Cobol Payment Processor

Rishiraj Dubey (Rishi)

**** ********* *****, *’Fallon, MO 63368.

Phone: +1-919-***-**** Email: *************@*****.*** EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Sr IBM Mainframe Application Developer with 15+ years of hands-on experience in application development. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, and complete Software Development Life Cycle. Experienced working in Banking & Financial Services, Loan Servicing and General Insurance domain. Excellent working knowledge in Core Application Design, Development, Testing, Production Support and Environment Support. Ability to multi-task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application with Development and Production Support projects. KEY COMPETENCIES:

● Good Exposure in Maintenance/Enhancement/Support of the legacy mainframe applications. Extensive hands-on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming.

● Good Knowledge on SDLC to handle and demonstrate process compliance with respect to enhancement activities. Experience in capturing requirements, developing functional design/specifications with the help of technical knowledge and business knowledge acquired.

● Involved in all the stages of the development like analysis, design, build, test and deployment of code. Excellent Team building, Task management, Analytical, Interpersonal and Communication skills with strong work ethics.

● Ability to lead the team with single point of accountability at enterprise level. Having Good exposure to end-to-end test environment/infrastructure provisioning, management and support.

● Involved in Data Engineering which includes data integration, test data creation, data backup and refresh, data masking, data mining, data profiling & cleansing, data processing, DB tables alteration, MQ configuration, web service/third party interface configuration etc.

● Involved in data masking solutions and develop capabilities for gold copy database creation, virtualization, and loading.

● Involved in debugging technical environmental issues in test environment and resolve it, performance optimization of the jobs and identify action to be performed, building automated solution for process optimization and develop self service capability to achieve high throughput.

● Able to understand client's requirements and quickly resolve any potential issue both in the project as well as in the productive environment. Attending the project review meetings with Clients, gathering requirements, preparing High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD), transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build activity.

● Strong knowledge about Investment Banking domain. Able to communicate to and influence stakeholders. Good experience in effective communication with both business and technical team, verbally and written. Undertake/share knowledge transfer for the application.

● Experienced in working in a team delivering solutions to pressured timescale. Self-motivated, highly committed to responsibilities and ability to work independently. Ability to perform well within cross-functional teams. TECHNICAL SKILL SET:

Languages - JCL, COBOL, PL-SQL, CICS, REXX, Micro Focus COBOL, CLIST, PL1, Data analytics with R. Databases - DB2, VSAM, MySQL, Oracle 8i and MS–Access. Operating Systems - IBM OS/390, MS-DOS, Unix and Windows. Tools - File Aid, CA7, Expeditor, ISPF, SPUFI, Endevor, File Master, Abend-Aid, MQ, Alchemist, Beyond Compare, Crimson Editor, VC Master, Talend ETL tool, Aldon, Bitbucket, Gitlab. 1

EDUCATION:

Degree/Course Institution/Board Address Marks Dates of attendance

Bachelor of Engineering

(Computer Science &

Engineering)

C.S.I.T. Durg/Pt Ravishankar

Shukla University, Raipur (CG),

India

Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of

Technology,

Shivaji Nagar, Balod Road,

Kolihapuri, Piesegaon Durg -

491001. Chattisgarh, India.

70% Aug 2001 –

Jun 2005

XII (Science) G.H.S.S. Balod/ M.P. Board, India Govt (Boy’s) Higher Secondary School Balod, CG 491226,

India

75% Jul 1999 -Mar

2000

X G.H.S.S. Balod/ M.P. Board, India Govt (Boy’s) Higher Secondary School Balod, CG 491226,

India

75% Jul 1997 -Apr

1998

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

Company Position/Visa status Address of employer Dates of employment

Kforce Inc. Senior Software

Developer/H1B visa

1001 East Palm Avenue, Tempa, FL 33605, USA Apr 2021 – till date

Wipro Limited, USA Lead Engineer/H1B visa 2 Tower Center Blvd, East Brunswick, NJ 08816-1100, USA

Apr 2018 –

Apr 2021

Wipro Limited, India Lead Engineer Plot No 31, M I D C, Phase-2, Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, Hinjewadi, Pune, MH 411057, India

