Summary
Around 7.6 years of in-depth experience in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle ie from Requirements, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment of software applications.
Worked in Onsite/Offshore model for over 5.3 years with 2.8 years of experience in client interfacing role ; meeting and exceeding client expectations and are successful in getting more business for my employer.
Worked/working with prestigious fortune 500 clients like BlueCross BlueShield IL, Aetna and Metlife Institutional, I had gained a good understanding of their business domain.
Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes, Requirement analysis, Design, Coding, Testing ie creating test plans, test cases and test scripts and Integration on Mainframe Technologies
1 yr experience as Business Analyst. Analyzed business needs and conducted team meetings with stake holders who included affected Application development Technology leads and Business leads. Then prepare a detail Requirement specification document based on the outcomes of the meeting.
6.5 years experienced as Senior Mainframe Programmer Analyst.
Good Knowledge of Software Quality frameworks. Worked in Defect prevention DP team for 2 projects at offshore. Also worked as Configuration Controller CC, an additional role apart from working as Business Analyst and the work was appreciated from client.
Good leadership qualities. Worked as Onsite coordinator for 2.6 Years and lead a team of variable size 4 - 5 at offshore.
In the most current project performing the role of Subject Matter Expert SME for system rewrite of HCA Employer based Incentive reward system at BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, Chicago.
Excellent team player, good communication and interpersonal skills with solid team leading capabilities.
Proven ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments. Energetic and perseverant self-starter known for exceeding goals and objectives.
experience in preparation of LOAD/UNLOAD jobs to refresh test database and preparing the NDM jobs experience in preparing Test JCLS for various test cycles and also for the parallel test cycles runs.
experience in creating and editing VSAM Data sets.
experience in working with STATIC Calls, DYNAMIC Calls, Linkage section in COBOL programs and Communication area in CICS programs.
Excellent knowledge with Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Integration testing, Client Acceptance testing, production implementation and maintenance.
Preparation of Weekly Status Reports and MOM and initiate/coordinate weekly and monthly status meetings.
experience in CHANGEMAN and ENDEVOR package creation and participate in various production installs.
Coordinated setting up NDM - Connect Direct connection, FTP and Secured FTP mailbox for file transmission between client and outside vendors along with setting up file in their required format
Underwent and Completed HIPPA training at Bluecross BlueShield of Illinois, Chicago.

Employment

July, 2007 -  June, 2009
Senior Mainframe Programmer Analyst

Project : Bluestar Membership system ID Card Processing
As a Senior Programmer Analyst at client s site.
Did High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.
Preparation of Unit and System Test cases, test plans and participated in unit and system testing.
Prepare test jobs and set up environment for various test cycles like System and parallel Cycles.

Did Production Support Activities and Post Implementation Support.
Prepared LOAD/UNLOAD jobs to load and unload data into/from database.
Loaded data from Production to Test Environments to test COBOL II, DB2, VSAM programs.

Conducted meetings with the stakeholders for the impacted other systems to discuss about the associated Inscope and Out of scope identified changes.
Prepared ENDEVOR packages and participate in production installs along with efficient ZEKE job schedule timings.
Used ABEND-AID to view ABEND information in case of job abends.
Used Test-director to log in the Abends along with their definitive Root causes.
Used Clear Quest to log defects for Code reviews.

experience in setting up NDM - Connect Direct connection, FTP and Secured FTP mailbox for file transmission between BCBS and outside vendors along with setting up file in their required format.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 CICS, TSO-ISPF, MSOffice 2003, JCL, COBOL, DB2, MAGNA, ZEKE, INTERTEST, ENDEVOR, COMPAREX, DFSORT-ICETOOL, MQ Series, NDM, ABENDAID, PRINCETON, SPUFI, QMF, VSAM, SQL, IBM UTILITIES, Microsoft VISIO 2003, FTP, Secured FTP SFTP, VDR - Connect Direct.

Project : CDHP-HCA Membership system Consumer Driven Health Plan- HCA
Sub-Projects : ITS 10.2 changes to accommodate more Service lines and 10 byte Amount field.
Group Incentives Phase I, Phase II, Phase III, Enterprise Incentives.
Performed the role of Subject Matter Expert SME for the system rewrite of HCA Employer based Incentive reward system analyzing various system impacts.
Did High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.
Preparation of Unit and System Test cases, test plans and participated in unit and system testing.
Prepare test jobs and set up environment for various test cycles like System and parallel Cycles.
Did Final Code reviewing before Production move.

Did Production Support Activities and Post Implementation Support.
Prepared LOAD/UNLOAD jobs to load and unload data into/from database.

Underwent and Completed HIPPA training.
Loaded data from Production to Test Environments to test COBOL II, DB2, VSAM programs.

