Ashakanta Pradhan

Lead developer/Tech Lead / COBOL – AWS DEVOPS

VISA Status :- H1B I140 Approved

Pittsburgh PA USA

+1-515-***-****

adqhmo@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

17+ years of IT experience primarily in Application Development, Maintenance and Production Support.

Expertise working with multiple stakeholders across IT, Business and PMO.

Responsibilities as SCRUM Master, Project Lead, Team Manager and hands-on Developer. Also worked in detailed Application Architecture working with the Senior Architects.

Proficient managing resources, designing technical solutions and managing stake holder expectations.

A Certified Scrum Master, practices Agile Scrum methodology.

I have implemented GIT Code commit SDLC Process in my current Organization for COBOL.

Also Working on the POC For Converting RM COBOL to Microfocus Visual COBOL Conversion Part of Legacy Modernization initiative.

Domain Experience includes Banking & Financial Services - Credit Card Business, Savings Account, Insurance – Property & Casualty, Health Care – Enrollment & Billing, Reform & Affordable Care Act.

I would like to grow in Mainframe/Cobol Modernization projects With my Cobol Mainframe and AWS Skills.

Professional Training completed in AWS Solution Architect and AWS Devops.

Technical Experience

Currently working as a Lead developer/Sr application developer in PDMI Youngstown, OH .

Actively involved in Requirement Analysis, Impact Analysis, estimation, Design, Coding and Unit testing of the enhancements.

Strong in Analysis of batch and online application. Guide the Team on Analysis and Problem-solving Techniques.

Support the System Integration Testing and UAT for any application issues.

Responsible for leading the Application development team and coordinate with the other interface team such as Integration service/Message broker and MQ Team.

Experienced Mainframe developer with the SOA Architecture.

Responsible for Release planning working with release management Team and implementing the changes to production.

Involved in Code review and Test result review.

Responsible for providing subject-matter direction to the junior developers.

Involved in full development life cycle which includes Migration.

Good Exposure to the AWS Cloud and AWS Devops.

Team manager /Technical Lead experience

1-year and 9 months as Team Manager, 9 + years as a Technical Lead/Lead Developer.

6 + Years Agile Experience.

Responsible for the SCRUM Teams to make sure the Scrum ceremonies occur as planned. This includes Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily stand-up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.

Responsible for providing subject-matter direction. Managing projects through the full product life cycle.

Responsible for all the Delivery Process followed in the team such as requirement Walkthru, Design review, Development, Code review, Unit Test result review, Functional test review and Customer signoff, Implementation, tech and Business checkout.

Promoting continuous improvement of processes and delivery of results.

Mentoring the team on technical solution.

Responsible for the Quality Process for delivering the product on time and on budget with good quality.

Responsible for the release management Process. Status reporting to senior management, internal external customers.

Managing/Leading the Onshore and Offshore Team.

Responsible for leading Application development and QA Team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Primary Skills

COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, CICS, MQ, EASYTRIEVE, NDM

Technical Exposure

Message Broker (SOAP UI/JSON), ORACLE, TERADATA and Exposure to Data warehousing concept, INFORMATICA JOB Monitoring, Linux

Tools

Change man, Endeavor, IBM Debugger, Xpeditor, Smart Test, InterTest, Trace Master, File Manager, File-Aid, QMF, SPUFI, INSYNC, JHS, IOF, SDSF, INFOMAN, Mercury Quality Center, HP Service Center, Fault Analyzer, ABEND AID, Dump Master, SPLUNK,SDF,Service Manager, Manage now, RTC, SharePoint, Informatica Power center, OPC

Methodologies

Agile, Scrum Methodologies

New Learnings

AWS Cloud (EC2/IAM/LAMBDA/S3/RDS/DMS etc..), GIT Distributed Code commit, JSP, PYTHON, shell scripting, Microfocus Visual COBOL

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

PDMI Youngstown, OH Aug 2020 - Present Aug 2020 – Present

File Expansion Projects

This Project was to expand the GROUP MAS/CLAIM MASS / PLAN MAS to accommodate the newly added fields. This involves lot of requirement Analysis / Impact Analysis to implement the Project.

