Suresh D

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Professional Summary: -

●IBM Mainframe Application support and Developer, with 8+ years of hands-on experience in development, application support, and testing life cycle.

●Experience in the domain of Credit Card Services, Banking primarily on the Vision Plus and Mainframes.

●Experience in Agile Methodology. Involved in the estimate planning, design discussions and Scrum meetings for the project. Participated in PI planning sessions, Story creation, Sprint planning sessions for Projects in Agile methodology.

●Proficient in COBOL, VSAM, JCL, EASYTRIEVE and worked in other Mainframe tools/ Utilities like File Manager, ENDEVOR, TWS, REXX and CA72.

●Experience in different sub modules of Vision Plus like CMS, LTS.

●Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, production issuance, documentation, and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications.

●Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC and scaled agile framework.

●Experience in mainframes conversion projects from SAS to TRIAD

●Knowledge in creating Branches, Merging, Reverting, Tagging, and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT on Linux and Windows environment.

●Strong working knowledge of various SDLC Methodologies including Waterfall,Agile,Kanban methodologies using Scrum.

●Experience in Production support, running new batches in lower regions, monitoring batches in lower environments and Prod environments using CA7.

●Hands-on Experience in the issue tracking, bug tracking and agile project management using the tools like Version One and JIRA, FACETS

●Extensive experience in User Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing, System Testing, End-to-End Testing, Functional Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Prod Performance Testing and Verification & Validation.

●Extensive experience in gathering requirements from clients, High Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) preparation, transitioning the requirements and design to offshore for the Build and conducting project review meetings with clients.

●Experience in banking domain and cards life cycle

●Excellent working knowledge in requirement gathering, Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production support.

●Ability to do multi-tasking across different applications. Diverse work experience with Development and Production Support projects.

Professional Experience

Project: New Dealer Business System [March 2023 – Till Date]

Role: Architect

Responsibilities in brief:

●Designing the Solution Architecture document and technical specifications required.

●Co-ordinate with BA and related teams to get proper code related, prepared Test Scenarios, test conditions, test scripts.

●Getting the VSAM data and creating the new programs to convert the data and send to flat files and send the data to the data stage.

●Co-ordinate with the data modeler, Business analyst and data stage developers to put the data in sink.

●Create the new jcls and run the batch jobs to get the unpacked data in a readable format.

●Work on business application requirement project which involves tasks related to design, coding, testing and implementing software requirements.

●Work on the analysis of the data quality issues and identify the errors in the data and create the solutions for the data quality issues.

●Work on the resolution of data quality issues and cleansing the existing data and sending the proper data to the vendor.

●Business analysis and software design preparing functional specifications, document workflow process.

●Creating test cases, comprehensive test plans, executing test plans, validating data at both data and system level.

●Reviewing the components coded by other team members and suggesting the necessary Changes.

●Walk through the scenarios with business and product team.

●Attending Daily meetings for Status reports and update on the Task.

●Reporting defects, retesting, tracking the defects to closure.

●As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

●Clarifying the functional queries within the team and coordinating with onshore coordinator and sharing issues, status from offshore.

●Feed the data in screens and post transactions to the batch and verify the data in files post batch.

●Schedule the jobs for daily batch and monthly batches to get the reports.

●Feed the data in lower regions for testing purposes.

●Promoting the code to system testing and involving in system test support.

●Attend project management calls and interaction with clients on a daily, weekly basis.

●Participate in Agile ceremonies as per Safe Agile Framework.

●Prepare the unit test plans, test cases, test and review the code and test results.

●Reviewing the design documents and offshore deliverables.

●Fix all the issues and defects that come up in the day-to-day business operations of its users.

●Monitoring the application for errors in test and production environment using Ca7

●Coordinate with other teams for system testing. Prepare the test environment for system testing and support end to end system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, JCL, CA7, File master, REXX, Easytrieve, Endevor, Proc, File, VSAM, Data Stage

Employer: Capgemini (Wells Fargo)

Project: Commercial Distribution Funding (Sep 2022-March 2023)

Responsibilities in brief:

●Interacting with the clients for requirement gathering and planning for effort estimation.

●Preparing Test Scenarios, test conditions, test scripts based on analysis sheet and Manuals based on user stories for functional services and executing Test Scripts.

●Raising Defects and following them in the JIRA application and maintaining the documents in the confluence.

