Resume of IBM Certified Mainframe Developer/Tester

Title
IBM Certified Mainframe Developer/Tester

Primary Skills
COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, NATURAL, OS/390, SPUFI, QMF, Endeavor, Xpeditor, Fileaid, Inter-test and Platinum

Location
India-Mumbai (will consider relocating)

Posted
Apr-07-07

Summary of experience:

· An IBM Certified Mainframe Application developer and ISTQB Certified Mainframe manual tester with about 3.5+ year's of experience in Software Development, Maintenance, Support and Enhancement in SEI-CMMi Level 5 assessed, ISO 9001-2001 certified and BS 7799 compliant company
· Working with Cap Gemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd., Mumbai as Consultant, in the IBM Mainframe Project for AXA-INSURANCE NSE, France
· Thorough understanding of the SDLC process entailing requirement analysis, design, development, testing, change request management and maintenance / enhancement support to the client with strong skills in Mainframe technologies (COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, DB2, NATURAL, OS/390, SPUFI, QMF, Endeavor, Expeditor, Fileaid, Inter-test, Panvalet, Change-man, and Platinum)
· Thorough understanding of the Quality process
· A strong team player having Good analytical skills to identify key issues and provide solution, Design and delivery of Technical Specification document as per schedule.
· Awarded as “Best Performer” in his team for his testing, analytical, communication and problem-solving skills
· Domain Knowledge: Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI)

Academic qualification:

Degree / Certificate University / Institute Description Year Class
M.I.M. Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management studies, Mumbai Master in Information Management Pursuing NA
B. E.(I.T.) University of Mumbai Bachelors Degree in Information Technology 2003 FirstClass
H.S.C. Mumbai Board Higher Secondary Certificate Examination in Science Stream 1999 Distinction
S.S.C. Mumbai Board Secondary School Certificate Examination 1997 Distinction

Additional qualification:

· Have cleared Professional certification program from IBM
o DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamental (Exam 700)
o DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Application Development (Exam 703)

· Have cleared ISTQB's (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certified Tester Foundation level exam

· Have cleared NSE's (National stock exchange of India) certification in financial market (NCFM) exam in module financial market -- A beginner module

· Have cleared ISE's (Inter-connected stock exchange of India) certificate course in 'Equity, Derivative, Mutual fund, personal financial planning & Portfolio management'

· Have cleared CST (Competence in Software Technology) exam for G-Level conducted by NCST (C-DAC) in 2004

· Have done certificate course in Computer Hardware Maintenance and Networking from Government polytechnic, Bandra, Mumbai-400 051

Skill profile:

Language COBOL, JCL, CICS and Natural
Database DB2, VSAM
Utilities/Tools SPUFI, QMF, Inter-test, Change-man, File-Aid, Endeavor, Expediter, Panvalet and Platinum
Testing Tools Load Runner, Test Director and Manual testing in Mainframe Environment (Batch/Online)
Operating System MVS, OS/390 and windows-9x & 2000
Hardware IBM Mainframe-3090, PC's (Pentium)

Training given:

Sr.No. Subject/Topic Year Attended by Organized by
1 AXA- IARD system flow 2006 AXA-Belgium team AXA team
2 MCI-Backend process 2006 MCI team MCI team
3 Finance Market (Basic) 2005 Hexaware trainee Pace team
4 PACE System 2005 Hexaware pace team Pace team
5 Cobol Language 2004 Hexaware trainee HexaVarsity

Training attended:

Sr.No. Subject/Topic Year Attended by Organized by
1 Professional protocol 2006 Hexaware Employee HexaVarsity
2 Verification and Validation 2005 Hexaware Employee HexaVarsity
3 ISO 9001:2000 2005 Hexaware Employee HexaVarsity
4 MMS Training 2004 Hexaware Employee HexaVarsity
5 Cobol, Jcl, Cics 2004 Hexaware Employee HexaVarsity

Professional Experience:

Sr.No. Company Name Location From To
1 Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd. Mumbai Dec 2006 Till date
2 Hexaware technologies Limited Mumbai Feb 2004 Sep 2006
3 OM Consultancy Services Mumbai Aug 2003 Jan 2004

Project Summary:


1) Project : AXA-NSE.
Company : Capgemini Consulting India Pvt Ltd.
Client : AXA Insurance, France
Environments : IBM Mainframe 3090, MVS, DB2, COBOL, Natural, Platinum
Duration : Dec '06 to till date
Team size : 31

Project NSE (New System Saves) lies within the scope of an ambitious program in Individual Life launched at the time of the strategic plan 2005-2007 of CENTERED updated France annually. Project NSE aims at building, on the basis of system Individual Vie ILIS of origin CENTERED France, the target system of production and management of mass of the products of Individual insurance Life, for all the traditional distribution networks CENTERED in France. The perimeter of project NSE covers the design and the realization of the new system of management of mass saves gathering on only one punt forms the whole of the distribution networks (offers innovating, costs and optimized productivity of management, exemplary quality of service), while preserving the history of the contracts of the applicative system of origin ILIS. The strong constraints of rise in load induced by the planning of the strategic plan lead the Management of Project NSE to entrust batches of detailed technical design, development and assembly

Role & Responsibility: Tech Leader

· Handling team size of 8-10 members independently
· Task allocation, monitoring & successful completion within the team
· To provide technical (Natural) & functional (Insurance) assistance to team member
· Reviewing technical and non technical writing
· Unit testing and Integration Testing
· Preparing Natural Screen and other Natural Component
· Designated as PQL (Project Quality Lead) for current project
· Writing and Reviewing Cobol/DB2 code from scratch
· Have exposer to online and Batch Processing.


