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Sai Sandeep Pendyala

Professional Summary: -

IBM Mainframe Application support and Developer, with more than 7 years of hands on experience in application support, development and testing life cycle.

Extensive working experience as an onsite SME as well as the Business Analyst.

Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, production issuance, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.

Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and scaled agile framework.

Extensive experience in User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing, System Testing, Black-box Testing, End-to-End Testing, Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing,Regression Testing, Prod Performance Testing and Verification & Validation.

Extensive working Experience within Automation Test Script in Automation Testing using Compuware’s Hiperstation.

Extensive experience in gathering requirements from clients, High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD) preparation, transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build and conducting project review meetings with clients.

Experience in Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and Scrum meetings for the project. Participated in PI planning sessions, Story creation, Sprint planning sessions for Projects in Agile methodology.

Hands-on Experience in the issue tracking, bug tracking and agile project management using the tools like Confluence and JIRA.

Excellent working knowledge in requirement gathering, Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support.

Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.

Proficient in project and portfolio management tools like Service now, Jira and Confluence.

Ability to do multi-tasking across different applications. Diverse work experience with Development and Production Support projects.

Excellent written and oral communication skills with results-oriented attitude

Excellent working knowledge in COBOL, PLI, DB2, JCL, IMS DB/DC, MFS, CICS, Natural, ADABAS, Easytrieve and TSO commands.

Excellent working knowledge in job scheduling tool like CA7 and code management tools like SCM, SCLM and Panvalet.

Excellent working experience in data quality and data integration.

Technical Skills:-

Operating Systems

IBM MVS SP7.1.3, Z/OS v1.13

Databases

DB2, IMS DB, ADABAS, HSL, TMF

Programming Languages

COBOL, PLI, IMS/DC (Online), JCL (Batch), CICS (Online), Natural.

Tools/IDE

ISPF, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, SAR, CA7, QuickRef, Panvalet, SCLM, SCM, IDF, Hiperstation, PROJCL, XPEDITER, Easytrieve, OPTIM, ELIPS, RACF and Smart-Test.

Business Domains

Manufacturing – Automotive and Insurance.

Project and Portfolio Management tools

Service now, Jira, Confluence.

Education Details: -

Bachelor of Technology – JNTU Kakinada, AP, INDIA

Discipline – Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Professional Experience

Employer: ARV Systems Inc.,

Project: Property and Casualty (P&C) [July 2019 – Till date]

Client & Current Location: United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer and Team Lead.

USAA is one of the leading insurance providers based of Texas, established in 1922. USAA supplies large and various products to its customers that fall into different lines of businesses like Property and casualties (P&C), Auto Insurance, Bank and Mortgage and Life insurance. P&C supplies products like Home, Rental, VPP and Fire. Recent rollouts have introduced and reformed existing business to a flexible and customer friendly plans.

Responsibilities in brief:

Participate in the Big room planning for the program increments and collaborate with Product owners and understand the business priorities.

Participate in Agile ceremonies as per SAFe Agile Framework.

Develop the programs, prepare the unit test plans, test cases, test and review the code and test results.

Design and Develop the code using COBOL, DB2, JCL, REXX, IMS/DC and CICS.

Responsible for preparing the user training manuals to educate and confirm business users on the operating procedures.

Reviewing the design documents and offshore deliverables.

Identify technical debts and implement effective solutions.

System testing of the entire applications in all channels.

Liaise with business users and schedule regular follow-up meetings to understand the severity of issues and prioritize them and track them to closure.

Fix all the issues and defects that come up in the day-to-day business operations of its users.

Responsible for Release activities in the project such as of production support (24/7), job cycle monitoring, resolving the job abends and emergency bug fixes, production issues and service requests,

Monitoring the application for errors in test and production environment using Splunk and Kibana dashboards.

Demonstrate the incremental product at the end of individual iteration to the product owner and obtain approval.

Coordinate with other teams for system testing. Prepare the test environment for system testing and support end to end system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Communicate with the business users, collecting business requirements, analyzing the system, mapping the requirements and convert the requirements into technical specification documents, preparation of user acceptance test cases and liaise with business users for any clarifications.

Environment: COBOL, PLI, IMS DB, TMF, HSL, DB2, IDF, ISPF, CICS, ELIPS, JCL, FTP.

