Business Analyst Cobol

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging and growth oriented career where I can fully utilize my skills and available resources with the opportunity for professional growth and to excel by contributing towards the achievement of organizational goal.

SUMMARY:

8 years of IT experience in Software Testing / Development with responsibilities including business analysis, development, implementation, testing(Unit, System, Integration, Regression) and Maintenance of application and production support in the area of Telecom / Health Care/ Industrial domain in Mainframe.

Strategic business analyst, able to create visuals and graphs using Tableau to provide accurate and meaningful insights to the clients.

Gather and analyze large sets of data from internal systems using SQL and Excel.

Create reports and dashboards using Tableau to visualize the data.

Worked extensively in MF COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS and Mainframe Testing. Have good understanding and hands on experience working with sequential files, VSAM files.

Hands on experience in reporting tool - FOCUS and Version Control tools like CHANGEMEN, ENDEVOR, General Tools – QMF, SPUFI, Test Tools– HP Quality Centre, PPV .

Good exposure to Testing Life Cycle, AGILE and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Mainframe applications.

Excellent technical ability, good communication skills and hard working attitude, flexible working individual or in team environment.

Efficient in delivering tasks, team handling with good communication and interpersonal skills.

Expertise in writing Test Plans and Test cases.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to work on multiple tasks with competing priorities.

Also have good knowledge about the Business in the Telecom, Health Care vertical.

Excellent presentation skills to management.

EXPERIENCE:

India Pvt Ltd. Pune, India

Designation: Senior System Engineer;

Role: System Testing/Maintenance & Prod support for Mainframe applications

Duration: Jan 2012 to June 2015

Future Billing System (Broadband / Landline Telecom Billing)

Team Size: 10; Mainframe Platform: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Natural, Focus, Dump Master, FILE-AID and

Insysnc, QC, PPV, SQL Server

FBS is the fixed telephone billing engine for TeliaSonera–Sweden, the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. Its major functionalities include:

Providing an interface layer to batch customers for interacting with FBS

Stores customer, product and usage information

Accepts miscellaneous charges and credits, processes usage details

Applies discounts on usage records qualified for different price plans opted by customer

Calculates charges and sends for invoicing, updates customer billing information

View invoice information in FASIT (GUI )

Handles information for customers that have chosen automatic payment of invoice.

Roles and responsibilities

Responsible for performing end to end testing (System Test), Regression test for changes performed in FBS.

Responsible for interacting with clients for gathering requirement specifications and also responsible for strategic Business Analysis, to decide the scope and vision of testing for the project.

Responsible for complete requirement understanding and test plan preparation.

Responsible to interact with development team and resolve the ambiguities.

Estimation for system testing/regression testing.

Defect tracking and execution in QC.

Single point of contact and direct interaction with Clients to realize their understanding and remove ambiguity.

Responsible for identifying region for test and data uploads. Also responsible to identify region and Bill Cycles to perform and prepare them for execution of end to end testing

Responsible for data preparation (customer creation/identification in test) and verification as per the requirements.

Responsible for execution and validation of the Bill Cycles and the results accomplished after the run.

Responsible to identify region for Regression testing and perform and verify regression test results.

Prepare System Test Report to present to the client.

Track the testing progress and report to client on periodic basis.

Perform PPV testing(Price Plan testing) in Swedish PPV Tool and prepare test reports to present to the client.

Responsible for confirming ST to client so that AT can start.

Responsible to coordinate and support to 3rd party during AT.

19 Months IBM India Pvt Ltd. Pune, India

Designation: System Engineer;

Role: Development / Prod support for Mainframe applications

Duration: June 2010 to Jan 2012

SUNOCO AMS (Downstream Petroleum based engagement) (pursuing)

Team Size: 70; Mainframe: 20, Platform: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Natural, Focus, Abend-Aid and FILE-AID

Sunoco, Inc., headquartered in Philadelphia, PA., is a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products. As one of the largest independent refiner- marketers in the United States, Sunoco operates refineries, markets gasoline and also manufactures approximately five million tons annually of high-quality metallurgical- grade coke for use in the steel industry. The business includes various streams like Marketing, Corporate and R&S.

Roles and responsibilities

On call support/development activities for MF applications which involve interacting with clients as well as onsite team for any kind of work involving these applications.

Involved in interacting with clients for gathering requirement specifications and also responsible for analyzing specification for Mainframe to facilitate design, coding and testing.

Involved in design, coding (COBOL, Natural, JCL), testing (unit and integration testing) for critical issues and enhancements.

Involved in providing estimates for issues and enhancements.

Single point of contact and direct interaction with Clients to support their applications.

Other activities

Provided training on FOCUS reporting language to team members.

Undergone through various technical trainings Focus, IMS and Natural skills.

Always took lead in team building activities.

SYNTEL LTD. Mumbai, India

Designation: Software Engineer

Role: Analyst Programmer

Duration: July 2007 to May,2010

HCA COE Base Engagement:

Team Size: 20; Platform: COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, and FILE-AID

Client HCA

The Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is the largest private operator of health care facilities in the world. It is based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and is widely considered to be the single largest factor in making that city a hotspot for healthcare enterprise.

It is a Maintenance and Production Support project. It has Four Modules:

Patient Accounting

Supply Chain Mgmt.

HR Payroll

Financial Reporting

Roles and responsibilities

Analysis of the requirement

Preparation and review of test cases.

Coding

Code reviews

Implementation

Maintenance

Enhancement

Production support activities

Preparation of program specifications

Documentation of programs / jobs

Following Quality Management System procedures (Follow complete SDLC process)

Preparation of test plans and test data

Unit testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP, IBM Mainframe.

Languages: COBOL, JCL, CICS, FOCUS.

File Access Tools: VSAM, Sequential

Databases: DB2, SQL

Tools: File aid (for DB2, VSAM), Abend aid, QMF, Spufi, Changeman, Endevor, INSYNC, SQL Server, Tableau.

Pursued MBA in IT and have gained knowledge and performed hands on projects in following area:

Business Requirement and Analysis, Strategic Business Analysis using Tableau, Business Process management, Finance, ITIL, SQL Server

ACADEMIC PROFILE:

MBA (2011-2012) – Symbiosis International University – Honors’ (1st Class)

Bachelors of Engineering (2003-2007) – RGPV university Bhopal – 77%

12th (2003) – CBSE Board – 76%

10th (2001) – MP Board – 86.8%.

Professional Achievements & Awards:

- ITIL Certified

- Pursued PGDITM course, from Symbiosis - SCMHRD Pune.

- Certified in Basics of US healthcare as an E1 professional from Healthcare and Life Sciences

University, Syntel.

- Awarded as best presentation in a group on Billing and Receivables in the PA functional league.

- Involved in knowledge transitions for the new joiner to the team.

Extra-Curricular Activities:

- Introduced Knowledge sharing sessions “OYE! It’s Friday”; Helped in team building.

- Introduced the concept of “Part time activity awards” (Fun activity) in the team held yearly.

- Took part in various cultural competitions held at organizational level.

PERSONAL DETAILS:

Name: Surya Nikharey

Father’s Name: Mr. O .P. Nikharey

Date of Birth: 26TH Aug 1985

Marital Status: Married

PAN No: AGLPN5808N

ADDRESS for Correspondence:

Current Address:

9261 J, Hanover crossing drive,

Mechanicsville, 23116,VA

Email: *****.********@*****.***

Date:

Place: (Surya Nikharey)

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