Insurance Developer

Sreenivas 919-***-****

Email: ***********@*****.*** Visa Status: EAD.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 13+ years in IBM Mainframes experience in Business analysis, systems analysis, support & implementation of information system, and software development in the area of Initiation, Monitoring, Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Documentation. .

●Provided technical expertise with strong Conceptual, Business and Analytical skills to offer quality solutions and result-oriented problem-solving technique and leadership skills.

●Experience on COBOL/DB2.

●Experience in working on Sql400 for performing the data analysis to identify the data related issues in the applications.

●Experience with MQ series configuration and setup. Created multiple applications, which used the MQs for their messaging purpose.

●Experience on COBOL/400.

●Experience on EDI Trusted Link software on the Mainframe and iSeries/AS400.

●Have strong experience in SQL Stored procedures.

●Very good knowledge on using the configuration management tool Turnover.

●Have done lot of impact analysis using Hawkeye tool.

Experienced end-to-end project management for integration projects of Mainframes with Front-end applications like Siebel, Cordys, and Oracle ERP.

●Experienced the integration of various data sources like Java, RDBMS, Shell Scripting, Spreadsheets, and Text files.

●Worked with the software development models, Waterfall Model and the Agile Software Development Methodology.

●Was Responsible for working with and leading other team members to analyze and correct system issues, develop express requests and enhancements.

●Prepared project documentation including Project Definition Documents and Technical Requirements (HLD, LLD, DOU).

●Performed multiple levels of testing which includes CIT, SIT, TT and DR Test.

●Managed concurrent projects at the same time in a team-oriented environment supported by management, system analysts, and other programmers.

●Development, platform rehosting, testing, Implementation and production support for various Legacy applications.

●Strong knowledge in performance tuning & Optimization of the batch cycles.

●Domain Expert on Health Insurance, Property- Causality, Auto Insurance, Retail, Manufacturing, Warehouse and Banking.

●Experience on REST & SOAP Web Services.

●Experience on Policy 400 (DXC product) Policy Admin Application.

Work Experience

WIPRO LIMITED

End Client: MUFG (Union Bank)- May’ 20 – Till Date

Working as Lead Consultant

WIPRO LIMITED

End Client: CIGNA Health Insurance (May’ 18 – Apr’ 20)

Working as Lead Consultant

WIPRO LIMITED

End Client: Stryker Corporation (Feb’ 17 – May’ 18)

Worked as Lead Consultant

Iffco Tokio General Insurance Co Ltd (Tokio Marine North America Inc) Sep’ 05 – Apr’ 15

Worked as Technical Lead.

Education

B.E from Gulbarga University.

Professional Certifications

Licentiate (Property and Causality) from Insurance Institute of India.

Technical Skills

Languages: RPGLE, CLLE, Free Format RPG, COBOL/400, SQL400, Stored procedures, iSeries Navigator, XML/400, JCL, CICS, VSAM.

Operating Systems: Linux, OS/400, MVS, z/OS.

Databases: DB2/400, IMS DB, Oracle, SQL.

Other tools: MQ Series, Turnover, Hawkeye, ARCAD, Xpediter, Cool Gen, Endeavor, Jira and Confluence.

Project Details

Project: CBT Core Banking Transformation (Legacy Application Migration)

Organization: MUFG (Union Bank), Tempe, AZ

Role: Lead Consultant

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups. With approximately 360 years of history, MUFG's global network has about 2,700 offices in over 50 markets with over 180,000 employees.

Responsibilities:

Working closely with project managers, System Owners, Interface Modelers, designers, and developers to formalize Interface System Requirements and Design Specs.

Study of existing Applications, Programs, Jobs.

Read the legacy source and target copy books (Mainframe) and/or data base tables and gather the Data elements required by the Target Interfaces.

Assisting with data mapping and conversion efforts for migration of data.

Gathering the Target Interface Data elements and their Business Descriptions, Data types, Length, and also allowable data values.

Gathering information like current and target Interface Frequency, SLA, Sample data and other Data flow related information from the System owners.

Review the collected requirements with the Data mapping team, Data flow design team and FIS team.

Excellent technical writing skills to create Interface File Definition document, Reverse Mapping Documents and Check Lists for end to end mapping support.

Assisted the Project Manager in setting project expectations, in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization and conducted project related presentations.

Conducted user interviews and gathered Interface requirements using JAD sessions with Source and Target System Owners, MUFG BA’s and Designer’s and Modelers.

Excellent Team player to work in conjunction with Modelers, designers, developers, and other team members in validation of complex project scenarios and in the maintenance of Quality Standards of projects.

Acted as a liaison between the technical, businesses and CBT Conversion team to provide them with required specifications/documentation and to resolve any issues in between.

Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving skills, Multi-Tasking abilities, with proven experience in utilizing people and process knowledge to assist enterprises in making critical decision.

