Prateek Sikarwar Skype ID: prateeksichem

E-Mail: adbve0@r.postjobfree.com Contact: 513-***-****

Visa Status: H1B

Professional Summary

** ***** ** ********** ** Analysis, Design, Development, testing and Implementation on IBM mainframe for Banking, Cards and Insurance Domains.

Strong technical knowledge in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, MQ series, SAS, ISPF, Z/OS, MVS, Unix and Easytrieve.

2+ years of experience in coordinating the project from clients location.

Main responsibilities include understanding of client requirements and develop solutions and package them as Enhancements and deliver thru Agile and Waterfall Methodology.

Extensively worked on Mutual Fund Products based on IBM Mainframe.

Extensively worked in Credit Card related development Projects and possess very good knowledge of Retail and Commercial Banking, and Insurance projects.

Involved in preparing Unit Test and System Test Plans and test cases for the components developed on Mainframes along with their execution in the respective phases of its life cycle.

Good exposure to Quality Procedures and Processes, Strong Communication skills, Self-motivate and Ability to take initiatives and willing to learn to new technologies quickly.

Proficient in IBM utilities IEBGENER, IEFBR14, IEBCOPY, IDCAMS, SYNCSORT and ICETOOL.

Ability to meet deadlines and handle pressure and coordinate multiple tasks in a work / project environment operated on Onsite-Offshore model.

Enthusiastic to learn and ready to adapt new distributed technologies.

Currently associated with Fidelity Investments, from December 2015 - till date.

Worked as Application programmer in Wipro Technology from May 2010 - December 2015.

Worked as Application programmer in Cognizant Technology Solution, From 22-OCT-2007 to 15-Apr-2010.

Education

Master of Technology from IT-BHU July’2007

Bachelor of Engineer from Ujjain Engineering College July’2005

Technical Skills Profile

Technical

Operating System

MVS, IBM Z/OS, UNIX

Environment

CICS, TSO-ISPF

Database

VSAM, DB2, IMS DB

Languages

COBOL, CICS, MQ, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, SQL, REXX, DFSORT, ICETOOL, IDMS, shell scripting, Stored Procedure, PL/SQL

Tools

File Aid, File Manager, Changeman, Endeavor, Rational Clear case, Xpeditor, IBM Debug Tool, Abend Aid, CA-7, TWS, NDM, Fault Analyzer, SyncSort., HPSM, HP ALM, ETL (Adeptia), Axway Passport Composer Sentinel)

Technologies

Mainframe

Professional Experience

Fidelity, Durham, NC December 2015 – till date

Sr. Mainframe Developer

Team Size: 5

Project: Hot Money Mutual Funds Excessive Trading, SPS Implementation

This Project is to Monitor excessive trading done by customer and Imposed Sanction for a period of time, generate reports for Sanctioned Customers, and handled adhoc request to manage sanctions for several funds. Currently Involved in many migration project: already implemented CICS operated screen to Frontend by providing backend services thru Native Stored procedures, and migrating data from VSAM.

Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering functional and technical requirements.

Responsible for creating Design documents, System flows and Data models.

Developing code following all the standards for Application running on IBM Mainframe.

Developed Native Stored Procedure on backend to integrate with front end MFOP thru Rest Services.

Responsible for delivery of task with high level of quality followed by coding standards, testing documentation, checklist.

Responsible for estimating, tracking and reporting QA/Production Incidents/Defects.

Handling Code Management for multiple region architecture.

Assist QA in any issues during the testing and resolve any defects .

Responsible for Scheduling, deployment and Optimization for CICS and DB2 based Application.

Preparing weekly status and monthly status report

Attending Defect calls, involve in DR activities.

Environment:

MVS- Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, Native Stored Procedure, QMF- SPUFI, Query Monitor, VSAM, TWS, Endevor, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, IDCAMS, Fault Analyser.

Capital One, Chicago, IL August 2014 – December 2015

Onsite Lead/Sr. Mainframe Developer

Team Size: 4

Project: Middle layer application for card servicing.

