Software Engineer Cobol

NANDINI CHETAN KARPUR

E-Mail: **************@*****.*** Contact: +91-995-****-***

LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/nandini-chetan-karpur-89421078 Skype: nandini.karpur

Location: Hyderabad, India

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Experience: Certified DB2 and a technocrat IT professional with a demonstrated history of 7+ years in IBM Mainframes application development, enhancement, and maintenance with an extensive focus in Requirement Analysis, Project Management, Support Management, Software Development Lifecycle, Agile & Scrum Methodologies across credit card banking, healthcare insurance, vehicle insurance and logistics sector. Hands-on experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing & Production Support of application software in Mainframe platform

Expertise: Profound experience in Batch environment using Panvalet, Endevor, Changeman Job Scheduler CA-7, OPC Debugging tools XPEDITER on Batch and online programs, File handling using FILE-AID. Deft in Jira & creation of stories and other EDI setups using the GENTRAN, Sterling Integrator, SIMON, WinSCP tool for testing. Adept in analyzing production bugs and resolving the same within stipulated timelines. Proven experience in creating and maintaining mainframe execution JCL (jobs) to support system replacement project in User Acceptance (UAT) and Production environment and eliciting, analyzing, and documenting the requirements for business processes, policies, and information systems. Worked as a liaison among business stakeholders to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals

Competency: Strong ability in communicating with Development Teams and ability to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload. Onshore project coordination experience working with client based in USA and development teams, and the ability to lead the team in driving best practices related to design, documentation, development, and implementation. Exposure to SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methodologies

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

Mainframe Development

Mainframe Technology

Project Management

Application Development

Design & Development

Software Development Lifecycle

Testing & Coding

Technical Documentation

Business Requirements

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Agile & Waterfall Methodology

QA Methodology

Process Improvement

Team Management

Client Relationship Management

TECHNOLOGIES

Operating System: MVS (OS/390), UNIX/Linux

Framework: IBM Sterling Integrator and Sterling File gateway,

Environment: TSO, ISPF

Database: DB2, VSAM, ALLBASE

OLTP: CICS

Tools: GENTRAN, SIMON, WinSCP, Aethena Tool, Map Editor, SPUFI, Changeman,Panvalet, Endevor, Platinum, Unicenter, JMR, HP-Service Desk, HP-Service Manager, ControlD, Remedy tool, JIRA

Testing Tools: Leanft, Soap UI

Scheduler: CA7

File Handling: File-Aid

Debugging: ABEND AID, XPEDITOR

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

COBOL, JCL, HP-COBOL

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

JP Morgan Chase & Co, Hyderabad, India Associate Oct 2019 - Ongoing

Project Title: ACAPS ERP: COBOL, JCL and DB2, CICS, SPUFI, MQ Series, ABEND-AID, CA7, Expediter, Changeman, HP-Service desk, Leanft, Soap UI

Performing a wide array of duties for ACAP (Automated Credit Application Processing System) including determining business requirement and recording design documents/ preparing codes and executing integration testing & movement of code to production

Managing release activities and coordinating with the front end team to analyze the application flow & providing L2 support to the existing applications

Providing KT to new team members and carrying out team building activities

Dimension Consulting Inc., Peoria-IL, USA Analyst Programmer Jan 2016- May 2017

Project Title: Trading Partner Support ERP: Sterling Integrator, SIMON, WinSCP tool, Gentran, Remedy, JCL, COBOL, DB2, Sterling File gateway, Aethena Tool, Map Editor

Carried out other duties like mapping, maintenance, new TP development, maintained FTP communications and involved in EDI setup & mappings

Managed 830, 850, 860 transactions and established trading partner relationships, reduced problems & resolved the same to ensure development of EDI services and oversaw mapping

Designed & developed GIS Business Processes & Trading Partner configuration and involved in setting up new EDI trading partners & liaised with existing EDI on a day-to-day basis for issues relating to production

Interacted closely with trading partners to accommodate the testing & implementation schedule and executed troubleshooting & resolved issues as well

Successfully submitted batch jobs to process the FTP file received to mainframe & created output dataset for downstream processing

National Consulting Group, Morton- IL, USA Mainframe Programmer Oct 2013- May 2014

Project Title: Antares ERP: COBOL, JCL and DB2, SPUFI, QMF, CICS, ABEND-AID, Savers, Expediter, Endevor, Remedy

Executed development & support for Antares Part Ordering (APO), material processing, Antares Parts Invoicing (API) applications and implemented off-shift pager support

Provided assistance to IT team in India interacted with business users for assessing issues & responded to queries

Collaborated with development & business users team to improvise Batch programs using COBOL, BD2 and other online programs

Coached new team members and carried out Unit Testing for the modules using the test plans & compared the test results with the expected results

Carried out coding of SQL statements and prepared reports using SPUFI and modified the implemented programs & rewrote new programs

Attended weekly meetings with business & offshore team

Syntel Ltd, Pune, India Software Engineer Jan 2010- Jun 2012

#1 Project Title: Financial Recovery ERP: COBOL, JCL and DB2, SPUFI, ABEND-AID, JMR, Expediter, Panvalet

Managed requirement gathering from business user and interpreted the programs to verify the coding changes required

Engaged in development of COBOL DB2 programs and executed coded and setting up the test environment and test execution

Guided new team members on the process of Health care Insurance and technical tools

Performed Unit testing of above-mentioned modules in development region with the prepared unit test plan

Documented knowledge documents on the basis of projects worked on for the future use

Involved in giving KT to new team members and supervised QA cycle and validation until the code is moved into production

#2 Project Title: Oncology Benefits Management ERP: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, SPUFI, ABEND-AID, JMR, Expediter, Panvalet

Assessed the requirement & recorded design documents and performed impact analysis and verified the impact of requirement & collated programs, copy books and made changes to the files as per requirement

Prepared unit test cases according to the requirement and created test data for testing and oversaw the development & testing of code & compared the results as per requirement

Documented UTR and analyzed the document and involved in Production Tickets to rectify the abend and resolved the code as well

Supervised the Production batch cycle and fixed the ABEND and created knowledge documents

Accountable for Batch programs using COBOL, DB2 programs

Patni Computers, Pune, India Software Engineer Aug 2008- Dec 2009

#1 Project Title: Rental Management ERP: HP-COBOL, HP JCL, ALLBASE, Database, and UNIX

Interpreted the code and assessed the existing application system and made the necessary changes to applications programs & testing

Resolved the pertaining issues in ABENDS within stipulated timelines and created application & flow documents for smooth streamlining of the application process

Supervised the job process and ensured on time completion of the same within deadline on a day-to-day basis

Conducted knowledge transfer sessions to team members and organized weekly meetings with business & onsite

#2 Project Title: CSR Report Application ERP: JCL, MF-Cobol, VSAM, DB2, and UNIX

Supervised the job process 24*7 and implemented the code in the production environment and provided support for the same

Identified the problem/defect for the codes and resolved the same immediately within stipulated timeframes

Prepared weekly/monthly reports on a daily basis and coded SQL statements to create reports using SPUFI

Engaged in weekly meetings with business & onsite and performed Testing of enhanced code for further analysis

Generated TSD docs and test cases

SCHOLASTIC & ACCREDITATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Engineering from Visveswaraiah Technological University, India (2006)

Certification

IBM Certified Database Administrator, 2011

Key Accolades

Bagged by the STREATCH Award from Syntel

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