Senior Developer Qa Lead

Siva Rao Achakala

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

Mobile: 972-***-****

Current Location: Brookfield, Wisconsin

SUMMARY:

An Astute professional with over 20+ years of Experience in IT-BFS Domain and Mainframe Technology Development,Enhancement,support, functional testing, full cycle of the software design process including requirements definition, designing, testing quality and maintenance. Possess technical abilities complemented by sound communication and user interaction abilities. Associate with an in depth knowledge of Client’s and complete SDLC and standards which ensures quality deliverables. Good in approach methodology, ensuring the quality processes and contributing in the technical aspects on maintenance and enhancement projects. Strong experience in Healthcare as well as on banking domain and has good knowledge of the related domain.

SKILL SET:

•20+ years of experience in QA Lead and senior Developer & strong knowledge in mainframe skills COBOL,JCL,VSAM,DB2,CICS,ALM,JIRA,TDM developer, HATS,VSE,AS400,MVS

•Knowledge of JCL,REXX and CLIST

•Scheduling toll BMC and CA-7

•Work experience on SAS

•Working experience on IDz,Gitlab

•Working experience on Unix/Linux

•Worked in Health care and Banking on varies testing activities.

•Working as a developer and have extensive knowledge on COBOL, COBOL DB2, Endeavor, File aid, Abend-aid. Performing application analysis and design. Providing code fixes to defects and issues. Performing application monitoring.

•Provide optimum solutions for all the production issues and clients' problems that occur under Retail investments applications.

Anchor monthly meetings with customer to present the metrics and SLA reporting details and to respond to client's concerns for maintaining the Projects.

•Well versed in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies

•Expertise in conducting different types of testing including UI Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression Testing & UAT testing

•Has hands-on experience in test management tools like HP Quality Center, JIRA

•Experience in mentoring and coaching team members on technology, testing process & project specific aspects

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:

•M.Sc. in Computer Science.(1997 to 1999, University Of Madras)

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

•20+ years of experience in Mainframe as a Working as a QA Lead and senior Developer & strong knowledge in mainframe skills COBOLJCL,VSAM,DB2,CICS,TDM Developer, HATS

•Experience in TDM along with Mainframe Testing,VSE,AS400,MVS

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•Working experience on IDz,Gitlab

•Working experience on Unix/Linux

•Knowledge of JCL,REXX and CLIST

•Scheduling toll BMC and CA-7

•Work experience on SAS

•Experience on Healthcare and Banking

•Track's project and program status and creates delivery roadmaps working in partnership with executive IT leadership and technical.

•Performs critical team resource management and performance management to ensure project objectives are delivered on-time and within budget.

•Executes on-going monitoring and continuous improvement plans to ensure team is executing with optimal efficiency.

•Serves as an overall leader and liaison between various business units, vendors, Information Systems, Information Security, and impacted business units.

•Preparing daily and weekly status reports and sharing with Leadership team

•Acting as a mentor for new team members

•Mainframe testing as a senior tester and strong knowledge in mainframe test JCLs preparation and data set up for ST and Regression Testing

•Preparing low level design documents for the application

•1+ Years of experience on green screen automation using HATS

•9+ years of experience in Mainframe Testing. Strong knowledge in COBOL, JCL, VSAM and Db2 and Data Warehouse Management

•Assisting in implementation plans and in preparation of migration documents for the application.

Developing change requests and preparation of Impact Analysis documents. Developing unit test cases and perform unit testing of the code.

•Lead an offshore team of 20 members and provide guidance on both technical and functional front

•Review and sign off for offshore deliverables involving analysis, design, coding, unit testing and documentation

Task allocation, Scheduling, monitoring and controlling and reporting of project status

Training and mentoring of new members to Company both technically and functionally on application domain

•Performance monitoring of batch applications and providing improvement ideas to ensure efficient application performance. Managing and scheduling meetings.

•Communication with Operations Analysts, Business Representatives and QA Team during the course of application maintenance and production problem related activities.

KEY PROJECTS EXECUTED:

US Bank – PTA and Reg Z- PTA is new rush account process build and it has Card issuance maintenance and Inquiry. Customer can schedule the card issuance any day as per requirement. Regulation Z (Reg Z) is issued by the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System to implement the federal Truth in lending Act, which is contained in title of the consumer credit protection Act. The purpose of Reg Z is to promote the informed use of consumer credit by requiring disclosure about its terms and cost. The regulation also included substantive protection. It gives consumers the right to cancel certain credit card practices and provided a means for fair and timely resolution of credit billing disputes. Reg Z mainly based on the process of Dispute and Fraud as requested by the card member. Applicable Fees (Transaction level and Account level) and calculated interest for the disputed transaction will be reserved from the card member account when a card member requested for the Dispute or Fraud claim.

