Suranjan Barkur

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SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST/CONSULTANT

Overall Experience Summary

An experienced professional with demonstrated competence in Application Development comprising of Mainframe and Web applications, Using 'Agile & Waterfall' Methodology.

17+ Years of relevant experience in Application Design, Development and Testing.

Experience in Application development with extensive experience in system/user requirement analysis, system design, development, coding, testing, implementation, QA Activities, performance tuning, maintenance, and full life cycle applications (SDLC) within mainframe environment. Extensively worked on Z/OS, MVS, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, PL1,EAZYTRIEVE, UNIX, SQL, Endeavor, Change man, XPEDITOR, INTERTEST, FILE AID, SAR, CA-7 Scheduler and Utilities like JCL SORT.

Well versed with various frameworks of software development life cycle (SDLC), such as Waterfall & Agile.

Proficient in querying DB2 using QMF and SPUFI and writing complex queries to create ad-hoc reports using Unions and joins.

Possess hands-on experience in integrating legacy technologies with SOA based web applications.

Experience in performing all types of Testing including Unit, Integration, Security, Ad-hoc, SUser Acceptance, Regression and Data Validation for mainframe systems and web based, client server applications

Strong Analytical and Problem-solving Skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and multitask.

A clear understanding of end-to-end application delivery in a multi-platform environment, driving process improvements, re-architecture and worked, working towards the resolution of problems/issue.

Possess good business and functional knowledge in Banking, Financial Institution, Insurance ((BFSI) and Retail industry.

Skills Summary:

Skills

Tools

Programming-Languages

COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, PL1, EZYTRIEVE, SQL, REXX

Database/File systems

VSAM, SQL SERVER, IMS DB, ORACLE, TERADATA

Version Control Tools

ENDEAVOR, CHANGE MAN, LIBRARIAN

Job Schedulers

CA-7, CONTROL-M, ZEKE

Debugging Tools

ABEND-AID, XPEDITOR, IBM DEBUGGER, INTERTEST

File-aid Tools

FILE-AID/DB2/IMS/FILES, IBM FILE MANAGER

Operating Systems

WINDOWS, UNIX, MVS, OS/390 & Z/OS

Database Tools

SPUFI, QMF, RC/RU UPDATE, BMC AND CA TOOLS

OS

Windows, Unix, OS/390 & Z/OS.

CA and IBM Tools

SORT, IDCAMS, ICETOOL, DFSORT, DB2 LOAD AND UNLOAD UTILITIES, NDM, SAR,RACF,ACF2

Domain-Expertise & Solutions

Application Analysis Development, Test data Management, Testing, BFSI, Health Care, STATE Govt Policies and Procedures, Retail Domain, Agile and Waterfall, SDLC.

Experience Summary

Duration

JUNE 2023 -CURRENT,BALTIMORE,MARYLAND

Client

STATE OF MARYLAND

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES (DPSCS)

Role

SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST/CONSULTANT

Environment

TSO, ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMQMF, SPUFI, FILE AID-DB2, FILE AID FOR DB2/IMS/DSN,

XPEDITOR BATCH AND ONLINE, OPC, ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, TELON, RACF, RMDS, PUTTY,UNIX IMS DB.

Responsibilities

Analyze complex legacy code and jobs, document business logic, develop data flow diagrams,

Assist in testing by preparing test data, mock test files, and running test jobs in legacy systems.

Writing COBOL programs and jobs to unload data and to convert data to required format

Testing, system integration testing, Review, debugging, implementation

Coordinating with distributed teams and get the data and resolving the issues.

Involved in Design, Development, Unit Testing, and Implementation of applications within mainframe environment to migrate the data.

Involved working with Release Team to move the code changes to production as per the release schedule.

