B.tech with 3.4 yrs of exp on mainframes

Siva Kumar E-Mail: ************@*****.***

Mobile: +91-893*******

Experience profile

• Having 3.4 years of experience in Development and Maintenance of Mainframe applications.

• Strong programming skills with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM and CICS.

• Good working knowledge on mainframe tools like File-Aid, Endevor, Xpeditor, SPUFI and QMF.

• Having good exposure to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Good domain knowledge in Insurance and Banking.

Experience summery

• Working with TCS as a Software Engineer, Chennai Since April 2010 to till date.

• Worked with Ness Technologies as a Software Engineer, Chennai Since Mar 2008 to Mar 2010.

Education Qualification

• B.TECH from J.N.T.U University, Hyderabad 2007.

Software skills

Mainframes Skills

Operating Systems Z/OS

Languages COBOL, JCL

Database DB2

FILE Systems VSAM

OLTP CICS

Tools SPUFI, QMF, File-Aid, endeavor, Xpeditor

Project # 1:

Project Name PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE

Client HARTFORD – US

Employer TCS, Chennai

Role Team Member

Team Size 20

Environment COBOL, DB2, CICS, Endevor, Xpeditor and File-Aid.

About client:

The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products – annuities, mutual funds, and college savings plans, life insurance, group and employee benefits, automobile and homeowner’s insurance and business insurance. Business insurance policies are structured according to the Line of Business being insured.

Project Description:

The functions of the Auto Unit is to support the CLA system as it performs the processing which is common to all the commercial lines of business. CLA supports the rating and issuance of polices for the Automobile, General Liability, Property, Workers Compensation and Spectrum lines of business. The unit is mainly comprised of four separate areas. The CLA AUTO Front End screen-flow captures the Common policy and transaction level Information necessary to rate a Commercial Lines policy and to produce the Physical policy itself. The CLA AUTO Systems supports common back-end rating functions that apply at policy or transactions level.

Responsibilities:

• Interacting with onsite coordinator on analyzing requirements.

• Impact Analysis, Coding, Code review and documents.

• Enhancing the existing elements & Coding new elements.

• Unit testing, Integration testing.

• Preparing test data, LLDs, UTPs, UTRs.

• Attending status meetings and weekly meetings.

Project #2:

Project Name Auto Claims

Client Principal Financial Group

Employer Ness Technologies, Chennai

Role Team Member

Team Size 12

Environment COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, Endevor, Xpeditor and File-Aid

About client:

The Principal Financial Group is a global financial services provider which offers a wide range of financial products and services, and is a U.S. leader. Headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, the company has more than 18 million customers worldwide. As of September 30, 2009, It was ranked 273rd on Fortune magazine’s list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations. It has been consistently awarded the distinction as one of the world's most ethical companies.

Project Description:

The objective behind the project is to provide business and team managers with claim case information at the lowest level i.e., case type, case date and case event data at the transactional level. This will help them measure and track the case loads and the sub-process during the life cycle of a claim case. Auto Claims DM will allow the Management to measure and track the case loads and the sub-process during the life cycle of a claim case along with other payment and financial information. The case management repository process will run on a daily basis. Exceed will send a file which will contain complete case information whenever there is a change to case, date or event. I was actively involved in the development of new systems to better serve the needs of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and gathering requirements from Onsite coordinator.

• Coding of batch programs using COBOL, JCL and DB2.

• Preparing Unit test cases and test data.

• Enhancing the exisisting elements & coding new elements.

• Attending status meetings and weekly meetings.

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