Employer: Tech Mahindra LTD

Project: Prototype Management Systems (PTM) [March 2014 – Oct 2017] and [April 2018 – July 2019]

Client & Location: Nissan North America Inc., Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer and Team Lead.

Worked on creating a process which delivers the orders placed by customer for prototype vehicles. This process involves creating data into flat files and populating it into IMS DB2 database as well as generating daily reports using QMF. Also worked on creating the Purchasing, Sales and shipping functionalities using COBOL and IMS/DC. Worked on the warehouse movement project that dealt with moving the client’s entire warehouse from one place to another.

Responsibilities in brief:

Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and planning for effort estimation.

Perform impact analysis on the requirements and prepare Use Cases and Business Process Artifacts.

Communicating the requirements and design details with offshore team.

Offshore team coordination and timely status reporting to achieve successful construction and completion of project.

Attending High level and low level design reviews, to arrive at design patterns/solutions and reviewing artifacts created by team members.

Translating business requirements into software requirements specs, design, develop, test and implement the changes to achieve the business goals of the users.

Develop and execute the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution based on agile methodology. Attending to the defects raised and resolving them in time.

Involved in reviewing test plan and test cases, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-End Testing, Functional and Regression Testing for both New Requirements as well as Enhancements.

Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others.

Conducted review meetings within the team and Generate reports for tracking defects, test project metrics, test process improvement and management review.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS, IMS DC, JCL, MFS, QMF, FTP, CA7, SPUFI, SCLM, CA7, Smart-test, XPEDITER, File-Aid.

Employer: Tech Mahindra LTD

Project – New Dealer Business Systems [Oct 2017 – March 2018]

Client & Location– Nissan North America Inc., Franklin, Tennessee.

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer.

The primary goal of the New DBS system is to upgrade the systems environment in use thereby supporting the Dealer business needs. Dealers need to be able to use the same state of the art commercial Dealer Systems products available to all their competitors. Our current proprietary systems prevent them from doing so. These shortcomings affect Vehicles Sales, Parts Sales and Service Support and impact our clients programs aimed at improving these business areas. The New DBS Program was initiated to meet Dealer’s needs by retiring proprietary out of date systems in favor of a more open system that works with commercial dealer systems and provides capabilities similar to those of competitors.

Responsibilities

Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and planning for effort estimation.

Perform impact analysis on the requirements and prepare Use Cases and Business Process Artifacts.

Communicating the requirements and design details with offshore team.

Offshore team coordination and timely status reporting to achieve successful construction and completion of project.

Attending High level and low level design reviews, to arrive at design patterns/solutions and reviewing artifacts created by team members.

Translating business requirements into software requirements specs, design, develop, test and implement the changes to achieve the business goals of the users.

Develop and execute the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution based on agile methodology. Attending to the defects raised and resolving them in time.

Involved in reviewing test plan and test cases, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-End Testing, Functional and Regression Testing for both New Requirements as well as Enhancements.

Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others.

Conducted review meetings within the team and Generate reports for tracking defects, test project metrics, test process improvement and management review.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, Natural, ADABAS, JCL, Easytrieve, Panvalet.

Employer: Tech Mahindra LTD

Project: NPR Maintenance Program and Dealer transfer program. (September 2013 to March 2014)

Client & Location – Nissan North America Inc., Hyderabad, AP, India.

Role: Mainframe Developer

Developed the NPR system to allow the user to perform various operations based on the region code, pool code etc. Also developed the dealer transfer program to transfer all the inventory information of the old dealer to a new dealer, whenever the old dealer is terminated.

Responsibilities

Gathering requirements from the application SME.

Working with the application SMEs to prepare functional specification during the project requirements stage.

Preparing the documentation of functional requirements for client submission and approvals.

Preparing the technical design document and submit document for client approval. Implement client revisions and comments to the application design.

Coding the raw data provided by the onsite team and transfer them back for code reviews.

Performing rigorous unit testing and integrated testing and making the necessary code changes until we get the desired results.

Compiling and writing documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, inserting comments in the coded instructions so others can understand the program.

Environment: Natural, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, ADABAS.

Accomplishments

Exemplified second-to-none services when our client’s warehouse has been moved from Farmington Hills to Novi which brought me the customer confidence and appreciations.

Awarded with “Pat on Back (POB)” by Tech Mahindra for leading and deploying a major and crucial project for my client.

Won “Circle of Excellence Appreciation” award for instrumental role in handling the PTM project on my own.

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