Raja Chandalla

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/raja-chandalla-2b028527a

Professional Summary:

Senior Consultant having 12+ years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Adiministration, and support of systems in Microfocus & Mainframe technologies. Played major roles as technical lead, Analyst, Senior Developer and Team member.

Extensive experience in development using Microfocus Server Enterprise Server, Microfocus COBOL Enterprise Edition Environment(Windows) and IBM Mainframes IBM z/OS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, TSO, SFTP, NDM,JOB Track,ACF2,VSAM,CICS, Easytrieve. ENDEVOR, InterTest,CA-INTEREST,File-Manager, Fileaid, Abend-aid, Expediter, Data Stage, And Changeman.

Good Experience in Micro Focus Enterprise with a strong mainframe background.

Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security throughout the data lifecycle.

Monitor and analyze production processes to ensure consistency and adherence to quality standards.

Good expert in Identifying opportunities for process improvement, waste removal, and cost reduction as part of Continues Improvement.

Working to continuously improve processes both on the production floor as well as transactional by collaborating with multiple functions such as logistics.

I possess good analytical, Client-interaction skills. Participated in Client meetings and Extensive experience in onsite-offshore mode.

Technical expertise includes Business Requirements Analysis, Domain driven designs, Estimation of Service Requests, Enhancements, Testing of Data warehouse systems, Development Projects, Project Design, Task Allocation, Scheduling and Delivery to clients.

Having good knowledge on UNIX, Oracle Fusion, Web Services.

Have good experience in Banking Domain, Life insurance, Consumer Lending, Cards & Transaction data processing.

Technical Summary:

Experience in Microfocus Server Enterprise Server, Microfocus COBOL Enterprise Edition Environment(Windows) and Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2). Changmen, ENDEVOR, InterTest, XPEDITER, Fileaid, SFTP, Easytrieve, Abend-aid,Data Stage,NDM,TSO, JOB Track, CHANGE MAN.

Experience in all Phases of Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) as Process Consulting, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and Support.

Create and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to validate products or software applications

Perform root cause analysis of defects and implement corrective and preventive actions

Identify opportunities for process improvement and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement changes.

Ability to work independently and also in team environment.

Good at Gather and analyze requirements and translate them into technical specification and Troubleshooting and debugging code to resolve technical issues.

Identifying and resolving issues in environments, performing root cause analysis, and providing technical support to development teams or end-users.

Creating technical documentation, guidelines, and best practices of usage and providing training to internal teams.

Hands on experience in performing 24X7 on-call production support for providing rapid soluations to the client problems.

Provide clear and accurate invoices, improving customer experience and satisfaction.

Have coordinated and managed multiple projects with team size varying from 10 to 20 head count.

Performed the impact analysis for the upcoming changes received and documented the same.

Good in production support which involves job monitoring and abend resolving within escalation time.

Having good Knowledge work experience on BigQuery, GCS bucket, SQL, UNIX, Oracle Fusion, Customer Billing Systems and Revenue Cycle Management..

Technical Skills Profile:

Operating System: z/OS, Win 9x, DOS, OS/390, MVS, Win XP, Windows 7

Environment: IBM Mainframes z/OS

Mainframe Tools: Endevor, Changeman, Xpeditor, Fileaid, Easytrieve, CA7, CA-INTEREST,Job Track, SYNCSORT, Panvalet, InterTest, CntrolM and Abend-aid

DB2 Tools: SPUFI, DB2 File Aid, QMF

Languages: Micro Focus COBOL, COBOL, JCL, PROCS, PL/1, CICS

Cloud Technologies: Google Cloud Platform – Big Query & GCS Bucket

Tools: HTML, JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, Group Service Desk, Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Database: DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB,SQL Server,Tera data,Big Query

Project Management & Leadership Skills:

oTimesheet Management (Approvals)

oEstimation of Service Requests, Enhancements & Development Projects

oProject Design, Task Allocation, Scheduling and Delivery to clients.

oIssue Tracking and Resolution

oClient Walkthrough & Kick Off Meetings with Clients & Business Users

oTraining & Development:

oTraining Plan preparation & Execution at project level for new joiners.

oInduction and System Trainings to the L1 (Production Support) & L2 (Development).

oBase SAS Concepts

Professional Experience:

ACC June 2023 to Present

Role: Team Lead/Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

Gather and analyze requirements and translate them into technical specification and Troubleshooting and debugging code to resolve technical issues.

Identifying and resolving issues in environments, performing root cause analysis, and providing technical support to development teams or end-users.

Working to continuously improve processes both on the production floor as well as transactional by collaborating with multiple functions such as logistics.

Development of Micro Focus COBOL programs and Performed maintenance of existing Microfocus COBOL Programes.

Design, Develop and Support maintenance work of ETL jobs and delivering the code always with good quality.

Developed the transformation logics ETL jobs to load data from raw layer to Confirmed Data Layer.

Modify necessary changes for all COBOL types of programs to compile successfully under Micro Focus Window Environments.

