Mainframe Developer
Resume:
OBJECTIVE
Intend to build a career with leading corporate of hi-tech environment with committed & dedicated people, which will help me to explore myself fully and realize my potential. Willing to work as a key player in challenging & creative environment.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Team Leader with an overall experience of 9 years and 7 months which includes 7 years and 7 months of IT & 2 years of Non-IT experience in different domain and phases of SDLC. This also includes an year of working and interacting directly with clients at Onsite locations, Eagan, Minessota, US(2011 for 2 months), Barcelona, Spain(2009 for 4 months) and Johanesburg, SA (2006 for 6 months).
Core areas of Skill involves Design & development in IBM Mainframe & AS400. Enjoys mentoring and motivating team members.
• Domain Knowledge: Health Insurance(1yr & 6 months), Property & Casualty Insurance(2 yrs & 9 months), Banking(6 months), Transportation & Logistics(2 yrs) & Finance & Accounting(6 months), Quality Control- Production Line(2 yrs-Non-IT)
• Experience in Software Development in IBM Mainframe environment & AS400
• Experience in all components of the SDLC including Requirement Capture, Impact Analysis, Development and Delivery within the CMMi Level 5 Framework.
SKILLS
Operating System MVS/XA, MS-Windows, ISeries/AS400
Language Cobol, Cobol400, JCL, Assembly, Easytrieve
Databases DB2, DB2400
Applications CICS, ISPF, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, CHANGEMAN, Endeavor,
PLATINUM, VSAM, File AID, UNIX editor – SSH, TOAD
Design Tools MS VISIO 2003
Estimation
Methodology Line of Code,Complexity,type of component
Configuration
Management IBM Rational Clearcase & Clearquest
Hardware IBM-3090, IBM-PC Compatibles
Others CSC Remedy ticketing tool, HPQC Quaity Centre, IT2B tool
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Duration Organization Role Played
May 2010 to Dec 2011 IBM India Pvt Ltd. Advisory System Analyst, Team Lead, OSC, Sr.Developer
Dec 2006 to Apr2010 Accenture Services Pvt Ltd. Team Lead, Onsite coordinator, Sr.Developer
May 2004 to Dec 2006 Patni Computer Systems Ltd(Now IGate Patni) Tech Lead,Developer
Configuration Manager
May 2002 to May 2004 Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. Quality Control Engineer (Non-IT)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Employer 1: IBM India Pvt Ltd.
Project Name: Blue Cross Blue Shield Minessota (BCBS MN) 5010
Technology : COBOL, DB2, MQ, File Aid, JCL, Easytrieve, Endeavor, IT2B.
May 2010 – Dec 2011
BCBSMN, oldest and one of the largest Healthcare Insurance company.
The project is associated with the changes in the system for a upgrade from HIPPA 4010 to 5010.
The project involved changes to Claim Operations of BCBSMN. This involved changes in CRP, FEP, CFE, ITS, ACI of Claims Operation.
Role- Team Lead for the projects involved in changes for CRP and FEP process of Claim Operations(837 transactions)
Claim Operations
Claims operations of BCBSMN does the adjudication of claims and adjustments, hence interacts with various customers like Members, Providers, Other Blue Plans, Employer Groups, Underwriting & Actuarial, Sales & Marketing, Finance etc.
Federal Employee Program(FEP)
Project Overview: FEP 5010 project deals with the changes in the existing FEP Batch process to accept and validate FEP claims from STAR adjudication and send it to Washington for further validation and then receive back on Blue Cross plan for Finance and reports.
Project Strength: 4
Roles & Responsibilities: Onsite Coordinator, Team Lead
• As an onsite coordinator building any gap between Onshore(Client) and Offshore.
• Worked on onshore-offshore model.
• Making Client confident enough to believe that the project is in good hands.
• Taking the overall responsibility of all the deliverables to Client, meeting all the deadlines with quality.
• Providing Functional/Reqirement walkthrough to the team.
• To Prepare Component wise Estimation
• Team Management
o Task allocation & tracking
• Creation and review of Technical design.
• Interacting directly with Client for any issues and updating the status and health of the project.
