Prasanna Srinivasan

Budd Lake, NJ ***** 201-***-**** adumip@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

●Experience in all facets of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, designing, coding, testing, and deployment

●Outstanding technical and analytical skills, with extensive knowledge of COBOL and IBM Mainframe Systems.

●Adept at gathering and documenting requirements, assessing business objectives, and managing all stages of software development and implementation.

●Talented communicator, able to build working relationships with wide range of coworkers in team environment.

●Extremely well organized, with proven ability to multitask and prioritize workload.

●Strong experience in Consumer, Finance, and Medical industries.

Key Responsibilities

●Adopt in providing Analytical Support to key business Applications /solutions.

●Excellent working knowledge of Mainframe systems. Hands on experience in Mainframe technologies across a variety of projects- Application Development, Application Maintenance and System documentation.

●Extensive hands-on experience in mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, Xpeditor, Endevor,Changeman,STROBE,RDZ, Intertest, SyncSort, MQ Series, Debugging tools, File manager, File-Aid, IDZ, Git, TOPAZ).

●Thorough Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in various phases like Requirements, Analysis/Design, Development, Testing and Implementation using Agile and waterfall method.

●Acted as liaison between management and Business team for Requirements.

●Excellent analysis to improve processes, systems and methodologies currently in place and extensive experience in coordinating, attending and participating in meetings, documenting meeting minutes and taking actions accordingly.

●Experience with managing projects in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment.

●Extensive experience to Analyze and create Business Requirements and system/ Functional

●Specifications documents including use cases.

●Well versed in MS-Visio, MS-Project, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Excel, MS-Word and other office Suites for Project Management and Business Analysis.

●Experience working with business users, developers, testers as well as senior management.

●Adaptable to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, excellent.

●Meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and Decision making abilities.

●Facilitated and managed daily stand-up meeting or scrum meeting to the teams with a regular opportunity to synchronize development activities with the iteration plan and to check and reflect on the progress of the team's commitments towards the iteration goal.

●Project Tracking, Team Management, Issues Tracking and Reporting.

●Experience in using Spring & Hibernate framework for various web/portal based application development.

●Experience with BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat & JBOSS Application server.

●Proficient in RDBMS using Oracle 11g/10g.9i, IBM DB2, MySQL database servers.

●Proficient in XML technologies like XSL/XSLT, SAX, DOM, SOAP, REST, WSDL, DTD, Schema, SOA, JAXB, JAXP.

●Testing Webservices using SOAPUI as part of QA Activities.

●Good experience in Unit Testing using JUnit and Version control using CVS, SVN.

●Experienced in configuring of build files with ANT, Maven, Jenkins and logging using log4J.

●Experience in reviewing Design documents, Requirement Specifications, Preparing Technical document.

●Hands on experience in VPN, Putty, winSCP, VNCviewer, etc.

●Hands on experience in UNIX, Linux and windows environment.

●Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

●Experience in Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile scrum methodologies

●Experience in writing shell scripts.

●Worked with Incident and Release Management Tools like Clarity, Remedy, JIRA, Rally & Service Now.

●Worked on Disaster Recovery Management Procedures.f

●Worked in different methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile. Proficient in using configuration management tools such as CVS and VSS.

Education

●Bachelor of Technology 2001

Achievements:

Above and Beyond award for providing best support of trust applications for the quarters Q1 and Q2 in 2011.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: COBOL/COBOL II, SQL, DC, MFS, MVS/JCL, CICS,REXX, EasyTrieve,JavaScript, HTML,JAVA,CSS

Database: DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM, SQL Server, Oracle

OS: Widows, XP, Vista

Hardware: IBM 370/3090

Environments: Mainframe, Web, AWS Cloud

Utilities: File-Aid, Endevor, Changeman, Panvalet, Xpediter, Intertest, Abend-Aid, Eclipse, MYSQL

Syncsort,DFSort, CA7, OPC, JOBTRAC, Netview, Idcams, RACF, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY,

BMC, Omegamon, Tracemaster, Insync, Changeman, Infoman, STROBE,RDZ,

LIBRARIAN, IEFBR14, SQL, SAS, EzTRIEVE, SAR, DB2-Connect, QMF, SPUFI, FTP, NDM and Lotus Notes, OUTLOOK, Autosys.

Other Skills: JSP, Servlets, JMS, Logging API, Ajax, JDBC, Swing, JDBC,

JNDI, JSON, JSTL, RMI, JMS, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JSF, jQuery, Jenkins, Struts, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate, Web Services, JUnit, Ant, Maven, Resful Webservices, Websphere, Visual Studio, Github.

Communications: TSO/ISPF.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fiserv, NJ Dec 2021 – Till Date

Director

North Repository system is to manage the Settlement and Authorization data from Upstream Systems. Reviews transaction level details from different streams and stores in Database and generates report for various Merchants/Clients.The Settlement Data is received from the PTS System for all debit and credit transactions.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the business requirements and preparing the design document.