Duration

MAY 2022 -MAY 2023

Client

CAREFIRST (BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD)

Project Description

Blue Cross Blue Shield is a very well-known Healthcare Insurer. To service their customers for the enrolments, billing, claims, approvals and adjudication, they have several automated systems. Worked in DSS/STATS Which is a Report maintenance system of CAREFIRST

Role

SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Environment

COBOL JCL, DB2,CICS,VSAM,EZYTRIEVE,MQ,CA7,$AVRS,SAR,SPUFI,QMF,CLOUDERA IMPALA HUE,IOF,ABEND-AID,FILE-AID-MVS/DB2

Responsibilities

Analysis, Design and development of Cobol Programs

Writing Complex queries using SQL and Extract data in spreadsheet, format the data as per customer requirements

Duration

MAR 2019 -MAY 2022,BALTIMORE,MARYLAND

Client

STATE OF MARYLAND

1.CHILD SUPPORT ADMINISTRATION(CSA)

2.DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES (DHS)

Role

SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST/CONSULTANT

Environment

TSO, ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMQMF, SPUFI, FILE AID-DB2, FILE AID FOR DB2/IMS/DSN,

XPEDITOR BATCH AND ONLINE, OPC, ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, TELON, RACF, RMDS, PUTTY, AWS,UNIX IMS DB.

Responsibilities

Analyze complex legacy code and jobs, document business logic, develop data flow diagrams, job dependency diagrams.

Translate legacy code and job flows into applications requirements to assist development of web-based solutions.

Assist in identifying inter related business components and perform impact analysis.

Assist in developing technical test specifications, test scenarios and assist test team in validating the test results

Assist in testing by preparing test data, mock test files, and running test jobs in legacy systems.

Writing COBOL programs and jobs to unload data and to convert data to required format

Modifying TELON, CICS programs and Testing CICS web interfaces through RESTful services

Testing, system integration testing, Review, debugging, implementation

Coordinating with distributed teams and get the data and resolving the issues.

Involved in Design, Development, Unit Testing, and Implementation of applications within mainframe environment to migrate the data.

Involved working with Release Team to move the code changes to production as per the release schedule.

Duration

JUL 2018 – DEC 2018

Client

FIFTH THIRD BANK,( WWW.53.COM),CINCINNATI,OHIO

Role

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Project Description

EWS P2 PROJECT

Fifth Third Bank (FTB) currently leverages Early Warning Services (EWS) National Shared Database of transit items and account status. Currently, FTB transmits consumer branch, ATM, and mobile transactions via Intraday and over-night batch processes. EWS returns alert codes on deposits to indicate the likelihood 5/3 will receive the funds. A majority of the alert notifications are received after normal working hours and/or are not reviewed prior to fund availability.

Goals of this project are to:

Mitigate the fraud exposure which exists in the EWS Inquiry gap prior to fund availability.

Delay the availability of deposited funds based on an internal fraud process prior to funds being available to the customer.

Suspend the availability of deposited funds based on the EWS alert notification which do not trigger an automated hold.

Prevent the suspension of availability against categories of deposits where the customer has paid for the immediate availability of funds.

It is Project Management’s intent to coordinate the phasing-in of specific functionality with the Line-of-Business. The timeline will be established in the project schedule based on development and testing estimates

Role

SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Environment

COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,LIBRARIAN,MQ SERIES,TIVOLI,SAR,SPUFI,TABLE EDITOR

Responsibilities

Participate in the client business meetings to understand the business requirements.

Writing technical specifications documents

Impact Analysis of both Batch and CICS COBOL programs.

Coding as per the specifications maintaining coding standards

Code review

Debugging for any abends using tools.

Testing, Capturing test results, Integration Testing, QA review and coordinating Implementation.

Sql and Cobol Code Optimization

Duration

JAN 2018-JUN 2018

Client

STATE OF MINNESOTA,

MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES (MN DHS),

BUSINESS RULES EXTRATION LEGACY MODERNISATION, COLUMBIA,MD (Remote)

Project Description

Minnesota’s Department of Health Services (MN.DHS) requires Business Rules Extraction (BRE)

Software and Services (S&S) to support the Minnesota Medicaid Information System (MMIS) Modernization initiative.

The legacy MMIS is a set of COBOL subsystems with limited documentation. The primary deliverable of this engagement

is a complete set of business rules and related documentation for the specified subsystems,

Including demonstrating that the set of business rules is complete and correct.