• Preparing daily status sheet and discussing with Managers on weekly basis.
• Conducting Quality Checks – defect prevention activities, Checklist for Code review.
• Prepare components for promotion from one environment to other using Endeavor.
• Create IT2B ticket, getting approvals from testers for promoting Endeavor packages of components from one environment to other, finally to Production.
• Participating in end to end testing.
• Ensuring that all Integration and Assembly defects raised in IT2B & Quality Centre are assigned, fixed and resolved.
Claims Data Repository(CRP)
Project Overview: CRP 5010 project deals with all the changes that need to be done as part of the requirement to the CRP batch process to accept 4010 and 5010 claims from the upstream, sweep them and map them to finally load into DB2 tables.
The scope of the project involves Design, Build and Unit Testing in Development region, prepare and move the components for higher environments- Integration, QA(UAT) and Production. Defect Resolve/Support in Integartion, UAT and Production
(for the agreed time period).
Project Strength: 6
Roles & Responsibilities: Team Lead
• Taking the overall responsibility of all the deliverables to Client, meeting all the deadlines with quality.
• Providing Functional/Reqirement walkthrough to the team.
• To Prepare Component wise Estimation
• Team Management
o Task allocation & tracking
o Maintaining the Timesheet entries for the team
• Creation and review of Technical design.
• Code Creation & Unit Testing and Review
• Providing daily status to Onsite.
• Interacting with client over email, and weekly calls.
• Preparing daily status sheet and discussing with Managers on weekly basis.
• Conducting Quality Checks – defect prevention activities, Checklist for Code review.
• Prepare components for promotion from one environment to other using Endeavor.
• Create IT2B ticket, getting approvals from testers for promoting Endeavor packages of components from one environment to other, finally to Production.
• Participating in end to end testing.
• Ensuring that all Integration and Assembly defects raised in IT2B & Quality Centre are assigned, fixed and resolved.
Employer 2: Accenture Services Pvt Ltd
Project Name: Zurich Financial Services (ZFS)
May 2007 – Apr 2010
Zurich Financial Services, a Zurich based company is among the leaders in the Insuance Domain providing services for different countries UK, Germany, Spain and Swiss.
ZFS has a highly competitive tool called INFO2000 for selling its Insurace products in the field of Property & Casualty. This tool can be run through WEB (for end Customers & Client) called Thin Client or application on Client machine called Rich Client (for Client). The front end is developed in Java and the back end runs on iseries – AS400 machine.
The various sub projects being:
1. Base Support – Solving Production tickets with SLA.
2. Release team – Involved in development & enhancement of INFO200 application through various Releases.
3. MI(ETL & IPC) – Involved in Management Information Reports
4. Retrofit – Involved in Java,COBOL & Table retrofit from Higher to lower environments.
5. Migration – Involved in Migration of foreign Policies from other system to INFO2000.
6. Tech Support – Solving INFO2K application related tickets.
1. Sept 2009 – Apr 2010
Release 4.2 CH- Info swiss
Technology : COBOL400, DB2 400, HPQC, IBM Rational Clearcase & Clearquest.
Project Overview:
Release 4.2 CH is one of different releases happened in ZFS. This release is meant for Info swiss application for Swiss. The Release focuses on introduction of two new products and the related changes to the application.
The scope of the project involves Design & Build(Unit Testing) in development region. Assembly testing and defect solving/support in Integration & UAT testing.
Project Strength: 6
Roles & Responsibilities: Team Lead, SME, Sr.Developer
• Providing Functional/Reqirement walkthrough to the team.
• To Prepare Component wise Estimation Accenture Delivery Method which takes care of various factors.
• Team Management
o Task allocation & tracking
o Maintaining the Timesheet entries for the team
o Creation of Metrics Data for Weeekly Status Meeting
• Creation of Technical design.
• Review of Technial Design.
• Maintaing the query tracker & ensuring that queries get resolved through mails, calls to Onshore etc.
• Code Creation & Testing and Review
• Conducting Quality Checks – defect prevention activities, Checklist for Code review.
