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Mainframe Developer Cobol

Location:
Fuquay-Varina, NC
Posted:
May 12, 2023

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Resume:

SHACHI GUPTA

SUMMARY:

●Mainframe Development and support with an experience of 6+ Years.

●Functional Domain knowledge in Health Care, Banking & Financial Services and Insurance.

●IT core competencies include COBOL, JCL, DB2, IDMS, ADS-O, SQL, VSAM, OLQ,DMLO.

●Hands-on experience in Endevor, File master, TSO-ISPF, IBM utilities, INTER TEST and SYNCSORT.

●Involved in various phases of SDLC like Estimation, Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Code Review, Test Plan Preparation, Unit Testing, System Testing and Implementation Support.

●Strong experience in data structure and problem solving.

●Experience in waterfall and agile software development environment.

●Knowledge of Application support with tools like OPAS and Remedy now.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming/Scripting Languages

COBOL, JCL, REXX, Python, C, HTML

Tools

Endevor, SYNCSORT, INTER TEST, File Master, TSO ISPF, IBM Utilities

Database

DB2, IDMS, VSAM, OLQ, DMLO, SQL

Online

ADSO, CICS (basic)

Operating System

MVS, Z/OS, Windows

Domain

Health Care, Banking & Financial Services and Insurance

EDUCATIONAL DETAILS:

●Bachelors of Technology, Information Technology, Dr. K.N Modi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Modinagar, 2014.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client : NTT Data, Noida, India May 2017 – December 2019

Role: Mainframe Developer

Project : Tenet - IMMS, Integrated Material Management System

Project Description:

IMMS is the best of breed application used by Tenet to provide the Material Management and Account Payable solution for Tenet facilities/sites. IMMS was designed and

implemented by AMI (American Medical International) in the late 1980’s. When NME

(National Medical Enterprises) and AMI merged, IMMS was chosen over MMIS to be the

Material Management and Account Payable system of choice.

Role & Responsibilities:

●Finding defects, analysis, resolving, testing and moving it to Production.

●Developing online interface using ADS-O

●Status calls with Onsite leads to discuss the project status.

●Migration of components using Endevor.

●Divestiture for hospitals, i.e. divesting that hospital from the IMMS system to a sub-system and Support them fully.

●Created Service now records to implement the changes in production.

●Involved in preparing the UTPs (Unit test plans) and also in the unit testing and Integration testing (TAT).

●Perform Modifications to COBOL programs using IBM MVS Utilities such as IEFBR14, ICETOOL, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, DFSORT, REPRO, and ICETOOL.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, REXX, ADSO screens, CICS screens, IDMS and DB2, Endevor, File manager, IBM utilities, TSO ISPF, SYNCSORT, Z/OS 9.2.0, IDMS, ADSO, DMLO, OLQ

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, India February 2015– April 2017

Role: Mainframe Developer

Project : Navient - DMS- Debt Management System

Project Description:

The Client, being the biggest Student loans provider in the US for decades, wanted to expand their scope beyond Student Loans. They wished to step into the ‘Payments Collection’ market for debt holders. Though the Client already has a payment collection process in place, it is more specific to Student Loans model. Hence the Client has entrusted Cognizant with the responsibility to build a ‘stand-alone’ product for payment collections that can be used across the different lines of businesses such as Credit Unions, Auto Lenders, Medical Debt Holders etc.,

Role & Responsibilities:

●Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Test Plan Preparation, Unit Testing and UAT Support

●Developing an online interface using ADS-O.

●Using IDMS database to fetch records from the COBOL program.

●OLQ was used to match the record.

●Status calls with Onsite leads to discuss the project status on a daily basis

●Migration of components using Endevor

●Preparation of application and technical documentation

●Close interaction with the Project Leads to get clarification for any doubts or issues and ensure completion of task on time.

●Preparing corrective and preventive actions for defects

●Timely escalation of problems to ensure minimum loss of productivity.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Endevor, File manager, IBM utilities, TSO ISPF, SYNCSORT, QUIKJOB, DB2, IDMS, CICS, ADSO, MVS/ESA (V 5.2)

Cognizant Technology Solutions,Chennai, India October 2014 - February 2015

Role: Mainframe Developer

Project 2: Eagle 1- Aversions

Project Description:

The Client has entrusted Cognizant with the responsibility to provide maintenance, enhancement and support for the EAGLE 1 Applications. EAGLE (Effective Administration of Guaranteed Loans for Education) is the operating system that tracks all of the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) loan origination and guarantee activities that the bank administers on behalf of their customers.

Role & Responsibilities:

●Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding, Test Plan Preparation, Unit Testing and UAT Support

●Migration of components using Endevor

●Solving Priority #1, Priority #2 and Priority #3 incidents

●Single Point-of-Contact (POC) for the individual Application Subsystems

●Root cause analysis for user problems

●Handling user requests which involves code changes, data changes etc.

●Preparation of application and technical documentation

●Assigning task to other offshore members

●Close interaction with the Project Leads to get clarification for any doubts or issues and ensure completion of task on time.

●Ensure defect free delivery from offshore

●Preparing corrective and preventive actions for defects

●Generating various adhoc modules and critical reports as per business requirements

●Timely escalation of problems to ensure minimum loss of productivity.

Environment: COBOL, JCL, Endevor, File manager, IBM utilities, TSO ISPF, SYNCSORT, QUICKJOB, DB2, IDMS, CICS, ADSO, MVS/ESA (V 5.2)



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