Developer Support

EXPERIENCE:

Mainframe Developer with nearly ** years of relevant experience in Application Programming and Maintenance and Production Support functional area.

Exposure to CARDS, LOANS domains.

In depth thorough knowledge of SDLC processes like Requirement Gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, and Release Management and Support after release.

Good amount Experience in designing the IBM mainframe software using Agile Methods also.

Expert in writing complex code with COBOL, DB2 SQL, IMS DB & Flat Files.

Interacted with Clients across US, EUROPE for Requirement gathering and other phases of the project helped to get cross cultural understanding and Business knowledge.

EDUCATION:

Completed the bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from JNT University CE, Kakinada in the year 2004.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Excellent communication and written skills

Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate with the clients

Multitasking attitude and ability to motivate the team members as well as extensive knowledge of advanced technical tools and applications

Excellent leadership qualities and problem-solving skills as well as good interpersonal skills

Good organizational skills and ability to think critically

Adept at overseeing all phases of software development lifecycle, from requirements and design to implementation and Go-Live.

Good cross-cultural understanding through interactions with clients from North America and Europe

TECHNICAL SKILL SETS:

Have major exposures towards COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, DATACOM, VSAM and tools like, ICETOOL, DFSORT, Endeavour, Change man, File aid, Easytrieve, CA7 scheduler, IMS DB, OPTIM, JAVA.

Understand SAS, REXX, PL/1, DATA Reporter, FOCUS, UNIX, and ORCALE Queries, REST APIs, Web Services and KAFKA Events

Professional Experience:

MPHASIS CORPORATION, DLEAWARE US, HYDERABAD INDIA - From Dec 2016 on wards

Project : Chase Card Core (C3)

Client : JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Role : Software Engineer

Team Size : 10

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking And Financial services holding company headquartered in New York City. Mphasis is providing services and support for their Application processing. C3 or Chase Card Core provides high speed centralized processing in support of Chase Credit card operations focusing on authorization and transactions processing.

Identify the Gaps in the existing architecture of the organization's current computer systems through Gap analysis and cost benefit analysis.

Propose business solutions to help the organization operate more efficiently and effectively by conducting workshops.

Work closely with Product owner (Business) and technical team to derive the solution for the project through elicitation process and create user stories with acceptance criteria.

Conduct JAD session and facilitate working session with Product owners (Business) and Scrum team( IT Technical) to finalize the use cases, acceptance criteria for the user stories.

Create use cases, swim lane flow chart and design documents for the proposed solution.

Create a functional specification document that helps convey additional details which is not outlined in the specific user story, as well as provide a holistic picture of the Bank’s credit card application functionality.

Conduct grooming session alongside with Scrum master to Scrum team to provide solution for the root cause analysis of the Technical problems for the proposed solution.

Prepare technical design documents and functional architectural diagrams.

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

Analyze, design and develop the microservice APIs to establish the communication between the Gateway service Microsite and the Legacy Mainframe Applications for exchanging the data utilizing the RESTFUL API Web service calls.

Prepare Functional test cases, scenarios, test data for the User acceptance testing.

Conduct certification testing to ensure that the system is work as expected.

Executes the automated functional test scripts from HP-ALM and logs and tracks defects in HP-ALM.

Assist the technology team during production release, business users testing and monitor performance of program after implementation.

Technical Environment:

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS, Changeman, ASSEMBLER, REXX, SPUFI, SQL, File-Aid, CA7, JIRA,, Share Point, Java, Putty, POSTMAN, Bitbucket, GIT, Zos Explorer for APIs, Mainview, CICSCM, LeanFT, DFSORT, REST APIs, KAFKA,OPTIM tool, JAVA.

INFOSYS, Chennai. – May -2012 to Dec -2016

Project : W&G Migration Project – GMS & CMS

Client : Royal Bank of Scotland

Role : Technology Lead and End to End Designer

Team Size : 4 -10

The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, founded in 1727 by a Royal Charter of King George I, the National Westminster Bank, which can trace its lineage back to 1650, and Ulster Bank in Ireland. The RBS group is a large international banking and financial services company . From its headquarters in Edinburgh, the Group serves over 30 million customers in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia. Current Project is a Migrating some of the accounts in CMS & GMS applications to New Bank called W&G so that later they can sell it to vendor as a standalone. I was working on the activities which will not disturb the BAU flow and supports easy migration of accounts.

Worked with Business on analysis of requirements

Worked on preparing Technical Design and participated in Design walkthroughs with Clients

Worked on BAL park estimates and FP NESMA calculations.

Helping the team in coding and unit testing activities

Doing the code and test results preparation

Supporting the Testing team in ST and SIT Phases parallel.

Supporting the Implementation activities.

As a SME, supported other Mortgage projects in different phases

Involved in Project Management activities like PM Plan updates, MSRs, MTRs creation, RISK PROFILE updates, Internal CMMI audits.

