in identifying external stakeholders.

oGood in identifying Risk, Assumptions & Dependencies (ARIAD) of the different kind of the projects, able to communicate and bridge the gap in case of any issues between Business, Project and IT teams.

oRegular presentations to demonstrate to present the project status, efforts tracking, efforts required, dependencies with any teams, Waivers required if in case of any out of support software used in the system, bringing all Risk, Assumption, Dependence of the particular project, No. of requires required to complete the project, also providing the view of the Supply and Demand of resource within the project.

oCapable in handling 25 members team, able to mentor them in technical prospective, capable in providing a feedback on their performance, able to evaluate their strength and weaknesses.

Capable in using the Business intelligent tool – COGNOS, to show the pictorial representation of the Supply & Demand, SME/Analyst/Developer within the project, List of RFQ (Request for Quote) within the projects.

Good knowledge and extensively worked in water fall model starting from initial requirement gathering till post project maintenance.

Technical Skills - COGNOS, Informatica, Mainframes - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Master Work Order Tool ( WMOT), Rational Tool Adaption – RTC, RSA & RRC, Clarity Time management Tool, Business Engine Network (BEN), Statement of Work (SOW), Supply and Demand tracking, Resource profiling, FORTRAN, Printing tools - Paprus, M.Text, DB2 – SQL, Endevor, File –Aid (DB2 & Flat File), Abend – Aid, EXPEDITOR (Batch & Online), REXX, Quality Center, ALM, AXIS, SM7, Lotus Notes.

Senior Software Engineer- HCL Technologies LTD

Lloyds banking group – Nov’10 – July’11

Location - United Kingdom

Projects

- Regulatory Project - Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

- Rectification project – PIP charges rebate

- Knowledge Transition

Role and Responsibilities

Involved in Knowledge Transition (KT) to gain the system Knowledge of Life, Insurance & Pension.

Hands on experience in preparing the understanding documentation of KT phase.

Good Knowledge in preparing the power point presentation (PPT).

Proving reverse KT to the SME from whom we took knowledge.

Experience in sharing of knowledge to the team members.

As an SME in the system, involved in requirement gathering, prepared different level of estimates – Engagement Estimations, Study Estimates and Build Estimations.

Performing requirement analysis, preparing of the Design document, participated in walk through of design documents, involved in preparing low level design & program specification.

Coordinating and helping team in Build phase of the project – Coding, Unit test plan, Unit testing, Modular test plan and Modular testing.

Provide an initial snapshot of the policy and customer information during implementation & transferring data on daily basis on the Delta of Policy & Customer information.

Involved in reviewing the artifacts of the team in difference phase of the Build.

Good Knowledge in quality process.

Technical Skills - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, DB2 – SQL, Endevor, File –Aid (DB2 & Flat File), Abend – Aid, EXPEDITOR (Batch & Online), REXX, FTP, Connect Direct, DB2 – Log masters, Table load/unload, DB2 –Structure change, SM7, AXIS, Quality Center.

Senior Software Engineer - HCL Technologies LTD

Halifax Bank of Scotland – Sept’08 – Oct’10

Location - Chennai

Role and Responsibilities

Prepared Technical Design /Mid Level Platform Design (MLPD)/Low Level program Design (LLPD)/ Program Specification (PS) design.

Developed new COBOL programs, preparation of the Unit test plan, execution of the Unit Testing, preparing of Modular test plan, performing Modular test execution.

Developed Informatica workflows to extract data from Mainframes to DB2 tables using Power center, Workflow repository, Workflow designer, Workflow scheduler.

Good knowledge and exposure in DB2, load/unload of data from table, analyzing the RUNSTATS, Reorg, creation of multiple indexes, Explain, Manual Bind of DB2 programs,

Hand’s on experience during implementation period, providing support while implementing the project.

Developed a lot of SQL queries for extracting of data from different source system - DB2, Ezytrieve

Scheduling of JOB’s in OPCS scheduler, creation of new application, copying of existing application, modifying the existing application of jobs in OPC. Knowledge in Auto Tivoli jobs, creation of job dependency within/out of application, time dependency, manual release of jobs in the scheduler and how to set the failed job to complete

Technical Skills - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Ezytrieve, Endevor, ICE TOOLS, REXX, FILE-DB2, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, OPC, TSO, ISPF, MQ Series, EXPEditor (Batch/Online) & Connect: Direct.

Software Engineer– HCL technologies & Value source technologies

Client – USAA (July’07 – Aug’08), HBOS (Jan’07 – Jun’07) & KBC (July’05 –Jan’07)

Location - Chennai

Roles and Responsibilities

Requirement Gathering, analysis, and preparation of technical documents.

Code development, Unit test plan, Unit testing, Documentation of test results.

Develop and Generate COBOL code in METASUITE & VGA tools.

Involved in preparing the Daily Status report, Monthly Status Reports of the jobs that are executing during overnight.

Monitoring and tracking of Incidents in Peregrine tool.

Performing peer review activities prepared by the team members.

Status reporting for higher management.

Defect handling during test support till implementation.

Technical Skills:- COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Endevor, ICE TOOLS, FILE-DB2, FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, OPC, TSO, ISPF, PL/1, IMS/DB, Change-man, Work Bench, SCM, DATAVAN, IDF, IMPACT, SPUFI, XPEDITOR, Peregrine, PVCS, CLEAR CASE, METASUITE, VAG &CHANGEMAN

EDUCATION / TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (E.E.E) - 2003, JNTU India.

Trained in Mainframe from DCAD, Trivandrum, Kerala

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