●Attend the Defect call meeting and Agile Status call meeting.

●Reviewing the tasks which are allocated to the team and providing comments to make deliverables effective.

●Clarifying the functional queries within the team and coordinating with onshore coordinator and sharing issues, status from offshore.

●Perform impact analysis on the requirements and prepare Use Cases.

●Feed the data to the batches and verify the batch jobs in lower environments.

●Work on the latest enhancements for the client using COBOL, DB2

●Communicating the requirements and design details with offshore team.

●Attending High level and low-level design reviews, to arrive at design patterns/solutions and reviewing artifacts created by team members.

●Batch abend resolution by modifying the test data and running Development SIT/UAT Batches in CA7, Savers.

●Complete the build including JCL, PROC, COBOL program, as per the design documents and test the functionality.

●Develop and execute the Test Plan, Test Scripts and Test case execution based on agile methodology. Attending to the defects raised and resolving them in time.

●Involved in reviewing test plan and test cases, performed User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End-to-End Testing, Functional and Regression Testing for both New Requirements as well as Enhancements.

●Coordinate the test plan with project managers and others.

●Conducted review meetings within the team and Generate reports for tracking defects, test project metrics, test process improvement and management review.

Environment: COBOL, DB2, CA7, Savers, Postman, Telon, Endevor, Jira

Project: Accenture - HSBC [July 2021 – July 2022]

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities in brief:

●Designing the Solution Architecture document and technical specifications required.

●Co-ordinate with onshore UK team to get proper code related to TRIAD, prepared Test Scenarios, test conditions, test scripts.

●Getting the TRIAD Vision plus code and developing the SAS code according to the requirement.

●Create the COBOL error reports to find the mismatches in the Vision plus TRIAD migrated code.

●Reviewing the components coded by other team members and suggesting the necessary Changes.

●Walk through the scenarios with business and product team.

●Leading three-member team and work assignment, daily follow up, day to day task monitoring and identifying issues which causes delay in execution.

●Feed data using green screens for Vision plus batches and validate data with SAS data.

●Add procs and Jcls to the Endevor and promote to the higher regions.

●Attending Daily meetings for Status reports and update on the Task.

●Reporting defects, retesting, tracking the defects to closure.

●As a member of the Scrum team participated in daily standup meetings, project status meetings as well as retrospective meetings and iteration reviews.

●Responsible for the successful delivery of the testing of all or part of a release and/or product.

●Clarifying the functional queries within the team and coordinating with onshore coordinator and sharing issues, status from offshore.

●Generate the scripts for different Business Scenarios.

●Prepare the JCLs and Procs to run the jobs and execute Easytrieves for pulling data.

●Create the decision trees with respect to the behavior of customer for scoring, credit limit etc.,

●Performing Unit Testing and capturing the test results accordingly.

●Feed the data in screens and post transactions to the batch and verify the data in files post batch.

●Schedule the jobs for daily batch and monthly batches to get the reports.

●Feed the data in lower regions for testing purposes.

●Promoting the code to system testing and involving in system test support.

●Attending project management calls and interaction with clients on a daily, weekly basis.

●Participate in Agile ceremonies as per Safe Agile Framework.

●Prepare the unit test plans, test cases, test and review the code and test results.

●Reviewing the design documents and offshore deliverables.

●Fix all the issues and defects that come up in the day-to-day business operations of its users.

●Responsible for Release activities in the project such as of production support (24/7), job cycle monitoring, resolving the job abends and emergency fixes, production issues and service requests,

●Monitoring the application for errors in test and production environment using TWS.

●Coordinate with other teams for system testing. Prepare the test environment for system testing and support end to end system integration testing and user acceptance testing.

Environment: COBOL, TRIAD, Vision Plus, JCL, TWS, REXX, Easytrieve, Endevor, Proc, File Manager, CA7, VSAM, GCP, ServiceNow, SAS

Project: Capgemini - Fiserv (March 2015- July 2021)

Role: Consultant

Description: Fiserv, Inc., is one of the top global providers of information management and electronic commerce systems for the financial services industry. Capgemini has been providing deep industry expertise to support Fiserv in several key strategic businesses within Credit Cards domain. Fiserv supports multiple code bases and on different Vision PLUS package releases. These Vision PLUS platforms support both Bankcards and Private Label portfolios. Capgemini team supports all the code base installations across all versions of the Vision PLUS product.