Wrote specifications and modified existing CICS & IMS COBOL applications. Update all modules to provide MQ functionality and wrote CICS MQ-series programs to facilitate testing of Projects.

Designed Maps/Screens using COBOL CICS programs to allow online.

Built the Stored procedures,it will be used in multiple Programes. Documented all Stored procedures and save it for future reference in shares folder.

Defining and maintaining user profiles, access permissions, and security policies in ACF2 to ensure that only authorized individuals can access specific resources.

Hands on experience in performing 24X7 on-call production support for providing rapid soluations to the client problems.

Create ControlM drafts with all the dependencies and schedule jobs and job flows in Control-M.

Monitor the daily/Monthly batches on controlM and job execution to ensure tasks are completed on time.

Experienced in utilizing incident management tools and systems to effectively track, monitor, and prioritize incidents,ensuring timely resolution and minimizing downtime.

Implementing monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the availability, performance, and security of cloud environments. Analyzing system metrics, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing resource allocation for cost efficiency.

Prepare High level Design of the process, Program Specification, Integration / Regression / UAT Test Strategy and Test cases.

Environment: COBOL,Micro Focus COBOL(MF/COBOL),JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IMS,MQ,ACF2,Data Stage,Google Cloud Plotform, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, CI/CD, Jenkins, GCS Buckets and SharePoint,TSO, Easytrieve, JOB Track, PL/1, Changeman, Abend-aid, Expediter, Word, Excel, InterTest, PowerPoint, Microsoft Visual Studio, Tera data, VisionPLUS,Google Cloud Plotform, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow,SYNCSORT, Easytrieve, CI/CD, Jenkins, GCS Buckets and CntrolM, File Aid, Visio, SharePoint,Big Querry

Capgemini - HSBC- Intelligence HUB-MENA 01/2021 to 06/2023

Role: Team Lead /Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

Gathering the requirements for the system and categorizing the requirements according to the priority of the requirements.

Identifying and resolving issues in environments, performing root cause analysis, and providing technical support to development teams or end-users.

DBD creation and organizing data for efficient storage and retrieval, and implementing database changes as needed in IMS DB.

Design, Develop and Support maintenance work of Data Stage jobs and delivering the code always with good quality.

Developed the transformation logics ETL jobs to load data from raw layer to Confirmed Data Layer.

Monitoring and optimizing the performance of the IMS database.

Development of Micro Focus COBOL programs and Performed maintenance of existing Microfocus COBOL Programes

Modify necessary changes for all COBOL types of programs to compile successfully under Micro Focus Window Environments.

Working to continuously improve processes both on the production floor as well as transactional by collaborating with multiple functions such as logistics.

Designing and developing solutions using mainframe technologies to support CyberLife policy and its interfaces.

Create ControlM drafts with all the dependencies and schedule jobs and job flows in Control-M.

Monitor the daily/Monthly batches on controlM and job execution to ensure tasks are completed on time.

Experienced in utilizing incident management tools and systems to effectively track, monitor, and prioritize incidents,ensuring timely resolution and minimizing downtime.

Implementing monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the availability, performance, and security of cloud environments. Analyzing system metrics, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing resource allocation for cost efficiency.

Wrote specifications and modified existing CICS & IMS COBOL applications. Update all modules to provide MQ functionality and wrote CICS MQ-series programs to facilitate testing of Projects.

Designed Maps/Screens using COBOL CICS programs to allow online.

Prepare High level Design of the process, Program Specification, Integration / Regression / UAT Test Strategy and Test cases.

Identifying and resolving issues in environments, performing root cause analysis, and providing technical support to development teams or end-users.

Optimizing application code for better mainframe performance.

Environment: COBOL, Micro Focus COBOL(MF/COBOL),JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IMS,MQ, Data Stage,Google Cloud Plotform, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, CI/CD, Jenkins, GCS Buckets and SharePoint,TSO, Easytrieve,ACF2, JOB Track, PL/1, Changeman, Abend-aid, Expediter, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,Tera data, InterTest, Microsoft Visual Studio,Google Cloud Plotform, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, CI/CD, MFED, Jenkins, SYNCSORT, Easytrieve,GCS Buckets and CntrolM, File Aid, Visio, SharePoint,Big Querry

Capgemini - HSBC-UKBI 01/2019 to 12/20

Senior Mainframe Developer-

Responsibilities:

Understanding the requirements & mapping sheet. Having discussions with Business to understand the requirements.

Involved in all the phases like Designing, implementing and testing applications and involving new features and functionality from functional requirements

Perform project management related activities like task tracking, variance monitoring, estimations.

Working with client for capturing business requirements and transposing them to functional requirements

Lead and manage offshore resources, perform people management related activities.

Create ControlM drafts with all the dependencies and schedule jobs and job flows in Control-M.

Monitor the daily/Monthly batches on controlM and job execution to ensure tasks are completed on time.

Holds the batches in controlM if we have any enivironmental issues, Once all the issues fixed will release the batches and monitor until all the batches completed.