• Configuration Management: creation,tracking of CR in IBM Clearquest, code check out & Check in Clearcase.
• Running the assembly script in HPQC.
• Ensuring that all Assembly defects are captured in HPQC & resolved.
• Ensuring that all defects raised in Integartion and UAT are resolved.
2. March 2008 – Sept 2009
Base Support
Technology : COBOL400, DB2400, CSC-Remedy, IBM Rational Clearcase & Clearquest, Lotus Notes.
Project Overview:
Base Support project is a vital project which deals with all the defects raised in Production. The defects are raised either for UK or Info swiss application. The defects raised by end users are logged in CSC Remedy Tool. The defects are raised in different areas of Info2000 –
1. Policy Administration
2. Documentation
3. Claims/Finance
4. Party Management
5. Management Information(MI)
6. WEB.
The defects raised are categorized further into different severity- 1,2,3,4,5.
Each severity has its own predefined SLAs.
The defects need to be resolved within the time and as per the defined SLA for different severities. Like severity 1 & 2 defects need to be closed within one business day.
Project Strength: 22
Roles & Responsibilities: Team Lead, SME, OSC
• OSC for 4 months in Zurich office at Barcelona.
• Make the team aware of SLA and to increase the knowledge base in core areas like Policy Admin, MI, Party.
• As an OSC to understand the overall process of Base Support
• As an OSC ensure that team understands the defects raised in different areas.
• To bridge the gap between offshore & onshore team.
• Helping the team in resolving the defects- by answering their queries or by interacting with onshore team to get the answers for their queries.
• To ensure that the defects get resolved within the SLA limits.
• Prepare the weekly status reports for Infoswiss.
• Participate in weekly meeting with Zurich.
• Team Management
o Task allocation & tracking
o Maintaining the Timesheet entries for the team
o Creation of Metrics Data for Weeekly Status Meeting
• Maintaing the query tracker & ensuring that queries get resolved through mails, calls to Onshore etc.
• Code Creation & Testing and Review
• Conducting Quality Checks – defect prevention activities, Checklist for Code review.
• Configuration Management: creation,tracking of CR in IBM Clearquest, code check out & Check in Clearcase.
3. July 2007 – Feb 2008
Mangament Information (ETL & IPC)
Technology : COBOL400, DB2 400, HPQC, IBM Rational Clearcase & Clearquest, Unix
Project Overview:
Management Information, is the project which deals with the various reports that need to generated for Business purpose. ETL stands for Extraction Transformation & Load. This process extracts data from AS400 and finally loads data into tables in Unix platform. The data is then processed by IPC using Informatica tool to generate the final Business Reports. These reports are used by Zurich for Business purpose.
The scope of the project involves Design & Build(Unit Testing) in development region. Assembly testing and defect solving/support in Integration & UAT testing.
Project Strength: 5
Roles & Responsibilities: Team Lead for ETL team
• Providing Functional/Reqirement walkthrough to the team.
• Team Management
o Task allocation & tracking
• To Prepare Component wise Estimation Accenture Delivery Method which takes care of various factors.
• Creation of Technical design.
• Review of Technial Design.
• Maintaing the query tracker & ensuring that queries get resolved through mails, calls to Onshore etc.
• Code Creation & Testing and Review
• Conducting Quality Checks – defect prevention activities, Checklist for Code review.
• Configuration Management: creation,tracking of CR in IBM Clearquest, code check out & Check in Clearcase.
• Running the assembly script in HPQC.
• Ensuring that all Assembly defects are captured in HPQC & resolved.
• Ensuring that all defects raised in Integartion and UAT are resolved.
Project Name: Barclays (ABSA Bank)
ABSA Bank which is a part of Barclays Bank is one of the prestigious bank in South Africa.
ABSA bank has its software development centre at Johanesburg, South Africa. Apart from other Banking services ABSA bank deals in Export-Import area. ABSA bank acts as a intermediator between two parties which are involved in the Export – Import. The bank plays the role of a Guarantor where it guarantees the Importer, the material imported to be in good condition and reaches within the time frame. In a similar manner Guarantees the Exporter, to get the correct material cost within the stipulated time. All the three parties, Exporter, Importer & the Bank also need to deal with all the leagalities & the documentations.