Conducted meetings with the stakeholders for the impacted other systems to discuss about the associated Inscope and Out of scope identified changes.
Analyzed application/system at the code level and developed System document describing various business rules of the application.
Prepared ENDEVOR packages and participate in production installs along with efficient ZEKE job schedule timings.
Used ABEND-AID to view ABEND information in case of job abends.
Used Test-director to log in the Abends along with their definitive Root causes.
Used Clear Quest to log defects for Code reviews.
Worked on multiple Development projects under this system umbrella related to various Healthcare Incentive rewards for the employees by their Employers to reduce Employer Healthcare expenses.
Analyze entire code of the application and develop Application Information document describing various business rules of the application.

experience in setting up NDM - Connect Direct connection, FTP and Secured FTP mailbox for file transmission between BCBS and outside vendors along with setting up file in their required format.
For the Inbound files from Vendor added email notifications to Outlook for team of the file arrival.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 CICS, TSO-ISPF, MSOffice 2003, JCL, COBOL, DB2, MAGNA, ZEKE, INTERTEST, ENDEVOR, COMPAREX, DFSORT-ICETOOL, MQ Series, NDM, ABENDAID, PRINCETON, SPUFI, QMF, VSAM, SQL, IBM UTILITIES, Microsoft VISIO 2003, FTP, Secured FTP SFTP, VDR - Connect Direct.

December, 2006 -  July, 2007
Programmer Analyst

Project : Legacy Modernization VSAM to DB2 conversion
Followed SDLC Software Development Life Cycle Methodology.
Did the impacts analysis of the system for the required changes to be done and created Functional Specification document.
drafted and base-lined System documentation

Conducted meetings with the stakeholders for the impacted other systems to discuss about the associated Inscope and Out of scope identified changes.
Did High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing and Deployment.
Did System redesign through Process Flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio 2003 of how the new programs will access DB2 tables.
created Test Plans and Test Scripts.
Involved in understanding the current System and documented the same using either Microsoft Visio or Microsoft word describing various Business Rules.
Coded new programs using iSeries WebSphere Development Studio WDSC.
Used ROBOT to schedule jobs in test region for Integration testing.
Did Final Code reviewing before Production move.
Did Post Implementation Support.
Used SQL400 to verify how the new queries would perform.

Environment Mainframe AS/400 COBOL-400 CLP, RPG-ILE, DB2 setting Triggers and Stored Procedures, MSOffice 2003, ROBOT, Microsoft Visio 2003, VSAM, SURVEYOR, SQL400 iSeries WebSphere Development Studio WDSC.

October, 2005 -  November, 2006
Programmer Analyst

Project : GPAY Group Annuity Payments
As a Programmer Analyst and Onsite Co-ordinator at client s site.
Did High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.
Did Final Code reviewing before Production move.

Did Production Support Activities.
24x7 application production support, point of contact on rotational basis.
Did production installs and create CHANGEMAN packages for production implementation along with efficient ZEKE job schedule timings.
Analyzed application at the code level and developed System document describing various business rules of the application.
FTP various files to mainframe modify/send it to Client as per the request.
Did Post Implementation Support.

Preparation of Weekly Status Reports and MOM and initiate/coordinate weekly status meetings.
Worked in Onsite-Offshore Model. So was involved in scaling up the offshore team members to understand the system s know-how.
Used Test-director to log in the Abends along with their definitive Root causes.
Responsible for reducing the Run time of the production batch cycle by changing some of the job schedules and program logic.
Responsible for analyzing and testing some of the existing Time consuming Db2 Batch jobs by running them through STROBE utility and later either fine tuning the query to run faster or defining Indexes used in the Query.
Refresh various test environments with production data and run test cycles in various test environments depending on the request from the client
Used File-Aid to create various VSAM clusters and GDG.
Maintaining production ABEND callouts along with Abend reasons and resolution steps taken in a separate excel for easy Abend resolution in future.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, CICS, MSOffice 2003, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IDMS, ADSO, OLQ, MQ Series, CHANGEMAN, ZEKE, Lotus Notes, Test Director, STROBE, Expeditor, VSAM, SARR, FTP, Secured FTP SFTP.

Project : Annuitant s Change Of Address Project
As a Programmer Analyst and Onsite Coordinator at client s site.
Did High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.

Conducted meetings with the stakeholders for the impacted other systems to discuss about the associated Inscope and Outscope identified changes.
Did Final Code reviewing before Production move.
Did Post Implementation Support.
Used ABEND-AID to view ABEND information in case of job abends.
Prepared COBOL-CICS-DB2 for debugging in case of production Abend using Expeditor to identify the root cause.
Analyzed application/System at the code level and developed System document describing various business rules of the application.
Refresh various test environments with production data and run test cycles in various test environments depending on the request from the client.
Used Test-director to log in the Abends along with their definitive Root causes.
Did production installs and create CHANGEMAN packages for production implementation along with efficient ZEKE job schedule timings.
Used File-Aid to create various VSAM clusters and GDG.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, CICS, MSOffice 2003, JCL, COBOL, DB2, IMS DB/ DC, MQ Series, CHANGEMAN, ZEKE, Test Director, Expeditor, VSAM, FILEAID, SARR, FTP, Secured FTP SFTP.

