Key highlights

I have over **+ Years of cognizant experience in software development, with rich experience in Mainframe Testing, Production Support, Application Maintenance and Enhancement Projects.

Excellent customer interaction experience with four years of work experience in client location Pittsburgh and Hartford USA from 2013 to 2016.

Analyzing Business Specifications, Designing & developing Test Scenarios, Test plan, Test cases and Test Summary Reports.

Has relevant experience and exposure to all stages of Software Development Life Cycle like, Analysis, Planning, Design, Execution and Defect Management Activities.

Experience in both Mainframe Development and Testing Projects.

Excellent Domain knowledge in BFS, Healthcare, Insurance and Retail domains.

Has Experience in Agile and Waterfall Models of Project Management.

Good at analyzing the raw data, drawing conclusions & developing recommendations

and suggestions.

Quick learner, self-motivating and enthusiastic to work with new technologies.

Certifications

DB2: IBM DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamentals.

Language CCP’s: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, Mainframe Testing and ITIS - Mainframe Production Control – Practitioner & Selenium.

Domain CCP’S: BFS L0, BFS L1 & BFS-L1 Derivatives.

Management Summary

oExperience working with multiple stakeholders including business users, implementation partner, Development Module leads.

oExperience Scrum Master role and drive all the scrum ceremonies.

oHandled Monthly Metrics, Estimation, Task tracking, QA activities, billing/invoice, Forecast and Team Management.

oManaging & leading Automation, Manual and UAT test teams.

Technical Summary

Worked as Mainframes Tech lead and involved in various development and maintenance projects.

Worked as Mainframe Test Lead and also involved in Automation.

FUNCTIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

S/W development life cycle methodologies

Possess strong knowledge in creating and maintaining system related documentation such as Business requirements, process flows, status reports & configuration worksheets with all pertinent project information.

Implementing projects & end to end testing

Involved in requirements gathering for new development and analysis of the existing system.

Involved in Functional and Automation testing.

Skill Set: COBOL, JCL, CICS,C,C++

Selenium, Java & HTML

Database and Tools: DB2, VSAM, File – Aid, ENDEVOR, Oracle & SQL Server

Operating systems - Windows, Unix, MVS, OS 390

Utilities : QMF, CA7,XPEDITOR, TSO-ISPF, IMS DB/DC & IBM utilities

Other Skills & Tools – Jenkins, Kibana, Maven, Git Hub, Sauce Lab, SCLM, QC & Jira.

Process: Agile & Water fall

Express Scripts Hyderabad, India

Test Lead July 2016 – Till Date

Project Summary: IBS (Integrated Billing System) IBS is a controller to determine when to pay claims to pharmacies and invoice clients. IBS maintains and controls the billing frequencies for clients and invoicing clients. IBS generates Claim invoice and Admin invoices. ITP system dynamically generates JCL code, which produces billing files that are delivered to the clients. ITP uses 9904 file extracted from EIW and generates client specific billing files. CDL (Customized Data layout) for paid reversal, adjustments, PAL (Post Adjudication layout), SPAL (Supplemental PAL) and MBTF (Member Balance Transfer) files. ICW is a financial system that determines when to issue a check to a member or pharmacy for reimbursement. ICW processing can be categorized as direct processing, pharmacy statements and reissue checks. Typically, ICW handles recovery, refund, zero balance, FADS (Financial Adjustment Detail Statement) and reissues. All 3 modules IBS, ITP & ICW together make up Billing & Revenue system, a key financial entity of ESI.

Responsibilities

As a lead, I am responsible for project deliverables on time, review of the team’s work and

ensure adhere to the client's process.

Performed the role of Test Lead which involved understanding the business requirements,

analyzing the current system, proposing new design, performing walkthrough of the Tech

Specification document

Worked on all phases of System Testing like preparing Test conditions, Test Design review,

Conducting test conditions walkthrough, Test Execution, Defect Tracking & Deployment support

activities.

Analyzing the existing manual process and propose a solution for automation

Prepare the design document and implement the design document review comments from

the development Team.

Raise and manage defects in JIRA.

Coordinating with Dev team to give overview of defects captured.

Actively involved in all team meetings with Dev and Business.

Preparing the release documents for every bi-weekly release.

Mentoring and Coaching team members on areas of opportunities and look for continuous

Improvement of the process.

ETL Testing

Verified the Data transformed as per expectation.

Execute the backend data driven test.

Writing SQL Queries for various scenarios like count test.

The Hartford Hartford, Connecticut

Onsite Tech Lead April 2014 – June 2016

Project Summary: PLA (Personal Lines Automation) PLA is The Hartford’s premium Quoting, policy issuance, statistical coding and policy administration system for personal line of business. PLA supports a number of policy administration functions including Rating/Quoting, Coding, Policy writing, New Business Renewals, and Endorsements, cancellations Reinstatements, Audit and Inquiry. PLA will mainly deals with Home and Auto insurance. PLA has been used as the backend system for underwriting all Hartford Policies and to send policy forms to the insured. All policies issue/submitted through the front-end systems/services.

Responsibilities

Involved in all KT Phases from KA to Stabilization Phases.

Involved and preparing the functional and technical design Specification documents, system test

Plan, test procedure document and Implementation Plan. For Maintenance PPM’s,

Provide support during migration and scheduled implementations.

Involved and played a key role in the Alert Monitoring for PLA.

Involved and played a key role as CAB Coordinator for PLA.

Involved in the Defect Triage and ROM Meetings.

Involved and played a key role in Bi-Monthly Pre and Post Release Monitoring.

Played a Key Role as an Onshore POC for Service Request raised by Business and Other Teams.