Duration: From Mar 2023 – Till Date (Onsite Brookfield, Wisconsin)

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Agile Methodologies, Jira, HATS,VSE,AS400,MVS

Project: Payment processing (Batch and online Testing)

Type: Application Development & Maintenance

Implementation partner: Cognizant

Roles and Responsibilities:

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•Track's project and program status and creates delivery roadmaps working in partnership with executive IT leadership and technical

•Performs critical team resource management and performance management to ensure project objectives are delivered on-time and within budget.

•Project Estimations and resource planning etc..

•Working as a Mainframe Test Lead

•Worked as a lead developer and Tester and have extensive knowledge on COBOL, COBOL DB2, Endeavor, File aid extensively in a day-to-day activities

•Working experience on IDz,Gitlab

•Working experience on Unix/Linux

•Knowledge of JCL,REXX and CLIST

•Scheduling toll BMC and CA-7

•Work experience on SAS

•Working on Test Data Management(TDM)

•Ensure quality work products are delivered to suit the business requirements with the related Quality documents

•Expertise in conducting different types of testing including UI Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression Testing & UAT testing

•Worked as a lead developer and have extensive knowledge on COBOL, COBOL DB2, Endeavor, File aid extensively in a day-to-day activities.

•Performing application analysis and design. Providing code fixes to defects and issues.

•Gathering and understanding business requirements for complex projects.

Creating solution design and detailed design documents for business requirements.

•Performing application monitoring.

•Preparing low level design documents for the application

Assisting in implementation plans and in preparation of migration documents for the application.

•Developing change requests and preparation of Impact Analysis documents.

•Developing unit test cases and perform unit testing of the code.

BNY Mellon - The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, commonly known as BNY Mellon, is an American investment banking services holding company headquartered in New York City. BNY Mellon was formed from the merger of The Bank of New York and the Mellon Financial Corporation in 2007. It is the world's largest custodian bank and securities services company, with $2.4 trillion in assets under management and $46.7 trillion in assets under custody as of the second quarter of 2021. It is considered a systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board. BNY Mellon is incorporated in Delaware.

Through its Bank of New York predecessor, it is one of the three oldest banking corporations in the United States and among the oldest banks in the world, having been established in June 1784 by a group that included American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr T. Mellon and Sons Bank, was founded in Pittsburgh in 1869 by Thomas Mellon and his sons Richard and Andrew, the latter of whom later became Secretary of the US Treasury.

Duration: From Oct 2022 – Feb 2023 (Onsite Brookfield, Wisconsin)

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Agile Methodologies, Jira,TDM Developer,VSE,AS400,MVS

Project: Investments (Online/Green Screens)

Type: Application Development & Maintenance

Implementation Partner: Mphasis

•Track's project and program status and creates delivery roadmaps working in partnership with executive IT leadership and technical

•Performs critical team resource management and performance management to ensure project objectives are delivered on-time and within budget.

•Working as a Mainframe Test Lead

•Executes on-going monitoring and continuous improvement plans to ensure team is executing with optimal efficiency.

•Working on Test Data Management(TDM)

•Serves as an overall leader and liaison between various business units, vendors, Information Systems, Information Security, and impacted business units.

•Preparing daily and weekly status reports and sharing with Leadership team

•Worked as a lead developer and Tester & extensive knowledge on COBOL, COBOL DB2, Endeavor, File aid extensively in a day-to-day activities.

•Expertise in conducting different types of testing including UI Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression Testing & UAT testing

•Worked as a lead developer and have extensive knowledge on COBOL, COBOL DB2, Endeavor, File aid extensively in a day-to-day activities.

•Performing application analysis and design. Providing code fixes to defects and issues.

•Gathering and understanding business requirements for complex projects.

Performing application analysis and design. Providing code fixes to defects and issues.

•Gathering and understanding business requirements for complex projects.

Creating solution design and detailed design documents for business requirements.

•Performing application monitoring.

•Preparing low level design documents for the application

Assisting in implementation plans and in preparation of migration documents for the application.

•Developing change requests and preparation of Impact Analysis documents.

•Developing unit test cases and perform unit testing of the code.

•Assisting in performing peer code review.

