Cobol Mainframe
Resume:
Has **+ Years of experience in the IT industry that includes the complete system life cycle (SDLC) from Requirement Analysis, Designing, Coding, Testing, Implementation and Coordination.
Total 12 Years of Experience in Mainframe Technology with COBOL DB2 VSAM IMS DB CICS for Credit ACAPS/Lending/Deposit Mortgage Retail & Insurance.
Major experience in Banking, Retail, Insurance and Investment Banking Domain.
Extensive hands on experience and developed CICS applications, DB2 and DB2 Stored procedures and expertise in SQL queries.
Handled L1/L2 production support for 500+ batch jobs on Z/OS.
Proficient in interacting with end-users and business analysts, interpreting business needs and creating technical specifications.
Identified bottlenecks, repetitive process in the system and working in process improvement in terms of CPU savings, improve the SLA.
Involved in creating Project Plan, status tracking, publishing Dashboards on regular basis.
Good experience in Offshore and Onsite coordination.
Expertise in creating runbooks for production implementation and data conversion on implementation day, ability to coordinate with multiple teams to understand the dependencies with them and drafting the execution plan accordingly.
Efficient in debugging, trouble shooting and provide timely prod support.
Proficient in tools like Fileaid, Intertest, IBM Debug, SQL Assistant and Abend-Aid.
Good knowledge of version control tools Endevor, Changeman and scheduling tools like CA7.
Good project management, Interpersonal and communication skills, very agile and dedicated team player, Skilled in handling multiple projects simultaneously.
Attitude in learning new technology and accept the challenging environment and confidence in delivering the results within timelines by constantly self-motivating and motivating the Team to deliver the best possible.
IBM
Project – Chase Card Originations & ACAPS Development
May 2021 – Till date
Customer name: JP Morgan Chase(JPMC), Wilmington, DE, USA
Project Description:
ORI provides decision support for credit cards application processing, portfolio request application processing, and Business Banking loan processing. Automated Credit Application Processing System (ACAPS) and Credit Decisioning Engine (CDE) are the two main engines supported by ORI. ACAPS is an online instant response system that supports the capture, investigation, approval, closing, documentation, and booking of card application. Credit Decisioning Platform is build around suite of applications, Bureaulink-Interface to Credit Bureaus, Strata- Business Rule Engine, Custom build processing and interfaces. These applications can be used standalone or a bundle to build custom solution for Credit Decisioning.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for effort estimation, preparing release schedule and review the same with JPMC management
Put a detailed project plan, approach for project execution, and review the same with client managers
Identify the Risks and prepare mitigation plan for the same
Work on High Level Design, Low Level Design and review with JPMC Tech leads
Preparing unit test cases and unit test results
Performing reviews and ensure the overall quality of the project
Implement the changes in Production by casting the packages and provide post implementation support
Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes.
Providing Application knowledge to entire team and leading the overall project
Building Provider and Consumer APIs with mainframe utilizing ZOS and Testing API with Postman.
Automation testing scripts.
Role: Lead Mainframe Developer
Technical Platform:
Operating System : Windows /Zos
Languages : Mainframe -COBOL, SQL, SAS, EZT, REXX, JCICS, JVM, Kafka, ZConnect API, MQ, WAS WOLA,JAVA, Python
Database : DB2, VSAM, IMS DB
Special Software : Changeman, CICS, CA DB2 Tools
Project – Exceed Legacy Payments system
Jan 2020 – May 2021
Customer name: GEICO, Macon, GA, USA
Project Description:
The primary objective of the project is developing code in Mainframes to support the existing mainframe application called Exceed Legacy Payments system. This application mainly used for onetime or recurring payments for Auto and Umbrella policies. There are numerous payment methods that application supports, namely electronic and paper check, credit card, remittance center and agent branches. This application processes the form that customer opted to make payment for their policy and process the payment to post to GEICO account. The customer can see the payment history for whatever they paid so far and can enroll, de-enroll, change or cancel the payment method they opted for at any time.
Responsibilities:
Accountable for designing, coding, development, testing, documentation and debugging of applications to fulfill the requirements of one or more user areas
Provide support for enhancing and maintaining existing applications
Coordinate with the operations areas and lines of business to spot out and specify complex business requirements and processes
Offer assistance for troubleshooting current Mainframe environment
Integrate system on allocated software projects
Review designs for custom application and execute features and functions
Coordinate with varied systems and integration infrastructure
Perform designing, coding, testing, debugging and documenting application development process.