February, 2005 -  September, 2005
Business Analyst

Project : Health Disparities
As an Analyst at client s site.
Scrutinized the existing HMO systems and its functioning to evaluate requirements.
Organized meetings to discuss and gathered user requirements from Business and Technical leads representing their systems.
Created Functional Requirement Specification Document.
Participated in discussions, preparation and review of Subject Matter Expert SME documents.
Did Life Cycle Documentation from product requirements in the development stage to functional specifications for the completed modules of application components.
Maintained Requirement Tractability using Rational Requisite Pro.
Created and performed User Acceptance Testing UAT using the Test cases and Test Scripts as part of User Sign-off.
Logged defects identified using Rational Clear Quest.
Project : Medicare Modernization Act MMA
As an Analyst at client s site.
Scrutinized the existing HMO systems and its functioning to evaluate requirements.
Organized meetings to discuss and gathered user requirements from Business and Technical leads representing their systems.
Created Functional Requirement Specification Document.
Participated in discussions, preparation and review of Subject Matter Expert SME documents.
Did Life Cycle Documentation from product requirements in the development stage to functional specifications for the completed modules of application components.
Maintained Requirement Tractability using Rational Requisite Pro.
Created and performed User Acceptance Testing UAT using the Test cases and Test Scripts as part of User Sign-off.
Logged defects identified using Rational Clear Quest.

Project : HRA HMO ID Card Display Changes
As an Analyst at client s site.
Scrutinized the existing HMO systems and its functioning to evaluate requirements.
Organized meetings to discuss and gathered user requirements from Business and Technical leads representing their systems.
Created Functional Requirement Specification Document.
Participated in discussions, preparation and review of Subject Matter Expert SME documents.
Did Life Cycle Documentation from product requirements in the development stage to functional specifications for the completed modules of application components.
Maintained Requirement Tractability using Rational Requisite Pro.
Created and performed User Acceptance Testing UAT using the Test cases and Test Scripts as part of User Sign-off.
Logged defects identified using Rational Clear Quest.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, IMS Database or DC, CICS, MSOffice 2003, Rational Requisite PRO, Rational Clear Quest, Microsoft Visio 2003.

September, 2003 -  January, 2005
Programmer Analyst

Project : AAS ELR Electronic Reporting Operations
As a Programmer Analyst and Onsite Coordinator at client s site
Did Requirement specification, High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Testing and Deployment.
Did Code reviewing
Did Abend Resolution and Production Fixes.
Did Post Implementation Support.
Setup Test jobs to be triggered using ZEKE.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, CICS, ZEKE, MSOffice 2003, ABENDAID, ENDEVOR, ELIPS

Project : Electronic Employer Services Group Situs
Did High Level Design, Detailed level design, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.
Did Code reviewing.
Did support phase of the project.
Did Post Implementation Support.
Trained by mentoring fresher s on the Domain and Mainframe technologies used in the Delivery Unit.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, ZEKE, CICS, JCL, COBOL, IDMS, DMLO, OLQ, DB2, ENDEVOR, ELIPS, ADSO.

Project : Aetna Administrative Services AAS
Did Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.
Did Code reviewing.
Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, JCL, ZEKE, COBOL, REXX, FTP

January, 2002 -  April, 2003
Mainframe Developer

Project : Development and Maintenance of MONY
Did analyzing specification documents, Coding, Self-Testing, Integration Testing, Preparing Test Plans and Test Scripts and Deployment.

Environment : Mainframe OS/390 TSO-ISPF, JCL, ZEKE, COBOL, IMS Database or DC

Note : Descriptions about the projects is provided on request only.

May, 2003 -  August, 2003

Education

Training
An entry level specialized training was given in Mainframe stream in OS/390 operating system in languages namely MVS , JCL , COBOL , CICS and DB2 . At the end of each course there was a dummy project performed and at the end of final course completion a live project comprising of all the above languages was performed
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Skills
Operating Systems : AS/400 OS/390 Z/OS, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 9x Mainframe Technologies : TSO-ISPF, MVS, JCL, COBOL-II, CICS, DB2, IDMS, REXX, EZTRIEVE or EASYTRIEVE, CLP, RPG-ILE, COBOL-400 MQ Series, ADSO, IMS Database or DC. Software Languages : C with Data Structures, C++, PASCAL Databases : DB2, IDMS, MS-ACCESS, ORACLE,, IMS Database or DC Utilities : STROBE, ISTROBE, FILEAID, ABENDAID, ENDEVOR, ELIPS, ROSCOE XPEDITOR, VDR, STARTOOL, DMLO, OLQ, OMEGAMON, SPUFI, QMF, ZEKE, SYNCSORT, DFSORT - ICETOOL, SQL400 SEQUEL VIEWPOINT INTERTEST, MAGNA, PRINCETON, NDM, SARR, COMPAREX Configuration Mgt Tools : Microsoft s Visual Source Safe, REVOLVE, ENDEVOR, CCF, CHANGEMAN ROBOT-Scheduler. Program Analyzing : SEEC Utility, REVOLVE