Professional Summary

●Over *+ years of IT experience involving all the stages of SDLC cycle and Agile methologies

●Very good knowledge on Insurance,Banking and Credit Cards & Payments, Credit cards Life cycle and servicing, Organization and Letters generation to customers, Monthly statements to customers for Banking and Financial Domain.

●Prior experience in multiple roles as a Developer, Business Analyst, Team Lead

●Analyze, Design, Develop & test activities in COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM and CICS.

●Excellent knowledge in core Application design, Development, Testing and production support.

●Posse's strong exposure in working on both Batch and Real time Mainframe systems.

●Experienced in handling test support projects.

●Involved in production control activities.

●Hands on experience in using mainframe tools like Change-Man and File-aid.

●Excellent working knowledge in DB2.

●Experienced in preparing project artifacts like Detailed Requirements Specifications, Functional &Technical specifications, Test cases documents, Test plans, Test Strategies and Implementation activities document.

●Efficiently worked with multiple applications in creating and managing the Test data.

●Hands on experience with TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, SYNCSORT, JCL, NDM, Quality Center, IDCAMS, Control-M, Jobtrac, Linux and IBM utilities.

●Experience working on the project built using the Water fall Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and team meetings for the project.

●Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Production Support projects.

●Production implementation upon successful user acceptance testing.

●Very good communication skills both written and verbal.

●Experienced in using HPs (Quality Center) quality assurance automated functional testing tool to track and report resolutions and root-cause of defects and incidents raised during the testing cycle to provide a knowledgebase for future test cycles.

●Experienced in creating schedules for mainframe Batch processing.

●Provided on-call support for applications running in production and scheduled mainframe jobs.

●Good knowledge on Java, Spring 3.0, Angular JS.

●Good knowledge in using tools like service now, Info-man to handle the tickets and met Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the job failures.

Technical skills

Operating Systems

:

Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, OS/390, Z/OS, Linux

Programming Languages

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COBOL, PL/1,SQL, JCL, JAVA

Tools /Utilities

:

Aid, ICE tool, IBM debugger, SPUFI,QMF,TSO-ISPF,SDSF,NDM,SERVICE NOW, XPEDITOR, ABENDAID, FTP, Control-M, Jobtrac, VSAM, CICS, FTP,NDM.

Databases

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DB2,IMS DB

IBM Tools

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IBM Debugger, Change-Man, INFO MAN, Pan Valet, ISPW.

Internet tools

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HTML,JSP, XML, JavaScript

Other tools

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MS word, Excel, Power point, MS Visio, ISPW

Education:

●Master’s Degree.

●Bachelor’s in Technology from JNTU, Hyderabad, India.

Awards:

●Received SPEED, SMART awards.

●Received SPOT Recognition award for successful implementation of FC Migration Reporting project.

Professional experience

Client: Humana Jan 2019 – Present

Role: Technology Lead

Role & Responsibilities:

●Contribute to Development, Quality Management and/or Testing improvements

●Provide technical guidance to Development team members

●Get involve in platform wide improvements /stabilization initiatives - attending weekly performance update meeting, next version upgrades discussion

●Is an "Excellent Listener" with manager, co-workers, peers, and customers

●An excellent "DAILY Communicator" - to Customers, Tech Reps, Peers, & Manager

●Conduct daily code, design and process reviews, including code sampling design reviews, code profiling, unit test reviews and process adherence for source code control and builds

●Interaction with Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Developers for requirements understanding & participated in Project Definition phase Activities.

●Getting involved with earliest planning to understand how new features are intended to work & the impact on existing functionalities & assisting team on the same.

●Gathering requirements, preparing design documents and prepare schedule for build & test phase.

●Impact analysis by identification of impacted programs and DB2 Stored procedures for modification.

●Preparing the test strategy, Test plans, Test summary Documents.

●Creating appropriate documentation in work assignments such as program code, and technical documentation.

●Working with management, clients, and other technology teams to ensure the product creates relevant and meaningful business results without negative impact to existing business and technology infrastructure

●Experienced in handling pipe-line transactions.