US Bank – PTA and Reg Z- PTA is new rush account process build and it has Card issuance maintenance and Inquiry. Customer can schedule the card issuance any day as per requirement. Regulation Z (Reg Z) is issued by the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System to implement the federal Truth in lending Act, which is contained in title of the consumer credit protection Act. The purpose of Reg Z is to promote the informed use of consumer credit by requiring disclosure about its terms and cost. The regulation also included substantive protection. It gives consumers the right to cancel certain credit card practices and provided a means for fair and timely resolution of credit billing disputes. Reg Z mainly based on the process of Dispute and Fraud as requested by the card member. Applicable Fees (Transaction level and Account level) and calculated interest for the disputed transaction will be reserved from the card member account when a card member requested for the Dispute or Fraud claim.

Duration: From Dec 2021 – Sep 2022 (Onsite Brookfield, Wisconsin)

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Agile Methodologies, VersionOne, HATS,VSE,AS400,MVS

Project: Statement generation (Online/Green Screens)

Type: Application Development & Maintenance

Implementation partner: Cognizant

Roles and Responsibilities:

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•Track's project and program status and creates delivery roadmaps working in partnership with executive IT leadership and technical

•Performs critical team resource management and performance management to ensure project objectives are delivered on-time and within budget.

•Working experience on IDz,Gitlab

•Working experience on Unix/Linux

•Knowledge of JCL,REXX and CLIST

•Scheduling toll BMC and CA-7

•Work experience on SAS

•Working on Test Data Management(TDM)

•Executes on-going monitoring and continuous improvement plans to ensure team is executing with optimal efficiency.

•Serves as an overall leader and liaison between various business units, vendors, Information Systems, Information Security, and impacted business units.

•Worked as a lead developer and Tester and have extensive knowledge on COBOL, COBOL DB2, Endeavor, File aid extensively in a day-to-day activities

•Ensure quality work products are delivered to suit the business requirements with the related Quality documents

•Expertise in conducting different types of testing including UI Testing, Sanity Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression Testing & UAT testing

•Performing application analysis and design. Providing code fixes to defects and issues.

•Gathering and understanding business requirements for complex projects.

Creating solution design and detailed design documents for business requirements.

•Performing application monitoring.

•Preparing low level design documents for the application

Assisting in implementation plans and in preparation of migration documents for the application.

•Developing change requests and preparation of Impact Analysis documents.

•Developing unit test cases and perform unit testing of the code.

•Assisting in performing peer code review.

•Providing post production support for defects in production environment.

•Contribute to preparation of system requirements specifications documents

•Performing user administration and access security administration.

•Lead delivery of application projects from offshore development center

•Lead a team of 6 members which includes mentoring, performance management and conflict resolution

•Review and sign off for offshore deliverables involving analysis, design, coding, unit testing and documentation

•Task allocation, Scheduling, monitoring and controlling and reporting of project status

Training and mentoring of new members to Company both technically and functionally on application domain

US Bank – Regulation Z (Reg Z): Regulation Z (Reg Z) is issued by the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System to implement the federal Truth in lending Act, which is contained in title of the consumer credit protection Act. The purpose of Reg Z is to promote the informed use of consumer credit by requiring disclosure about its terms and cost. The regulation also included substantive protection. It gives consumers the right to cancel certain credit card practices and provided a means for fair and timely resolution of credit billing disputes. Reg Z mainly based on the process of Dispute and Fraud as requested by the card member. Applicable Fees (Transaction level and Account level) and calculated interest for the disputed transaction will be reserved from the card member account when a card member requested for the Dispute or Fraud claim.

Duration: From Oct’19 – Nov 2021(Offshore)

Environment: Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, Agile Methodologies, VersionOne, HATS,VSE,AS400,MVS

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Assisting Scrum Master in facilitating scrum ceremonies like Planning, Refinement, DSU &Retro

•Understand business requirement(s)

•Involved in the preparation of Test Plan/Strategy Documents.

•Involved in the preparation of the Test Case Documents

•Green screen automation using HATS tool

•Working experience on IDz,Gitlab

•Working experience on Unix/Linux

•Provide subject matter expertise on applications under scope of the project.

•Responsible for application development and maintenance of Commercial banking systems

•Gathering and understanding business requirements for complex projects.

•Creating solution design and detailed design documents for business requirements.

•Anchor and lead technical review sessions, and provide design suggestions.

•Manage production support activities leveraging offshore team - On call 24/7 pager support.

•Respond and resolve issues related to all Incidents raised on my assigned applications

•Lead an offshore team of 10 members and provide guidance on both technical and functional front Communication with Operations Analysts, Business Representatives and QA Team during the course of application

•maintenance and production problem related activities.

•Provide optimum solutions for all the production issues and clients' problems that occur under Retail investments applications.

•Anchor monthly meetings with customer to present the metrics and SLA reporting details and to respond to client's concerns for maintaining the Projects.

