Software Engineer Project

SUPRAJA VARATHAN

Phone: 201-***-****

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

Career Objective

To pursue a career in information technology field using my experiences in industry and utilizing my creativity and organizing abilities, for the continuous improvement and development of my organization and myself.

Professional summary

I’m a mainframe professional with nearly 6 years of experience in TSO, COBOL, VSAM, JCL, DB2, CICS, IMS DB and Microfocus COBOL. Well versed in tools like Endevor, Changeman, Easytrieve, TSO/ISPF, NDM, SYNCSORT, CA7 and XPEDITER.

I have an excellent experience in the onsite offshore working model.

I have a good working knowledge of the SDLC process. Have worked extensively on the design and development of minor and major enhancements for a mix of both production support and application development.

Have very good domain knowledge on the Banking and financial services industry

Technology skills overview

Mainframe

JCL - JCL creation, control cards, Sort utilities, IF then execution, cataloged procedures

COBOL - Good working knowledge of creation of Cobol batch, online & integrated with SQL

VSAM - Creation of indexed, non indexed files, file search

SQL - Thorough understanding of tables, keys, creation of cursors, DB2 error codes

Endevor, Changeman - Extensively worked on package creation, promoting packages across environments

File Aid - Good understanding of file search, file creation

Data Entry – Hands on experience as a data entry like editing, browsing and creating datasets and uploading files

IMS DB - Good working experience and analyze programs that use IMS

CA7 - Very good knowledge in CA7 since worked as a Level 1 support

EXpediter - Analysed programs using this tool

CICS - Good hands on experience

Experience in handling Microsoft office, MS word, Access, excel interface with mainframes

Design and development with RDBMS

Microfocus

Revolve - Experience in analyzing the job stream and collecting the components for the application to be migrated. Analyzing the compatibility of the various functionalities used in mainframe with microfocus.

Mainframe Express – moving the components and compiling and debugging the compilation issues.

Netexpress - performs the same process and helps to work on the server

Net express server – Executing the job on the server with the same job flow as in mainframes

Total Experience – 5 Years 10 months

Work Experience

Project description

BARCAP (Barclays Capital) Jan 2010 to Apr 2010

Software Engineer

Project description

The main focus of the project is to migrate some of the Lehman Bros applications from mainframes to Microfocus.

Job responsibilities

• Meeting with business owners for requirements. Interact with the project managers and technical team to establish performance management scope and objectives

• Involvement in the resource management including training,

• Designing of the new sub applications which include database, process and user interfaces

• Analyze the programs and jobs for the application to be migrated

• Get the jobs from Endevor

• Gathering the details to find the list of PROCS, JCLS, Programs, Control Cards to be migrated

• These inputs are given to Revolve and get the information on the missing components and the incompatibilities

• Moving the components to Net Express and then creating the Server to run jobs

• Executing the jobs based on the job flow provided

• Creating the input files required for the jobs

• Running the jobs in the server and then the output should be compared with mainframe output to match the results

• Was responsible for design document creation, Impact management documents

• Preparation of the unit, system integration test cases for the team

• Responsible for the testing the jobs

• Coordination with other groups to ensure deliverables are met

Technology

COBOL, JCL VSAM, IMS DB, Endevor, File Aid

Client: General Motors (GM) Jan 2009 to Dec 2009

Job responsibilities

• Team leader managing a group of people

• Responsible for managing daily and monthly deliverables

• Analyzing the reason for the abend

• Work on the issues to provide a permanent fix for the regular abend

• Maintaining the application

• Working on service requests provided by the user

• Making Changes on the code wherever needed and perform testing

• Moving the code to production

• Batch processing, Creating datasets and uploading files

• On call production support

IBM India Pvt Ltd, Chennai

Client: United Parcel Service (UPS) Sep 2007 to Dec 2008

UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company and leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services. The maintenance and enhancement of a several UPS applications is being done by IBM.

Job responsibilities

• Team leader managing a group of people

• Responsible for managing daily and monthly deliverables

• Application architect

• Responsible for call ticket turnover

• Technical analysis

• Coding and unit testing

• Test plan preparation

• Element turnover request creation

• Code migration

• Status update and follow up on issues

• Working on Service requests

• Batch processing, Creating datasets and uploading files

• On call production support

i|Nautix Technologies (P) Ltd, Chennai Oct 2003 to May 2006

A subsidiary of the Bank of New York Mellon

Applications Developer

It provides software development services for the Company's subsidiaries, including The Bank of New York and Pershing LLC.

Technologies and Tools

COBOL, VSAM, JCL, CICS and DB2

ESP Master, Changeman, Xpeditor, Fileaid

Job responsibilities and achievements

• Analyzing jobs: Responsible for analyzing the jobs and finding the root cause for more elapsed time and CPU time taken and delay in job running. Analyzed around 300 jobs and suggested optimization strategies

• Developing modules based on requirements: Enhancing the programs, writing new programs and endeavor migration through various test regions to production

• Creation of test environment for the jobs

• Migration of programs to various test regions

• Was instrumental in saving around 100,000 USD worth of CPU time as a direct result of job performance analysis and tuning

• Leading a 4 member team for development and Implementation

Projects involved

• ACE - Dedicated Programming Group - iNautix Technologies India (P) Ltd.

Code Optimization

Endeavor migration

Target to meet SLAs

Domain involved

• Securities and Financial Markets

Mutual Funds System

Commission and Payment system

Cash Account Management system

Educational Qualification

• Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management in Finance

• BE (Computer Science)

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