Hariramanathan Janagarajan

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Professional Summary

Mainframe Professional with 12+ Years of experience in Information technology that includes Requirement Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation, testing, application support-maintenance, consulting experience in Mainframe applications of Insurance, Manufacturing & Supplies, Logistics and Mortgage Insurance.

Proficient in all stages of Software Development Life Cycle and in Agile methodology.

Specialized in both batch and online applications and has very good knowledge in JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and IBM tools.

QA Tester with over 3 years of experience, professional expertise in Smoke Testing, Black box testing, Functional testing, System Integration testing, System testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Sanity Testing and Ad-hoc testing.

Having experience in QA areas like Test Estimation, Test Strategy, Test Development and Execution, Defect tracking and Reporting, Requirement traceability and Test Reporting

Well experience in leading teams of 6 years including onsite-offshore model.

An analytical, innovative team player with a proven track record of improving efficiency and productivity through diligence and process improvement.

Efficient problem-solver who develops workable solutions, provides added value and creates project deliverables in a timely manner.

Worked independently with developers, operations, product management and other internal/external customer groups to address functional & performance issues, capacity assessment; identify deployment risks, scalability issues; troubleshoot complex application level issues and propose fixes to eliminate bottlenecks in multiple projects.

Involved in Software Development, Software Quality Assurance and Analysis, Design of Manual testing of various applications for Web and Client/Server environments.

Worked extensively in Legacy application support, developments, testing, enhancements and migration of legacy applications.

Excellent experience in documenting each phase of SDLC and implementing well defined processes for project planning & execution, preparing and managing test cases/scripts and test data for testing applications efficiently.

Hands-on lead with proven ability to direct and improve quality programs, reducing defects and improving overall efficiency and productivity.

Skilled communicator with exceptional presentation skills in leading cross-functional teams and establishing beneficial relationships in diverse environments.

Cohesive team player with fast learning curve and interpersonal skills.

Managing, mentoring, and motivating team to deliver flawless results on tight and aggressive timelines.

Built strong relationships with business stakeholders by exceeding expectations and delivering results.

Education:

Master of Computer Application from Madras Christian College / India 2005 - 2008

Bachelor of Computer Application / India 2002 - 2005

Technical Skills

Testing & Debugging tools

Xpeditor, Abend Aid, Manual Testing, Postman, REXX, SAS, Selenium

Programming Languages

JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2 SQL, PL1, JSON, HTML

Operating Systems

MVS z/OS, Windows and Unix

Platform

Mainframe

Database

DB2, VSAM

Database tools

Fileaid for DB2/MVS, File Manager for DB2/MVS, SPUFI

Processes

Agile Safe, Waterfall

Bug Tracking Tool

JIRA, TFS, Confluence

Dataset utilities

Fileaid, Filemanager, DFSORT, ISPF

Version Control tools

Changeman, Endevor

Other tools

File-Aid, Expeditor, IBM Fault Analyzer, CA7, SPUFI, QMF, IBM File Manager, POSTMAN

Project Experiences

Client: Northwestern Mutual / WI Oct 2017 - Present

Project Names: Ulife Anniversary and APS, Beneficiary and Title

Position: Mainframe QA Tester

Responsibilities

As a QA Tester, responsible for Functional & Regression Testing, QA Documentation, Defect Management and Backend Testing

Identifying/defining the scope to write the acceptance criteria for the user stories

Integration test cases were written and tested across the capabilities

Established entire Quality Assurance Documentation based on Agile Methodology

Participated in weekly assessment meetings with Subject Experts and developers

Prepared dashboard for reports through JIRA to capture the stories, respective test plans, test cases and bugs.

Updated Test plans and Test cases periodically to manage changes in requirements in agile environment

Connected to database to Query the database using SPUFI for data verification and validation.

Created Functional, Integration and Regression test cases

Debugged the test scenarios, created batch tests verified the test results and reported the defects using JIRA and TFS

Interacted Closely with developers regarding defects, participated in tracking, reviewing and analyzing bugs

Assigned Monitored and Tracked tasks of Onshore and Offshore QA Team members

Actively participated in status reporting meetings and interacted with development to discuss the technical issues.