Providing Application knowledge to Offshore team and leading the team
Tokenization services using C#
Created Tables, Stored procedures, User defined functions, Views and Triggers for different data operations using SQL Server
Role: Sr Mainframe Developer
Technical Platform:
Operating System : Windows/Zos
Languages : Mainframe - COBOL, SQL, CICS
Database : DB2, VSAM, SQL Server, CA Performance Tuning
Special Software : Endevor, Control-M
Project – Chase Card Originations & ACAPS Development
Oct 2017 – Jan 2020
Customer name: JP Morgan Chase(JPMC), Wilmington, DE, USA
Project Description:
ORI provides decision support for credit cards application processing, portfolio request application processing, and Business Banking loan processing. Automated Credit Application Processing System (ACAPS) and Credit Decisioning Engine (CDE) are the two main engines supported by ORI. ACAPS is an online instant response system that supports the capture, investigation, approval, closing, documentation, and booking of card application. Credit Decisioning Platform is build around suite of applications, Bureaulink-Interface to Credit Bureaus, Strata- Business Rule Engine, Custom build processing and interfaces. These applications can be used standalone or a bundle to build custom solution for Credit Decisioning.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for effort estimation, preparing release schedule and review the same with JPMC management
Put a detailed project plan, approach for project execution, and review the same with client managers
Identify the Risks and prepare mitigation plan for the same
Work on High Level Design, Low Level Design and review with JPMC Tech leads
Preparing unit test cases and unit test results
Performing reviews and ensure the overall quality of the project
Implement the changes in Production by casting the packages and provide post implementation support
Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes.
Providing Application knowledge to entire team and leading the overall project
Building Provider and Consumer APIs with mainframe utilizing ZOS and Testing API with Postman.
Role: Sr Mainframe Developer
Technical Platform:
Operating System : Windows /Zos
Languages : Mainframe -COBOL, SQL, SAS, EZT, REXX, JCICS, JVM, Kafka, ZConnect API, MQ, WAS WOLA,JAVA, Python
Database : DB2, VSAM, IMS DB
Special Software : Changeman, CICS, CA DB2 Tools
Project – IRCI (Investor Reporting Change Initiative)
Sep 2016 – Sep 2017
Customer name: Freddie Mac, Mclean, VA, USA
Project Description:
The Investor Reporting Change Initiative will convert Freddie Mac’s Single-Family investor reporting requirements to be closer to an industry standard. The initiative will also help support the disclosure and buyout requirements of the upcoming Single Security.
Responsibilities:
Analyzed MIDAS Servicing system to identify LLR process critical process.
Modification and ARM adjustments etc.,
Evaluate and create the Level of Effort(LOE) for project requirements deliverables
Analyzed complex Legacy system to find out areas of interest.
Write design which explains Mainframe flow diagram, technology chosen, input and output and interaction between other components and system.
Write detailed design which details about all elements and application program detailed logic and their connection between each other components
Set up SFTP to securely send files to NAS location for other systems to consume
Developed Secure FTP JCL to send a file to UNIX server
Review application design and code with internal and external team for meeting requirement and compliance to design and coding standard
Develop Unit Test Plan, test Cases, and Test steps for various Business Services/methods covering both Positive and Negative testing.
Facilitated Project Status Meeting QA Team, and Business team
Created and executed complex SQL Queries to perform Back-end testing
Reviewed the Test plan, strategy and test cases for SIT and UAT team
Read and Mock up Uniform Loan Delivery Dataset (ULDD) for the assigned test cases
Document test results, and compile results of other testers into consolidated report for management, clients and application staff. Perform regression and analysis for presentation in project meeting. Open and track reports/data defects and liaise with development team to resolve issues
Develop and test data extractions and reports from requests/requirements for supporting both SIT and UAT team
Role: Onsite Lead & Coordinator(Onsite)
Technical Platform:
Operating System : Windows
Languages : COBOL, SQL, SAS, EZT
Database : DB2, VSAM, IMS DB
Special Software : Endevor, CICS, CA Tools
Project – CIF Conversion
Sep 2015 – Aug 2016
Customer name: Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T) Corporation, Wilson, NC, USA
Project Description:
The project involves the activities that to migrate the CIF-DB2 data and existing mainframe modules to the MDM (Master Data Management) where the equivalent customer data and functionalities of customer information system modules will be implemented.
The team will work for testing the migration data of Customer Information System module and will create the high level documents as well. The team is constituted of 9 members (2 onshore and 7 offshore).
Responsibilities:
Analyzing the functionalities existing customer information system modules which are running in mainframe
Analyzing the business functionalities of the existing modules of Customer information system
Analyzing the other affected modules which are directly has the link with Customer information system Mainframe module.
