Primary Skills COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SAS, CLIST, EASYTRIEVE, MQ Series Operating Systems ZOS, MVS, OS/390, WINDOWS Development Tools FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, CA7 job Scheduler, SDFII, CLIST, SAS, PANVELET, INTERTEST, INFOMAN, CHANGEMAN, FILE MANAGER. Debug Tools | ABEND-AID, EXPEDITOR, INTERTEST Database Connectivity MQ Series Databases VSAM, DB2 Configuration Tools ENDEVOR, PANVELET, CHANGEMAN |
·Responsible for SDLC life cycle like analysis, design, development, unit testing, integration & regression testing and implementation.
· Prepared Spike documents for the user stories and provided solutions to the offshore development team.
· Developed and communicated the progress of the tasks in the Project status update calls, and proactively suggested solutions for various technical issues. their sign-off.
· Developed and communicated the progress of the tasks in the DSU meetings, and proactively suggested solutions for various technical issues.
· Reviewed the code developed by the application team members and provided feedback and comments in case of any corrections or modification required.
· Co-ordinated with offshore and helped team members with best practices which thereby increased efficiency.
· Proactively communicated the technical issues faced by the team members at offshore to the Product Owner and Scrum Master and always kept them updated of the issues.
· Demoed the development work and the test results for the business line users in the Train Demo Meetings.
· Tracked and Monitored the progress made by the development team during development phase.
· Assumed ownership for end-to-end delivery of stories/projects from Initiation to Closure and ensured that the stories/projects have been delivered on-time.
· During QA phase, helped the test engineers to understand the process and created utility programs to help them identify test samples in the respective environment to ease their effort.
· Updated task board in V1, showing the progress of the stories on daily basis.
· Ensured that change requests have been created for the respective change in order to promote the deliverables through different staging environments.
· Created implementation plan and coordinated UAT, captured signoff on successful completion.
· As a Technical lead Analyst was the SME for various mainframe applications such as CAPSIL, New Business, CLAIMS, Billing and Collection, Cheque Distribution System, TASM, REINSURANCE, HRMS and EPS.
· Provided solution architecture to major and critical projects such as DMS Decommission, Family Life, Canadian ADV, FEB, Replacement Factor Calculation, nbA Decommission, Elixir Decommission and Online Banking.
· Reverse engineered the DMS system and policy administration applications like CAPSIL, CFM and VANTAGE to migrate from legacy system to web-based technologies.
· Mentored and helped mainframe team members to resolve critical issues on daily basis.
· Handled break-fixes for production daily batch cycles and supported team members to resolve any critical issues with expert knowledge on the application.
· Conducted Monday Morning meeting with the members on weekly basis to discuss on the allocation and distribution of hours and work among the team members.
· Tracked and monitored the work assigned to junior members and provided help in case of critical issues.
· Responsible for review and sign-off of technical specification document, peer code review, promotion of code changes to model office for UAT and to production environment.
· Responsible for change management process in the team, which outlines system document changes review and sign-off.
· Assisted in the final implementation and Go-live planning activities for projects.
· Provided support to debug production and UAT issues.
· Worked as Programmer Analyst for COPS team.
· Responsible for SDLC life cycle like analysis, design, development, unit testing and integration testing and implementation.
· Prepared technical specification documents and flow chart diagrams for various projects and enhancements.
· Handled break-fix, enhancement, maintenance and user support requests.
· Handled production support and root cause fixed the critical daily batch cycle jobs.
· Migrated many of the CICS online screens from Model 2 to Model 4 and designed new CICS screens as per the business requirement.
· Interacted with business on regular basis to keep pace with them.
· Involved in quality activities like Six Sigma methodologies by applying DMAIC process and leaned many of the process, which gained business benefit and thereby certified as a Green Belt Professional.
· Worked as Software Engineer for IBM India - Blue Cross Blue Shield Project.
· Involved in analysis of Production issues reported by the customer that are critical, high and medium.
· Involved in analysis of PLASM and COBOL coding to provide solution to the customer.
· Involved in quality activities like preparing weekly reports for the resolution submitted.
· Reduced the helpdesk inventory count drastically from 100 plus to 20 plus, thereby appreciated by the business and achieved IBM BRAVO award in the year 2006.
· Set-up and executed jobs in CA7 for test runs in QA regions.
· Executed, Monitored and troubleshooted system test cycles on TSON.
· Maintenance of IMS Regions and responsible for ENDEVOR Move, Generate, Delete Requests.
· Processed miscellaneous test requests to support system testing in the COPE regions.
· Involved in quality activities like preparing PL to PM reports.
Master of Computer Applications
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