Regularly communicated with project managers, development managers, release managers and developers to ensure comprehensive test planning and execution

Technology: Mainframes, DB2,

Software: JCL, CICS, SQL, PL1, COBOL, MQ, VSAM, SPUFI, Abend-Aid, CA-7, Postman, JSON, Selenium.

Project Experiences

Client: Northwestern Mutual / WI Oct 2015 – Sep 2017

Project Names: Ulife Anniversary and APS, Beneficiary and Title

Position: Lead Mainframe Developer

Ulife Anniversary and APS is responsible to cycle up anniversary for the new series Ulife policies. Beneficiary and Title is responsible for assisting clients and field with processing owner and beneficiary changes. Worked as a lead in the team for three years. Ulife Series project is the introduction of new policy series at the organization level. Worked as Developer lead for two agile teams in Risk Servicing area which incorporated the requirements in Policy Anniversary process and Beneficiary and Title.

Responsibilities

In Ulife Anniversary and Beneficiary and Title, designed the document layout through workshop and learn the “as-is” to derive the “to-be” model and send the generated APS outputs for printing which will be mailed to the customers.

Worked closely with Business Clients in finalizing the requirements and with Business Analyst in the preparation of design. Handled the planning and deliverable with our offshore team.

As part of LPS, participated in project requirement sessions with business analysts/ product owners to analyze business IT requirements and translated business requirements into working model.

Working as part of Agile team in Risk Servicing area which incorporates business rules into Mainframe applications using COBOL, DB2, CICS, MQ.

Conduct daily Scrum meetings with offshore to identify the issues and addressing them.

Provided updates to the product owner on a weekly basis.

Solutions are developed in continuous integration and continuous deploy model and handle the deployment among agile teams in our area.

Planning and monitoring the deployment activities of the features delivered by agile teams. Has been part of multiple major deployments and warranty support.

Lead and mentored an agile team of 15 members.

Technology: Mainframes, DB2,

Software: JCL, CICS, SQL, PL1, COBOL, MQ, VSAM, SPUFI, Abend-Aid, CA-7.

Client: Northwestern Mutual / WI / India July ’14 – Sept ’15

Project Name: Policy Owner Services (POS)

Position: Mainframes Developer

POS project is the maintenance and enhancements of legacy applications. Loan & Surrender application(L&S), Policy Change System (PCTC), Beneficiary and Title (B&T), Payment Entry (PE), Insurance Service Account (ISA). Policy Owner services focuses on integrated service strategies, client services, risk and regulatory services and policy maintenance.

Responsibilities

As a Mainframe Developer, handled the maintenance and enhancements of all Mainframe POS applications

Involved support activities in handling priority tickets, fixing real time production issues, maintaining the UAT data on a daily basis for Business Partners, requirement gathering; analysis; designing & delivering of enhancements.

In Beneficiary &Title, started with enhancement which involved in development and converted the requirements into design, developed, tested and implemented them.

Delivered defect free enhancements and reports as per the request. Received direct appreciation from client manager for enhancements in Loan & Surrender application.

Worked closely with Business Partners in gathering and validating the requirements.

Worked closely with Business Analyst in the preparation of design for each requirement.

Picked up the domain knowledge quickly and pro-actively involved in identifying the issues in design and development phases.

Hands on experience on HPSM, JIRA and TFS for support and development activities.

Helped the Team Members in resolving the issues in development and testing.

Technology: Mainframes, DB2,

Software: JCL, CICS, SQL, PL1, COBOL, MQ, VSAM, SPUFI, Abend-Aid, CA-7, VB

Project Name: GHPST2(Global High-Performance Support Team) /India Oct ’12 – Jun’14

Position: Mainframe Developer Lead

GHPST2 project is to support and enhance the Xerox’s manufacturing and supplies units and this project to support GHPST2 applications and handle Enhancements, Incidents, Service request and Change requests.

Responsibilities

As a Team Lead, gathered all requirements for this project from Onsite counterpart for Scheduler Testing, Functional Testing and audit reports request.