Involved with the Project and Testing Team to implement the changes.

COBOL, Linux, ISAM files, SQL Server.

Relativity driver (Changelog Project)

This project was to have the ISAM file configured in relativity and then move the changed records for all the files to the AWS DB. For this new modules were created to identify the changes and prepare the file to load into the AWS. The Self service portal is being developed in REACT/NodeJS to replace the Cobol Screens.

Involved in regression Testing strategy as well.

AWS Code commit Implementation

I worked on implementing the code commit POCs. Analyze the system SDLC Process and came-up with the best Branching strategies for the Application Team and then implement in Code commit.

COBOL, Linux, AWS Code Commit, GIT.

GIT Branching Strategy

GIT Merge Technique

Trained the team on GIT-CODECOMMIT Implementation

RM to Microfocus COBOL POC

Working on the POC for Converting the RM COBOL to Micro focus Visual COBOL.

Part of legacy Modernization Initiative.

Claim Processing Production Support

Working on Claim Processing COBOl Prod Tickets.

Environment: - COBOL, Linux, ISAM files, SQL Server, AWS, Microfocus Visual COBOL,GIT, AWS CODE COMMIT

HM Health Solutions, Pittsburgh, PA July 2015 – Aug 2020

Large Enhancements (lead developer)

Risk Adjustment Process HMHS 2015-2016

Role :- Application Architect and Lead developer

Revenue impacting Complex ACA Deliverable - Successfully implemented the Risk Adjustment Process in 2016 with 99.5 % of Accuracy that led to an appreciation from Highmark CEO

Member Matching 2016-2017

Role :- Application Architect and Lead developer

The requirement was to create a Process to identify the correct member. We developed new components which will accept the demographic informations of the member and connect with the MDM service to pull the correct member details for the renewal or change to the member coverages. We implemented this process for all the clients with different business rules. It has impact to the batch and online process.

EVENT INTERACTION Tracking (EIT) – 2016-2017

Role :- Application Architect and Lead developer

End to End Project interacting with the other interfaces.

The requirement was to create new components which will store the member information in a different interface where we need to store all the insert/updates/deletes received from different interfaces. For this we created new components built the new MQ for processing these messages and store in EIT. This Project involved huge coding and lot of regression testing since multiple interfaces were involved.

MN Client Assign ID /Agent Agency Update 2017

Role :- Application Architect and Lead developer

This requirement involved new and Existing Program changes working with different interfaces for updating and retrieving the data from the repository. Worked with message broker team to send the response back to the caller. It has impact to both Batch and online interfaces.

Test Cycle Management 2020

Role :- Lead developer

Cycle prep in ESP for the Daily Test batch cycle. Monitoring the Mainframe, SAS, Teradata and Informatica Jobs. Make sure the cycle complete on time. And Fix the abends or any issues while monitoring the Batch. This involves lot of Analysis while Analyzing the Job abends.

Analysis, estimation, Design, Coding, Unit Testing. Supporting the SIT and UAT.

Release planning, Guiding the Team and reviewing the code changes and the test results.

Methodology: - Agile

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, MQ, Dump master, Endevor, Trace Master, INSYNQ, ESP, Exposure to Informatica/Teradata, Linux.

Team Manager 2018-2019

Defect Reduction HMHS- 2018

Stabilization Initiative @ HM Health Solutions – Led the initiative for Membership department, formed the team, established the goal, performed the best practices, reduced the defect count by 70%, met the target count to have end of year defect count less than 10

VSAM to Db2 Conversion Project. HMHS 2019-2020

HMHS Initiative was to covert the business tables from VSAM to DB2 and it require lot of impact Analysis Large Developments, VSAM to DB2 Migration and huge amount of testing. I was managing both tech and testing team.

PES (M360) and ECSWEB Enhancements 2019-2020

I manage all the project Delivery related PES which has all ecs Web development and Informatica Change.

My role was to manage the Responsible for managing Membership Production Support and Enhancement team. Accountable to provide a stable platform and reduce production defects, provide Incident Management and Problem Management support. Lead Scrum teams including Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily stand-up, Sprint review and Sprint retrospective.

