Engineer Project

SURESH RAJA

***************@*****.*** 614-***-**** Erie, PA 16506

Summary

Mainframe Developer with 8+ Years of experience in all facets of software development with Master's degree.

Knowledge in Banking & Financial Services and Insurance domain.

Extensive experience in different Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) methodologies using IBM Mainframe technologies.

Expertise in COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2.

Have good experience in Eazytrieve, CICS, IMS, IBM Utilities, DFSORT, Changeman, PMS CSC Series 3, ServiceNow, Endevor, Zeke, Splunk, CA-7, Expeditor, HPSM, HPQC, MQ, BUNDL, SAR, GIS server, Connect Direct, Unix Scripting, Abinitio Opconsole, TRMC and Opconsole Authorization Gateway.

Proven ability to learn and apply new systems, technologies, and applications and share the knowledge with other team members.

Strong communicator and a very good team player. Well organized, with excellence in multi-tasking and prioritizing the work.

Proficiency in Onsite-offshore, Nearshore-Offshore and Onsite working model.

Skills

COBOL

JCL

VSAM

DB2

CICS

IMS

Endevor

Fileaid

Expeditor

Abend aid

TSO/ISPF

HPSM

HPQC

IDMS

GIS

Splunk

FTP/SFTP

NDM

Unix scripting

Eazytrieve

Experience

Erie Insurance Erie, PA

Software Engineer

01/2020 - 12/2020

Project Name: Policy Management System(PMS)

Project details: The policy management system has all the information about the policy holders in the mainframe system. The PMS system was built on the CSC Series 3 product. The Policy information file has different segments like policy, Comments, auto, driver, home, Statistics. etc and each segment has different layout. The scope of the project is to do maintenance of all the policies and also support and check all the new business, Endorsements and renewals are done properly thru Real time processing and batch. The policies from Personal lines including auto, home, boat, dwelling, mobile home, Personal Catastrophic Liability(PCL) and Commercial lines of business including Auto, Fleet, Worker's compensation are all maintained in PMS.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS screens, SPLUNK, Service now(SNOW), Savrs, SDSF, File aid, Abend aid, Abendidx, Expeditor, CA-7, Endevor, MQ, PMS CSC Series 3, Trillium and Bundl.

Responsibilities:

oInteract with business analyst to learn more about the requirements.

oAnalysis and designing of technical specs.

oDeveloping new COBOL programs or modify the existing code for new requirements.

oWork closely with the Quality Assurance (QA) team to walk thru the requirements and validate test case scenarios.

oInform QA team and business when the code moves from lower environment to user test, stage and production.

oFix the defects raised by QA team and close the defect.

oAttend Change Approval Board(CAB) meeting when the change is planned for Production.

oWorked on Adhoc request to run scan for Busniess analyst or law team to pull reports off the policy information file based on their requirements.

oInvolved in production support activity which includes fixing Production job abends, test cycle job abends and user queries.

oPerform root cause analysis (RCA) of the job abend and present it to the team.

oWorked in upgrading COBOL programs from V4.2 to V6.3.

Capgemini America Cincinnati, OH

Senior Consultant

09/2019 - 01/2020

Client: GE Aviation

Project name: Engine Modernization

Project details: The purpose of the engine modernization project is to convert the mainframe applications for supply chain management to Oracle ERP in a phased approach.

Environment : JCL, COBOL, VSAM, IDMS, DB2

Responsibilities:

oProviding technical guidance to the team.

oAllocation of tasks to team members.

oAttending daily status call with offshore.

oPreparing process related documents for the modernization.

Tata Consultancy Services Cincinnati, OH

IT Analyst

08/2016 - 09/2019

Client: MUFG Union Bank N.A

Project name: CAPSS(Centralized Application Production Support Systems) and CAPSS-Transmission

Project details: Centralized Production support is Maintenance and Support of 116 + applications in Union Bank of California. The project objective is to consolidate the production support under one umbrella and provide support on ITIL based model. To provide strategic and tactical ideas to process and performance improvement reducing the cost. The files that are sent to and from Mainframe is handled by Transmission team.

Environment : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CICS screens, SPLUNK, HPSM, HPQC, Savrs, SDSF, File aid, Abend aid, Expeditor, CA-7, Endevor, FTP/SFTP, NDM, Connect Direct, GIS server

Responsibilities:

oProduction support activity includes fixing and triaging production job abends, Root cause analysis(RCA) and user tickets using self service tool or thru helpdesk.

oReporting Incident status to PM on daily basis.

oHelped in performance improvement and cost savings.

oParticipate in hand over and turn over call in the morning and evening.

oDevelop code to transmit or receive files to and from Mainframe.

oConverted FTP jobs to SFTP as per banking standard.

Tata Consultancy Services Chennai,India Columbus, OH

System Engineer

07/2012 - 07/2016

Client: J.P.Morgan Chase

Project name: Demand Deposit Application(DDA)

Project details: DDA (Demand Deposit Accounting) is the application that provides processing for checking and savings products and functions needed to support these financial instruments including Interest Payment, Service Charging, Stop Processing, Overdraft Protection, Information Reporting, and various Sweep processes. The scope of this project is to support development, testing (Unit, IST, and UAT) and implementation of enterprise releases of DDA systems. Development activities could be enhancing existing components, developing new components or any other ad hoc request from Client.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, IBM Utilities, SAR, Changeman, Expeditor, Fileaid, SPUFI and Eazytrieve.

Responsibilities:

oInteract with Clients/LOB's on business requirements changes/requirements clarifications.

oAnalysis and Design of the Project requirements.

oTechnical Design documents presentation to the Project team.

oAssigning, coordinating and reviewing deliverables.

oCoding of the impacted and new modules.

oTesting and Preparing the Unit Test Plans.

oIntegrated and User Acceptance Test cycles execution.

oVerification of test cycles results.

oReview of design, code and testing for defect free deliverables.

oFixing Issues out of Integrated System testing and User Acceptance Testing Project Implementation and Production Support.

oSupporting production jobs for any abend.

oChecking the quality of the software and determining its degree of compliance to standards, monitoring performance continuously and look out for channels of improvement and cost-cutting.

oConducting knowledge sharing sessions on various processes and technologies used in the project to other team members.

oCode migration from one environment to another.

Education and Training

Coimbatore Institute Of Technology Coimbatore, India

Master of Engineering

05/2012

Karunya University Coimbatore, India

Bachelor of Engineering

05/2010

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