●Participated in the life cycle of a maintenance project. This included researching technical and user requirements, creating detail designs conversion,that were required to meet the project specifications. Work directly with accounting and IT teams throughout integration testing.

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Production support team

●Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning

●Interaction and co-ordination with users and business analysts

●Configuration and Release Management

●Co-ordination and support to off-shore team

●Used Service Now for tracking the bugs and solved the critical production issues.

●Involved in the data migration for the new services on boarding into the system

●Build and deployed the application in integration and test servers.

●Basic understanding of SFG Functionality.

●Running Sizing and Slotting Meetings.Running Weekly Team Meetings that include General Review, Performance Improvement & One-One with team members.

Majesco, Morristown, NJ Dec 2020 – Nov 2021

Principal Architect, Delivery

Responsibilities:

●Coding of Cobol-DB2 Programs.

●Performance Tuning of DB2 Queries.

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Offshore team

●Technical & Functional support to team members with business and technical assistance required during development/testing.

●Review of System Test cases, Design Documents, Code Review

●Coding, Unit Testing & System Testing.

●Raise and Resolve all the risks/dependencies in the project for timely completion

●Hands on experience creating tables and stored procedures.

●Using STROBE Tool to monitor and fine tune job performance.

Newyork Life Insurance, NJ Nov 2016 – Dec 2020

Technical Lead

EAnnuity is an application where NYL Agents can enter cases online. Agent Submits the case thru IPipeline application and ACORD 103 XML is created and sent to EAnnuity Transformation Process to be converted to CSC 103 XML format to be sent to New Business 21 Application. NB21 process the CSC 103 XML to further downstream applications like FACTS, CABS, rPAY.

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the business requirements and preparing the design document.

●Participated in the life cycle of a maintenance project. This included researching technical and user requirements, creating detail designs conversion, programming and coding of the COBOL-DB2/VSAM programs that were required to meet the project specifications. Work directly with accounting and IT teams throughout integration testing.

●Worked on creation of new PROC’s & JCL’s and scheduled the jobs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Production support team

●Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning

●Maintaining the FACTS Jobs which processes the Transformed files to be sent to Cyberlife(Downstream System).

●Maintaing the rPAY Jobs which processes the Transformed files to be sent downstream.

●Interaction and co-ordination with users and business analysts

●Configuration and Release Management

●Coding, System testing, defect fixing and tracking

●Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning

●Co-ordination and support to off-shore team

●Worked on creation of new PROC’s & JCL’s and scheduled the jobs.

●Used SOAP Web Services for testing JAVA Transformation Process.

●Used Service Now for tracking the bugs and solved the critical production issues.

●Involved in the data migration for the new services on boarding into the system

●Build and deployed the application in integration and test servers.

●Basic understanding of Netview Functionality.

●Monitored the error logs using Log4j and fixed the problems.

●Prepared and tested the integration test cases to make sure that system works as per the requirement.

AIG, NJ Apr 2016 – Nov 2016

Senior Consultant

Project EIS ClaimCore is EIS Group's claim processing solution. This module provides an overview of the breadth of functionality offered by ClaimCore, including the processes and workflows related to entering new claims in the system, detecting fraudulent claims with Special Investigation Unit (SIU) functionality and configuring claim definitions in Claim Factory

Responsibilities:

●Understanding the business requirements and preparing the design document.

●Participated in discussion with business analysts and analyzed the feasibility of the requirements.

●Application comprised large number of COBOL-DB2 programs. These programs required analysis, design, code/construct, unit test and system test to implementation in a production environment.

●Responsible for the copy book changes to meet the project specification.

●Created System and Program Specifications.

●Worked on creation of procedures using COBOL-JCL for multiple cycles of all new month end policy symbols thus implementing new and enhanced JCL and PROCS.

●Reviewing Job ABEND sysouts and messages.

●Part of the testing team that does the creation of testing strategy, test cases and execution of test jobs. As part of testing, Unit Test Plans (UTP) was also created which reflected the details of the testing for each of the test cases.

●Involved in extensive system testing and migration into production.

●Involved in reviewing job specs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects.

●Conducted walk through on all proposed changes, interviews with users concerning all modifications and impact analysis.

Verizon Wireless, Warren, NJ January 2014 – March 2016

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

●Coding of Cobol-DB2 Programs.

●Performance Tuning of DB2 Queries.

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Offshore team

●Technical & Functional support to team members with business and technical assistance required during development/testing.

●Review of System Test cases, Design Documents, Code Review

●Coding, Unit Testing & System Testing.

●Raise and Resolve all the risks/dependencies in the project for timely completion

●Working with the Verizon Billing application Team maintaining the Daily billing cycles.

●Using STROBE Tool to monitor and fine tune job performance.