Testing the modules which migration happens for CIF system
Handling weekly status meeting with the offshore team, Line of business and updating status of the tasks
Creating the high level documents for each module which will have the business functionalities
Providing Application knowledge to entire team and leading the overall project
Role: Onsite Lead & Coordinator(Offshore & Onsite)
Technical Platform:
Operating System : Windows
Languages : COBOL, SQL, SAS, EZT
Database : DB2, VSAM, IMS DB
Special Software : Endevor, CICS
Project – THD Financial System Support
Apr 2012 – Aug 2015
Customer name: The Home Depot Inc, Atlanta, USA
Project Description:
The Home Depot is the world’s largest home improvement retailer. Enterprise Financial Initiative is a business transformation project focussed on integration of their financial business processes. The project gives Production support to various modules including AP, AR, purchasing, project accounting, Cash and Asset accounting. In addition, it also carries out enhancements to the existing objects to include additional functionality, improve performance development of new program objects based on the requirement.
Responsibilities:
Assistance in analyzing business and functional requirement to design test cases based n the production change requests and developments
Coding the new COBOL-DB2 Stored procedure programs, JCL and PROC
Maintain the new versions of elements that underwent changes using the version control tool Endevor
Preparing unit test cases and unit test results
Performing reviews and ensure the overall quality of the project
Implement the changes in Production by casting the packages and provide post implementation support
Establish “Best Practices” and plan for continuous improvement of processes.
Role: Module & Project Lead(Offshore)
Technical Platform:
Operating System : Windows
Languages : COBOL, SQL, SAS, EZT, REXX
Database : DB2, VSAM, IMS DB
Special Software : Endevor, Stored procedures, CICS
Project – Next Generation Producer Licensing System (NGPLS)
Apr 2011 – Mar 2012
Client: Chartis Insurance(AIG), New Jersey, USA
Technology: Mainframe, Db2, CICS, VSAM, JCL, REXX, SAS
Role: Developer, Offshore and Onshore integration support(Offshore project)
Project Description:
PLS is used to maintain the agent/agency, license and appointment details. A separate PL Search (View only) application is used by the business user community to view Agency / Agent, License and Appointment information in PLS. A recent Strategic Management Solutions group discovery project (in Q309) identified inconsistencies in producer data utilized across the Commercial Insurance (CI) organization and recommended a number of steps to improve the quality of data across CI, also it identified multiple scenarios where premium was booked to unlicensed producers. Underwriting Systems do not track or validate individual Agent, License or Appointments with exception of Surplus Lines / tax purposes apart from validating that producer code entered exists in the PLS Database. Some Underwriting Systems (UW) allows transactions with Producer Code status other than Active. This results in premium/policy being booked to inactive producers.
Responsibilities:
Involved in the design and development of the programs used to re-calibrate
Preparing unit test cases and unit test results
Review of Test Result and Defects
Handling weekly status meeting with the onsite team and updating status of the tasks
Involved in the complete end to end Testing and Install
Project – Interface Design and Development – Core Banking
Feb 2009 – Mar 2011
Client: KBank - Bangkok, Thailand
Technology: Talend data integration, Oracle 10g, Data stage 9.1, DB2, Mainframes, Stored procedures
Role: Developer and Onshore integration support
Project Description:
The interfaces application is a flexible module which is having ability to work as the middle tier between TCB and the K-Bank client. K bank has lot of systems that has to talk with TCB and vice versa. This module is responsible for all the interactions between TCB and other legacy systems in K bank
Responsibilities:
Coding and unit testing for online and batch interface.
Extensive program analysis and preparation of specification documents.
Technical design for the business requirements.
Review of the program specifications.
Involved in SIT (System Integration Testing) along with the client
Batch support and coordination with vendors
Attend weekly project status with client
Handle the internal batch team for functional test and bug fixing
Support batch performance testing team for tuning the batch interface jobs
Mentoring less experienced team members in case of complex issues during development
Elumalai Marimuthu
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CURRENT ROLE
Sr Mainframe Developer
ENVIRONMENTS
Mainframe Z/OS
Windows
LANGUAGES
COBOL
JCL
Native SQL
Pl/SQL
DATABASES
DB2,VSAM
Oracle
Development Tools
IBM Data studio.
SQL Developer.
ACAPS Developer
CA Tools
Flow /Data reporting software
MS Visio
Messaging systems:
MQ
Domain
Credit cards, Banking
Mortgage, Freddie Mac
Retail and Insurance
CORPORATE AFFILIATIONS
Chase
Geico
Freddie Mac
BB&T
Change Management Tools:
Changeman and Endevor
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