2) Project : AXA Belgium
Company : Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Client : AXA Belgium
Environments : IBM Mainframe 3090, MVS, DB2, COBOL, Pan-valet
Duration : May '06 to Sep '06
Team size : 24

As part of its Survival of Fittest SOF initiative, AXA Belgium plans to improve the maintainability of products offered by its IARD application (Fire, Accident and Auto Insurance) by extracting the Business Rules embedded (BRE) in legacy code and moving the same to a product factory rules engine. The aim of this project is to retro-document Business Rules from the non-visual part of the Phoenix front-end application and the IARD backend

Role & Responsibility: Team Leader


· Handling team size of 3 members independently
· Task allocation, monitoring & successful completion within the team
· To provide technical & functional assistance to team member
· Reviewing the extracted business logic
· Communication with onsite client & other team member
· Reviewing technical and non technical writing



3) Project : MCI-IPCC
Company : Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Client : Microwave Communications Inc. (MCI) USA
Environments : IBM Mainframe 3090, MVS, DB2, COBOL
Duration : February'06 to April'06
Team size : 8


The project is phase 6 of the ongoing Managed Internet Protocol Telephony (MIPT) initiative. MIPT is one for the products offered under Managed Network Services. All the work in Managing the IP Telephony is handled by the Company for the Corporate Customers and the present project addresses the software development effort for the ordering and billing part of the work.


The current objective of the Project Team is:

· Rename the Device-id to Product-billing-key
· Changing Ent-Inst-Dt to Prod-Inst-Dt
· Invoice will have a new field MS-COUNT (comes from the input to the BDR)


Role & Responsibility: Module Leader

· Handling team size of 2 team members.
· Analyzing the Backend BD2 table and mapping it with invoice structure.
· Changing the DB2 tables' content as per analysis.
· Reviewing Changes done in DB2 tables by team member.
· Preparation of program specs, test cases and delivery.
· Enhancement of the existing COBOL code.
· Preparation and review of quality document.


4) Project : UAF-PACE Interface
Company : Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Client : Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., USA
Environments : IBM Mainframe 3090, MVS, DB2, COBOL, CICS, Change man
Duration : October'05 to January'06
Team size : 12


The purpose of the SEC/APL Client Data Automation project as regards the UAF is to allow the entry systems access to a new table that can be accessed through the UAF system. The UAF system will be enhanced to contain a set of new tables, which will store SEC/APL account data. This data will be accessed through a new UAF screens and send data to PACE via MQ

Role & Responsibility: Sr. Software Engineer

· To provide technical and functional assistance to existing associates
· Training of new resources, understand the present system
· Requirement analysis and Review
· Enhancement of the existing and development of new code
· Preparation of program specs, test cases and deliver
· Have done the Exhaustive Integration and overall system testing
· SCM and SECURITY Co-ordinator for the Project


5) Project : UAF-DIER II Interface
Company : Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Client : Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., USA
Environments : IBM Mainframe 3090, MVS, DB2, COBOL, CICS, Change man
Duration : April'05 to September'05
Team size : 14


DIER 2.0 is a mainframe application that assists in profitability analysis through out the firm. This application would have an online user interfaces to maintain the fields as well as a screen for maintenance of reference data. BBH would like to complete this project in a two-phased approach.
· Phase I -- Implement reference data tables and account maintenance
· Phase II -- Reporting and monitoring

Role & Responsibility: Sr.Software Engineer

· Analysis and SPEC preparation
· Coding of new online programs, changes to the existing programs
· Have done the Exhaustive Integration and overall system testing
· Support to all in the team and co-ordination
· Assimilation of functional and technical knowledge
· SCM and SECURITY Co-ordinator for the Project



6) Project : Portfolio Accounting Core Engine (PACE)
Company : Hexaware Technologies Ltd.
Client : Alliance Capital Management Ltd., NY, USA
Environments : IBM M/F 3090, MVS, VSAM, COBOL, JCL, Expeditor and Endeavour
Duration : February'04 to March'05
Team size : 16

PACE is a multi currency, portfolio accounting system supporting various business units. It is interfaced with other Mainframe accounting systems. PACE facilitates on-line maintenance and inquiry using CICS. The system provides positions at account and currency level. PACE consists of several programs written in COBOL II with CICS and the data is stored in the form of VSAM files.

This project is being executed to carry out the maintenance work for PACE. The scope of the project includes correction of faults, improve performance, preventive maintenance and adapt to changes in the business environment and various support activities needed for efficient operation of the system.

A Trouble Report (TR), Informational Request (IR), triggers all the maintenance activities or Request for Service (RFS) raised by the Client

Role & Responsibility: Software Engineer

· Analysis and SPEC preparation
· Coding of new Batch programs, changes to the existing programs
· Have done the Exhaustive Integration and overall system testing
· Have given QAX-SUPPORT from the offshore
· Production fixes knowledge and issue resolution in co-ordination with onsite team
· Participating in Quality & Security audit of the project
· Communicating with onsite team


Certifications
· Have cleared Professional certification program from IBM
o DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Fundamental (Exam 700)
o DB2 UDB V8.1 Family Application Development (Exam 703)

· Have cleared ISTQB?s (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) Certified Tester Foundation level exam

· Have cleared NSE?s (National stock exchange of India) certification in financial market (NCFM) exam in module financial market ? A beginner module

· Have cleared ISE?s (Inter-connected stock exchange of India) certificate course in ?Equity, Derivative, Mutual fund, personal financial planning & Portfolio management?

· Have cleared CST (Competence in Software Technology) exam for G-Level conducted by NCST (C-DAC) in 2004

· Have done certificate course in Computer Hardware Maintenance and Networking from Government polytechnic, Bandra, Mumbai-400 051



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