Role

SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Environment

COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,CHANGEMAN,MQ SERIES,JIRA,ECLIPSE,D*CODE TOOL,VISUAL COBOL,BUGZILLA

Responsibilities

Analyze complex legacy code / JCLs and extract document business logic, develop data flow diagrams, job dependency diagrams.

Participate in the client business meetings to understand the business requirements.

Business rules extraction using dcode tool.

Duration

OCT 2017 – DEC 2017

Client

GEICO, MSI POLICY INTEGRATION,CHEVY CHASE,MARYLAND

Project Description

GEICO's new initiative MSI (Multiline systems Initiative) will bring the many systems GEICO uses for sales and service into a single application using the Microsoft platform.

MSI will provide a portfolio experience for GEICO’s customers, optimizing their experience whether it’s online or on their mobile phone, tablet, or other portable device and MSI’s ultimate goal is to provide customers with an intuitive, unified GEICO experience regardless of which type of policy they have or how they choose to interact with our company.

MSI will streamline IT’s efforts and coincide with GEICO’s focus on becoming a multiline company.

Role

SR MAINFRAME PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Environment

COBOL II, JCL, TSO/ISPF,.NET,C/C++, MQ SERIES, FILE MANAGER, ENDEVOR, SQL &MS Excel.

Responsibilities

Writing new COBOL programs and Impact analysis of existing Cobol programs, Coding, Debugging, Testing, Integration Testing Code review and Implementation.

Writing complex sql for retrieval of data from one region to other region

Optimization of programs and sqls

Worked with BA for creation of user requirements

Duration

APR 2011 – OCT 2017

Company

TCS (WWW.TCS.COM )

Role

IT ANALYST

Environment

TSO, ISPF, COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMQMF, SPUFI, FILE AID-DB2, FILE AID FOR DB2/IMS/DSN,

XPEDITOR BATCH AND ONLINE, OPC, ENDEVOR, LIBRARIAN, TELON, RACF, RMDS, PUTTY, ZEKE,UNIX IMS DB.

Responsibilities

Participate in the client business meetings to understand the business requirements

Writing Technical specification documents

Impact analysis of COBOL/PL1/EZYTRIEVE programs

Coding as per the specifications,Code review,Testing,Promotion of code,Implantation and support

Assist software developers by analyzing user needs and designing software solutions.

Recording the test results, Logging the Defects and Tracking the defects to closure.

Adhoc queries and Report generation

Involved in Weekly project management reviews (WMRs) with senior managers.

CICS web interfaces through RESTful services

Coaching all members of the team, providing on-the-job training to individuals and tailoring training sessions to the team on technical topics related to Mainframe.

Work with Distributed system team and provide interface suggestions and co-ordinate implementation.

Impact Analysis of both Batch and CICS COBOL programs.

Coding as per the specifications,Code review,Testing,Code promotion and implementation

Responsible for analysis of the existing system to find the improvement areas and to discuss with clients to explain the solutions for improvement.

Sql and Cobol Code Optimization

Guiding team members on technical and functional skills.

Analysis, design and develop software application/interface architecture of large and business critical systems.

Schedule meetings with Business users, understand requirements, Design, Develop, write test cases and Test the programs using Cobol, CICS and JCL utilizing VSAM, DB2 and utilizing version control tool Endevor utilities.

Prepare Technical documentation, user documentation, system flows and test scripts and do walkthroughs with all parties including Business users and Testing teams to get their approvals at the end of each phase.

Analyze and debug every testing defect and come with root cause of the issue and redesign and modify the programs to take care of each test defect within the stipulated SLA limits and get the revised design document and test results approved within the project timelines.

Analyze and understand the Migration requirements when a data is getting migrated to the new vendor database, work with business users to create Source to destination mapping document, design and develop Migration extract programs to extract data and work with the vendor to load the same into the new database.

Design and implement (Coding) applications with stringent performance & scalability requirements and developing low latency, extreme transaction processing systems.

Analyze and write detailed description of user needs, and document steps required to develop or modify computer applications including cost proposals

Provide technical support to project teams and testing and business teams.

