Venugopal Bommena

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SUMMARY

•Around 11 years of experience in IT industry encompassing wide range of skill sets, roles and industry verticals.

•An accomplished Software Engineer specialized in Design and Analysis with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including requirement analysis, high and low level design, implementation, testing, debugging and maintenance. Worked extensively in Mainframes technology and well versed in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, REXX and CICS. Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements.

•Very good exposure to Development, Prod Support Activities and was responsible for providing 24X7 on various complex mainframe applications at client locations.

•Excellent problem solving skills.

•Experience in Quality procedures and Documentation.

•Excellent experience as a team lead.

•In depth understanding and versatile in Project Software Development Life Cycle

•Very good exposure to Healthcare & Banking Domain.

•Talented communicator, able to build working relationships with wide range of coworkers in team environment.

Skills:

Operating System - Windows

Languages - COBOL, JCL, SAS, Eazytrieve, and REXX

Tools - File-aid, File Manager, Xpeditor, IDCAMS, CA- Work Station, HP Service Manager,DB2 File Aid, SPUFI,ESP, QC,Abend Aid, JHS, Endevor, ALM

RDBMS - DB2, IMS

OLTP - CICS

Domain - Healthcare and Banking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company: Accenture

Client: Cigna – Bloomfield CT (Jan 2018 – Till Date)

Project: Cigna ETSG Finance Accounting Redesign

Currently working as Onshore Technical Lead for ETSG Team in Cigna Finance Area

This includes Accounting Applications.

My role includes –

Gathering requirements from Client and come up with design documents.

Create test plan, test strategy and test cases documents based on the BRD.

Preparing Job flow diagrams for every test cycle.

Communicate with the client for any clarification or solution requirements.

Post Implementation Support

Perform End to End testing with various systems.

Individually handled the various projects assigned. Interacted with various systems counter parts to get the correct requirements and delivered the entire task on time, with high accuracy.

Document and analyze problem details, and perform RCA (root cause analysis).

Perform check out of applications when there is Server Migrations, Hardware refresh activity.

Participate in periodic meetings with the Business team for discussing the system status

Prepare check list and documents for Team reference.

Good knowledge of basic SDSF Commands.

Scheduling jobs in ESP and CA Workstation.

Making Scheduling changes as per Client's Requirement such as defining a new job, modifying an existing job, calendar updates, adding predecessors and successors to the existing job and adding file dependencies.

Explanation of Job definitions, Job streams, Calendars, Workstations, Scripts, Checking the timings of job running, checking the variants in TWS Maestro

Ad hoc request to Schedule Particular Jobs.

Review daily ABEND reports to determine jobs that may require further action for a permanent resolution.

Setting up calendars in all tools as part of Year End Process.

Direct Client support by communicating with them.

Handling Outages and RCAs (Root Cause Analysis).

Involved in various migration and upgrade process from design, requirement gathering stage.

Involved in defect fix, enhancements and design, development and testing of new requests.

Company: Accenture

Client: Cigna – Bloomfield CT (Oct 2014 – Dec 2017)

Project: Cigna ETSG Production Support

Worked as Onshore Technical Lead for ETSG Team in Cigna Finance Area

This includes both the Accounting and Tax and Treasury applications.

My role includes –

Monitoring all Mainframe batch jobs and fixing abends, check for long running jobs and investigate for any loop back issues with batch jobs. Monitor batch cycles for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly jobs and report statistics to client.

Monitoring on standards and performance targets.

Arranging weekly team meetings, focusing on targets & achievements.

Well versed with Production Control Operations and Scheduling Processes.

Work on Disaster Recovery process.

Ensure timely completion of the batch cycles, HOLD, Force complete, Rerun and schedule to run next workday.

Provide Production support 24X7 which involves escalation of abends.

Provide immediate fixes to the production abends. Solving production abends as per the prose of the document.

Ensure that all transaction processing regions are up on time.

Document and analyze problem details, and perform RCA (root cause analysis).

Perform check out of applications when there is Server Migrations, Hardware refresh activity.