Jan 2007 – June 2007
Export-Import BARCLAYS BANK (ABSA)
Platform : COBOL, JCL, DB2
Project Overview:
The project was a 6 months enhancement project to automate the VAT statement generation at client location, Johanesburg. In the Export-Import area when the Bank acts a guarantor, need to do the payment for the Export-Import. The transactions then include the taxes like VAT which also acts a major factor in deciding the final cost to beared by customer.
Role & Responsibilities: The manual task of putting the VAT figures and then generating the statement was automated through Batch process- monthly & Yearly. As a developer my responsibility belongs to develop the Batch process that caters to provide the details of VAT for each transactions for different customers. And also accumulates to generate the summary page for each customer. Apart from generating these Statements the process also took care of the Priniting logic.
Project Strength: 3
As a developer my Role involves:
1. Understanding the Requirement for automating the VAT statement and Printing.
2. Based on the requirement creating the Design document.
3. Test Case ,Code construction
4. Unit Testing & Integration testing for Printing purpose
5. Providing UAT & Production support.
Employer 3: Patni Computer Systems Ltd
Project Name: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc (ACS)
ACS Commercial Solutions, Finance & Accounting has three functions in Fort Myers, FL. Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets (&PA) and Sales & Use Tax. All these functions serve GE businesses and are being commercialized for global customers in 2005.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc acquired the business process and IT applications of Fixed Assets and Project Accounting from General Electric (GE) in Q2-2004.
1. June 2006 – Dec 2006
FIXED ASSETS AND PROJECT ACCOUNTING
Platform: - VSAM, COBOL, JCL, EASYTRIEVE
Project overview –
Fixed Assets function owns two mainframe applications and one Web application.
Fixed Assets – mainframe application
Project Accounting – mainframe application
Web application – eUP (eUnfinished Plant) and other web interfaces for inquiry and transaction maintenance.
Business Objects – for reporting
As a Technical Leader, the role involves:-
• Understand the Change Request provided by Client
• Provide estimation for Change Request
• Analysis, Coding and Testing of the Change Request
• Deliver the Change Request within schedule and with quality
• Providing Production Support to the module for daily and month-end runs
Project Name: Yellow Roadway Technologies
Yellow Roadway Corporation Worldwide Technologies is a leading logistics company based in USA, which provides logistics services in USA, Canada and Mexico. Yellow Technologies caters to all IT requirements of its parent organization.
2. March 2006 – May 2006
LineHaul SDT VSAM File Removal
Platform: - COBOL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, JCL
Project Overview-
YRC Worldwide Technologies is leading roadway transportation and Logistics Company based in USA.The project involved conversion of data from SDT VSAM file to DB2 database. By eliminating these VSAM files, the process of converting the Tracking System information to DB2 storage will be simplified. Also, it will eliminate a duplicate data store resulting in less maintenance as well as less chance for errors related to inaccurate data.
As a Technical Lead, the role involves:-
• Analysis and design.
• Provide estimation.
• Analysis, design, Coding, Test case preparation and Testing
• Overall tracking & monitoring the progress of the deliverables
• Ensuring the overall quality of all the deliverables.
• Providing support during UAT phase.
3. February 2006 – March 2006
Project Name: LineHaul VSAM History File Removal
Platform: - COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS
Project Overview-
This is an offshoot of LH VSAM to DB2 conversion. YT Line-haul system has exclusive VSAM file that stores history of driver details, this includes its Dispatch, Status & Call history. Due to previous project of VSAM to DB2 conversion the data was already available on DB2 tables. Thus the current scope of the project enables to retrieve this data from DB2 tables instead of VSAM file and display on the online screens, thus making the VSAM file obsolete.
As a Team Leader, the role involves:-
• Analysis and design.
• Provide estimation.
• Analysis, design, Coding, Test case preparation and Testing
• Overall tracking & monitoring the progress of the deliverables
• Ensuring the overall quality of all the deliverables.
• Providing support during UAT phase.