•Performance monitoring of batch applications and providing improvement ideas to ensure efficient application performance. Managing and scheduling meetings.

Ally – SmartAuction: Smart Auction Application is an Auction Website that allows authorized Dealers for Buying and selling of used vehicles through auctioning and bidding process. The Authorized dealers include GM/Ally Dealers and third Party Dealers that are financed by third party financial institutions. Vehicles offered includes company vehicles, lease vehicles, repossessions, and terminations. Facilitate dealers to search and bid on listed auction vehicles and allow Buy It Now. Create and distribute various reports such as sold vehicles, Not Sold vehicles, Buy back, Vehicle Status, reconciliation reports for dealers, branches.

Duration: FromJan’ 19–Oct’19

Environment: Selenium WebDriver, Agile, Java, Jira, confluence, CRAFT framework, Maven

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Involves in quality & test advocacy, resource planning & management, and resolution of issues that impede the testing effort.

•Building up and leading the Testing Team to the success of project

•Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release / delivery

•Deploying and managing resources for testing

•Applying the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team

•Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement.

•Ability to manage quality assurance and testing projects, schedules, tasks, and deliverables

• Knowledge of quality assurance and testing processes and tools and industry standards on quality models

•Creates a climate of collaboration and teamwork among team members and customer groups. Ensures that all members of the team and those with whom they interact build relationships and trust to achieve business objectives.

•Determines process and priorities based on the requirements of a situation. Quickly adapts approach as the situation changes.

Barclays (BDD):Barclay Direct Data(BDD) is an interface of multiple applications. The upstream applications are Sterling, Currency and Advance Bacs, BDD will generate the reports by receiving the data from upstream and send to downstream applications via File Gateway(FG).BDD reports are in different formats like Format9 and MT940.All BDD programs are written in COBOL, VSAM and JCL

Duration: FromJune’ 16–Dec’18

Environment: Mainframes,COBOL, JCL, VSAM,AGILE, SDLC, Functional Testing, HP ALM.

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Core member of development team. Used COBOL, COBOL DB2, VSAM, File-AID, and Abend-AID extensively in a day to day activities.

•Performing application analysis and design.

•Providing code fixes to defects and issues.

•Performing application monitoring.

•Preparing low level design documents for the application

•Assisting in implementation plans and in preparation of migration documents for the application.

•Developing change requests and preparation of Impact Analysis documents.

•Developing unit test cases and perform unit testing of the code.

•Assisting in performing peer code review.

•Providing post production support for defects in production environment.

•Contribute to preparation of system requirements specifications documents

•Performing user administration and access security administration.

•Lead delivery of application projects from offshore development center

•Lead a team of 6 members which includes mentoring, performance management and conflict resolution

•Review and sign off for offshore deliverables involving analysis, design, coding, unit testing and documentation

•Task allocation, Scheduling, monitoring and controlling and reporting of project status

•Training and mentoring of new members to Company both technically and functionally on application domain

•Contribute to preparation of system requirements specifications documents Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.

Freddie Mac:Freddie Mac internal applications are constantly upgraded, as part of Freddie Mac Factory Testing the applications operating systems are upgraded from Solaris to Linux, Apache upgrade and Web methods upgrades. The upgraded applications autosys jobs, mainframe jobs are executed and validated pre and post up gradation. The applications UI, functionality and database tables are validated to ensure the upgrades are working fine and does not affect the existing application functionality

Duration: From Feb-2015 to May 2016(Onsite, Client Location)

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, Teradata, Unix, Webmethods, Autosys, Rapid SQL.

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Worked as Mainframe tester

•Understand the business and provide functional specifications / requirements

•Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and motivation.

•Identify Training requirements and forward it to the Project Manager (Technical and Soft skills)

•Define the Strategy and Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan

•Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup

•Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.

•Check / Review the Test Cases documents

•Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.

•Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc..

•Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.

•Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones

ESI- Claims Execution: The ESI Claims QA Test Data Management (TDM) team has been established as a centralized QA support team to alleviate the Claims QA dependency on ESI business users to provide test data. The key functions within scope of the TDM team includes Identifying, creating and modifying test data in support of the Claims SYSI / QA functional test data requirements; coordinating the data usage and refresh strategies, supporting the QA defect triage process, and supporting the Command Center production rollout. The key functional area includes Benefits, Eligibility, Pharmacy, Drug Coverage, Formularies, Pricing / Costing, and other Claim Attributes.

Duration: From Oct 2013 to Jan 2015(Onsite, Client Location)

Environment: HP UFT, DB2, TSO/ISPF, File manager, JCL, VSAM.

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Core member of development team. Used COBOL, COBOL DB2, VSAM, File-AID, and Abend-AID extensively in a day to day activities.

