Antony Xavier Ragul

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682-***-****

Professional Summary:

●Senior level (12+) experience in Design, Development and Support Mainframe applications using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and related tools with Waterfall and Agile methodologies such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and SCRUM.

●Experience in working on various domain like Insurance, Health care and Manufacturing (Auto mobile).

●Experience in deploying applications using CHANGEMAN version controller.

●Having good exposure to Software Development Life Cycle in prototyping software applications including Requirements Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit testing, System Testing, Integrated Testing, Maintenance and Documentation

●Expertise in developing COBOL DB2 programs and COBOL IMS DB programs.

●Experience in developing automated test script using SAS program in JCLs for validating the test cases.

●Experience in developing COBOL programs which read and write data in MQs which is used by other distributed applications.

●Expertise in analyzing issue in production job failures.

●Expertise in providing quick solution for COBOL, DB2 and IMS issues in production so that the jobs and transaction continue working in production environment.

●Proficient in report programming using COBOL and SAS programs and the reports will be converted into PDF using Unix server scripts accessing from Mainframe JCL.

●Experience in converting IMS DB online screens to DB2 screens using COBOL and SAS programs as part of modernization.

●Extensive experience in SORT and ICETOOL utilities for performing various data manipulation activities.

●Accomplished with creating Test Plans, defining Test Cases, reviewing and maintaining Test Scripts, interacting with team members in fixing errors and executing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Unit, System Integrated Test and Customer Test.

●Possess strong communication and Interpersonal skills. Can quickly master and work on new concepts and applications with minimal supervision. Attention to detail, thoroughness, tenacity and an investigative drive to discover the underlying causes of technical problems.

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages

COBOL, JCL, SAS

Databases

DB2, VSAM, IMS-DB

Database Tools

IBM DB2 Aid

Tools

IBM Debugger CICS/Batch, IBM Fault Analyzer

Database Utility

QMF, SPUFI

JCL Utility

SORT, ICETOOL

OLTP

CICS

Education:

●Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, from Anna University India.

Professional Experience:

Client: Toyota, Plano, Texas Jan’ 2020 – Till Date

Role: Technology Lead

Toyota Motor Corporation manufactures car in North American Plants and do sales across country and export to rest of the world. Lexus vehicles also handled by Toyota corporation. Lexus Mexico enablement project is bringing the existing systems to handle the Lexus vehicles sales at the first time in Mexico. I have involved starting from Requirement gathering, estimation and continuing the development activities now.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Architecting, High & Low-Level Technical design, Development, Testing using Agile Methodologies.

●Involved in business requirement gathering and technical specifications.

●Involved in the analysis, design, and development and testing phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile development methodology.

●Have developed new COBOL DB2 program retrieve the Mexico attributes for Lexus vehicles.

●Have developed the System integration plan by gathering the requirement from all the interface team.

●Developed the new reports for Lexus Mexico vehicle’s sales, stock and inventory availability.

●Developed sub programs in COBOL for the repetitive look up functionalities.

●Developed the programs and test plan for sharing accounting information with PeopleSoft.

●Developed the programs and test plan for sharing all the vehicle transaction with SAP platform.

●Developed the programs to converting mainframe data into XML so that the distribution team can access them.

●Developed new CICS MQ program to share and retrieve data from distributed application.

●Monitoring newly developed DB2 program performance.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, MQ.

Client: Toyota, Plano, Texas Aug’ 2014 – Dec’ 2019

Role: Technology Lead

Toyota Motor Corporation manufactures car in North American Plants and do sales across country and export to rest of the world. As part Logistics application lead, I have taken care the enhancement and support of Arrival, Port processing, Route map, Production Tag, Export of vehicles.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Architecting, High & Low-Level Technical design, Development, Testing using Agile Methodologies for the enhancement projects.

●Involved in business requirement gathering and technical specifications.

●Involved in the analysis, design, and development and testing phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile development methodology.

●Developed new COBOL programs for truck shipment and rail shipment testing.

