Insurance Project Engineer

Location:

Manchester, CT

Posted:

February 06, 2017

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Subhransu Narayan Chakraborty

Email: ****************.***********@*******.*** Ph. #: 860-***-****

Address: MANCHESTER, CT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

•Total (7+) years of Software Life Cycle experience in Architecture, System Analysis, Design, Development, Maintenance, Testing, Support and Implementation in insurance and banking domains with Mainframe applications.

•Over 7 years of experience in maintaining and developing of Property and casualty Insurance applications

•Experience in Functional analysis, Impact analysis, High level design (HLD), low level design (LLD), Coding, Testing, Implementation, Validation and Verification of results.

•Excellent understanding of all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) including requirement gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Testing and Software quality standards.

•Proficient in IBM mainframe technologies such as COBOL, Assembler, JCL, DB2, IMS-DB, VSAM,

CICS, TSO, EASYTRIEVE, EXPEDITOR, FILE-AID, FILE Manager, MQ series, PANVALET, ABENDAID.

•Good understanding of defect management system by using HP Quality Control tool (QC).

•Experience in Micro focus tolls such as Micro focus Express (MFE) and Micro focus revolve.

•Experience with hierarchical database IMS-DB and the tool File-Aid for IMS. Good skills on COBOL-IMS DLI and COBOL-DB2 programming.

•Having experience in developing the new screens using IMS-DC application.

•Having experience as Tech lead/Programmer analyst/Onsite coordinator in Mainframe applications for last 3 years (Feb, 2014 - present).

•Versatile experience in providing 24X7 on call support.

•Expertise in obtaining project requirements from business users and state product managers, formulating the project requirements into functional and technical specifications.

•Having versatile experience in resource management, team mentoring, and project estimation, scheduling and tracking.

•Extensively worked on Microsoft office tools such as EXCEL, WORD, VISIO, and POWER POINT.

•Good programming and communication skills with excellent work ethics, easy adaptability to demanding time schedules coupled with positive user interaction and excellent team spirit.

•Exceptional ability to quickly master the new concepts, both technical and business related and utilize as needed.

•Excellent ability to determine the appropriate system test scenarios, create end user business procedure guides and provide hands on guidance and training where necessary.

•Exceptional ability to dig into any kind of problem and find the exact root cause of the problem and provide appropriate fix.

•Highly motivated and enthusiastic IT professional with proven experience and outstanding analysis, programming and debugging capabilities.

•Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a very good team player.

•Won several awards and appreciation from client for the dedication of works in different projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: MS Visio, MFE, Revolve, MCS, FILEAID, QMF, SPUFI, EAZYTRIEVE, FTP, CHANGEMAN, PANVALET, ABEND AID, HP Quality Control.

Database: DB2, IMS - DB, VSAM, GSAM (with CHECKPOINT/RESTART implementation).

Languages: SQL, COBOL, JCL.

Operating System: MVS/OS, Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/2000.

HARDWARE: IBM 3090, IBM ES9000, and IBM PC compatibles

OLTP: CICS, TSO/ISPF, IMS/DC

SCHEDULER: CA7, CA11, OSP.

VERSION CONTROL: MCS, PANVALET

MIDLEWARE: MQ SERIES.

Others: Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes, Share Point, HP PPM.

Highest Education: Masters of Engineering in Information and Communication Engineering (ICE) under Dept. of Information Technology from Bengal engineering and Science University, Shibpur (IIEST).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wipro Technologies Jan 2010 – Present

Client: one of the best Insurance Group, USA Oct 2015 – Present

Database Legacy Modernization (Property Insurance): As part of Legacy Database Modernization project it is decided to modernize the existing Master database and a new IMS database will be created. New IMS database will serve as the new policy database going forward. New IMS I/O modules will be designed to handle the I/O functionalities in the new database. New purge process will be designed to handle the policy purge process in the new IMS database. Also new CHECKPOINT/RESTART functionality with GSAM database has been implemented for Update and Purge operation.

Roles & Responsibilities

•Responsible in providing the proposal and estimation to implement CHECKPOINT/ RESTART functionality with GSAM database for update and purge job for both BMP and DLI version

•Responsible to come up with the complete impact analysis document for the existing system in batch for production and test region.

•Involved in design sessions with customers.

•Perform requirement gathering with clients and prepared requirement specifications and design document.

•Review the design document with business users and get approvals.

•Coded programs and modified existed programs as per specification requirements in VS COBOL-IMS/DB programming.

•Responsible to create individual modules for renewal cycle, pre renewal cycle and policy purge process.

•Responsible for Writing and execution of test plans, test cases based on the business requirement of the application. Performed integration testing and User acceptance testing for the system compatibility

•Created necessary libraries, datasets, GDG’s, control cards, JCL’s, PROC’s, copybooks, DBDs & PSBs concerned with this project.

•Preparation of integration test strategy document and production implementation plan.

•Table reviews for technical specification documents.

•Performed the review, testing and implementation into the production following the change control process. Used MFE debugging tool for testing.