•Performing application analysis and design.

•Providing code fixes to defects and issues.

•Performing application monitoring.

•Preparing low level design documents for the application

•Assisting in implementation plans and in preparation of migration documents for the application.

•Developing change requests and preparation of Impact Analysis documents.

•Developing unit test cases and perform unit testing of the code.

•Assisting in performing peer code review.

•Providing post production support for defects in production environment.

•Contribute to preparation of system requirements specifications documents

•Performing user administration and access security administration.

•Lead delivery of application projects from offshore development center

Wal-Mart BI dev and Logistics HOST Support:The Wal-Mart Logistics HOST Support (GDIS, RDC&GFMV) is a part of the Logistics Application value management program to support the Warehouse applications in Wal-Mart. As a part of this engagement, responsible for Enhancement, bug fixes and maintenance of the Logistics HOST application. Also provides production support in a 24x7 model. The main functions distribution centers are to receive Purchase Orders from the Wal-Mart Home office, receive freights from the Vendors, segregate the freights for different Wal-Mart stores, and ship the freights to the Wal-Mart stores on time. Receiving, Pallet Movement, Order processing, shipping and invoicing are the vital applications in the Wal-Mart Logistics Application Value management project

Duration:From Jan 2010 to Oct 2013

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS, TERADATA, SAS and Eazytrieve

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Analysis, design and coding of new programs, Involved in system level documentation of each program and its functionality

•Preparing test Jobs and test data

•Involved in Interacting with Business users on daily basis for the support issues/Change requests

•Co-ordinate with offshore/Onsite teams to track the issues and application changes as we support the application 24*7

• Interacting with Wal-Mart ISD managers and SME’s for the approvals on the changes we are installing

•Responsible for identifying the issues in existing and fix them to avoid the business impact

•Developing new programs using COBOL, JCL, IMS DB/DC, CICS and DB2

•Responsible for Coding of new programs and modifying the existing programs based on the business requirement

•Achieved Defect Free Code deliver award from Client

•Project cum Technical Leader roles

•Participate in Project Planning and Progress Tracking

•Preparing A&D estimations and approach documents

•Prioritize and assign development tasks

•Resolve all technical issues and ad hoc requests

•Manage the tasks of offshore team

•Facilitate deliverable preparation and delivery

•Ensure overall quality of the project and on-time delivery

•Review all deliverables from offshore teams

•Participating quality Audit and deliverables audit

•Coordination between offshore and onsite

•Preparing the daily and weekly status reports

•Trainings were conducted on Assembler

ESI- Claims Execution-Development:Express Scripts is a Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM). They process pharmaceutical claims for members at network pharmacies and at their own mail order pharmacies. They provide services to manage drug plans for government agencies (both as administrator of employee benefits and public assistance programs), corporations, and unions. Their largest client is the United States Department of Defense's TRICARE program. Express Scripts, the United States third largest PBM employs over 10,800 people throughout the United States. The corporate headquarters is located in St. Louis

Duration:From April 2009 – Jan ‘2010

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS, IBM Mainframes

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Analysis, design and coding of new programs, Involved in system level documentation of each program and its functionality

•Preparing test Jobs and test data

•Participate in Project Planning and Progress Tracking

•Preparing the feasibility analysis documents

•Preparing A&D estimations and approach documents

•Prioritize and assign development tasks

•Resolve all technical issues and ad hoc requests

•Participate in management reviews and teleconferences

•Manage the tasks of offshore team

•Facilitate deliverable preparation and delivery

•Ensure overall quality of the project and on-time delivery

•Review all deliverables from offshore teams

•Participating quality Audit and deliverables audit

•Coordination between offshore and onsite

•Preparing the daily and weekly status reports

SMS Modernization-POC,NASCO: Formed in 1987 by five BlueCross BlueShield Plans, NASCO is an Atlanta-based IT system services company dedicated exclusively to health benefits processing for Blue Plans nationwide. NASCO’s cost-effective, seamless approach to health benefits processing through the NASCO Processing System (NPS) offers numerous solutions that give Blue Plans a competitive edge in the healthcare marketplace. A single system connecting Blue Plans across the country, the NASCO Processing System is currently used to process the healthcare claims for more than 1,200 accounts. In 2001, Blue Plans used the NASCO Processing System to process 75.7 million claims for more than 6 million individual members. The owners of this system are NASCO’s owners are Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, and the BlueCross BlueShield Association

Duration:From Dec ‘2007 – April 2009

Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, CICS,IBM Mainframes, Assembler

Roles and Responsibilities:

•Analysis, design and coding of

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