Technical Environment:

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS, Changeman, SPUFI, SQL, REXX, File-Aid, CA7, Putty, DFSORT, Oracle Queries, Shell Scripting, Cross platform jobs, ASSEMBLER.

iGATE, Hyderabad. - April 2010 to May -2012

Project : RBC AMO maintenance Project

Client : Royal Bank of Canada

Role : System Analyst & Lead Developer

Team Size : 4 -6

RBC Bank serves personal, business and commercial clients in the southeastern United States through more than 270 full-service banking centers, an extensive ATM network, and telephone and Internet banking. RBC Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada is among the US 75 largest, most financially sound banks. As part of this project, we supported the issues or concerns raised by Loan customers for applications OLBB and OLMS. We also worked on the change requests for upgrading or adding new features to the OLBB and OLMS products.

Support for Retail banking (Fidelity) applications IMA, STA, ALS, CLA, ITA etc.

Support for RBC home ground Loan applications OLMS, OLBB.

Respond to Production Incidents within agreed SLA

Working the CRs for analysis and any code changes in the vendor code.

I lead the team of four members. Assigning the work and reviewing the work and guiding them in the proper way in resolution of issues.

As a part of Production support, monitoring the batch, resolving the abends and sending the SLA to clients.

Technical Environment:

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IMS, CICS, Endevor, SPUFI, SQL, File-Aid, CA7, DFSORT,ASSEMBLER

Cap Gemini, Hyderabad. - March 2006 to April 2010

Project : Essentis CoE Product (From Jan 2009 to April 2010)

Client : Essentis

Role : Developer

Team Size : 6

Essentis is a global solution for payment card issuing and merchant management, specifically designed to meet the needs of international institutions in today's challenging and dynamic market. It is fully multi-currency, multi-language, multi-product, multi-institution and multi-card scheme. It is also fully compliant with the EMV standard for chip cards. Basically, they work on 3 different products. Essentis Issuer is the world's most advanced card management solution. With the Issuer module your business is empowered to launch a wide range of innovative unsecured lending products to maximize revenues whilst minimizing risk. Essentis Acquirer is designed to meet the challenges of an ever more competitive market. The Acquirer module offers unprecedented levels of flexibility and control to enable profitable pricing models and services to be offered to your merchants. Essentis Interchange provides a flexible transaction management, clearing and settlement solution. Designed to offer ease of maintenance and support, the Interchange module ensures that you are always compliant with the latest card scheme initiatives.

As a part of this project, we did the following activities.

Worked on fixing the issues related to the Interchange Product.

Working on the document related work for Interchange and Acquirer product.

Respond to Production Incidents within agreed SLA

As a part of Production support, monitoring the batch, resolving the abends and sending the SLA to clients.

Technical Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CHANGE MAN, CICS, UNIX.

Project : CCS EDW Maintenance & Production Support (From May 2007 to Dec 2008)

Client : HSBC US

Role : Developer

Team Size : 10

As a part of Production support, monitoring the batch, resolving the abends and sending the SLA to client.

As a part of Maintenance,

worked in the Implementation of SEARS solution

Worked in the conversion of Trans century Date routines to CMS routines

Worked on the analysis across entire system for restricting the access to sensitive fields. (Ex ::User acct-no, name etc..)

Worked in the Analysis, coding and testing of Equifax sears solution project

Worked with SAS for creating the reports with data from Different Platforms.

Worked with SAS for Generating the Frequencies of the fields in huge data.

Worked with SAS for accessing the data from various Databases using PROC SQL.

Technical Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CHANGE MAN, SAS.

Project : Tax Engine Restructure ( From March 2006 to April 2007)

Client : ADP

Role : Developer

Team Size : 10

The Client is one of the prominent tax collecting firm based in San Dimas, USA. The existing programs have high cyclomatic and essential complexity which makes the existing system difficult to understand and maintain. The purpose of the project is to reduce the Complexity of the system and increase the maintainability by Modularizing and Restructuring the existing programs.

To analyze the existing code and removing the unwanted declarations and code which is no more used.

To minimize the Essential complexity, we are fixing the out of perform jumps, Live Exits,

Recursions.

To minimize the Cyclomatic complexity, we are Extracting the functionality into a separate sub program.

As a part of Testing, we done the Unit testing of Restructure and Modularization programs.

Involved in the allocation of components for restructure and modularization.

Involved in creating the permeant packages for the components by system wise.

Quality related Final Installation reviews for the Components moving to production.

I lead the team of 10 members for a period of three months.

Testing the existing Programs for LOGCP to COMIT changes and RESTART logic.

As part of Datacom to DB2 conversion, we tested the ‘Data Reporter’ language to COBOL–DATACOM programs conversion.

Technical Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DATACOM, CHANGE MAN, ASG TOOLS, DATA REPORTER

Awards & Recognitions.

Got Insta Award in the Project

Got High performer Award from the client for supporting multiple projects parallel.

Got team Award for the work did in the Milestone work in Migration project.

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