Yashavanth Nanjunda Swamy

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Professional Summary:

●Senior IT Professional with around 15 years of experience as Lead Developer, Systems Analyst, Onsite coordinator, Application SME etc.

●I have worked with various clients like ANZ, Fidelity Investments, CoreLogic, AutoZone, Navient, JP Morgan etc. in understanding their requirements and providing effective solutions in IT.

●Vast experience in Core Banking – Retail ( Loans & Customer processing), Transaction Banking ( SWIFT Processing),Student Loan Processing and Property Tax Processing.

●Involved in Full SDLC life Cycle such as Requirement gathering, Estimation, Analysis, Design, Coding, Unit testing and Deployment from SIT, UAT to Production. Successfully lead a large team in delivering various Development and Enhancement projects.

●Well experienced in analyzing Business Requirements, Adept in converting business requirements documents to well defined IT functional and System requirements . Performing critical Gap analysis between the current state of the business system and the future business needs.

●Good experience in preparing Technical Design document, Validating System Integration and UAT test cases.

●Have executed projects in Waterfall and Agile methodologies

●Have worked in development, maintenance, performance tuning, SOA, Application migration and automation projects.

●Vast Experience in IBM Mainframe Development, UNIX, DB2 and concepts of Java.

●Team Player, quick learner and self-starter with effective communication, motivation and organizational skills combined with attention to details and business process improvements.

●High Quality deliverables within stipulated timelines.

●Excellent verbal and written skills, especially with regards to presenting findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Education and Certifications

Professional Experience

Title of the Degree with Branch

College/University

B.E Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Visa Details - Approved H1 till Aug-2020 ( I-140 Approved)

Technical Skills

Platforms

OS/390, z/OS 1.7, Unix

Technology

IBM MAINFRAME

Programming Languages

COBOL, Easytrieve, Natural, Core Java, C++, C#,JCL,SQL

Database

DB2, IMS-DB, ADABAS,VSAM

Transaction Server

CICS

File System

VSAM

Version Control and Tools

CONTROL M, CA7, ENDEVOR, Xpeditor, Intertest, File Aid, File

Manager, Platinum, SPUFI,QMF

Secondary Skills

Exposure to DB2 Database Administration

Datawarehousing tools – Microstrategy 9.1, Big Data

BPM tools - Pega 6.2

Relevant Project Experience

Organization: Mphasis Pvt Ltd

Project #1

Title

Client

Environment

Team Size

Role

Period

CCB Digital – Credit Card Processing and Maintenance

Leading Bank

COBOL, JCL, VSAM,DB2, CICS & MQ Series

20

Senior developer

Feb 2018 – Till Date

Project Description

The objective of the project is to build and maintain a credit bureau reporting system. It also involved developing various APIs to expose the CARD information to systems outside the mainframe using Z/OS connect and IBM Gateway.

Role and Responsibilities

Gather requirements, analyze and design solutions for the systems.

Interact with the business system analyst and understand the requirement.

Responsible for coding, unit testing, system testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Responsible for understanding the existing systems and design systems to resolve issues and bugs.

Develop and proof the program and identify changes needed to assure production of a quality product, test new programs for logic and accurate results.

Prepare project estimates and test plan.

Responsible for architectural engagements

Contribute to process improvements

Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions

Project #2

Title

Client

Environment

Team Size

Role

Period

Corelogic – Mainframe to Linux

Leading Mortgage Service provider

COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, Natural Adabas.

4

Senior developer

Feb 2017 – Feb-2018

Project Description

The client has a suite of mainframe applications and these applications are being migrated to Linux and Mainframe is being retired. We are supporting the implementation of this migration. The mainframe applications are being re-hosted on a platform/product by NTTDATA which supports the mainframe technologies with slight conversion and executes the same as Java programs in the background. All the mainframe technologies like job scheduler, batch jobs, online processing, file

triggers, reporting, load balancer, source control etc are replaced by the equivalent technologies in the open system.

Role and Responsibilities

Explaining the functionalities of the mainframe applications to NTT data team

Testing and fixing the converted programs on Linux

Coordinating with development, UAT and migration teams on conversion, code fix and migration activities.

Impact analysis of the changes made with respect to the new platform.

Involved in on call of the migrated applications and production fix in the new environment

Involved in system integration with other applications that interface with Mainframe.

Involved in resolving performance issues with respect to the new platform by redesigning specific process.

Project #3

Title

Client

Environment

Team Size

Role

Period

CLASS -Mainframe

Leading Student Loan service provider

COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS

10

Senior developer

Sep 2015 – Jan 2017

Project Description

The client is a top company that services student and parent federal loans for the U.S. Department of Education. The customer helps borrowers successfully pay their education loans and build their credit, provides financial literacy tools and employs IDR (Income driven repayment plans) to assist the borrower manage his federal student loan payments.

CLASS Mainframe is the application that manages the loans and processes the loans under IDR.

Role and Responsibilities

Involved in the coding, unit testing, code review activities and also support UAT.

Interact with the business system analyst and understand the requirement

Providing the correct estimates for the requirements and providing the detail design document.

As part of design, providing the necessary pseudo code in the document.

Participating in the design sign off meetings with the SME’s.

Translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmers.

Analyzes current programs and processes and making recommendations which yield a more cost-effective product.

Involved in the overall code review activities and also participate in reviewing the unit test cases and test result

Project #4

Title Fund Transfer Payment Systems

Client Leading Global Financial Services firm

Environment COBOL, JCL, Natural, ADABAS, DB2, VSAM, CICS & MQ Series.

