Sravan Kumar Kondeboina

Mainframe Developer Lead

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Career Summary

Overall 16+ Years of IT experience as Mainframe Consultant worked in Development, Maintenance, Testing, Support and Analyst of application software on IBM Mainframe Systems. Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) - Requirements Gathering, Functional gap analysis, Construction, Unit Testing, and Support to various Testing techniques - Integration, Quality Assurance (QA) Test, User Acceptance (UAT) Test, Regression Test, and Production support.

Extensive hands-on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming and testing.

Excellent working knowledge in Core Application Design, Development, Testing and Production support.

Experience in Test Case Design, Test Execution, Defect Management, Defect Tracking and Reports for Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.

Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions for the project.

Experience in using the Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall lifecycle methodologies.

Provided 24*7 maintenance and production support to Mainframe applications.

Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and work on the same to meet business requirements.

Worked in Onsite and Offshore model and accountable for end to end delivery of the projects

Good interpersonal skills and able to work independently or in a team environment.

Experience in handling projects in various roles as Team Member, Team Lead, Technical Specialist, Programmer and Software Consultant.

Hands on experience with OS/ 390, Z/OS, ISPF, VS COBOL II, DB2, MQ Series, JCL, VSAM, Change Man, SYNCSORT, File Aid, Xpeditor, Endeavor, CICS, DB2, IBM Utilities.

Project delivery of various sizes, performance tuning, production support, trouble shooting.

Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.

Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.

Able to handle multiple projects concurrently.

Handled the major to minor scalability projects with minimal supervision from SME’s

Supported Monthly Release activities and on call support

delivering utmost Quality product

Technical Skills

Languages COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IMSDB, SQL, XML, CICS & CICS Web services

(MF Cobol, Windows Commands, DB2, DB2 Control Centre, Beyond Compare-3) - Net Express IDE

Operating Systems IBM Mainframe, OS/390, Z/OS, Windows-98/2000/XP Databases DB2

Version Control GitHub, Change Man, Endeavor

Tools Xpeditor, QMF, ISPF, File Manager, IDCAMS, SPUFI, File AID for DB2, Eazytrieve, SCLM ServiceNow, JIRA and Quality Center

Broad array of data formats including XML, SOAP, COBOL Copybooks, flat-file and delimited formats

SOAP – UI for Mainframe and Web Services Testing

Certifications and Trainings:

• Expertise in Life Insurance & Annuity product Wealth Management Accelerator

(WMA/Vantage).

• LOMA280 – Principles of Insurance certified

• DB2-700 – Family Fundamentals certified.

Professional Experience:

Client1: The Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois (Sep 2021 – Sep 2023) Role: Mainframe Team Lead

Project Description:

The Northern Trust Company is an Investment bank in USA. The project that I worked in this bank is The Nor-AIP-Asset Servicing (AIP) which is a central repository of data about Asset & their Institution & Pricing information which has interface with other subsystems like trade application, feeds to Legacy systems like fund master & IMS and many other applications like PACE, Management Reporting etc. which directly retrieves the data from AIP. Responsibilities:

• Managed central repository interfacing with trade applications, legacy systems and other applications.

• Responsible for delivering the applications from the coding & testing perspective within the AIP

• Responsible for smooth transition of the AIP applications to the Production

• Accountable for the entire project scope, the project team and resources, the project budget & success or failure of the project

• Involved in design, coding, testing, and maintenance efforts.

• Analyze the requirements and interact with client counterpart to understand the requirements and the BRD

• Create requirement documents using standard SRS (Software Requirements Specification) template

• Participate in requirements review & inspection with Business and baseline

• Coordinate with the team on project planning/execution and understand their views.

• Work with the team on designing solution and creation of design document

• Oversee and prioritize the development tasks and communicate with client. Environment:

COBOL, JCL, DB2, ENDEAVOUR, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities, Stored Procedures, JIRA, CICS Web Services, Control-M, Service Now, Soap-UI, ISPF.