4. November 2005 – January 2006
Project Name: Guide Driver Status
Platform: - COBOL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, JCL
Project Overview-
In Linehaul Driver System the Driver can undergo various statuses which can be called his state of work. This project manages the different status of work. This project manages the different status of a driver by adding, updating or deleting the different status, thus helping the user who uses the online screens to plan his itinerary.
As a Technical Lead, the role involves:-
• Analysis and design.
• Provide estimation.
• Analysis, design, Coding, Test case preparation and Testing
• Overall tracking & monitoring the progress of the deliverables
• Ensuring the overall quality of all the deliverables.
• Providing support during UAT phase.
5. July 2005 – September 2005
Project Name: Contracts Conversion Phase 2
Platform: - COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL
Project Overview-
Yellow Technologies provides contracts, which are VSAM based to convert into DB2 format. The project involved converting sequential datasets from Yellow Technologies to which Business rules are applied to store the data in DB2 tables. The conversion is done with the help of Online Screens that display Contract details and data on CICS Screens in real time.
As a Team Member, role includes:
• Designing
• Coding
• Unit Testing
Configuration Management, as a Configuration Manager, helped team for Configuration Management activities.
6. February 2005 – May 2005
Project Name: Linehaul VSAM to DB2 Conversion
Platform: - COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM
Project Overview-
Yellow’s mainframe Tracking System maintains a subset of Linehaul driver data in VSAM file. In order for the Linehaul Gui to easily access driver data in the future, a conversion effort was initiated to move all Linehaul driver data to a DB2 data structure. This will provide more flexibility for accessing the data and supports the technology infrastructure vision of conversion to a consistent, relational data store. To support this effort, all Cobol programs that currently access the primary driver VSAM file and the three alternate index files were modified.
As a Team Member, role includes:
• Impact Analysis
• Detailed Design documents
• Coding
• Testing
• Providing technical support to the teammates
• Review of deliverables
7. October 2004 – December 2004
Project Name: ASM To COBOL Conversion
Platform: - COBOL, ASSEMBLY
Project Overview-
This Project involved conversion of an online program from Assembly to Cobol. This program is one of the core programs of the Tracking System. This program handles the transferring of a bill to a trailer. The user enters a trailer and some bills to be transferred to that trailer. This program validates the user entry and transfers the bill to the Trailer.
As a Team Member, role includes:
• Analysis of Assembly programs
• Preparation of Reengineering document – Functionality of the program with Structured approach
• Preparation of Design document – proposed solution
• Preparation of Unit Test Cases and procedures
• Code construction
• Unit Testing of converted code and comparison of Assembly output with Cobol Output
8. May 2004 – September 2004
Project Name: EDI Online Profile
Platform: - COBOL, CICS, VSAM
Project Overview-
The Project included designing new cics screens and develops new programs in order to handle Electronic Data Interchange
As a Technical Team Member, the role involves:-
• Designing new CICS screens
• Preparation of Design document- proposed solution
• Preparation of Unit Test Cases and Procedures
• Coding of Cobol Program
• Testing of the Cobol code
Employer 3: Jindal Steel & Power Ltd, Raigarh.
Duration: May 2002 to May 2004
Job Profile : Engineer in the Quality Control department for Universal Mill.
Responsibilities includes
• Helping the production line to produce the products as per the Norms & standards
• Chemical & Physical inspection.
• Testing- Destructive & Non Destructive Testing of Rails, Coloumns, Blooms, Rounds produced in the Universal Mill of Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Received Performance points in the ZFS project in the year 2007 & 2008.
• Received Team Award for YRCWT project, year 2004.
• Received LOA for the YRCWT project, Linehaul VSAM to DB2 project.
• Received Team Award for YRCWT project, Linehaul VSAM to DB2 project, year 2005.
EDUCATION
Diploma in Advanced Computing from CDAC, IACSD, Akurdi, Pune in the year 2001. Bachelor of Engineering in Metallurgy, 2000 from Regional Engineering College (NIT), Rourkela, Orissa, India.
PERSONAL DETAILS
DOB 31st January, 1978
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