Objective
A professional and creative team player with 6 years experience in business analysis, design, development and Software Testing of various software applications in online and batch environments.

Experience in conducting software and database tests.

On call support for all the Maintenance projects, experience in Abend resolution and fixing Problem Notices.

Extensive experience in developing programs in COBOL II, DB2, VSAM, JCL, CICS and IMS.

Knowledge and experience in every phase of Software development Life Cycle.

Knowledge and implementation experience of Quality Assurance, Testing Principles and Configuration and Change Management Disciplines.

Extensive experience in developing Business requirements, Testing strategies. Writing Software Quality Assurance Plan, reviewing plans and standard documents, monitoring software process through entire software life cycle, participating in requirements reviews, code reviews and performing periodic audits on software process.

Experience in preparing Test Plan, Test Summary Reports, Test Cases and Test Scripts for Manual testing based on the User Requirement Document and System Requirement documents for the Functional, System, Performance, Integration, Regression, UAT, Security, Database and Usability testing.

Expertise in analyzing requirement specifications and developing test plans, test cases, test scripts and planning for QA methodologies.

Expertise in problem solving and defect tracking using defect tracking tools like Rational Clear Quest.

Experience in using debugging tools like XPEDITER and INTERTEST

Experience using version controller ENDEVOR

Experience in implementation of CMM, SEI and ISO 9000 standards in the projects.

Flexible team member with an intention to learn new things everyday.

Possess excellent analytical skills with good communication and self-organizing skills, assertive and a committed team player

Skills Profile
Requirement Study, New Development, Maintenance and Testing Existing Applications in online and batch environments.
Languages
COBOL II, MVS COBOL, JCL and SQL
Software/Tools
FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, ENDEVOR, PANVALET, QMF, SPUFI, RATIONAL CLEAR QUEST, EXPEDITOR, CHANGEMAN
MS-Suite
MS-Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook and MS Access
Operating Systems
IBM MVS and Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Databases
DB2, IMS and Oracle
OLTP
IMS, CICS
Scheduling Systems
CA 7 and Control-M

Client : WELLPOINT

Work Location :

Employment

2006 -  Present
Information Analyst

Software/Tools/Languages : COBOL, JCL, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, XPEDITER

Operating System : MVS.

Database : IMS-DB, DB2

The Project : Senior Plan Finder Project

This project ensures the Online enrollments in the Health Care or Insurance business. This application enables the members and agents to enroll through the online system. WellPoint does not have an online enrollment process for Medicare Advantage PFFS products. Today, the applications are completed on paper and processed manually. This project facilitates the online enrollment based on the business rules, processes the data and loads the enrollee details in the databases. It plays a major role in the growth of the Senior line of business market. This project has an interface from the Web based Java program to the Mainframe system.

Responsibilities :
Analyzed business requirements and performed Technical design.

Analyzed business and system requirements, impact analysis on existing systems, to develop systems specifications.

Provided solutions to the Request according to the Client Specifications by Understanding the Existing Health Insurance System.

Involved in conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders of the project, the technical users in order to design solution and detailed test plans and test cases.

Prepared technical design specifications, Coded programs using modules like COBOL, JCL in Online and Batch Environments.

Coding of programs embedded with IMS DB/DC and DB2

Performing the testing, both Static and Dynamic testing.

Extensively used tools like FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN and XPEDITER

Coordinating the End to end testing involving other teams.

Defect tracking and resolving the issues.

Performed regression test to ensure the interfaces to other applications.

Attended the Change request meeting to document the requirement changes.

Involved in completing the enhancement work in the stipulated time as per the documentation.

Involved in the implementation activities.

Involved in all kind of support activities for the Customer.

Project 2

Client : WELLPOINT

2006 -  2006
Information Analyst

Software/Tools/Languages : COBOL, JCL, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, XPEDITER

Operating System : MVS.

Database : IMS-DB/DC

The Project : WGS Membership Reporting Enhancement Project

The project is a major enhancement to the membership reporting section of the SSB application. This is a health care application primarily for Government sponsored programs. In the current business situation there are history data missing in the interfacing feeds for an individual. This project ensures that the history data is pulled from IMS databases and send to the corresponding Interfacing application for membership reporting. The project was performed with an Offshore-Onshore model.

Responsibilities :
Analyzed business requirements and performed Technical design.

Involved in conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders of the project, the technical users in order to design complete and detailed test plans and test cases

Prepared flowcharting of the logical flow of the requirements and technical design in Microsoft Visio

Created pseudo code for the offshore team members.

Passing the work to GLT Offshore team after Signoff of the Technical Specification by Customer.

Coding and Testing of programs embedded with COBOL and IMS DB/DC

Created Requirement Traceability Matrix.

Documentation of the changes and requirements from time to time.

Used tools like FILE-AID, CHANGEMAN and XPEDITER extensively.

Coordinated defect resolution by meeting with developers and Business partners on a weekly basis.

Coordinating with offshore team on testing, both Static and Dynamic testing.

Involved in extensive review activities in the project for all kind of Service request from the customer.

Involved in impact analysis and code changes as per Client Request.