Provide real time production support fix for all critical incidents and service requests raised by the

Business teams.

Gathering the requirements and perform analysis on various enhancements, perform impact

analysis to find out systems/programs that could affect by processing changes, coding and testing

and implementation changes.

Involved in the Peer Reviews for all Maintenance PPM’s.

Bank of New York Mellon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Onsite Tech Lead April 2012 – March 2014

Project Summary: CDM (Client Data Management) – Client Data Management project is a development project to increase data consistency and accuracy of customer information. Client Data Management project is involved in phases including Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Unit Testing, System & Integration Testing, Performance Testing, Implementation, Post Implementation Support and Maintenance. Technologies used in the project are COBOL, JCL, ENDEVOR and DB2. All the developed COBOL, JCL codes have been moved to Endevor QA to Endevor Production environment.

Responsibilities

Effective Planning and Updating Tracking.

Preparing the Weekly/Wings Status reports.

Participated in the status meetings and Peer Reviews.

Involved from Requirement analysis, Raising Clarifications, Preparing Design Specification

Documents, Guiding Team during Coding and Testing phase.

Involved in the Accrual/Invoice/SLA Metrics for CDM project.

Involved in the Delivery declaration for CDM Project.

Involved in the automation of various Rexx Tools.

Involved in coding new programs from scratch as per the client requirements, reviewing codes

developed and delivering it as per the standards.

Prepare Unit Test and prod JCL.

Peer Reviews.

Unit Testing and logging the results.

Process/Performance Improvement Initiatives:

Prepared SAD documents at Domain Level for better understanding on Existing System.

Worked as DP coordinator of CDM project to prevent the defects by all possible ways. Activities

Include RCA, educating team members about types, severity and priority of defects, avoiding

Common type of defects

Involved in audit related activities and ensured conformance and compliance to standards.

Northern Trust Chennai, India

Team Member July 2009 – March 2012

Project Summary: CDM (Client Data Management) – TBR Application is Trust Bank Reporting Application for the consolidated Reporting System of the Northern Trust Bank. The Objective of the Project is to migrate the Existing TBR Application in Mainframe PDS to the SCLM Environment. The Complete Application in PL1/Assembler DB2 IMS Environment is migrated to SCLM Environment. The Application has complete Information of the various Reports for the Banking Application. Around 3000 Modules in Pl/1 Version 2 and Version 3 are migrated to SCLM Environment in Version 3 PL1 Modules. The Project was designed to migrate the Modules by creating the SCLM Components for the Modules and Unit Testing the Components and Finally System Testing was performed for the entire application. Around 100 Batch Jobs were setup and 3000 Modules associated with the Application are migrated.

Responsibilities

Effective Planning and Updating Tracking.

Participated in the Estimates, Planning and Co-ordination with the Client and Onsite Lead.

Participated in the Complete Impact Analysis to identify the various modules in the TBR

Application.

Participated in the Estimation, Planning and Plan for the Project.

Participated in the automation of various Migration Process.

Participated in JCLs for Testing the Modules were generated using REXX Tools.

Guided team members on technical issues and reviewed the modules migrated by the

developers.

Participated in editing and creating datasets for the System Testing Cycle Setup for the

TBR Application

Wal-Mart Chennai, India

Developer April 2007 – June 2009

Project Summary: PROL (Program Records on Line) consists of network and syndicator programming. It(PROL) consists of 450+ Batch and CICS routines, that process this network and syndicator programming from a station lineup sent in by the client to an AMOL verified final lineup sent back to the client and off to ratings. PROL consists of several phases, CONTROL, PROGRAM ACCEPTANCE (client input lineup data), AMOL (information received from station meters), STATION DATA BASE, and FINAL LINEUPS. Each station lineup sent in by a client (not including retro coded programs), goes through each of these phases in order to produce a final lineup.

Responsibilities

Participated in the Estimates, Planning and Co-ordination with the Client and Onsite Lead.

Have worked on all phases of System Testing like preparing Test conditions, Test Design review,

Conducting test conditions walkthrough, Test Execution, Defect Tracking & Deployment support

activities.

Understanding the Business Requirements, interacting with Clients for clarification.

Support related activities and also performed including production and test batch cycles, handling

Incidents from testing

Perform system analysis, design, coding and testing and will manage the implementation and post

Implementation phases of this project.

Used Endeavor and CA-7 in implementing COBOL PL1 and CICS modules.

Discover Chennai, India

Team Member August 2005 – March 2007

Project Summary: STARS (Striving to Achieve Rapid Settlement) are one of the core merchant applications at Discover Financial Services, which processes the accepted credit card transactions received from the merchants. The STARS system calculates discounts, processing fees, settlement amounts and further reimburses the merchants for accepting the Discover Card transactions. It prepares internally used reports to track and balance Discover Financial Services merchants’ transactions. It also passes approved Discover cardholder transactions to DFSI Cardholder Posting and Billing (CPB) systems.

Responsibilities

As a developer Coded so many report generation programs from the scratch.

Analyzed the COBOL modules and code changes were done for around 10 COBOL Modules.

The Modules were tested and delivered without any errors.

Perform unit testing, integration testing

Demonstrate the application to the client.

Have worked on all phases of System Testing like preparing Test conditions, Test Design review,

Conducting test conditions walkthrough, Test Execution, Defect Tracking & Deployment support

activities.

Understanding the Business Requirements, interacting with Clients for clarification.

Support related activities are also performed including production and test batch cycles, handling

Incidents from testing.

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Applications(MCA) from Madras University Chennai, India

Bachelor of Science from Osmania University Hyderabad, India.

SUMMARY

TECHNICAL AND EDUCATIONAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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