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Srujan Kumar Karna

Experience Summary:

●15+ years of experience with various assignments in Mainframe Application programming and Maintenance using COBOL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, JCL and have played varied roles like Developer, SME, System Analyst and Technical leader across Insurance, Retail and Finance projects.

●Extensive experience in analysis, design, development and production support.

●Strong knowledge in IBM mainframe & Webservice.

●Expert in Expert in COBOL-DB2-CICS, zOS connect and Webservice API programming.

●Extensive knowledge and working experience in COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, Stored procedures, PL/SQL, VSAM, FILE-AID, LPAR, SDSF, TSO/ISPF, ESP, IBM Web Services, MQ, CA scheduler, MainView

●Experience in creating APIs and establishing connection between APIgee and mainframe using IBM zOS explorer.

●Excellent knowledge and work experience in various phases of SDLC such as Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Maintenance.

●Worked on development, enhancement and support of mainframe applications. Excellent Functional and Technical Knowledge in Finance, Banking and Insurance domain.

●Strong skills in different tools like Expediter, IBM debugger, SDSF, QMF, SPUFI, File Aid, Edit Plus, File Manager, Post man, soap UI, Apptune,

Interfaced with different functional groups, handled client relationships, built and worked in cross-cultural team environments.

●Experience in interacting with onsite designers and business analyst for gathering and understanding client’s requirements and transforming them into System and Technical Design.

●Hands on experience with Configuration Management tools like Changeman, Endevor, GitHub

●Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.

●Team player with strong commitment to work, who believes in the power of synergy.

Education and Certifications

Master’s Degree in Computer Science - 2003 Sri Venkateswara University – Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

Technical Skills

Project Methodologies : SDLC, Agile

Industries : Insurance, Retail, Finance

Role : Technical Lead

Operating Systems : Windows, IBM z/OS/MVS

Programming Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

Special Software/Tools : APIgee, GitHub, IDz, IBM explorer for zOS, Postman,

soap UI, IBM debugger, SPUFI, QMF, Changeman, File

Manager, IBM Debugger, AppTune, Mainview, SDSF,

Splunk,, EXPEDITOR, FILEAID, CA7, MQ

Professional Experience

Project Name

COBOL Managed Capacity – Billing (January 2016 – Till Date)

Client

Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Columbus Ohio

About the project

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, The client, is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio. Nationwide is one of the country’s largest multi-insurer and financial services organizations. As part of Nationwide, Allied partners with a network of 4000 independent agencies across 33 states.

With the Migration of Policy Admin System (Auto and Property) to Policy Centre and Rate Engine to Oracle Ins bridge, the Pricing Data, Tools and Templates also requires Modernization and Re-alignment which is cov with Policy centre and Ins bridge Data Model which is covered under this Project Scope

Position/Role

Senior Developer

Responsibilities

Understand the business functionality, business requirements and technical Specifications of the application(s).

Collect, Analysing & Documenting Client Business Requirements.

Attending Design Reviews with Business Users and Architects for Requirements Gathering.

Communicate Requirements and Design changes to offshore and assign priorities.

Estimating the total efforts that would be required to complete the enhancement or fixes

Automate the manual checks in the production batch cycle to avoid manual intervention with production data and fine tuning the batch cycle.

Develop flowcharts for the actual flow of the process.

Analyse the cause of job failures & giving permanent fix to avoid future failures

Support implementation of the changes in production environment.

Interacting with multiple applications Policy Centers, SOA, Apigee and OMS team for generating emails and printing.

Identifying the Existing Bugs and providing better solutions.

Working on Service requests for resolving any technical or business queries

Review code developed by the offshore team.

Onsite-Offshore Coordination.

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL,JCL,CICS, VSAM, DB2) Changeman, IBM debug, Filemanager, APIgee, IBM explorer for zOS, IDz, SPUFI, Postman, Soap UI

Project Name

Target: Pay TGT Credit Processing (May 2014 – December 2015)

Client

Target Corporation (offshore)

About the project

Target Corporation in the process of enhancing the security for the Target card holders, introduced the EMV Chip and Pin concept in their POS. Along with that, there are some additional changes which includes all the Target card number length being increased from 9 to 16 digit card. Also, Target Visa Cards are moved to Target Master Cards.

Position/Role

Tech Lead

Responsibilities

Analysing the application that application in credit processing area for the changes proposed

Preparing the functional and detailed design document

Data setup for the application impacted

Coding to implement the functionality specified as per the design document

Preparation of test case scenarios

Unit testing of the requirements

Issues/defects tracking and closure with resolution

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL,JCL,CICS), DB2, Endevor, Xpeditor, SoapUI, SPUFI, QMF, SDSF

Project Name

JCPenney-L3 Support (April 2011 – April 2014)

Client

J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc (offshore -Production Support)

About the project

J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (most commonly known today by the name JC Penney) is a chain of American departmental store based in Plano, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas. J.C. Penney Corporation (JC Penney) is the principal subsidiary of JC Penney Company. The company is engaged in marketing family apparel, jewellery, shoes, accessories and home furnishings. In addition, the department stores provide customers with services such as salon, optical, portrait photography and custom decorating.

JC Penney, general merchandise & apparel retailing giant in USA offers a wide array of national, private and exclusive brands with commitment to providing customers with style and quality at smart prices. It operates largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the internet, and the nation’s largest general merchandise catalog business.