•Provided on call system supporting and resolved the production problems.

•Interacted with business users and external vendors while preparing the specifications and resolving production issues.

Client: one of the best Insurance Group, USA Oct 2013 – Oct 2015

Online Change Amend application for Agent (Property Insurance): As a part of this project online “Home Change Amend application” for Agent had implemented for our Client. User can change couple of policy related information like Insured name, address, Mortgage Information, Insurance Coverage information etc. at the time of change amend initiated from online front end based application which will process from backend (mainframe side).

Roles & Responsibilities

•Doing requirement analysis and also build a standard copybook which is going to use as a data communicator between frontend (JAVA app) and backend (Mainframe) thru WTX and XSLT.

•Collecting all the required variables in that copybook and created all the accord path with the help of accord mapping designer.

•Building entire IMS-DB COBOL modules and Cobol controller module from scratch, maintaining coding standard as mentioned by client

•Building the entire service layer and receiving information from frontend to backend as request and also sending the information from backend to front as a response.

•Updating IMS-DC database after each successful quote and change amend transaction.

•Create new PSB and all the controller module and data handler module to perform change amend quote and issue transaction

•Assembly testing is done by putting some dummy message in MQ by using QPASA software (BMC Software) to observe that all the required functionality is working fine or not and also observed that values are properly getting seat in respective copybook in different level of IMS-DB segment or not.

•Fixed all the defects came in integration testing phase and QA testing phase.

•Handling this project as a Programmer analyst/Onsite coordinator in Mainframe applications

Client: one of the best Insurance Group, USA June 2012 – Oct 2013

Online Integrated Bundled Quote Application (Property Insurance): As a part of this project, “Online Integrated Bundled Quote Application” had implemented for our Client. Previously, user can directly quote and issue online AUTO Insurance transaction, but after new implementation, if user wants user can quote for HOME insurance with current rate plan after successful quoting of AUTO insurance thru same Java based application which will be processed thru mainframe at backend.

Roles & Responsibilities

•Building entire IMS-DB COBOL modules from scratch and always maintaining coding standard as mentioned by client

•Dealing with integration and QA region defects and fix all the bugs. (If application is not working as per requirement then defects are raised in QC tool)

•Fix all the post production Incidents.

Client: one of the best Insurance Group, USA Jan 2012 – June 2012

Introduction of new DB2 router table and endorsement table (Property Insurance): As a part of this project, “new DB2 router table and endorsement table” had implemented for our Client. Later, which was rolled out for all 48 states (USA).

Roles & Responsibilities

•Building entire COBOL-DB2 module from scratch

•Creating both router and new endorsement table

•Performing assembly testing as well as Integration testing without disturbing present production behavior

•Fixing all the defects which are raised at the time QA, Assembly and Integration testing as well as solving all the online and batch related ABENDs which are caused due to all new COBOL-DB2 modules

•Migrating the code (all COBOL-DB2 modules, tables, DCLGEN and copybooks) in production successfully with zero production Incidents

•Completed roll out for all other states, without any single production fall out.

Client: one of the best Insurance Group, USA May 2010 – Jan 2012

New rate plan implementation for Home Insurance (Property Insurance): To regain competitiveness in the market place and deliver target returns, the customer decided to enhance their Homeowners product with cross channel, rationally priced class plan with greatly improved pricing sophistication and segmentation. Also introduce streamlined coverage packages and new product features which would improve their ability to win agents and consumers. Wipro worked with the customer to upgrade their Homeowners product. A new homeowner’s class plan was introduced for Client to increase and improve their business in Home Insurance.

Roles & Responsibilities

•Preparation of technical specification documents.

•Involved in design sessions with customers.

•Review the design document with business users and get approvals.

•Coded programs and modified existed programs as per specification requirements in VS COBOL, JCL using IMS/DB-DC

•Preparation of integration test strategy document and production implementation plan.

•Table reviews for technical specification documents.

•Performed the review, testing and implementation into the production following the change control process. Used MFE debugging tool for testing.

•Provided on call system supporting and resolved the production problems.

•Responsible for QA defect management system.

•Responsible to do the production recoveries and to fix the critical production incidents.

Career Profile

Dates

Organizations

Role

3rd Feb, 2014 – till date

Wipro Limited

Programmer Analyst

1st June,2013 – 3rd Feb, 2014

Wipro Technologies

Sr. Project Engineer

25th Jan,2010 – 31st May, 2013

Wipro Technologies

Project Engineer

25th Jan,2010 – 16th Apr,2010

Training is done in JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2 and CICS

Project Engineer (Trainee)

Achievements: Selected for “FEATHER IN MY CAP” award (Wipro Internal) for consecutive 3 times (2011, 2012 & 2013)

VISA Details

Having valid H1b Visa till 24th Nov, 2017(Extension required after that).

Current CTC: 71.5k$s/annum.

Expected CTC: Industry standard.

Willing to work on rotation/shift: Yes (If it is really required).

Date: 06.25.2015

Place: Connecticut (USA) Subhransu Narayan Chakraborty.

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