Chubb, NJ July 2013 – January 2014

Mainframe Developer / IT Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Programming, unit testing and review.

●Involved in extensive system testing and migration into production.

●Involved in reviewing job specs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Production support team

●Technical & Functional support to team members with business and technical assistance required during development/testing.

●Review of System Test cases, Design Documents, Code Review

●Raise and Resolve all the risks/dependencies in the project for timely completion

●Used COBOL,DB2,JCL,VSAM,CICS,Panvalet,FileAid, XPEDITOR,ZEKE,Autosys,CA WorkLoad Automation.

UBS, Weehawken, NJ Oct 2010 – July 2013

Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Assist with managing all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.

●Meet with end users and department heads to gather and document requirements, establish technical specifications, and set deadlines and milestones.

●Work directly with accounting and IT teams throughout integration testing.

●Created reporting programs which eliminated erroneous and redundant submissions.

●Application comprised large number of COBOL, DB2, and COBOL-DB2 programs. These

Programs required analysis, design, code/construct, unit test and system test to implementation

In a production environment.

●Worked on creation of new PROC’s & JCL’s and scheduled the jobs.

JPMC, Dallas, TX Jul 2009 – Oct 2010

Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Participated in the life cycle of a maintenance project. This included researching technical and user requirements, creating detail designs conversion, programming and coding of the COBOL-DB2-CICS programs that were required to meet the project specifications. Work directly with accounting and IT teams throughout integration testing.

●Worked on creation of new PROC’s & JCL’s and scheduled the jobs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Production support team

●Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning

Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA Apr 2008 - Apr 2009

Consultant

Responsibilities:

●Participated in the life cycle of a maintenance project. This included researching technical and user requirements, creating detail designs conversion, programming and coding of the cobol-db2-cics programs that were required to meet the project specifications.

●Application comprised large number of COBOL, COBOL-VSAM-CICS programs. These programs required analysis, design, code/construct, unit test and system test to implementation in a production environment.

●Responsible for the copy book changes to meet the project specification.

●Created System and Program Specifications.

●Created Maps for new online screens.

●Worked on creation of procedures using COBOL-JCL for multiple cycles of all new month end policy symbols thus implementing new and enhanced JCL and PROCS.

●Reviewing Job ABEND sysouts and messages.

●Part of the testing team that does the creation of testing strategy, test cases and execution of test jobs. As part of testing, Unit Test Plans (UTP) was also created which reflected the details of the testing for each of the test cases.

●Involved in extensive system testing and migration into production.

●Involved in reviewing job specs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects.

●Conducted walk through on all proposed changes, interviews with users concerning all modifications and impact analysis.

●Involved in all phases of testing – Functional, Integration and regression.

Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, CA Sep 2006 – Mar 2008

Consultant

Responsibilities:

●Participated in the life cycle of a maintenance project. This included researching technical and user requirements, creating detail designs conversion, programming and coding of the cobol-db2-cics programs that were required to meet the project specifications.

●Application comprised large number of COBOL, COBOL-DB2-cics programs. These programs required analysis, design, code/construct, unit test and system test to implementation in a production environment.

●Responsible for the copy book changes to meet the project specification.

●Created System and Program Specifications.

●Worked on creation of procedures using COBOL-JCL for multiple cycles of all new month end policy symbols thus implementing new and enhanced JCL and PROCS.

●Reviewing Job abend sysouts and messages.

●Involved in extensive system testing and migration into production.

●Involved in reviewing job specs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects.

●Conducted walk through on all proposed changes, interviews with users concerning all modifications and impact analysis.

BCBS, Woodland Hills, CA Nov 2005 – Sep 2006

Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Programming, unit testing and review.

●Involved in extensive system testing and migration into production.

●Involved in reviewing job specs.

●Involved in Debugging of Code and fixing defects

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Production support team

●Technical & Functional support to team members with business and technical assistance required during development/testing.

●Review of System Test cases, Design Documents, Code Review

●Raise and Resolve all the risks/dependencies in the project for timely completion

Verizon, Chennai, India Oct 2004 – Nov 2005

Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Coding of Cobol-DB2 Programs.

●Performance Tuning of DB2 Queries.

●Interaction and co-ordination with business analysts, QA & Offshore team

●Technical & Functional support to team members with business and technical assistance required during development/testing.

●Review of System Test cases, Design Documents, Code Review

●Coding, Unit Testing & System Testing.

●Raise and Resolve all the risks/dependencies in the project for timely completion

Computer Science Corporattion, Indore, India Oct 2003 – Oct 2004

Developer / Analyst

Responsibilities:

●Interaction and co-ordination with users and business analysts

●Configuration and Release Management

●Coding, System testing, defect fixing and tracking

●Capacity Planning and Performance Tuning

●Co-ordination and support to off-shore team

●Worked on creation of new PROC’s & JCL’s and scheduled the jobs.

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