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Vanita Bansal

A Software professional with 12 years of IT experience in Banking and Travel Domain, having expertise in COBOL program in Mainframe with developing software using COBOL, PLI as language and DB2, VSAM files as Backend. I am having exposure to Mainframe utilities like Change-Man, RTC and Abend-Aid. I have done MCA and completed a 3-year GNIIT course from NIIT. I am AWS and Java certified.

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a challenging job in the IT industry to integrate my Software and Analytical skills in design and development of systems, Software/Application for personal and organizational growth. I look forward to being a part of an interactive work sphere and a favorable environment for my professional growth and development of technical skills.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Languages

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SQL, Small Talk, PLI, CICS

Software/Frameworks

Visual Age Generator, IBM Rational Team Concert

Design Tools

MEGA

Mainframe Utilities

TSO/ISPF, Changeman. Xpeditor, ABEND-AID, SDSF, File-Aid, QMF,

Omegamon, OPC Scheduler

RDBMS Known

DB2, MS-Access.

Other Tools

Service Center (Peregrine Tracker), Service-NOW for queries and

PVCS Version Manager for Configuration Management.

Certifications:

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Java Certifications:

1Z0-808 - Java SE 8 Programmer I

1Z0-811 - Java Foundations

Employers

Duration

HCL America

Oct 2021 - Till date

Wipro Limited, Boston, USA

Feb 2019 - Mar 2021

USR Systems, New jersey, USA

Jun 2018 - Feb 2019

NIIT Technologies Ltd, Delhi, India

Apr 2004 - Oct 2012

PROJECTS (In reverse chronological order)

AMS-DML: Support and Enhancement project for an International Stock lending used for a State Street Client. DML application is the book of records for security lending. The client, securities and collateral feeds are consumed and processed by DML application. Processed data is pushed and consumed by downstream applications. This application is based on the IBM mainframe and code is COBOL, PLI and CICS based.

Client

State Street

Role

Onsite Technical Lead

Duration

Jun 2018 – till date.

Environment

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IBM RTC, OPC scheduler, File-Aid, Omegamon, PLI, CICS

Contribution: As an Onsite Technical Lead, am responsible for

Taking responsibility for leading the assigned project.

Handling tickets within defined SLA for resolution times

Analyzing incidents for identifying functional and technical issues and resolving these issues.

Monitoring the batch cycle.

Developing code as per the provided design specification.

Managing the Release management activity of the code.

Seeking consistently to improve the Quality of work and deadline adherence.

Assigning the tasks to the team members and review them.

Ensuring resiliency of application.

Taking part in service reviews with customers as per need basis.

Escalating issues to the higher Management as and when required.

Coordination with Offshore Team.

BA-TIFF: British Airways

OLAS: Online Accounting System. Functions: Corporate Invoice system, Sales Ledger

Air-track: Finance system, which tracks user charges (passenger fees, landing fees, overflying charges) by capturing actual flight information. Information gets reconciled to invoices received by the airline.

Fuel: Total Integrated Fuel facility is a generic name used for several fuel applications. These applications are UNIX and Mainframe applications for Aircraft details & Fuel balances, Contracts, Exchange Rates and Monthly processing.

Client

BA

Role

Team Lead

Duration

May 11 – Oct 12

Environment

COBOL, C, PL1, DB2, JCL, File-Aid, ChangeMan, Control-M

Contribution: As a Team Lead, was responsible for

Maintaining a good working Client relationship.

Creating and maintaining the Service Management Plan.

Contributing to creating and maintaining SLA’s and local support procedures.

Handling and resolving CRs/PRs as and when assigned.

Timely response to emails/queries from Client.

Managing the CRs/PRs assigned to the team members.

Taking part in service reviews with customers as per need basis.

Ensuring coordination between onsite and offshore teams.

Ensuring smooth working of all the projects within OPAL & AirTrack Fuel Support.

Manage all administrative tasks of the projects within IM Technology

Ensure that quality procedures are adhered in project development cycle.

ING Vantage- ACES: Support and maintenance for a suite of insurance applications. Applications cover various phases in the life cycle of a policy i.e., admin, maturity, payouts, commissions, and statements. Vantage is a mainframe policy administration system, which issues and maintains annuity policies through its daily cycle. Vantage performs specific tasks through transaction input.

ACES Peripherals are a collection of separate systems (13 applications) that are a part of the greater ACES system. Applications was based on IBM mainframe and written in COBOL.