Client2: MetLife Insurance Company, Hartford, CT (Jan 2018 – Aug2021) Role: Mainframe Team Lead

Project Description:

This application has been built on Life & Annuity insurance product Wealth Management Accelerator. As part of this, 1.4 million Met Life policies (Annuity, UL & TRAD) are converted to the latest WMA17 version apart from adding the new functionalities. The existing MetLife code is written on WMA10 version. WMA17 has the greatest features over the WMA10 along with the WMA Online System in place of SmartAPP. This is basically a conversion and mod enhancement project.

Responsibilities:

• Life & Annuity Insurance domain knowledge.

• Represent Development team in client discussions along with Business Analyst.

• Experience in performing application enhancements by referring to Business Specification document.

• Experience in the conversion process to convert the Annuity policy data into the WMA17 system.

• Conduct technical research, development and testing of client's business requirements onto Life and Annuity Product.

• Provide support in identifying and researching application improvements to increase customer satisfaction.

• Configure new product launches in Life and Annuity Domain, enhancing existing products.

• Perform impact analysis and create Technical Specifications.

• Create a flexible technical design that is scalable and reusable.

• Technical activities include developing code in Microfocus COBOL, Windows Commands and DB2.

• Work closely with offshore team to guide and get the project work executed.

• Review the coding and unit test results, guide the team for on time delivery.

• DEV, SIT, PILOT and Production Parallel test bed preparations and test execution and error analysis.

• Work with Business Analyst, QA team for defects.

• Creation of Project handover document and provide hyper care.

• Identify opportunities for process and procedure enhancements to drive efficiency and customer service levels.

Environment:

Microfocus COBOL, Windows Commands, DB2, DB2 Control Centre, Beyond Compare-3, CI/CD pipeline using Git & Jenkins, Eclipse - Net Express IDE Client3: Aviva Insurance Company, Hartford, CT (Mar 2014 – Dec 2017) Role: Mainframe Senior Developer

Project Description:

The application has been built on Life & Annuity insurance product Wealth Management Accelerator (WMA/VANTAGE- ONE). As part of this project, Aviva Traditional policies are converted to the WMA system. Also made the functional enhancements as per the client needs. This is basically a conversion and functional enhancement project. Responsibilities:

• Perform architect design for system enhancements and application design on WMA and Interfacing Applications.

• Analyze the requirements and interact with client counterpart to understand the requirements and the BRD

• Technical design review for Annuity Product development and enhancements.

• Technical activities include developing code in Microfocus COBOL, Windows Commands and DB2.

• Providing conversion process that converts the policy data into the WMA system

• Providing DEV, SIT, PILOT & Production Parallel test bed preparations and test execution and error analysis.

• Providing smooth transition to production system.

• Provide oversight and mentoring to Application Development and Support teams

• Respond immediately to IT Service Now Adhoc User Requests, analyze and resolve Incidents and problems

• Review changes being deployed to Production for any fixes specific to Incidents and Problem tickets.

• Resolve high priority incidents reported and perform Root Cause Analysis.

• To work extensively at Offshore/Onsite and familiar with onsite – offshore model Environment:

Microfocus COBOL, Windows Commands, DB2, DB2 Control Centre, Beyond Compare-3, CI/CD pipeline using Git & Jenkins, Eclipse - Net Express IDE Client4: Allianz Insurance, Munich, Germany (Aug 2010 – Feb 2014) Role: Mainframe Senior Developer

Project Description:

Allianz is a German Multinational Financial services company. Its core business is Insurance. Worked for ELAN & FLEETWARE application which deals with “Private Motor Insurance”

(General Insurance) of “Allianz Germany”.

It handles two different setups.

1. Elan - Single vehicle insurance.

2. Fleet ware - Group of vehicles insurance.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with clients and other I.T. personnel in analyzing system requests, developing specifications for new system development projects and for maintenance to existing mainframe-based applications.

• Adhere to System Development Life Cycle standards, including preparation of project-related documents as requested by the Project Manager.

• Make design changes to programs to implement new business functionalities.