Responsibilities in brief:

●Understand the scope and current functionality, then test the enhanced existing services in Vision Plus application programs.

●Involved in Production and non-production batches monitoring using wide variety of Job control techniques combined with CA7 for different sub-clients like CITI, JohnDeer, Shopper stopper, Dell Finance

●Batch abend resolution, writing Cobol programs to extract/update data for testing, fixing COBOL batch programs and running Development SIT/UAT Batches in CA7.

●Test Planning, Test Scripts review, QA Testing, Test Results review and estimate level of effort.

●Develop Requirement Traceability Matrix and Review functional documents.

●Provide functional support for the Vision PLUS product and ensure the required modifications are properly installed and tested in quality assurance regions.

●Complete the build including JCL, PROC, COBOL program, as per the design documents and test the functionality.

●Involved in multiple compliances and retrofitting the existing code as per the VISA and MASTER CARD new functionalities.

●Providing user acceptance testing support, Create the Jcl’s and Sort Cards to send the files to Sterling File Gateway.

●Prioritizing the work based on the requirements from the client and assigning the work to the team members.

●Assisting team in Test planning and QA testing and Test results reviews.

●Training and sharing functional knowledge with newly on-boarded resources in the team.

●Batch abend resolution by modifying the test data and running Development SIT/UAT Batches in CA7.

●Complete the build including JCL, PROC, COBOL program, as per the design documents and test the functionality.

●Used to set the TRAMS/FAS parameters based on the checklist to receive all Visa and MC interchange files and reports for FI based on Org and client numbers.

●Create the Jcl’s and Sort Cards to send the files to Sterling File Gateway.

●Work on the Vision Plus application including COBOL, JCL, VSAM, CA72, Proc, File Manager, REXX

●Good understating of different sub modules in Vision Plus, worked in different modules like CMS,

CDM, LTS.

●Involved in gathering requirements, testing applications involved during complete payments lifecycle.

●Experience in IBM Mainframes and Vision Plus development, support, and implementation along with good knowledge of Cards and Payments.

●Used to set the TRAMS/FAS parameters based on the checklist to receive all Visa and MC interchange files and reports for FI based on Org and client numbers.

●Work on different screens of Vision plus to board accounts, post transactions, load batches, request letters, plan masters, change interest rates.

●Worked on different enhancements on CMS when working in Agile Team.

●Create new Services as per the Functional/Technical Solution by coding new batch programs.

●Resolve any Incident ticket assigned to our application related to customer profile changes, adjustments, and rating. Monitor and guide the team as and when required to extend the support and hence ensure a smooth and error-free delivery.

●Provide SIT, UAT support, address any issues raised by QA and provide any fixes if needed.

●Involved in requirement of Business analysis for Cards and payments Project.

●Good understanding of software quality processes requirements and Testing Methodologies.

●Used to feed the data to batches and files to batch in lower regions to test the codes.

●Use ticketing and monitoring tools like Service now, Silk Central for production tickets and uploading the required documents.

●Worked in various SDLC Methodologies including Agile methodologies using Scrum, Waterfall

●Attend Client calls and gather the requirements w.r.t new service add or any enhancement as per business ask.

●Reviewing the components coded by other team members and suggesting the necessary Changes.

●Give Client Reporting/Demo on test execution and test Design and resource management.

●Involved in sprint planning at the end of each sprint.

●Understanding the scope of the project and providing estimation efforts to build the project.

●Performing Unit Testing and capturing the test results accordingly to ensure error free code is moved to QA testing.

●Worked in Banking and Credit Cards domains.

Environment: COBOL, CICS, CA7, SPUFI, CA7, CICS, File Manager, VSAM, JCL REXX, Easytrieve, Endevor, Agile, Vision Plus,JCL

Technical Skills: -

Operating Systems

IBM Z/OS, Unix, Windows

Databases

VSAM, DB2

Programming Languages

COBOL, JCL, CICS, SAS

Tools/IDE

File-Aid,File-Manager,CA7,Easytrieve, RACF,REXX,ENDEVOR

Business Domains

Banking, Finance, Credit Cards

Project and Portfolio Management tools

Servicenow,Jira,VersionOne,SilkCentral, Confluence, Facets

Software Methodologies

Waterfall, Agile, DevOps

Mainframes Applications

Vision Plus

Education Details: -

●Bachelor of Technology – Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India

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