Analyzed Business product requirements, SLA and designed QA – functional and performance requirements; Defined Test strategy and evaluated the potential risks.

Lead a team of 8 members on migration tasks and functional testing activities.

As a daily activity, tracked the progress of the team in all tasks. In case of any issues, worked with the team on resolving issues, if needed raised questions to client and worked with onsite and followed on it until closure.

Reviewed the work of the team members and provide reports and status to the managers and onsite on a daily and weekly basis.

For all the issues faced, documented the problem and resolution throughout the development cycle and shared with the team which helped in saving time.

Involved in change management, Defect Tracking, managing periodical defect reports and deliverables.

Part of the implementation team for the production deployment.

Coordinated meetings with the teams and lead the team in finding an appropriate solution.

Lead the team in Disaster Recovery project which involved changing all the tape to DASD files and identified the appropriate retention period

Technology: Mainframes, DB2

Software: COBOL, JCL, MS Excel, CICS, SPUFI, QMF and Expeditor

Client: American Presidential Lines (APL) / India Jun ’10 – Sept ’12

Project Name: ACS123 – American Consolidation Services

Position: Mainframe Developer

ACS123 project is to support and enhance the APL’s logistics service and applications and this project to support all APL applications and handle Enhancements, Incidents, Service request and Change requests

Responsibilities:

As a Team member at offshore, analyze and understand the functionality of the system and estimated the factors for impacted components

Tracked and monitored the deliverables against time, effort and cost.

Involved team’s planning and organizing for the applications development and enhancements

Prepared test plans for the developed snippet and responsible to do unit testing & integration testing

Documented and shared the details of the problem and resolution for all the issues faced, throughout the development cycle and shared with the team.

Technology: Mainframe, DB2

Software: COBOL, JCL, MQ, VSAM, SPUFI, Abend-Aid, CA-7, VB.

Client: Honeywell / India Oct ’09 – Jun’10

Project Name: Legacy Modernization (EDI Connect Enterprise Billing – Migration)

Position: Senior Software Engineer

This legacy modernization project involved in migration of Mainframes to Business Objects (Informatica). . It involved in migration of batch jobs into Unix server. The main challenge was to identify the limitations in new environment and to migrate more than 15+ jobs in a short timeframe.

Responsibilities:

As a single mainframe resource handled the project alone and migrated from Mainframe to Informatica platform.

Overseen project scope, resource requirements, budget, timeline, deliverables and milestones.

Tracked and monitored the deliverables against time, effort and cost.

Handled the team with planning and organizing for the application migration

Worked with the team in migration tasks, identifying and resolving issues in a new environment.

Main challenge was to plan the migration for more than 15+ jobs into new environment.

Managed risks throughout the project life cycle and made contingency plans for issues that posed a risk to budget, time delivery and functionality.

Provided guidance to the Informatica resource to develop the system similar to Legacy Mainframe

Created the implementation strategy plan for the applications handled and migrated them successfully.

Project migrated successfully with zero delivered defects.

Technology: Mainframe, UNIX

Software: COBOL, JCL and Informatica

Client: Balboa Life & Casualty / India Feb ’08 – Sept ’09

Project Name: Collateral Command System

Position: Software Engineer

Balboa has been offering a wide range of insurance programs designed for financial institutions and their customers. Collateral Command System tracking of Insurance histories for their customers and effectively providing ‘Collateral Coverage’ that add value to customer relationships, are easy to administer and produce meaningful profits.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for analyzing the specifications received through the Task Manager Sheet and prepare the High-level Analysis sheet with the co-ordination of Onsite team.

Estimated the time for the allocated task through impact analysis.

Responsible for coding, peer review and testing.

To resolve issues/clarification on time raised by the onsite counterpart and ensure quality delivery.

Responsible for creating unit test cases and execute them.

Responsible for weekly knowledge transfer sessions to share application and technical experiences

Technology: Mainframe, DB2,

Software: JCL, COBOL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, File Manager, IBM Debug Tool, Xpeditor

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