Created issues list in the issue database and routed issues to appropriate areas for resolution.

Conducted Go-No Go meeting with the business users.

Performed post implementation checkouts.

Supported during the Warranty period.

Project 3

Client : GE AIMS Supply Chain

2004 -  2006
Information Analyst

Software/Tools/Languages : COBOL, JCL, SQL, CICS, ASSEMBLER, ENDEVOR

Operating System : MVS.

Database : DB2

The Project : Advanced Inventory Management System Maintenance

Advanced Inventory Management System is GEs Electric division Mainline Inventory Management System. The application keeps tracks of all inventories of all consumer electronics items. The AIMS application receives feeds from various interfacing applications to ensure that inventory level is maintained. The application feeds to various applications so that the data Integrity is maintained with applications in the Warehouse. It creates a lot of reports for users in the product distribution center and regional distribution center. The project was performed with an Offshore-Onshore model.

Responsibilities :
Analyzed system requirements and performed Technical design along with test plans creation that would verify the functionality aspects of the application.

Provided management with metrics, reports and schedules as necessary and participated in the design walkthroughs and meetings

Based on previous companies experience introduced the creation of Project testing Strategy for major enhancements and developments.

Prepared flowcharting of the logical flow of the requirements in Microsoft Visio

Developed, implemented and executed test methodologies and plans to ensure software product quality.

Experience using version controller ENDEVOR

Involved in performing regression testing for all the releases performed by Offshore.

Defect tracking using Rational Clear quest, recording all pre-release and post release defects.

Wrote SQL Statements to extract Data from Tables and to verify the output Data of the reports.

Post implementation checkouts/validations.

Responsible to drive the testing Process/Procedure to reduce errors and ensure products are delivered accurately and promptly.

Coding and Testing of programs embedded with DB2 and CICS.

Coordinating with offshore team on testing, both Static and Dynamic testing.

Project 4

Client : GE FECS

2003 -  2004
Software Developer

Software/Tools/Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, ASSEMBLER, ENDEVOR

Operating System : MVS.

The Project : Financial Equipment Control System Maintenance Project

Financial Equipment Control system is GEs financial tracking system for GE Equipment. This application keeps track of financial information of the equipment all the way from the Manufacturing until the equipment is scrapped. The application does not have a database and has Master TAPE File. The application received feeds from various application and sends feeds to General ledger and Tax Applications.

Responsibilities :
Development of code and testing for Functional requirements provided by Technology Lead

Design of minor enhancements.

Analysis of Problem Notices and Abends, primarily post release defects. Usage of Clear Quest as the tool for tracking change request.

Assisted project teams in the implementation of QA Standards, Guidelines, Standards

Involved in the development of QA Testing processes that suit the application testing and created a reporting hierarchy in the QA organization.

Involved in conducting walkthroughs with the stakeholders of the project, the technical users in order to design complete and detailed test plans and test cases and in order for the application for existing automation equipment to increase the sample screening throughput

Involved in conducting technical/non-technical presentations and training workshops for the clients.

Analyzed user requirements attended Change Request meetings to document changes and implemented procedures for enforcing changes through defect tracking.

Created a few Functional requirements and screen prototyping

Since the application is BATCH, performed a lot of parallel testing cases

Responsible to create Integrated or System test plan for enhancements.

Defects tracking was done in the develop access database, Quality database

Project 5

Client : MICHELIN

2002 -  2003
Software Engineer

Software/Tools/Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, QMF

Operating System : MVS.

The Project : Michelin Manufacturing Production Support

This is a long term Maintenance project for Michelin Manufacturing Applications. Maintenance covers production support, changes to existing system for new functionality, updating vendor-supplied applications to latest releases and incorporating homegrown applications with the new. The scope of work covers Fault fixing, Enhancements, Analysis, Design, Development, Performance Monitoring, Production Support, Source Management and Installing new releases of Packages. The applications include homegrown and vendor supplied packages viz. Dunn and Bradstreet MSA like General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Human Resources, Millennium Project Tracking and Information Expert etc.

Responsibilities :
Development of new reports.

Requirements determination and Analysis

Prototyping for new reports.

Created Data extracts from DB2 using SQL

Involved in Functionality Testing, Data Validation Test and Modification of Scripts for execution.

Test plan, test cases and Test scripts creation.

Peer code reviews, Static testing.

Investigated software faults and interfaced with the Developers to Correct bugs, Home grown defect tracking spread sheet used.

Usage of Endevor for code migration in the Lifecycle.

Project 6

Client : SALT RIVER

2000 -  2002

Miscellaneous
Position : Software Engineer.

Software/Tools/Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM

Operating System : MVS.

The Project : Salt River Project Maintenance

This is a long-term maintenance project. This application is being used under COBOL, CICS, DB2 and On MVS System. Basic responsibility is to support production. Use to fix the problems which are raised in production. Problems like JCL abends and program modifications program analyzing and testing the program as required by client.

Responsibilities :
Setting up Test Data in QA environment for System Testing

Executed test scripts in ADSO

Analyzing and documenting detailed program information working and interacting with software developers and members of various other dependent departments

Documented bugs found out during the process of testing in a defects log