Dec 2014 –

Apr 2018

Fiserv India Pvt Ltd Technical Analyst Trion Business Park, Nagar Rd, Kargil Vijay Nagar, Wadgaon Sheri, Pune, MH 411014, India

Aug 2011 –

Dec 2014

SunGard Global

Services Senior Software

Engineer

Westend Center One, 169/1, Sangvi Kesri Rd,

Harmony Society, Ward No. 8, Wireless Colony,

Aundh, Pune, MH 411007, India

Feb 2011 –

Aug 2011

CSC India Pvt Ltd Engineer - Application

Development

A-44/45, DLF Galaxy Business Park, Noida Sector

62, Noida, UP 201309, India

Jun 2008 –

Feb 2011

IBM India Pvt Ltd Associate System

Engineer

No.12, Subramanya Arcade, Bannerghatta Rd,

Bengaluru, KA 560001, India

Feb 2007 –

May 2008

PROJECT BRIEF:

1. Fiserv Inc. (Employer Kforce)

Client description: Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV) is a leading global technology provider serving the financial services industry, driving innovation in payments, processing services, risk and compliance, customer and channel management, and business insights and optimization.

Project description: Batch authorization project provides back-end batch authorization to the various type of transactions customer makes at the merchant, the merchant sends the authorization codes for every credit card transaction to its payment processor, and the processor categorizes the transactions by the bank that issued each customer's credit card. Each of those banks then remits the payments to the merchant in a step called settlement. This is maintenance cum enhancement project and each enhancement request undergoes the software development life cycle starting with requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation support. 2

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders on design strategies for client implementation projects.

● Consult with project teams and functional units on the design of important projects or services.

● Develop program logic for new applications or analyzes and modifies logic in existing applications.

● Performance tuning and testing of mainframe code, troubleshooting performance problems, preparing code for deployment, and finishing all necessary SDLC documentation.

● Code, test, debug, document, implement and maintain software applications.

● Maintain, test, and integrate application component.

● Provide recommendations towards the development of new code or reuse of existing code.

● Analyze complex requirements and translates business requirements into product designs.

● Write functional and technical specifications and other forms of documentation.

● Conduct planning, analysis and forecasting activities to plan projects and tasks.

● Support, which includes analysis, development, testing, break-fix, and on-call duties as needed.

● End-to-end application delivery in a multi-platform environment (mainframe, client server, web).

● Resolve complex and diverse issues by identifying underlying or hidden problems and patterns.

● Adhere to standards and consults with leadership on solution design.

● Support business apps and responsible for leading disaster recovery.

● Support existing business systems applications.

● Involve in full Software Development Life Cycle and Testing Methodologies.

● Create high quality, high value deliverables.

Domain: Banking and Finance Services.

Technologies: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, PLI, Java, API, REXX, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, and Stored Pocedure. 2.1. Client – Mastercard (Wipro Limited)

Client description: MasterCard Worldwide is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders, and merchants worldwide, MasterCard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard advances commerce worldwide by developing more secure, convenient, and rewarding payment solutions, processing billions of payments seamlessly across the globe, and building economic connections that accelerate business. Project description:

Account Level Management, Stand-In and Account Management System project’s primary aim is to replace the use of cash for making payments with secure, advance methods such as cards-credit, debit, prepayment, chip and contact less. This ALM, Stand-in and AMS project team is responsible for maintaining the application which is performing limited Authorization processing offered by this Credit card provider on behalf of the Issuers. Stand-in makes itself available to for back-up authorization 24hrs a day and 365 days a year. In order to perform its functions effectively, enables the issuing banks manage their card portfolio in an agile manner. This is maintenance cum enhancement project and each enhancement request undergoes the software development life cycle starting with requirements gathering, design, development, testing, implementation, and post implementation support.

Roles and responsibilities.

Work as an onsite coordinator and technical lead which include the following:

• Involving in Functional Requirements discussion and Review meetings.

• Directly interaction with client to understand requirement and scope of work product assigned.

• Understanding the project requirements to come up with software design needed for implementation.

• Estimate and Analysis the scope of work.