●Developed new SORT utility for the data manipulation during testing.

●Developed new COBOL programs for creating test data for the complex functionality testing

●Co-ordinated and guided the enhancement activities to the team.

●Task allocation, task tracking, effort tracking, and involved business at onsite for clarification.

●Handled the production incidents. Plan and guide the team on the incidents.

●Provided Production support for daily job and Transaction streams in production.

●Reviewing and guiding the enhancement activities to the team.

●Deployed Software solutions in production environment and supported Post deployment activities.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, CICS, MQ.

Client: BCBSMS, USA Jan’ 2013 – Aug’ 2014

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a federation of 36 separate United States health insurance companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 106 million people. BCBSMS ICD10 remediation is a process to enhance the existing system to handle both ICD9-CM (Clinical Modification)/PCS (Procedure Coding System) and ICD10-CM/PCS.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for writing high quality code that follows best practices, performing ongoing troubleshooting, and implementing enhancements.

●Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Architecting, High- & Low-Level Technical design, Development, Testing.

●Developed new COBOL DB2 programs as per the requirement.

●Developed new SAS programs for validating the system testing cases.

●Developed new programs for converting the existing process to handle the new approach.

●Responsible for coding, testing, peer review and first level of components to deliver the quality deliverables.

●Being complete responsible for delivering the quality deliverables, gathering requirements and other stake holders of the projects.

●Mentoring Application Development team for Application Development.

●Successfully implemented conversion changes in production for the whole inventory with a small team of 6 members on time.

●Supervised work of up to 9 other software engineers.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, SAS, DB2, VSAM.

Client: VOLVO, Japan Jun’ 2010 – Dec’ 2012

Role: Sr. Software Engineer

Volvo is an automobile manufacturing company based out in Europe. Volvo bought Nissan’s diesel truck division in Japan. Nissan had the IT components in Hitachi Mainframe. VOLVO-HITACHI Migration is a process to convert the Hitachi mainframe modules to IBM mainframe modules.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for writing high quality code that follows best practices, performing ongoing troubleshooting, and implementing enhancements.

●Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Architecting, High- & Low-Level Technical design, Development, Testing.

●Developed new COBOL DB2 programs as per the requirement.

●Developed data conversion program in COBOL to convert double byte character set equivalent value in mainframe.

●Prepare the IBM mainframe JCLs equivalent to Hitachi mainframe.

●Developed new SORT and ICETOOL utilities for data manipulation.

●Analysis and development of conversion requests.

●Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for the converted modules.

●Worked on various fixes in testing phase.

●Involved in production support regarding various problems encountered in the application with priority High and Critical.

●Responsible for coding, testing, peer review and first level of components to deliver the quality deliverables.

●Being complete responsible for delivering the quality deliverables, have to communicate the clarifications or issues with the onsite counterpart to deliver the quality items within the given time frame

Environment: COBOL, JCL, SAS, DB2, VSAM, CICS, MQ.

Client: State farm, USA Jan’ 2008 – May’ 2010

Role: Software Engineer

State Farm is the largest property, auto and casualty insurance provider in the United States. Developed an application to account the advance premium payment in mainframe application for property, auto and health insurance.

Responsibilities:

●Responsible for writing high quality code that follows best practices, performing ongoing troubleshooting, and implementing enhancements.

●Responsible for Requirement gathering, Analysis, Architecting, High- & Low-Level Technical design, Development, Testing.

●Developed new COBOL DB2 programs as per the requirement.

●Developed new SAS programs to validate system testing results.

●Developed new SORT and ICETOOL utilities for data manipulation.

●Developed new batch JCLs.

●Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for the created modules.

●Worked on various fixes in testing phase.

●Involved in production support regarding various problems encountered in the application with priority High and Critical.

●Responsible for coding, testing, peer review and first level of components to deliver the quality deliverables.

●Being complete responsible for delivering the quality deliverables, must communicate the clarifications or issues with the onsite counterpart to deliver the quality items within the given time frame

Environment: COBOL, JCL, SAS, DB2, VSAM.

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