Participate in periodic meetings with the onsite team for discussing the system status

Prepare check list and documents for Team reference.

Good knowledge of basic SDSF Commands.

Scheduling jobs in ESP and CA Workstation.

Making Scheduling changes as per Client's Requirement such as defining a new job, modifying an existing job, calendar updates, adding predecessors and successors to the existing job and adding file dependencies.

Explanation of Job definitions, Job streams, Calendars, Workstations, Scripts, Checking the timings of job running, checking the variants in TWS Maestro

Ad hoc request to Schedule Particular Jobs.

Review daily ABEND reports to determine jobs that may require further action for a permanent resolution.

Setting up calendars in all tools as part of Year End Process.

Direct Client support by communicating with them.

Handling Outages and RCAs (Root Cause Analysis).

Involved in various migration and upgrade process from design, requirement gathering stage.

Involved in defect fix, enhancements and design, development and testing of new requests.

Supported SAS & Cognos based application.

Company: DST Worldwide Services

Client: ARGUS - Kansas (Jun 2011–Sep 2014)

Worked as Senior Software Engineer on Claims Level II project

My role included –

Production issues will be sent to us as magic tickets. We will be analyzing the issues and come up with the resolution. Before making changes, we will be doing impact analysis and then will modify the program and test it and sent it to QC for migration.

Based on the amount of code changes/logic implementation, we will come up with the estimates and will go ahead with the code changes after design approval from client.

Handling new issues/requirements. Dealing with and resolving problems and issues which arise.

Mentoring and training up junior and new staff. Monitoring on standards and performance targets.

Arranging weekly team meetings, focusing on targets & achievements.

Acknowledge team members for good work and create a positive working environment.

Sending the status report to the clients.

Technically I am involved in developing some of the most complex modules based on Client requirement.

Worked extensively on COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS and REXX. All the databases used in the project were IBM DB2 and hence build a high level proficiency on the same.

Key member of peer review process.

Company: TCS

Client: JMPC (Sep 2009–Feb 2013)

Project: CIS Production Support

Responsible for all the activities of prod support and Primary point of contact in the shift

Worked on Production Fixes providing solution to the same.

Involved in raising tickets depending on the severity and also addressing the tickets being raised.

Joining the regular Prod support meeting with Clients.

Fixing the code in given time frame (P4 tickets) without any SLA miss and installing the changes in Production.

Understanding and brainstorming sessions conducted on the existing Scope and Requirements.

Technical/Functional Brown Bag Sessions being conducted to gain knowledge on existing Fire system and also to improve technical capability on languages like IMS/DB, PL/I etc.

Create technical/functional understanding documents on tools/utilities/process specific to the project (Self & Team)

Create and execute Test Jobs for various fire applications and to create documentation on Testing Process and Lessons Learnt (Self & Team).

Self-Study by going through existing Knowledge Capture Recordings and Documents of the existing Fire Application

Responsible for preparing the review checklists for the team

Company: TCS

Client: JPMC (Dec 2008–Oct 2009)

Project: WaMu Conversion

Working as a Software Engineer in WaMu conversion Project.

Analyzing the Business Requirement and Solution proposal documents and having a walkthrough of the requirement with customer.

Create test plan, test strategy and test cases documents based on the BRD.

Preparing Job flow diagrams for every test cycle.

Worked Prod Fixes providing solution to the same.

Communicate with the client for any clarification or solution requirements.

Post Implementation Support

Perform End to End testing with various systems.

Individually handled the various projects assigned. Interacted with onsite managers/counterparts of various systems to get the correct requirements and delivered the entire task on time, with high accuracy.

Involved in regular status updates with the onsite manager/teams.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

•Master of Technology in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Mumbai University, India.

•Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU University, India.

Trainings and Certifications:

SAFe® 4 Agilist

Scaled Agile Inc

August 2019

ITIL Foundation

Accenture India

August 2016

AHM 250

Accenture India

October 2016

IBM DB2 700

TCS

March 2009

Mainframe Training

TCS

October 2008

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