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Mainframe devloper/Analyst

Location:
Mississauga, ON, Canada
Posted:
June 03, 2020

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Anupriya Bhardwaj

Sr. Systems Analyst

addlhz@r.postjobfree.com 226-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/anupriya-bhardwaj

overview

IT professional with diverse experience as Developer, Solutions designer and Systems Analyst of Mainframe and Teradata based applications.

Experienced in providing end-to-end detailed solution covering requirements gathering, analysis, design and document artifacts (SDS), code development & testing, transition to production and warranty support.

In-depth knowledge in SDLC for both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.

Business domain knowledge and experience in banking and insurance (US, Canada, Europe and Asia).

Good knowledge of the business, application architecture, system design, technical environment,

standards, processes, procedures and maintaining quality code.

Experience conducting requirements walkthroughs with various stakeholders like product owners, architects, developers and testers.

Adept in onsite-offshore team coordination, handling effort estimations and work assignments, project planning and performing project management related activities.

Strong analytical and communication skills, keen learner, self-motivated, consistent performer and recognized for contributing as a valuable team member in various projects

technical skills

Databases: DB2, IMS DB/DC, Teradata, MS access

Languages: COBOL, MF COBOL, PL/I, DB2 stored procedures, JCL, Rexx, CICS, SAS, HTML

Operating Systems: Unix, z/OS, Windows

Tools & utilities: ALIVIEW (report viewing), File Aid, CA-Intertest, QMF, SPUFI, VSAM, IMS DB/DC,

Eazytrieve, Fault Analyzer, Xpeditor, File Manager, Rational Tool Concert for Jazz,

Platinum, MQSeries, Dumpmaster, DB2 command center for windows,

BMC Remedy, HP ALM/QC, MS VISIO, JIRA, Confluence, Service Now, MS Office, Beyond Compare, Teradata SQL Assistant, DBeaver, SuperPutty,SFTP

Schedulers: Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Zeke scheduler, CA 7 scheduler, Autosys

Version Controllers: PVCS, SMARTEST, Charm, Endevor, Changeman, Librarian

professional experience

System Analyst Mainframe – Strategic Pricing and recommendations May’19 – Present

Amiga Informatics for Walmart Canada (Team size -10)

Developing and Implementing Strategic planning application and integrate with JDA software for Canadian market and International markets like Argentina, Chile, Japan, Mexico and China

Analyzing requirements and developing appropriate solutions for processing and sending data from mainframe applications to downstream applications like JDA

Working on item store pricing, taxation, markdowns, clearance and competitor data to recommend prices for various international markets

Designing solution for automating manual process and integrating with JDA software via Teradata SQL queries in batch jobs

Working on Teradata databases and Utilities like BTEQ, Teradata SQL Assistant, Fastexport, Multiload and Fastload.

Delivery of requests while working in agile environment using scrum methodology

Mainframe Technology Lead – Banking Channels and Payments Mar’17 – May’19

Infosys for Allied Irish bank (Team size - 12)

Analyzing and translating business requirements to functional and technical design documents for Mainframe applications.

Actively involved in SRS development, analysis, solution Design (SDS), build, review, test, implementation and post production deployment.

Worked on architecture involving debit/credit card, ATM/POS, phone and agent channel banking.

Designing custom new modules/components using PL/I, COBOL and DB2 Database design Concepts ensuring reusability.

Responsible for migrating SAS based reports to stored procedures and eazytrieve reports.

Responsible for managing incident management life cycle by analyzing reports, perform impact assessments and facilitate stakeholder communication.

Communicating with various stakeholders and end users for understanding and maintaining requirements, proposing solution design options, providing support and collaborate on estimates and cost.

Coordinating with various teams for successful integration and implementation of solution. Also maintaining various metrics related to progress of projects.

Participating in project meetings, facilitating stand-up calls and status meetings and tracking project status as and when required.

Recognition:

Recognized for proposing and implementing alternative approach to client for using DB2 stored procedures using JDBC API benefiting to the existing architecture as part of strategic solution for projects.

Awarded GEM accolade for leading GDPR compliance project with complete ownership and going extra mile.

Solution Designer and Subject Matter Expert - Mortgages

Infosys for HSBC (Team size - 8) Sep’15 – Feb’17

Preparing functional, technical and user interface design specifications for applications/ systems. Involved in system integration and user acceptance testing for UK based mortgage account maintenance platform

Participating as subject matter expert on multiple medium sized projects and systems development throughout life cycle on Mainframe.

Allocating deliverables to developer team and conducting reviews of code, design, unit test plans to ensure standard compliance and adherence to quality, reusability and ease of maintenance.

Reviewing sign-offs for technical solution design and support gating.

Coaching project team members with technical and system knowledge.

Recognition:

Recognized by client manager for strong technical and analytical skills and taking accountability for deliverables.

Excellent feedback shared by client and project manager and rated as top performer in the company.

Mainframe Sr. Specialist– Insurance Product development and maintenance

Sun Life Financial (Team size - 20) Dec’07-Aug'14

Experienced in all the facets of SDLC from providing end-to-end delivery solutions to covering impact analysis, design, coding, peer review, unit testing results, support system and integration testing cycles, deployment, and warranty support.

Actively contributed towards development of Enhancements, troubleshoot and Systems Development.

Gained in-depth knowledge of life insurance account maintenance platform and understanding of features such as Client information, New Business, and Application process flow, Underwriting, Policy Service, and Lapse.

Performing Root cause analysis for bugs/ problem incidents encountered during daily production support ensuring Impact Analysis, proposing fixes and testing the resolution post system testing and production deployment.

Also identify and address any issue that affects the integrity of the application such as release issues.

Providing technical support to resolve the escalated batch incidents in production, test and business regions within SLA as a part of batch cycle support.

Counselling clients and project teams on all aspects of research, analysis, design, software support, development of technical solutions and testing.

Recognition:

Recognized by SLF spot award multiple times for being effective contributor to projects, going extra mile and adding value by optimizing the batch jobs schedule.

Developed macros using VBA in excel for automating manual inquire process.

Consistently rated as top performer in the company for 4years.

education

Electronics and Communication Engineering degree @ GGS Indraprastha University, India (2001 – 2005)

certifications

Domain - LOMA 280 – Life Insurance

Technical - IBM DB2 UDB V8.1



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