Status reporting to the Management and Customer.

Monitor the SLA and Fix the issue on time or escalate.

Demand and Capacity Planning for HMHS Team.

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Ezetrieve, MQ, Dump master, Endevor, Trace Master, INSYNQ, ESP.

Technical Exposure: - JAVA/JSP INFORMATICA Power center, ORACLE etc.

Nationwide Insurance, Des Moines, IA (IBM US) April 2014 – July 2015

IBM India, Hyderabad August 2010 – April 2014

Role :- Tech Lead

Large Enhancements

Rate review Projects for P&C application

Database Expansion Projects.

Performance improvement Project (Multifetch Cursor)

Production Support and Defect

Small Enhancements

Responsible for managing IBM Offshore Production Support and Enhancement team. Accountable to deliver the IBM Offshore Enhancements on Time with good Quality.

Responsible for estimation, design, coding and testing of software for major enhancement and development projects

Code review and test Results review

SIT/UAT Support, Production Implementation and Post Implementation Support.

Demand and Capacity of IBM Team and leading the IBM SCRUM Team.

Status reporting to the Management and Customer.

Monitor the SLA and Fix the issue on time or escalate.

Documentations

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Ezetrieve, MQ, Fault Analyzer, Endevor, Changeman, IBM Debugger Fault Analyzer, File Manager, Quality Center SharePoint etc

HSBC Bank (Quinnox Pune, India) November 2007 – August 2010

Role:- Sr Software Engineer/Module Lead

Enhancements

Debit Card Rebranding.

Service Fulfilment Module (Middleware COBOL CICS)

ONE HSBC Core Banking.

Responsible for estimation, design, coding and testing of software for major enhancement and development projects.

Extensively involved in creating the Batch Application for converting from Maestro to VISA Format.

For SFM/One HSBC Core banking – middleware Application Creating new Cobol CICS Program to send and receive the data from the caller thru MQ Series. SFM was the middleware application for Vision PLUS CMS/FAS Application

SIT and UAT Support. Involved in Code review and Test results review.

Leading the junior developer. Guiding the team to meet the goal.

Documentations.

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Ezetrieve, MQ, Abend Aid, Changeman, IBM Debugger, Trace Master, File Aid, Quality Center SharePoint etc

CITI BANK (Satyam Hyderabad India) March 2006 – November 2007

Role:- Senior Developer

Enhancements

Data Masking Project

Account Analysis

CITI Business Online

Responsible for estimation, design, coding and testing of software for major enhancement and development projects.

Extensive Working on Batch and online Application.

SIT and UAT Support.

Production Support

Documentations.

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Ezetrieve, MQ, Abend Aid, Changeman, InterTest, File Aid, Quality Center etc

American Express (Infosys, Bangalore, India) November 2005 - March 2006

Role:- Developer

Supporting the CAMS and CCDS Applications.

Responsible for design, coding and testing of the Enhancements/Defects Assigned to me.

Worked on the Batch/Online changes.

SIT and UAT Support

Documentation

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Abend Aid, File Aid, Quality Center,SDF,CSP etc

Exposure to IMS DB

IBM India December 2004 - November 2005

Role:- Developer

Enhancements/Defect

Application: - Nordic International leasing System for IBM. IBM to Lenovo Conversion.

Responsible for coding and testing of the enhancement and development projects.

Working on Batch/Online Small enhancements.

SIT and UAT Support

Documentation

Environment: - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Abend Aid, File Aid, Quality Center,SDF,CSP etc

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and Instrumentation –UTKAL University, Orissa, India.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

INS 21 – Principles of Property and Casualty Insurance Sept 2011

DB2 730 – Fundamentals of Universal Database 9. DB2 733 – Application Programmer

SCRUM Master Certification.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Diamond Award, HM Health Solutions

Appreciation Letter from CEO for delivering the RISK Adjustment Project for Affordable Care Act

Eminence and Excellence Recognition, IBM Hyderabad India.

TEAM Award 2009, HSBC Technology and Services, Pune India.

Extra Miler Award 2010, HSBC Technology and Services, Pune India.

VISA Status:- H1B Approved I140 Approved

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