Client

ING

Role

Senior Team Member

Duration

Apr 11 – May 11

Environment

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Xpeditor, SCLM, File-Aid, TWS

Contribution: As a Senior Team Member, was responsible for

Development & Modification/Bug Fixing of Programs

Creating Unit Test Plans & Unit Testing of Programs

Performing Peer Reviews

Coordination with Onsite Team

Monitoring the Daily Batch Cycle for Production Support

DB – Systel: DB Systems GmbH, Frankfurt /Germany is the software development division of the Deutsche Bahn, one of the busiest Railway Carriers of people and goods worldwide. The development project looks over the smooth functioning of all reservation related functions to ensure timely operation of the entire system. One important part of the project is looking after different change requests in the codes to facilitate fast processing and enhance the system for new functionalities.

Client

DB - Systel

Role

Senior Team Member

Duration

Oct 09 – Mar 11

Environment

HP Tandem, Screen COBOL, COBOL, Enform, Non-Stop SQL, Enscribed files

Contribution: As a Senior Team Member, was responsible for

Developing code as per the provided design specifications.

Preparation and Execution of Unit Test Cases and Integration Test Cases.

Seeking consistently to improve the Quality of work and deadline adherence.

Analyze metrics in Casual Analysis meeting to define corrective actions.

Contact the client directly for query resolution and functional knowledge.

This project won the Quality Award from DB system.

ING -USCR: Support and maintenance project for a suite of insurance applications used for ING-USCR Systems. The application processes the Ad-hoc, scheduled participant and sponsor financial statements for Annuity, Pension and Retail systems. The module extracts data from the Vantage database and generates financial statements. The applications were based on IBM mainframes and are written in COBOL.

Client

ING

Role

Senior Team Member

Duration

Jan 09 - Sept 09

Environment

COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, Xpeditor, SCLM, File-Aid, TWS

Contribution: As a Senior Team Member, was responsible for

Development & Modification/Bug Fixing of Programs

Creating Unit Test Plans & Unit Testing of Programs

Creating Ad hoc Reports & Extracts

Performing Peer Reviews

Coordination with Onsite Team

Monitoring the Daily Batch Cycle for Production Support

Leasing: KBC Lease is a subsidiary of KBC Bank. KBC Lease required a new application for the branches to handle the leasing applications. The application offered various functionalities to the user: Register a leasing application for lessee/s, Carry out simulations, Score the lessee, Register guarantees, Decide upon a leasing application, and Register the client agreement. A design and development project with Mainframe technologies.

Client

KBC, group of Bank in Belgium

Role

Senior Team Member

Duration

Nov 07 – Dec 08

Environment

COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, VAG, PVCS, PMS, MEGA, Peregrine

Contribution: As a Team Member, was responsible for

Analyzing design and developing code as per the provided design specifications.

Seeking consistently to improve the Quality of work and deadline adherence.

Coded the complex module involved in application.

Preparation and Execution of Unit Test Cases and Integration Test Cases.

Handling queries of team members related to functional and technical issues.

Review of code and unit test cases.

Analyze metrics in Casual Analysis meeting to define corrective actions.

Contact the client directly for query resolution and functional knowledge.

Preparing all the docs to maintain versions of components in various levels as per the defects.

This project won the ICT innovation award in the BENELUX region.

MKT: MKT is a multi-channel and integrated application for the registration and initial management of mass credit products for private purposes, particularly home loans, consumer term loans, budget facilities and advance tax payments. MKT is a multi-bank application for KBC, CBC (operating in Brussels and the French-speaking regions of Belgium) and Centea. Several new components were developed:

-Credit scoring component: component for determining the “credit score.”

-Delegation component: component dealing with authorization and decision-making rules.

-Document management component: component for the active management of a paper file

-Calculation component: set of arithmetic functions.

-Rate component: component for retrieving and building rates.

MKT1 was the collection of major core components followed by MKT2 which involved enhancements to the built-in functionality and the merger of CBC Bank. MKT Centea project is to customize the MKT application so that Centea Bank can use the existing MKT application.

Client

KBC, group of Bank in Belgium

Duration

Apr 04 - Oct 07

Environment

COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL, VAG, PVCS, PMS, MEGA, Peregrine

Contribution: As a Team Member, was responsible for

Preparing Global Technical design and Detailed Technical design.

Developing code as per the provided design specifications.

Preparation and Execution of Unit Test Cases and Integration Test Cases.

Seeking consistently to improve the Quality of work and deadline adherence.

Analyze metrics in a Causal Analysis meeting to define corrective actions.

Handling incidents within defined SLA for response and resolution times

Analyzing incidents for identifying functional and technical issues and resolving these issues.

Preparation of PPTs for the transition project of MKT application.

Provide KT and necessary support to the new team members for the MKT Maintenance.

Estimation and Execution of Change Request and abucs.

Contact the client directly for query resolution and functional knowledge.

Develop a tool in MS-Access to help in handling Configuration Management tasks to maintain versions of components in diverse levels as per the defects.

Working Status:

EAD

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