Team Size 12

Role Senior Developer

Period Oct 2013 - Aug 2015

Project Description

The client is a leading global financial services firm and one of the services they have is to facilitate high value money transfers through Swift payments for the corporates and high net worth individuals. FTS (Fund transfer application) has the functionality to validate the incoming SWIFT transaction and derive the necessary path for the transaction using STP and then do the necessary checking with OFAC and Global fund control. If there is an issue with the transaction it is routed to repair otherwise the transaction is forwarded to the clearing house for the settlement and GL for adjusting the bank balance. FTS achieves this through a series of steps which are periodically scheduled background CICS tasks.

Role and Responsibilities

Interact with the SME’s to understand the requirement and come up with the detail design document

Estimate the effort and Provide the timelines for various activities like design, coding and unit testing.

As part of design, providing the necessary pseudo code in the document.

Participating in the design sign off meetings with the SME’s.

Involved in the coding, unit testing, code review activities and also support UAT.

Coordinate with QA team in the system testing phase.

Participate in the pre-and post-implementation phase to make sure everything is up and running fine.

Project #5

Title BIST – Tax Mainframe

Client Leading Property tax service provider

Environment COBOL, NATURAL, JCL, DB2, ADABAS, VSAM, CICS

Team Size 8

Role Senior Developer

Period Sep 2008 – July 2013

Project Description

The customer is a leading property tax and mortgage services provider in US. BIST TAX Mainframe supports the TAX business of the customer. BIST TAX comprises of several applications (including but not limited to) to support the TAX business. TAX has four major functions – 1. Boarding of loan information from the mortgage company 2. Boarding of loan information from the taxing authorities

3.Reporting & processing tax payment for escrow loans 4. Reporting tax payment for non-escrow loans.

Objective of the project: This project involves transitioning of 61+ legacy Mainframe applications to Cognizant and providing application development, maintenance and support on all these applications. Application development involves requirement gathering and and design, development, QA testing, UAT testing & Implementation activities from Offshore. Application maintenance involves working on production tickets by

Role and Responsibilities

Develop technical solutions for minor enhancements and production bugs.

Involved in the coding, unit testing, code review activities and also support UAT.

Participate in the implementation of the changes.

Interact with the business analyst and gather the requirements

Perform technical and functional analysis for multiple projects.

Maintain quality, timeliness and accuracy of deliverables.

Perform defect prevention activities.

Report on project deliverables.

Serve as coordinator for team.

Work in projects based on SOA architecture involving multiple technologies like Java on the front end, Entirex as the middle ware, mainframe as the back end and the testing team and be responsible for all the mainframe deliverables and also provide the necessary inputs for the other teams from the mainframe perspective

Involved in project planning and estimation

Assigning the tasks to team members, tracking the tasks, providing technical guidance to team members for these tasks and reviewing the deliverables.

Develop mainframe services which are integrated with Front-end Java based web applications and work with Java team to improve the performance of the overall application

Organization: Mphasis Pvt Ltd

Project #6

Title Performance tuning of Inventory Management System

Client Leading auto parts retailer

Environment COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, CICS.

Team Size 4

Role Senior Developer

Period July 2007 – Sep 2008

Project Description

The customer is a leading auto parts retailer and has a chain of more than 8000 retail outlets across USA. In the outlets, the front-end applications run in UNIX and mainframe applications are in the backend. The mainframe application is involved in the processing and maintaining information about the stores, stores transaction and inventory.

With the increase in the data over the number of years, the jobs were running for a long time. This project was to identify the jobs which were running for a long time, analyse and provide recommendations for the performance tuning of these jobs.

Role and Responsibilities

Analyze the jobs executing for long time and identify the time-consuming SQL queries in the program by using the profile tool

Analyze the access path of the time-consuming SQLs by performing EXPLAIN DB2 command and come up with recommendations to fine tune the SQL, to create index etc to improve the performance

Coordinate with the applications DBA’s in fine tuning of the SQLs to improve the performance

Involved in the coding, unit testing, code review activities and also support UAT.

Interact with onsite coordinator on a regular basis to update him on offshore activities.

Participate in Estimation, review and Impact analysis

Support UAT testing and involved in JOB monitoring

Working as a primary contact for production support.

Impact Analysis on various components.

Organization: FMR India

Project #7

Title Fund Processing and reporting system

Client Top retirement planning service provider

Environment COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL & CICS

Team Size 40

Role Senior Developer

Period July 2006 – Feb 2007

Project Description

FPRS is a system to process 401k pension plans which are the equivalent of provident fund in India.

The client is the highest issuer of these plans in USA.

Role and Responsibilities

Requirement gathering and walk through with client for understanding.

Analysis, estimation and getting approval for the estimates.

Coding & Unit testing for the programs and Preparing the Unit Test Plans and UTR docs

Organization: ANZ IT

Project #8

Title Core Retail Banking for Australia and New Zealand

Client Leading bank in Australia

Environment COBOL, VSAM, DB2, JCL, IMS and Hogan

Team Size 40

Role Senior Developer

Period July 2006 – Feb 2007

Project Description

Core Retail Banking comprises of CIS (customer information system), IDS (Integrated deposit system) and ILS (loans system). Cap uses a product HOGAN, which is a mainframe-based retail-banking product. In HOGAN, application software is independent of the operating system, database management system and data communication system. I had a stint with system testing and implementation of major releases and then moved on to core functionality development later. I have been involved in design, development and testing of business requirements.

Role and Responsibilities

Interact with client on a regular basis to update him on offshore activities. Phone calls were made daily and emails sent for daily status updates

Involved in writing low level design, coding and unit testing.

Ensure all customer requests – bug-fixes and enhancements – are delivered on time and with high quality.

Ensure delivery is of high quality

Ensure to schedule / execute the following activities:

Help the new entrants in areas: Technical Details, Programming Techniques, Maintaining Quality Documents, and Various Programming Standards etc.

Work on ad hoc report requests by the business analysts.

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