Software Developer Maintenance
Resume:
Lakshmi Preetha
Technical Lead - Mainframe
Phone no: 972-***-****
Email ID: **************.******@*****.***
Professional Summary
●Lakshmi Preetha has more than 7 years of experience in the development, enhancement, maintenance and testing of complex software applications using COBOL, JCL, VSAM and DB2, IMS, CICS,PLI.
●IBM Mainframe professional with 7 years of IT experience in Mainframe development
●She has good knowledge in the Payroll, Banking and Insurance sectors.
●She has also worked in a complex application for the Investment market.
●Involved in all the phases of software development analysis, design, coding, testing and release
●Worked closely with all the stakeholders like business analysts, developers, and DBAs
●Proficient in documenting all the phases of project from the Requirement analysis to Maintenance
●Strong technical and analytical skills, problem solving, communication and work ethics
●Good Developer, Tech Lead and a fast Learner.
Education
●Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Siva Subramaniya Nadar college of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai
Technical Summary
Primary Skill : Mainframe Development, Techlead
Domain : Dwelling Insurance,Pilot Payroll, Banking, Investment market.
Programming Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, PLI, IMS
SDLC : Agile, Waterfall
Tools : SPUFI, TSO, ISPF, QMF, Fileaid, Endevor, SCLM, SCM, Ready API, Postman
Operating systems : MVS, z/ Os 1.9, windows, Unix
Total Years of experience : 7 yrs
Work Experience
USAA INSURANCE, Plano, TX November 2019 Till Date
Technical Lead
DESCRIPTION: USAA is a well known Insurance Provider for Military members and their families. It has different dwelling applications for Home owners, Renters, Rental property, Valuable Personal Property . Base Location is San Antonio and Plano. Home Owners, VPP, RPI and Renters servicing applications ensure that the Members get the best premiums for the service they get. The Servicing application offers best Premiums for different coverages like Technology coverage, Mold coverage, Personal Property damage Replacement cost coverage.
Responsibilities:
●Feature Analysis and Business clarification during BRP.
●Identifying gaps in the feature requirement.
●Understanding the feature and gathering functional expertise.
●Planning the feature for different iteration and identifying external dependencies
●Enhancement/ Development as per the Business requirement.
●Reviewing the Analysis and design and presenting it to the clients
●Reviewing issues with the clients
●Qtest Plan Review
●Coding, reviewing the code and conduct code review with the clients
●Defect fixing and identifying Prod defects
●Unit testing, Integration testing, Support System testing and Release support
●Leading the Team with good Technical and Functional skill set.
●Tracking the work progress and completing the stories before the end of the iteration
● Role model for the team
Hexaware (Northern Trust), Chicago, IL September 2011 to October 2014
Sr. Mainframe Software Developer
Project: IRA - Internal Reporting Application (January 2013 – October 2014)
Description: Client is one of the leading financial institutions in the USA. They do global investment management, asset and fund administration, fiduciary and banking solutions for institutions, trusts and individuals. IRA is an auditing application. It is one of the core & critical systems. This system authenticates the data available for its clients. The project involves providing Application system maintenance (ASM), Enhancing existing applications plus 24 x 5 production supports.
Responsibilities:
●Module development, Enhancement – code production as per the technical design document.
●Unit testing and unit test plan creation.
●Code review – technical and functional.
●Discuss with BA, SME's in regards to requirements and understand their needs and create high level design documents.
●Reviewing the tasks done by my team members and making sure of providing high quality deliverables.
●Attending project calls to discuss about the progress of the work.
●Interacting with other teams to ensure changes made in our system not impacting to up/downstream systems.
●Providing estimation for the deliverables.
●Setup and execute batch jobs during testing and make sure all functionalities are tested/covered.
●Performed QA and UAT support.
●Perform quality reviews of completed testing prior to delivery to the client. Resolve discrepancies and correct formatting issues/errors to ensure high-quality deliverables.
●ensure coding standards.
●checklist preparation.
●production migration.
Air Canada (Toronto, Canada)
Project: Hewitt Project
Senior Software developer
Description: Crewtime is a mainframe based HRMS system which does the pay calculation for the F/As and Pilots. It calculates the dollar value of pay amount, and sends it to Peoplesoft for Net pay calculation. The business logic is in COBOL, the front end access id through CICS and files system used is VSAM which are loaded by the VSAM tables through monthly and daily batches.
Responsibilities:
●Communicating with the client/functional user for requirement gathering
●Maintenance and enhancement as per the technical design document.
●Test plan creation.
●Unit Testing and production migration.
●Provide Primary on-call Support for Production batch cycle from offshore.
●Functioning as a Security coordinator for the team.
●Enhancements to be made in the mainframe modules based on client requirements.
●Development of code for various maintenance and release tickets.
●Create best unit test scenarios covering all aspects of business requirements.
●Create test plans, test scenarios and test cases.
●Taking complete ownership on my deliverables and delivering high quality code.
●Giving KT sessions to new joiners in our account.
●Skill Used: COBOL, JCL, DB2, ENDEVOR,VSAM
BMO(Bank of Montreal)
Project: Hewitt Project
Senior Software developer
Description: It’s a HRMS system involving some critical process on Mainframe application. Enhancement, Maintenance, batch support, File transfer and production issues.
Responsibilities:
●Maintaining and Enhancing existing application
●Analyse Payroll and tax update related issues.
●Analyse the root cause
●Development and Unit testing
●production migration
●Provide Primary on-call Support for Production batch cycle from offshore.
●Scheduling of Monthly and daily batches.
●Involved in the Unit testing and Peer review/ITRB for the account.
●Development of code for various maintenance and enhancement project.
●Giving estimation for each work item and then delivering the code based on the estimate.
In Mphasis Ltd (Aviva) Dec 2010 to May 2011
Senior Engineer
Description: Application maintenance and production support activities
Responsibilities:
●Maintaining the Insurance related Application
●Monitoring batch jobs.
●Coding JCL procedures for various system activities like Backup and Restoration etc.
●Troubleshooting and debugging of the applications.
●Conducting analysis of ABEND and suggesting the best resolutions within SLA.
●Monitoring error messages.
●Production Support.
●Involved in gathering technical specifications.
●Participated in team meetings on weekly basis to discuss status of work.
●Active person in team to take up innovation tasks assigned to team.
●Involved in Analysis, preparing technical design, coding, and testing.
●Prepared migration requests.
In Wns/AVIVA January 2009 to December 2010
Technical Analyst
Description: Development and Maintenance of insurance system for the client. The users insurance premiums and benefits are maintained. The programming language is COBOL and the file system used is VSAM and the front end being VB.
Responsibilities:
●Analysing the Business Requirement document and providing effective solutions.
●Application maintenance, development and related production support activities..
●Unit testing, production migration.
●Regular maintenance for Batch and Online programs.
●Report Generations.
●Bug Fixing.
●Documentation – TDD and test plan creation.
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