The company operates 1,100 department stores in 49 of the 50 U.S states (except Hawaii) and Puerto Rico and 6 stores in JCPenney Mexico which are controlled by Mexican capital (Sold on 2003). J. C. Penney also operates catalog sales merchant offices nationwide in many small markets.

Position/Role

Module Lead

Responsibilities

Worked as a L3 Supply chain lead for offshore

Analysing the requirement from the business

Prepared detailed design and Implementation for the Change Requests.

Unit testing and pre-system testing followed with components performance testing

Recording the test results in Unit test results

Resolved the PBIs (problem tickets) within the SLA. (Root cause Analysis and permanent fix

Supported for System test and User acceptance Test

Involved in estimations.

Guiding the new joiners in the team

Involved in transition of new applications from application development team.

Involved in L2 escalations

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL,JCL,DB2,VSAM,CICS), DB2, Changeman, Xpeditor, MQ, SDSF, File Aid

Project Name

GE Payroll System (PDS) (May 2009 – April 2011)

Client

GE (General Electric) (Offshore)

About the project

GE Payroll system called PDS (Payroll Distribution system) this application runs both in PeopleSoft and Mainframes. PeopleSoft system is the front system for the entire GE business. The present GE payroll system driven by SSN, GE wants to change the SSN driven system to SSO driven. PeopleSoft to produce a SSO version of the paycalc extract to legacy system to build new SSO driven system. All efforts are include to run both the systems parallel (SSN and SSO system) There can be no differences in dollar amounts or the number of records contained in the file. Once SSO system is stabilized SSN system will be faded slowly.

Running Monthly, quarterly and yearly reports and sending them to printer services.

Position/Role

Senior Developer

Responsibilities

Started with 3 members and involved in all the KTs and enabled the new team members to work independently.

Closely worked with BA’s to understand and analyse the business requirements

Involved in Work estimation and detailed analysis of all existing components

Involved in Detailed Design and Implementation of the Change Requests

Coding to implement the functionality specified as per the design document

Prepared test case scenarios, unit testing of the changed components.

Involved in Supporting for System test and User Acceptance Test

Involved in solving the trackers.

Played as a Local System administrator

Handled a team of 5 members

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TELON), DB2, Xpeditor, Changeman, ESP, File Aid

Project Name

GE – CDF (May 2007 – April 2009)

Client

GE (General Electric) (Offshore)

About the project

The General Electric Company or GE is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. The company is itself composed of a number of primary business units or "businesses." Each "business" is itself a vast enterprise, many of which would, even as a standalone company. GE-CDF is one of the businesses of GE, Corp. It is business of funding the inventories for dealers, distributors and resellers in order to make it possible for them to stock sufficient inventory for their businesses at minimal carrying costs. It has developed and maintaining an Information management system called AIMS. AIMS are the backend Mainframe system to handle the entire Distributor’s, Manufacturer’s and dealer’s request to do the business with GE-CDF.

Position/Role

Senior Developer

Responsibilities

Involved in work estimation and detailed analysis of all existing components based on the impact.

Prepared the design documents, both LLD and HLD

Coding to implement the functionality specified as per the design document

Involved in Supporting for System test and User Acceptance Test.

Solving the trackers.

Issues/defects tracking and closure with resolution

Taken knowledge/Domain session to the freshers.

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL,JCL, SAM, CICS, TELON), DB2, Changeman, Xpeditor, SPUFI, QMF, SoapUI

Project Name

HSBC – Retail (March 2006 - May 2007) (offshore)

Business line of the client

Banking

About the project

Household’s Retail Services group is part of Household International, Inc., a leading provider of consumer loans, credit cards, auto finance, and credit insurance products. Household is US second largest provider of Private Label Credit processing to retailers. Household offers full service credit programs, including application underwriting, authorizations, customer service, collections and marketing services. Currently, Household manages in excess of 150 retail merchant relationships. The strength and reputation of Household in the marketplace has been its ability and willingness to fully customize credit programs to meet the needs of each merchant. Household’s private label credit cards are issued by Household Bank (SB), N.A., and an affiliate of Household International, Inc

Position/Role

Developer

Responsibilities

Prepared Program specifications

Developed new programs and code changes to the existing programs

UTP and UTR Preparation

Involved in reviews

Unit testing and reviewing the test results

Coordinated with the team members, onsite team members

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve), VSAM, Vision Plus, Xpeditor, Endevor

Project Name

Home Depot (April 2004 - March 2006) (Offshore)

Business line of the client

Retail

About the project

The Home Depot offers more than trusted brands for home improvement. They provide helpful services, including design consultations, delivery, installation and maintenance service. They even give tools and trucks on rent at Home Depot. They offer contractors and manager of commercial properties credit accounts and other special services and have an international staff to accommodate customers who live or do business outside of the continental U.S. They have a number of Depots throughout the country, to be available to the customers easily.

This Project is a conversion project from CROSS SYSTEM PRODUCT (CSP) to COBOL, CICS, DB2, including pseudo-conversational mode of transaction. This project involves development of 3-Application system viz, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Financial Integrity (FI) and Merchandise Management (MM) modules. These are supported by group of architecture modules of which one called Supervisor governs the flow of control among the rest of the modules, viz., DRM, DVM, DXM and IOM

Position/Role

Developer

Responsibilities

Analysing the CSP program code

Developed COBOL code using the CSP code

Created unit test plan

Performed unit testing and delivery

Support during the production implementation.

Technologies

Mainframes (COBOL,CICS, CSP), DB2, SPUFI, QMF, SDSF, Xpeditor, Endevor

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