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Mainframe developer

Location:
Indianapolis, IN
Posted:
January 26, 2021

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Hemanth Penugonda

adjpzz@r.postjobfree.com

Indianapolis, IN

+1-312-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

9+ years of experience in Software industry as Software Engineer /Analyst/Project Coordinator for analysis, design, research, development, troubleshooting, management, production support and maintenance of mainframe applications.

Experienced in business application development with 9 years of Systems Analysis, Application Design, Development, and Maintenance with Assembler, COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS,VSAM,TELON and REXX.

Good working experience in Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.

Good working experience in Life and Health insurance domains

Expertise in the Mainframe tools like TSO, ISPF, IDZ, File-Aid, File manager and BTSTSO.

Experienced in creating JCL and JCL PROCs using various JCL utilities like DFSORT, FILEAID, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IEBCOMPR and ICETOOL.

Good working experience in analyzing the Assembler programs and documenting the business logics

Experience in working on Java web services using STS (Spring tool Suite)

Good working experience in working on creating SQL queries for complex programs

Strong experience in deploying applications/services on various types of app/web servers, cloud portal etc

Good understanding of SDLC life cycle and involved in all the activities related to it.

Efficient resolving problems and making decisions on complex customer issues within tight timeframes.

Adaptable and innovative providing the best business solutions using current, leading technologies.

Experienced in providing estimates for application development or maintenance and System Testing.

Experienced in creating High Level Design, Detailed Design and Functional Requirement documents.

Expertise in creating System Test plans, Test Strategies, Test cases and Test Completion Reports.

Excellent knowledge with Unit Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, User Acceptance testing, production implementation and maintenance.

Possess excellent client co-ordination and involved in various related activities like attending Project Kickoff Meeting, Preparing and sending daily and weekly status reports to stake holders of project, conducting weekly project progress meeting with projects stake holders and by addressing queries related to the project.

Experience in using Git, GitHub

Led large projects and involved in project management activities like adhering to process, gathering metrics, attending process review meetings and disaster management and recovery.

Impact analysis, timeline estimates, resource allocation, sizing, forecasting, region allocations and test data availabilities.

Re-sizing efforts estimation for scope extended projects.

Worked in onsite-offshore model for around 5 years and in various client interfacing roles. expectations.

Apply technology concepts to business needs, proven decision-making capabilities and Intellectual capacity to grasp new situations quickly

Appreciable knowledge on Middleware concepts and methodologies EJB, WSDL, SOAP

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems

Z/OS, IBM 390 series, MVS, Windows, Linux/Unix

Languages/Front End

COBOL, Assembler, JCL, REXX, CICS, SQL, Java, Selenium

Project Management

Agile, Waterfall

Version Control

Git, RMS, SVN

Databases

DB2, IMS DB

Tools/Utilities

TSO/ISPF, FILE-AID, DFSORT, ICETOOL, ABEND-AID, IBM Utilities, REXX, RDZ, HPSM, SFDEV, MQ, RACF, BTSTSO, FMIMS, FMDB2, SPUFI, Xpeditor, Visio

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India – June 2011

Certifications

Certified SAFE 4 Agilist

Certification in ITIL 2011 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

LOMA 291

LOMA 302

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 6 Programmer Certification

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Contract for NESS Digital Engineering at State of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN March 2020 – December 2020

Project Name: State of Indiana – Indiana Client Eligibility System

Role: Programmer Analyst

Project Description:

Indiana Client Eligibility System –The core ICES system of ICES is anyone who apply for benefits such as Medicaid, Food stamp, and TANF to the state first their eligibility will be checked and depending upon their income and other eligible factors a decision will be made as what kind of a benefit should be provided to them.

Responsibilities

Creating System requirement & design documents for new requirements.

Construct and Unit test the System requirements and provide the support for System testing.

Parallel testing current eligibility system (ICES) with new eligibility system (IEDSS – Indiana Eligibility determination Service System) to see new system is working as expected.

Creating batch version for Online screens to capture the screen data in PDF form. These are helpful for workers to see customer’s historical data in the form of screens once the new eligibility system (IEDSS) is up.

Preparing implementation plan for moving the code to Production

Writing Scan/Fix programs on demand to search the IMS DB and to fix the data.

Constructing programs for extracting IMS DB segments data and send in the form of XML. This· data will be stored in DB2 tables for accessing Historical data once the new eligibility system (IEDSS) is up.

Migrated the data from mainframe to external database using SFTP

Providing on-call support on a periodical basis

Environment: COBOL, IMS DB/DC, JCL, VSAM, TELON, DFSORT, ICETOOL, File Manager, SFTP, SPUFI.

Contract for TCS at State Farm Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL August 2011 - March 2020

Project Name: Life- Host Integration

Role: Developer

Project Description: In order to provide a customer facing environment, State Farm has started the CDE (Customer Driven Evolution) initiative. This provides a customer friendly facing application in addition to obtaining products and services through various channels like Internet, Mobile applications, Intranet, etc.