• Coordinating the development activity with offshore team members.

• Designing, Coding, Testing and Verifying the Quality of deliverable.

• Responsible for the deliverable of the work product from LLD to implementation.

• Monitoring and keeping track of project.

• Data engineering – data integration, test data creation, data backup and refresh, data masking, data mining, data profiling & cleansing and data processing.

• Develop application data masking solutions using system & custom user routine functions for preparation of lower environment.

• Develop capabilities for gold copy database creation, virtualization and loading.

• Debugging technical environmental issues in test environment and resolve it.

• Performance optimization of the jobs and identify action to be performed.

• Building automated solution for process optimization which includes understanding existing processes, identifying loopholes, eliminate failure points waste processes and removal manual interference and develop self service capability to achieve high throughput.

• Support performance testing for peripheral applications.

• Coordinating Production support on post implementation. 3

• Maintain operational procedure documentation.

• Proposing enhancements or improvements to existing system.

• Coordinate with internal and external customers, vendors as necessary. Domain: Banking and Finance.

Technologies: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Db2, CICS, MQ, Web Services, JAVA, API, REXX, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI and Stored Procedure.

2.2. Client - Credit Suisse (Wipro Limited)

Client & project description: Credit Suisse is a leading global wealth manager with strong investment banking and asset management capabilities. I worked with NTPA (New Trade Processing Architecture) team which handles all back-end processing of trades throughout its lifecycle.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Work as an onsite coordinator and technical lead which include the following:

● Manage teams located at offshore and London location.

● Analyze and understand the requirements & functional specifications.

● Prepare technical design and perform impact analysis for requirement changes.

● Prepare test plans for Independent Unit testing and System testing.

● Data engineering – data integration, test data creation, data backup and refresh, data masking, data mining, data profiling & cleansing and data processing.

● Develop application data masking solutions using system & custom user routine functions for preparation of lower environment.

● Develop capabilities for gold copy database creation, virtualization and loading.

● Debugging technical environmental issues in test environment and resolve it.

● Performance optimization of the jobs and identify action to be performed.

● Building automated solution for process optimization which includes understanding existing processes, identifying loopholes, eliminate failure points waste processes and removal manual interference and develop self service capability to achieve high throughput.

● Knowledge Transfer to the offshore team with business functionality and the new requirements.

● Setting up Process to be followed from Offshore.

● Manage multiple enhancement and maintenance projects in parallel.

● Mentor team members in Coding, testing, debugging and peer reviews.

● Status Reporting and responsible for the final delivery.

● Interact with client and seek for new business opportunities and onsite positions. Domain: Investment Banking.

Technologies: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Db2, CICS, PLI, API, REXX, TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, Stored Procedure and Power Builder. 3. Client – OCWEN (Fiserv India Pvt Ltd)

Client & project description: Project is dealing with Application Enhancement, Maintenance and Support Services to Loan Serv Product. Loan Serv is Fiserv's product to provide total solutions for mortgage servicing and management. It is a fully integrated, Web-centric, real-time mortgage servicing solution that automates all mortgage servicing processes, investor accounting etc. This project group resolves the production issues for the End Client (OCWEN) and works on the critical production tickets in a strict timeline. This team also works on production research cases for the end-client.

'Loan Serv' is a loan servicing product in financial market. This product is extensively used by various small- and large-scale Mortgage Banks in primary and secondary markets. This project deal with the unique products added by the Banks / investors to provide better services to their customers and to increase their business, after identifying the certain products Fiserv handle these kinds of products by enhancing the existing system. Once the loan is boarded into the servicing system. Domain: Banking & Finance.

Technologies: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Pattern, REXX and TSO/ISPF. Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked as Mainframe Technical Analyst on various Enhancement and Correction projects which include the following:

● Analyze the issues/requirements and detail technical design.

● Coding, testing, debugging and peer reviews.

● Monitoring batch jobs and solving abends.

● Data engineering – data integration, test data creation, data backup and refresh, data masking, data mining, data profiling & cleansing and data processing.

● Develop application data masking solutions using system & custom user routine functions for preparation of lower environment.