WES (Whirl Endpoint Services) is a collection of Intelligent Mainframe services used to access data and enforce business rules owned by Partnership core Mainframe systems.

WES is at the centre of Integration between Channels and Core System of Records on Mainframe CMS, FAS, TRAMS, LMS, CDM, SNAP and LTS. WES Application is 95% online and 5% batch. WES is Highly Available, Resilient and Integrates across boundaries. WES has Lightweight reusable services which handles High volume traffic with Low Latency. WES has Data Security layer, Monitoring and Logging Capabilities. WES has removed the dependencies between Servicing Channels and Core Mainframe System of Records by Integrating the information assets in CMS, FAS, TRAMS, CDM, SNAP, LMS and LTS.

Responsibilities:

Involved in gathering functional and technical requirements based on AGILE METHODOLOGY.

Developing code and perform testing in Agile Framework.

Coding Changes based on Complexity of Incidents/Service Calls using COBOL, DB2, JCL and CICS.

Responsible for delivery of task with high level of quality followed by coding standards, testing documentation, checklist.

Responsible for estimating, tracking and reporting QA/Production Incidents/Defects.

Provide business analysis documents to understand the functionality of the particular incident raised, system flow.

Handling Code Management for multiple region architecture.

Assist QA in any issues during the testing and resolve any defects .

Preparing weekly status and monthly status report

Attending Defect calls, involve in DR activities.

Environment:

MVS- Z/OS, TSO/ISPF, JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ, IMS, QMF- SPUFI, Query Monitor, VSAM, TWS, Changeman, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, IDCAMS, Fault Analyser.

Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio August 2010 – July 2014

Onsite Lead/Sr. Mainframe Developer

Team Size: 7

Project: Auto Bill Payer System

This project provides an alternate auto payment solution for Internal Merchants of the Fifth Third Bank. Project covers following Line of Businesses (Credit card payment processing, Instalment Loans, Commercial Loans, Consumer Loans, Mortgage Loans). ABP system initially add customer for auto bill payment and then get invoices from Merchant side which contains request for (Add Customer payments, Delete customer from the system, Update information of customer in the system).

Responsibilities:

Requirement Analysis, Designing, development/Enhancement of cross functional and multi-platform application.

Preparing the DDD’s (Detail Design Document) & DOU (document of understanding).

Reviewing the code changes and Technical documents.

Extensively worked on Cobol, CICS programs and DB2 stored procedures.

Responsible for delivery of task with high level of quality followed by coding standards, testing documentation, checklist.

Creating Unit test plan/cases, data creation for testing and conducting the unit testing.

Responsible for estimating, tracking and reporting QA/Production Incidents/Defects.

Responsible for software implementation in Production and providing On Call support.

Environment:

JCL, COBOL, MQ, CICS, DB2, QMF- SPUFI, VSAM, TWS, Changeman/Roscoe, SYNCSORT, IDCAMS, REXX, File-Manager.

METLIFE, Kolkata, India Oct’2007 – June 2010

Mainframe Developer

Team Size: 8

Project: Met IB COMP-Enhancement

The project handles the payout made to the MetLife agents. It consists of various modules like Pre–attribution, Attribution, Adjustment and STI Reporting out of which I am leading the STI Reporting and also taking care of Adjustment. Pre-attribution Module formats the feed coming from Administration, Attribution Module mostly deals with the calculation part, Adjustment Module taking care of the errored transaction and also pulling errored transaction and insert that transaction into the system after correction, STI Reporting generates report containing business financial events occur in a particular week.

Responsibilities:

Gathering Requirements & documenting them.

Developed automated tools for region verification before testing

Coding Programs, Preparation of Product Implementation components (Procs, JCLs & Control Cards).

Extensively worked using Cobol, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS.

Handled Code Management for multi region operation which helps in parallel development of code.

Provided timely solutions to the issues faced, which helped in meeting the deadlines of the project.

Ensuring the quality of deliverables.

Environment:

IBM- Z/OS, VSAM, JCL, COBOL, REXX, QMF- SPUFI, DB2, CA7, Rational Clear case, IBM utilities.

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