●Conduct code walk thru for team and intimate the new business changes.

●Actively participated in project status calls and meetings with client.

●Act as the local escalation point of contact for Development and Quality Management

●Provide deep technical guidance based on strong technical acumen and technical currency in a variety of technologies i.e. Mainframes,SQL and DB2

Client: Deloitte May 2017 to December 2019

Role: Sr. Mainframe Developer

Role & Responsibilities:

●Involved in Technical discussions with client for understanding the requirements.

●Involved project definition phase (PDP) and prepared Requirements and Analysis, Functional Specification Design documents.

●Coded new COBOL programs, JCLs, PROC’s, Copy books, Control Cards, NDM Jobs, FTP processes and coordinated with offshore team for Test Plan reviews and unit testing of these components.

●SQL's are written using QMF, SPUFI to query the DB2 database on mainframe.

●Used tools CHANGE MAN for version controlling, stage components, checkout, Audit, Freeze and for compilation.

●Developed IBM DB2 Stored SQL Procedure

●Prepared unit test cases and handled unit testing.

●Provided full support to testing teams and users in SIT and UAT phases to understand the new business changes.

●Arranged a code walk thru to both onshore and offshore teams to intimate the business changes and project flow.

●Experienced in creating new scheduling jobs in Control-M to complete the batch processing.

●Created Service now and Change man records to implement the changes in production.

●Maintained good communication with production support team and intimated the project changes.

●Created Ad hoc jobs to handle the pipe line transactions.

●Developed COBOL, JCL, DB2 modules on mainframe MVS operating system.

●Maintained proper communication with other applications to handle the pipe-line transactions.

●Created Implementation plan and shift schedule during project install.

●Maintained proper communication with client by providing updates on project status during project implementation.

Environment: JCL, DB2, COBOL, PL/1,CHANGE MAN,PANVALET,ISPW,CICS, SQL, FILE-AID, Control-M, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT

Client: Syntel Mar 2012 to April 2017

Role: Mainframe Developer

Role & Responsibilities:

● Involved in understanding business requirements, preparation of flow diagrams using MS VISIO for existing JPMC Ledger Report using AGILE- SCRUM method.

●Prepared Detailed Technical Design Document (TSD) for new interfaces, programs, jobs.

●Coded new COBOL programs, JCLs, PROC’s, Copy books, Control Cards, NDM Jobs, FTP processes and coordinated with offshore team for Test Plan reviews and unit testing of these components.

●Co-ordinate and Participate in Code reviews with offshore team and test case/test results walkthrough with IT team.

●Used tools CHANGE MAN for version controlling, stage components, checkout, Audit, Freeze and for compilation.

●Developed COBOL, JCL, DB2 modules on mainframe MVS operating system.

●Perform DB2 LOADS, UNLOADS, Image copies, RUNSTATS, BINDS and other DB2 core utilities

in developer test and staging DB2 environments.

●Perform Played instrumental role in setting up and maintaining data integrity in the company's testing

Environments to include CICS regions, DB2 subsystems and MVS batch libraries.

●Used FILE AID for managing the VSAM files easily.

●Perform Allocation of tasks to team members and preparation of estimates for the entire SDLC of the Project.

●Perform Modifications to COBOL programs using IBM MVS Utilities such as IEFBR14, ICETOOL, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, DFSORT, REPRO, and ICETOOL.

●Code changes to COBOL programs, preparation of Test plans, Unit testing and documentation of

Test results.

●Preparing NDM Cards, NDM Jobs.

●Preparation of Weekly Status Report, Defect Tracker.

●Co-ordination with Production Control team to install the impacted components to Production.

●Ensured the continuity of Production Job schedule and met Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for the job failures.

Environment: JCL, DB2, COBOL, CHANGE MAN, CICS, SQL, FILE-AID, Control-M, SPUFI, QMF, IDCAMS, FTP, NDM, SYNCSORT

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