• Prepare unit and integration test plans for program changes, and in cooperation with clients and other I.T. personnel, perform the testing.

• Conduct thorough problem analysis in regard to technical system and application programs; documents findings and proposes problem resolution alternatives.

• Some on-call responsibilities to support production as needed.

• Communicate project progress and issues as needed.

• Prepare user and operational documentation for programming work performed.

• Serve as a Project Lead for smaller or less complex projects

• Serve as a mentor for less experienced programmer/analysts as needed.

• Serve as a ‘go-to’ resource for complex questions.

• Be a participatory team member, share knowledge, assist with projects as needed and suggest improvements for the system development process.

Environment:

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, PL/I, ENDEAVOUR, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities, Stored Procedures, JIRA, Control-M.

Client5: CIGNA Healthcare, USA (Mar 2007 – Jul 2010) Role: Mainframe Senior Developer

Project 1:

REDWOOD Debit card load module and Multiple Funds (Nov 2009 – Jul 2010) Debit card load module will keep track the Transactions which are Eligible under the Healthcare Pharmacy products. If the transactions are beyond the Limitations of Healthcare product then we call that as in eligible transaction from the Financial Partner. So, the Healthcare doesn’t respond for those funds. So the financial partners ask the Healthcare Company to replace the funds by collecting it from the customer.

Project 2:

REDWOOD Balance Management (Jun 2009 – Nov 2009)

Redwood Balance Management is used in Health Care Insurance system which acts as a service between Customer who needs of Pharmacy service and Pharmacy Vendor (Third party Vendor to CIGNA Health Care) in form of DEBIT card purchase. Also, it acts in between Bank which provides DEBIT card for the customers and Health care system for the Transaction Details. Project 3:

REDWOOD Consumer Financial Integrator and Consumer Fund Management (May 2008 – June 2009) CFI acts as a financial translator for all applications of REDWOOD transactions. It provides information and details across the cross-module applications in order to keep all Redwood application in sync. It developed along with CFMS which will resemble the Banking and financial partner’s database in order to track all transaction happened between the customer and Bank or Financial partner.

Project 4:

Defined Care Platform (Dec 2006 – Apr 2008)

DCP Payment is a Reimbursement system which Reimburse all Medical and Pharmacy claims belongs to the Health Care Company either by Check cutting or by EFT through Financial Institutions. On a daily basis all the Financial Transactions are recorded in Information and Management system for audit purpose. Monthly reports must be generated and shared the same with the Customers also recorded the same. Handling fall outs of claims due to insufficient data in Event Management and provide the information when the customer raises Queries against their claims and other Information.

Responsibilities:

• Drive architecture roadmap and standard efforts. Provide leadership in all technical aspects of assigned projects, programs and portfolios.

• Architect complex end-to-end solutions across mainframe systems.

• Develop code, create and execute unit and integration tests that thoroughly exercise logic to ensure application functionality and performance as per business requirements.

• New module coding across all the applications of CIGNA Redwood implementation using vanilla mainframe (COBOL, VSAM, JCL and DB2) technologies. Experience in SDLC lifecycle in waterfall.

• Work to accomplish organizational goals that are consistent in supporting both IT and Business objectives.

• Participate in walk-throughs, which will review the source code, and all technical supporting documentation. Provide feedback in accordance with team standards and guidelines.

• Maintain integrity, metadata and data lineage for CIGNA insurance processes including onboarding new sources via data profiling to identify data quality checks.

• Engage and interact with business and IT stakeholders to understand Account data requirements and current constraints.

• Provides usage support for Applications Development, Infrastructure, IT Operations and IT Production Support and user community.

• Required to be on call 24x7 on a rotating basis for problem resolution and high systems availability.

• Actively participates in periodic review exercises.

• Experience translating Business Requirements and writing Technical Specifications.

• Thorough working knowledge on relational databases (DB2/SQL) Environment:

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, ENDEAVOUR, TSO / ISPF, IBM Utilities, Stored Procedures, JIRA, Control-M. Education:

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

(JNTU, Hyderabad), India.

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