ATHER SHAKEEL

Mclean, Virginia, USA +1-571-***-**** adwkl5@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/athershakeel

Professional Summary

** ***** ** *********** ********** in System Analysis, Estimation, Design, Coding, Testing, Quality Assurance, Documentation, Implementation and Production Support on IBM Mainframe platform using COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM. Worked extensively on COBOL, JCL, DB2 and CICS with strong hands-on experience on EXPEDITOR and ENVDEVOR. Well versed with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Functional domain knowledge in US Healthcare.

Hands on experience in deployments with Linux and DevOps pipeline using Jenkins.

Well versed with ServiceNow tool and deployments.

Work authorization status: H-1B

Technical Skills

Mainframes

COBOL

JCL

DB2

CICS

VSAM

SQL

JavaScript

React.JS

Node.JS

Linux

Tools

Endevor

Expeditor

File-Aid

QMF

Abend Aid

Strobe

AE-Suit Tool

Postman

Service Now

Putty

Jenkins

Git

Git Bash

Work History

DevOps Consultant 10/2022 to date.

Employer- Xprotean Inc

Client- Freddie Mac – McLean, Virginia

Responsible for taking care of the prod and non-prod deployments across the teams using Jenkins pipelines and Linux system.

Responsible for deploying ServiceNow changes to prod and non-prod.

Updating the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs based on the configuration changes provided by project teams.

Analyzing and fixing the build issues coming up in the deployments.

Associate Manager Software Engineering 06/2016 to 08/2022

Optum Global Solutions – Noida, India

Project – ORS (Online Routing System)

Responsibilities in project included leading a team of 6 members including scrum master, developers, and testers, along with regular day to day tasks.

Communicating with business, products owners, and architects pertaining to new development projects.

Creating user stories.

Providing estimates.

Preparing mapping documents required to understand data items and data flow between applications.

Impact analysis and figuring out dependencies.

Reduced production incidents count significantly by 20% in 2022 with effective coding software changes and alterations.

Designed and developed brand new functionality in project by creating 5 new CICS screens and their functional COBOL-DB2 programs.

Onshore Services Coordinator 04/2015 to 06/2016

UnitedHealth Group – Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Project – TOPS (The Online Processing System)

Core responsibilities were to work on intakes queue, analyze and discuss requirements with business analysts, system architects and provide initial estimates.

Established coordination channel between onshore and offshore teams to ensure smooth workflow across teams.

Performed effective coding software changes and alterations based on specific design specifications.

Working on online and batch permanent corrections and supporting deployment activities.

Senior Software Engineer 04/2014 to 03/2015

UnitedHealth Group – Gurugram, Haryana, India

Project – TOPS (The Online Processing System)

Core responsibilities were to work on problem and incident tickets.

Providing batch and online permanent corrections.

Worked extensively on reducing production incidents counts with effective debugging and coding software changes.

Managed team of 3 people designed specifically to provide mentorship to new joiners and preparing training plans for them.

Designing, developing, and testing automation scripts.

Software Engineer 10/2009 to 03/2014

UnitedHealth Group – Gurugram, Haryana, India

Project – TOPS (The Online Processing System)

Learned Mainframe technologies and build dummy applications using COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM and DB2.

Learned to debug online and batch COBOL programs using EXPEDITOR.

Learned about US healthcare domain.

Learned about TOPS application and simultaneously worked on automation projects built with REXX and COBOL.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering) 2008

Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering & Technology – Mohali, Punjab

Punjab Technical University

Certifications

IBM Certified Database Associate DB2 9 Fundamentals

AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) Healthcare Management

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