Responsible for delivering solution to our customer in Healthcare and Life & Annuity Insurance sector.

Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements

Responsible for managing scope, planning, tracking, change control, aspects of the project.

Responsible for effective communication between the project team and the customer. Provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the customer.

Translate business requirements into low level design documents, establish specific solutions, and leading the efforts including programming and testing that culminate in client acceptance of the results.

Establish Quality Procedure for the team and continuously monitor and audit to ensure team meets quality goals.

Duration

NOV 2008 – APR 2011

Client

MEDCO (WWW.MEDCO.COM)

Project Description

The overall goal of this HIPAA COMPLIANTproject is to become compliant with HIPAA standards which require Medco to comply with the new federal regulations for HIPAA transaction standards, Identify and inform all Medco stakeholders of the final rule and the potential impacts upon their business processes and operations and Certify pharmacies and Medicaid Agencies that the transactions they send are compliant.

Role

SENIOR DEVELOPER

Environment

TERADATA, COBOL, JCL, TSO/ISPF, FILE- MASTER, ENDEVOR, MQ SERIES,SMART-TEST, CA7, SQL & MS EXCEL

Responsibilities

Involved in analysis of business requirements, preparing high level, detail design specifications,coding, unit/integration testing of HIPAA Application programs.

Created Test Plan, Test Cases, Test data and recorded test results for all the test scenarios.

Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project,

Maintaining application and technical support and documentation,

Ensuring timely deliveries of work requests and quality of deliverables as per laid down processes.

Working with Technical team to resolve the issues

Duration

JAN 2008 – JULY 2008

Client

MACYS SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY (WWW.MACYS.COM), DULUTH,GA

Project Description

Macy's Systems and Technology is the information technology division of Federated Department Stores, Inc (FDS) which is the nations largest operator of department stores, located in all major regions of the United States. Macy's S&T offers an integrated line of central merchandising, inventory, sales, operations and distribution, financing and human resource management software for use throughout the Federated divisions. Over all IT structure is very dynamic and includes large, complex applications integrated across a variety of platforms and technologies including E-Commerce,EDI, Internet, Intranet, distributed client-server, object oriented development based around.

Role

SENIOR DEVELOPER

Environment

COBOL,JCL,DB2,CICS, MQ SERIES,UNIX,ORACLE,CA7,ROSCOE

Responsibilities

Analysis, Coding, testing of COBOL and UNIX Programs

Responsible for overseeing the Quality procedures related to the project.

Maintaining application and technical support and documentation,

Working with Technical team to resolve the issues

Duration

JAN 2005 -DEC 2007

Client

BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS (WWW.BT.COM)

Project Description

OSIS /LORS is a system owned by BT Contact. It’s an OFCOM project managed by BT. The system receives the number information from all license Operators (around 60) including BT and process them and stores the information in DB2 database. The processed data is then passed to various licensed downstream customers, who use this data for making products by using number information such as BT Directories, Yellow Pages etc. The system also has online clients distributed all over UK and used by licensed operators to feed/update/delete the data

Role

MAINFRAME DEVELOPER

Environment

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, MQ SERIES,TSO/ISPF, OMEGAMON,UNIX,ORACLE8I, SPUFI,UNICENTER RC/UPDATE,CONTROL-D, CLARIFY BRIDGE CLIENT,CA7,XMODS, SQL, QMF,, MVS, CICS,WINDOWS 2000

Responsibilities

Writing sql queries as per Customer requirements and extracting data into worksheet,format data

Process the service requests(SR)/problem Reports (PR).

24/7 on-call support for batch jobs failures and server traps.

Tracking the progress of Bridge cases with appropriate support groups in case of out of scope faults .

Liaising with the Various support group to determine nature of fault, fault resolution, etc.

Coordinate the changes to CA7 schedule,Control-D etc .

Involved in data analysis, data corrections and code changes as temporary solution for production workaround.

Support to new BT contact staff for queries regarding the application and processes.

Rectifying the problems raised through Bridge cases, Investigate the cause of failure and fix the same or pass onto development team as appropriate

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Telecommunication Engineering, Bangalore University, India.

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