Design, Develop and Support maintenance work of ETL jobs and delivering the code always with good quality.

Developed the transformation logics ETL jobs to load data from raw layer to Confirmed Data Layer.

JIRA has been updated periodically on the progress of each story. Stories, Tasks, Test results and Defects have been logged in JIRA.

Impact Analysis of the requirements.

Creation of functional design documents and Technical Design Documents.

Facilitate Conference calls between Onshore and Offshore to make the Knowledge Transition.

Involved Deployments and support activities.

Performed the impact analysis for the upcoming changes received and documented the same.

Prepare High level Design of the process, Program Specification documents.

Environment: COBOL,JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Data Stage,Google Cloud Plotform, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, CI/CD, Jenkins, GCS Buckets, Changeman, SharePoint,QMF, Easytrieve,SPUFI,TSO, JOB Track, PL/1, Abend-aid, Expediter,, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,Tera data, VisionPLUS, File Aid, Visio, CntrolM

Capgemini - HSBC - RISK MI 11/2016 to 12/18

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Started my career as a mainframe developer, gradually acquired expertise and delivered Project successfully which require COBOL programming, JCL, CICS, DB2, IDMS DB and involved using many tools on IBM Mainframe systems.

Mainly focused on designing and developing solutions using mainframe technologies to maintain and support applications.

Involved in all the phases like Designing, implementing and testing applications and involving new features and functionality from functional requirements

Working with client for capturing business requirements and transposing them to functional requirements

Lead and manage offshore resources, perform people management related activities.

Perform project management related activities like task tracking, variance monitoring, estimations.

Impact Analysis of the requirements.

Skilled in identifying opportunities to enhance COBOL programs through the utilization of assembler language. Developed reusable logic in Assembler programs and interfaced with COBOL programs as subroutines.

Creation of functional design documents and Technical Design Documents.

Identifying and resolving issues in environments, performing root cause analysis, and providing technical support to development teams or end-users.

Facilitate Conference calls between Onshore and Offshore to make the Knowledge Transition.

Involved Deployments and support activities.

Performed the impact analysis for the upcoming changes received and documented the same.

Provide predictable and cost-effective solutions to the clients by consistent, repeatable and renewable processes.

Prepare High level Design of the process, Program Specification documents.

Involved in Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases

Environment: Data Stage, JIRA, Cyberlife, Confluence, ServiceNow, Jenkins, CntrolM, Changeman, CA7, SharePoint, IDCAMES, COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve, DB2, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, BASE SAS, Abend-aid, Expediter,,QMF,SPUFI, TSO, JOB Track, File Aid, REXX, ENDEVOR, Visio, File Manager

Capgemini – HSBC (General Suppression Process) 01/2012 to 10/2016

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Started my career as a mainframe developer, gradually acquired expertise and delivered Project successfully which require COBOL programming, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB and involved using many tools on IBM Mainframe systems.

Working with client for capturing business requirements and transposing them to functional requirements

Creation of functional design documents and Technical Design Documents.

Facilitate Conference calls between Onshore and Offshore to make the Knowledge Transition.

Involved Deployments and support activities.

Identifying and resolving issues in environments, performing root cause analysis, and providing technical support to development teams or end-users.

Performed the impact analysis for the upcoming changes received and documented the same.

Prepare High level Design of the process, Program Specification documents.

Involved in Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases

Prepared the Functional and Technical requirement document.

Analyzing existing programs and preparing documents of understanding for analyzed programs.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, TSO, JOB Track, BASE SAS, REXX, ServiceNow, CntrolM, CA7,Changeman, SharePoint, IDCAMES, ENDEVOR,QMF,SPUFI,File Aid,File Manager, Abend-aid, Expediter,Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Change Request

Capgemini - Royal Bank of Scotland(RBS) - CDE Risk Strategic End Game 05/2011 to 12/2011

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Started my career as a mainframe developer, gradually acquired expertise and delivered Project successfully which require COBOL programming, JCL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB and involved using many tools on IBM Mainframe systems.

Working with client for capturing business requirements and transposing them to functional requirements

Creation of functional design documents and Technical Design Documents.

Facilitate Conference calls between Onshore and Offshore to make the Knowledge Transition.

Involved Deployments and support activities.

Performed the impact analysis for the upcoming changes received and documented the same.

Prepare High level Design of the process, Program Specification documents.

Involved in Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation phases

Prepared Process Flow Diagrams using Microsoft Visio

Prepared the Functional and Technical requirement document.

Analyzing existing programs and preparing documents of understanding for analyzed programs.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, BASE SAS, TSO, JOB Track, REXX, ServiceNow, CntrolM, CA7, SharePoint,Changeman, IDCAMES, ENDEVOR, File Manager,File Aid,Word, Excel, PowerPoint,Visio, Change Request

Education:

Master of Computer Application(MCA) from Anna University, Chennai in 2009

Bachelors in BSC from Osmania University in 2004.

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