● Debugging technical environmental issues in test environment and resolve it. 4

● Performance optimization of the jobs and identify action to be performed.

● Building automated solution for process optimization which includes understanding existing processes, identifying loopholes, eliminate failure points waste processes and removal manual interference and develop self service capability to achieve high throughput.

● Prepare technical Design.

● Involved in various organization activities and volunteered various organization level events as a part of Gaiety team.

Achievements: Star of the month award, Shining Star award, Level3 recognition from client. 4. Client - COMPASS Core Policies (SunGard Global Services) Client & project description: COMPASS is very mature, robust, and hierarchical Insurance Product which supports individual as well as group Life policies. Compass caters variety of clients throughout the globe which includes Investment as well as Risk based clients. Currently there are 40 plus clients that are functional on COMPASS. It is a rules-based engine whose business components are highly parameterized having Online/real time and Batch processing capabilities. It is a transaction-based System and dependents on an extensive amount of initial data set-up. Compass gives full Business Support to case installation, member Enrollment, coverage and premium calculation. Roles & Responsibilities: Worked as Mainframe Application developer, involved in product development activities (SDLC) for various Insurance clients which are functional on Compass and enhancing current Compass functionality for newer clients as per their requirements based on GAP and requirement analysis. These activities included Creation of Functional Specification and Incidence resolution Documents for the Gaps. Each project assignment involves a complete SDLC product life cycle starting from High Level Design estimation (HLE) consecutively followed by Development, Unit testing, System testing and finally defect free delivery to client. Domain: General Insurance.

Technologies: MicroFocus COBOL, JCL, DB2, Stored procedure and SQL. Tools: Animator, Crimson Editor, VC Master and Beyond Compare. 5. Client - Norwich Union Exceed/AVIVA (CSC India Pvt Ltd) Client & project description: Exceed is a Single Insurance Platform system which provides the facility for General Insurance policies as well as claims for different Line of Business as per Norwich Union (UK). System is divided in subsystem like UWS (Underwriting Workstations), CWS (Claims Workstation) and BCWS (Billing & Collection Workstation). All the subsystems are designed in such a way that they can be marketed stand-alone. Purpose being a Single Insurance Platform

(SIP) program, migration of all its applications to the single application by implementing Exceed. Domain: Banking & Finance.

Technologies: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, Stored Procedure, DB2, REXX, TSO/ISPF, File Aid, SoapUI and Endevor. Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked as Application Developer on various Enhancement and Correction projects which include the following:

● Resolve live problems reports (LPR).

● Analysis and understanding the requirements & functional specifications and prepare estimates, code fixes and Unit testing.

● DB2 Datafix and production support.

● Data engineering – data integration, test data creation, data backup and refresh, data masking, data mining, data profiling & cleansing and data processing.

● Develop application data masking solutions using system & custom user routine functions for preparation of lower environment.

● Building automated solution for process optimization which includes understanding existing processes, identifying loopholes, eliminate failure points waste processes and removal manual interference and develop self service capability to achieve high throughput.

● Prepare technical Design.

● Prepare project related various daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reports. Achievements:

● Certificate of Appreciation for delivering high quality work and ability to grasp things quickly.

● Keys to Success award in recognition for exhibiting passionate attribute. 6. Client - Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company (IBM India Pvt Ltd) Client & project description: Corporate Client application manages Client information for FFIC. For BASE release, that information is stored in two places: the CLIENT database, and a purchased store of Dun & Bradstreet data. Access to both datastores is via the FFIC Corporate Client Interface. Corporate Client BASE supports multiple commercial Division applications. Additional applications from other areas of the corporation will be supported in future releases. 5

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked as Associate System Engineer on various Enhancement and Correction projects which include the following:

● Analysis and understanding the requirements & functional specifications and prepare estimates, code fixes and Unit testing.

● Solve problem tickets.

● Production support.

● Involved in ZOS Testing and File Manager testing for the same application. Domain: General Insurance.

Technologies: JCL, COBOL, DB2, VSAM, Endeavor, Expeditor, File-Aid and Spufi. PERSONAL DETAILS:

Gender: Male

Race: Asian

Date of birth: 24-May-1983

Marital status: Married.

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