This project deals with the changes made in Daily Batch Programs as a part of CDE (Customer Driven Evolution) approach in Life area to provide an online access to the customers. This Batch Programs is the entry point of Life Host System and responsible for providing inputs to the Life System. Changes are made in the corresponding COBOL modules residing in the Mainframe. In as is state, input is obtained from Database, due to CDE changes, Input is made available from Java Webservice using a Websphere Message Queue and the respective changes are made in Mainframe (COBOL) components to facilitate front end changes. The correctness of the changes made is tested by building Test Cases and Performing manual and system testing with TCSL tools and client in-built tools.

Responsibilities:

Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering.

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

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

Communicating the design decisions and details to offshore and clarifying off shore team’s queries.

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

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

Develop reusable components to access DB2 and IMS Databases for CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) functions.

Creating effective test cases to perform Unit testing and Integration testing with constructed deliverable.

Develop and execute the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution based on agile methodology.

Documented the Lessons Learnt and Best Practices from every project release and shared with the end client for the Process Improvement and implemented them in the future effort.

Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others

Performed End-to-End Testing Functional and Regression Testing and logged the defects in the defect tracking tool

Coordinated with the offshore developers to fix the defects logged in the defect tracking tool

Conducted review meetings within the team

Generate reports for tracking defects, test project metrics, test process improvement and management review.

Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the packages using RMS

Maintenance and/or development of Cobol and CICS programs including DB2 as well

Coded new Cobol and CICS programs with DB2 as a part of building the new system

Projects delivered:

oJava Request Framework Migration (COBOL, DB2, JCL, RDz, Java,Admin 7)

oTest Data Management - (COBOL, JCL, DB2, BBALL)

oLifecycle Integration Delivery Service - service (COBOL, DB2, JCL, SPLUNK, POLICY SEARCH TOOL, MS Word, RDz, Admin 7)

Technologies: SoapUI, XML, COBOL, Message Queue, JCL, CICS, Admin 7, Java, SharePoint, DB2, SQL, Windows, Mainframe OS 390, Splunk, MQ, RACF, BBALL, HP Service Manager

Contract for TCS at State Farm Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL Dec 2018 - Dec 2019

Project Name: Health Claims - Fineos upgrade

Role: Developer

Project Description: Fineos upgrade effort is agile based effort, we have to make sure to consume latest Fineos 8.4 version of the code, upgrading the database version, running the conversion script, setting up the security, and deploying the code on the WAS 8.5 version server

Responsibilities:

Break down the entire project based on agile methodology. Break down into stories, features, tasks etc.

Mavenize the project.

Generate the build using Jenkins.

Continuous integration using maven/Jenkins.

Continuous Delivery using Pipelining, cloud portal

Attend daily standup to provide daily status update and suggestions to team members and client.

Provide subject matter expertise to lead team in different defect meetings, represent team in various project kick-off meetings and planning sessions.

Working with architects in finding the optimal solution, deploying the code on the WAS 8.5 server, upgrading the Fineos 8.4 version of the code.

Design and develop as per the change/enhancement requests.

Develop, document and promote solutions for defect fixes and reported bugs from project.

Creating functional and technical documentation for future references.

Status Reporting, defect management and attending Client Meetings/Discussions

Writing Cucumber and selenium automation scripts.

Orchestration and deploying application on CMP cloud server/VMwares.

Experience in developing SOAP Web Services using RMI

Operating System: Windows, Linux

Software/Special Tools: Java 1.8, Spring boot, XML, Rational Software Architecture 8.5, WebSphere Application server 8.5, GIT, Jenkins, Trac, version1, cucumber, Selenium, SPLUNK, HTML

Contract for TCS at State Farm Insurance Company, Chennai, India August 2011 - Nov 2012

Project Name: KAKT - Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Transition

Role : Developer

Project Description: The knowledge about existing applications in Life System was not well documented. As part of CDE (Customer Driven Evolution), knowledge about the existing applications in Life system was a key to drive the CDE. In need to that, applications in Life System were studied and documented. This requires analysis of code, interacting with SME( Subject Matter Except) who have worked on the respective applications(Onsite/Offshore).This documents prepared can be used as reference so to find the impact and necessary modifications needed to incorporate with other applications in the Life System

Responsibilities:

Understanding the programs which are in Assembler and documenting the same

Understanding the various applications and its process in Life System.

Interacting with SME's and Clients for more clarifications on the specific subsystems and its processes

Attending conference calls, tracking the project status, reviews

Documenting business logic from each application into understandable format (Ms Word)

Documenting the knowledge about each application.

Analysis of COBOL, Assembler, PL/1 and JAVA components.

Prepared Sequence diagram and Flow diagram for each application

Interacted with onsite/clients to clarify queries

Creating documentation in converting Assembler to Cobol programs

Tools: MS Office, Visio, RDz, Admin7

Technologies: COBOL, CICS, PL/1, JAVA, Assembler, HTML, SPLUNK



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