Project: PROCLAIM Claim Processing Engine

Organization: CIGNA Healthcare Insurance, Windsor, Connecticut

Role: Lead Consultant

CIGNA is a Global Health Insurance company, dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being, and security. The Tier 2 support for this engagement encompasses day and night time support for multiple applications in both mainframe and web based architectures to recover incidents, resolve problems, identify root cause and deploy enhancements to maintain application availability. The Tier 3 portion of the engagement creates new software that offers a more cost-effective and sustainable business solution and enhances existing applications to add additional business functionality while the Testing group provides both manual and automated testing capability.

Responsibilities:

Provide support to day to day Baseline activities that deals with Customer interaction

Providing Production batch Oncall support, documenting the daily statistics and updating the details in status call with Business and Client

Coordination with other team members - Providing guidance, tracking progress, making sure that no efforts are wasted

Working on Escalated Issues. Analyzing the issue and providing the permanent and interim solutions.

Creating Service Requests for repeatative abends and updating the Business and IT impacts. Working on Customer Experience Service requests and implementing the changes with zero defects and a much appreciated customer feedback.

Handle Customer experience service requests with end to end responsibility. Understanding the client/customer beneficiary changes, play the role of analyst in assessing the functional requirements and creating necessary documentation like Requirements Traceability Matrix, System/Subsystem Design Description, System Test Plan. Work on the code change as a developer and perform unit testing by creating Test Cases/Scripts and Test Reports before handling the changes to QA for system and integration testing.

Processing of HIPPA Transactions like 835,837 etc.

Coordination with Provider, Eligibility, EDI Applications.

Experience on working with Pricing Claims.

The production installation of these changes with coordination of Release management. Understanding the cross ASG impacts and performing necessary retrofits and link only changes.

Project: Legacy Application Maintenance and Support.

Organization: Stryker Corporation, Portage, Michigan

Role: Lead Consultant

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology company. Heavily customized business process with over 50 inbound and outbound interfaces connected through application. Business operation spanning across NA, Puerto Rico and Ireland.

Responsibilities:

Responsible to monitor day-to-day Cycle jobs, application performance, response time and availability.

Enhancement/Bug fixing depends on the Business requirements.

Responsible to work on the tickets and resolve within a SLA time.

Perform production checkout activities after production releases, infrastructure maintenance, scheduled recycles and fix releases.

Develop and maintain system documentation to ensure accuracy and consistency.

Responsible to perform Month End and Year end activities.

Responsible to provide Technical Consultation and issue resolution based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Maintain and create Knowledge Repositories for new SOPs in SharePoint portal.

Responsible to perform Root cause analysis of the issues and avoid issue occurrence in future.

Responsible for doing a research on the existing system functionality and suggest business for any automation opportunities to reduce the manual efforts in triggering the jobs.

Best practice, Learning and Technology sessions conducted for the team

Conducting daily status meeting with offshore and onsite to ensure that task items are communicated to team.

Actively participated in the SAP Migration activities.

Project: TPA Modules integrated with Legacy Applications

Organization: Iffco Tokio General Insurance (Tokio Marine North America Inc)

Role: Lead Developer

IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance Company Limited was incorporated in 2000, as a joint venture between the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Co-operative Limited (IFFCO), which is the world’s largest fertilizer manufacturer, and Tokio Marine Group, which is one of the largest insurance groups in Japan.

MEDEZEE is the Front End Application for TPA Claims processing system for the retail Health products. MEDEZEE is integrated with Legacy Application.

Responsibilities:

Involved in designing of process flow for the integration.

Coordinate with the vendor on application side for interdependencies.

Creation of project plan and tracking of status on daily basis.

Resource management.

Updating status to management on weekly basis via WSR.

Identifying issues/risk in the project and ensuring that process is in place for monitoring it.

Review Business Specification, SRS, UTP and other project related documents.

Helping team for technical issues.

Assisting team in review and functional testing

Project: Legacy Application Integration with Oracle ERP.

Organization: Iffco Tokio General Insurance (Tokio Marine North America Inc)

Role: Lead Developer

Iffco Tokio uses Oracle ERP module for making the claim Payments, Policy Premium receipting & Debtors reconciliation, which communicates with Legacy system thru MQ.

Responsibilities:

Preparation of Detail Designs HLD, LLD

Coding and Peer Reviews for the various modules involved

Preparation/Reviews of Unit Test Plans

Technical Design and Specification for application system

Unit testing and Integration testing with Front End.

Deployment in Production

Project: Production Support and Administration

Organization: Iffco Tokio General Insurance (Tokio Marine North America Inc)

Role: Sr. Developer

Production support required by users for service requests for day-to-day basis functions as well for the Accounting of offline jobs. Similarly administration of User level securities and authorities is to be given for new products and payment authorization limits etc.AS/400 requires administration for new development that needs to be promoted to different working environments and then to the production as well.

Responsibilities:

Timely resolutions of issues raised on day-to-day basis by users before SLA violations.

Maintenance of authorities and necessary set up for new branch etc.

Month end and Year end batch job run for financial accounting of General Insurance business.

AS400 administration and MQ monitoring for workload.

Involved in external audits.

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