Summary:

Over **+ years of experience in IBM/Mainframe technology (Online and Batch Applications) and web technologies. Possess Functional Knowledge and working experience in Banking and Financial domains.

Extensive Knowledge in full life cycle of SDLC(Waterfall/Agile) from a requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.

Interest and the ability to learn new things and accept challenging tasks. Motivation to take independent responsibility and be a productive team member and a proven good leader with experience in working with teams.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems

MVS, OS/390, Z/OS, Windows.

Programming Language

COBOL, CICS, JCL, SQL, Easytrieve.

Databases

DB2, IMS DB, VSAM

Tools / Utilities

TSO/ISPF, Platinum, Spufi, Control-M, FILE-AID, Endevor, Change-Man, CLEAR-CASE, SAR, SDSF, Intertest/ Smarttest/ Expeditor (batch and online), Abend-Aid, SDSF, CA7, DASD MGMT, AXWAY- CFT, NDM, QMF, SUPER-C, IBM SORT, JES, SYNCSORT, ICETOOL, Panvalet.

Packages

MS Office, HP-Service Center, HP-Quality Centre.

Business Domains

Finance, Brokerage and Banking.

VISA Status:

H4 EAD – Valid till 30 Jan 2022.

Professional Experience:

Jun 2015 – Aug 2018 Delivery Module Lead, Mphasis

Client: AIG VALIC Retirement

Roles & Responsibilities:

To analyze the incident tickets and respond to business queries for the transactions queued through online / processed through batch. Also, Provide solutions and design for any deviations from expected results. Worked with senior management to interpret and analyze complex and unstructured business problems and recommend solutions.

Incase of financial impact to customers, actual gain/loss values are computed based on the transactions, Unit price for a certain impacted period and the values are adjusted after the approvals from the senior management. As part of the production support, new modules are written to handle such requests.

Ability to multi-task work across the different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects in JCL, COBOL, VSAM, IMS, DB2.

Analyzed complex modules and found the existing bugs in the application. Created the technical & functional design, estimation and efforts to address the business issues.

Oversees/Coordinates the completion of unit testing, integration and system testing, according to detailed test plans to ensure high-quality systems.

Conducted technical code reviews the other development/support projects and provided feedback and suggestion for improvement.

Job Monitoring: To monitor the daily cycle as Level 3 Support and fix job abends in the job cycle.

Service Requests: Sub-Product changes and fund adjustments for fixed/variable and mutual funds for a group.

Performance improvement initiatives for long running jobs.

To train people freshers for technical and business orientation.

Aug 2010 – Jun 2014 Senior Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments

Roles & Responsibilities:

Analyze the business requirement and create technical and detail design specifications for the Online and Batch systems. Development of programs, transactions and jobs using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS.

Designed and created new generic batch and online application interfaces for Held-Away Account Navigation, Online Banking & FDIC Bank list applications. Generic design helped the application to be reused for multiple banks with minimal changes.

Estimated project cost, feasibility and proposals for senior management and executive decisions on large complex projects.

Worked on top CPU consuming jobs for performance tuning and have done a signification reduction in the CPU by reducing the MIPS & TCOA savings. Have also done job tweaking to make sure the system does not miss SLA.

Developed new webservices as part of cross-platform application learning.

Experience being a client and as well as directly working with the clients to provide prospective solutions.

Involved in preparing test plans. Unit, Functional, System and Regression testing of programs are done across test data. For new/select applications, these volume testing are done with prod live data as well to ensure reliability.

Experience working on the project built using the Agile Methodology. Involved in the planning, design discussions and scrum meetings for the project.

Handling adhoc requests, impact analysis and have created change requests for the new requirements.

Involved in production support activities and monitoring the Batch Cycles. Ensured the batch cycle gets completed in time. Also, fixed the issues within the time mentioned in Service Level Agreements (SLA). Debugging and implementing the changes for prod support fixes.

Jan 2007 – Jul 2010 Assistant Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services

Clients: Bank of America & Colonial Bank

Roles & Responsibilities:

Involved in development/enhancement of applications using JCL, VSAM, COBOL, and DB2.Followed the coding standards for the development of programs and jobs in JCL, COBOL, DB2, and CICS. Debugging of the programs.

Worked in Majorly in deconversions: US TRUST to Bank of America, Lasalle Bank to Bank of America, Colonial Bank to BB&T.

Worked in DB Migrations from IMS to DB2 for Bank of America as part of BOSS CIF retirement project.

Gained experience in developing high volume, high performance, high availability batch and real-time applications.

Unit and System integration testing of programs after the impact analysis. Writing Test steps for various functionality and have done system and functionality testing.

Interacting with the multiple teams and handling Ad-Hoc Requests.

Status meetings with the stakeholders and involved in tracking and monitoring the team for performance during the execution phase of the project.

Certifications/Trainings:

IBM DB2- 700 Certified Professional.

Have undergone training from IBM on CICS V3.2 Advanced application development for SOA & web services.

Education:

Qualification

Year

Institute

Aggregate

B.Sc. Physics

March 2006

Sadakathullah Appa College, Tirunelveli

78.9

X II

March 2003

Sarah Tucker Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli

73.5

X

March 2001

Sarah Tucker Higher Secondary School, Tirunelveli

89.6

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