Engineer Software

PREMKUMAR RAJAMANICKAM

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Around 14 Years of extensive experience in Information Technology with hands-on expertise in legacy

applications related to Banking (Credit Card Processing), Retail, Finance and Automobile sectors.

Having very strong knowledge in Mainframe technologies (COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, JCL, REXX, EZYTRIVE, NATURAL and ADABAS).

Involvement in various projects has helped to successfully execute all phases of Software Development Life Cycle [Analysis, Design, Development and Maintenance] with onshore and offshore models.

Experienced in Development, Maintenance and Production Support activities and also involved in Disaster Recovery exercises.

Performed Requirement gathering from business users and prepared High Level specification documents.

Created Technical design specification documents based on the functional design documents.

Developed new modules and also enhanced existing programs in COBOL, CICS, NATURAL, JCL’s.

Created and execute different test cases in Quality Center and maintain all the documentations in Share point.

Manifested the deliverables as an individual contributor and also leading the team.

Reviewing the Results of Coding and Unit Testing (CUT), System Integration Testing (SIT) and

User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Provided Release and Support Activities on Major and Minor enhancements.

Documentation, Quality Planning and Defect Prevention.

Provided 24x7 production batch supports on all applications and daily status updates.

Provided quick & temporary solution for the batch errors in order to meet the SLA’s.

Identified and prepared the root cause analysis for the errors based on their severity.

Replicate the problem in test region & analyse the problem to provide a permanent fix/resolution.

Scheduling & running the test batches with respect to the corresponding regions.

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING in Electronics and Communication.

From K.S.R. College of Engineering, Tiruchengode. Passed Year: Jul’ 2006.

(Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai & Approved by AICTE)

WORK EXPERIENCE

COMPANY: TECH MAHINDRA, Chennai ROLE: PROJECT LEAD

DURATION: From Jul 2012 To Till Date.

COMPANY: WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Chennai ROLE: SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

DURATION: From Oct 2009 To Jul 2012.

COMPANY: MAHINDRA SATYAM, Hyderabad ROLE: SOFTWARE ENGINEER

DURATION: From Dec 2006 To Oct 2009.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PRIMARY:

oCOBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SORTS, REXX, EZYTRIVE, NATURAL and ADABAS

SECONDARY:

oInformatica Power Centre Developer, SAP - ABAP

SUPPORT TOOLS:

oVision Plus, Change man, OPC Scheduler, CA7 Scheduler, File-Aid, Expeditor, Pan valet,

oISPW, HP Quality Center, Service NOW, Jira

METHODOLOGY:

oAgile (Kanban & SCRUM), Waterfall

DOMAINS:

oAutomotive / Retail / Finance / Banking (Credit Card Processing)

AWARDS, HONOURS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Awarded “PAT ON BACK” for Contributions to Corporate Vehicle 2.0 has led to Positive perception with

Customer on TechM. He goes beyond his deliverables and assisted the customer and collaborated with 3rd Party Vendor.

Awarded “FEATHER IN MY CAP” for the Outstanding contribution towards Affinity Set-1 & 2 projects.

Awarded “THANKS A ZILLION” for Quick Learning and understanding the Core rating portion and making the project implementation successful in New ISO Symbol project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE (Key Projects)

Client: NNA

Project : 06– Corporate Vehicles 2.0

Designation : Systems Analyst

Location : Onsite- Franklin, TN

The Corporate Vehicle (CV) Department, a $1 Billion revenue generating profit centre, is replacing the systems that currently support their business. Fleet Wave is a cloud-based system that is highly configurable and will support the current business requirements as well as future enhancement opportunities.

The legacy mainframe CV Adabas will remain as a repository for CV data that will feed Host systems: SMM, NIVI/SAP, VOPS, and Warranty. Several in flight and planned projects can be leveraged to further reduce its future usage.

Requirement Gathering and documenting the specification for team.

Supporting the team to build Design and getting it signed off from customers.

Develop New Integration between Host system and other applications.

Reviewing the Results of Coding and Unit Testing (CUT), System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Implementation and support activities.

Knowledge sharing with the support teams.

Project : 05– Convert existing NML Production source to New Dragon system

Designation : Systems Analyst

Location : Onsite- Franklin, TN

Requirement gathering and analysis on existing POPS (Production ordering and scheduling process) application.

Design preparation for the addition of new production source in DRAGON system and getting signed off from customers.

Develop new modules in COBOL, CICS, NATURAL, JCL’s.

Reviewing the Results of Coding and Unit Testing (CUT), System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Provide Release and Support Activities on Major and Minor enhancements.

Documentation, Quality Planning and Defect Prevention.

Project : 04–DRAGON –Introducing New system process

Designation : Project Lead

Location : Offshore- Chennai, IND

Gathering knowledge on POPS Applications, reverse KT and Knowledge Sharing for New Joiners.

Requirement analysis and Design preparation for the client requirement.

Build and Maintenance of new modules in COBOL, CICS, NATURAL, JCL’s.

Perform Coding and Unit Testing (CUT), System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Test case execution and documentation of the results and get approvals from BA’s and Clients.

Client:

Project : 03 -Modify system to process prepacks for K-Mart customer

Designation : Senior Software Engineer

Location : Offshore- Chennai, IND

Requirement analysis to the existing JW Order Management System and prepared understanding documents.

Involved in Client Meetings and discussions for better understanding the requirements.

Prepared Technical design document and effort required specification document for the given requirement and getting it signed off from customers.

Development of COBOL programs and JCLs for the Batch processes based on technical design document.

Preparation and Review of Unit Test Cases and Execution of the same in Development region.

Provided UAT and Warranty support.

Maintained the application by fixing all kinds of abends, deadlocks etc. during warranty phases.

Client:

Project : 02 - Affinity Set 1 &2- E Documents, E Billing and Regeneration of Forms

Designation : Senior Software Engineer

Location : Offshore- Chennai, IND

Analysis on the high-level design and the system in CTS print application.

Analysis and Preparation of Functional Design and Technical Design documents.

Development of COBOL and Natural programs for prefilling the fields selected by the customer during the NBS, END, RENS transactions and notifying them about the Docs available online (after batch).

Reduce the number of unnecessary forms included in a “Declaration Package” (DEC package) sent during the Endorsement and Renewal process.

Preparation and Review of Unit Test Cases and Execution of the same in Development region.

Identified the defects based on the review comments and test results and provided zero customer complaints.

Client:

Project : 01- Switzerland Production Support

Designation : Software Engineer

Location : Offshore- Chennai, IND

This project involves managing the production support and application maintenance on ownership basis.

It involves activities like –

Vision plus is offered as a card management solution to the business conducted by GE Capital bank in Switzerland.

Provided 24x7 production batch supports on all Vision PLUS applications and daily status updates.

Have to provide quick & temporary solution for the batch errors in order to meet the SLA’s.

Identify and prepare the root cause analysis for the errors based on their severity.

Replicating the problem in test region & analyse the problem to provide a permanent fix/resolution.

Scheduling & running the test batches with respect to the corresponding regions.

Providing status updates to onsite and on call support person.

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