Anshul Arya

Seeking challenging assignments to leverage experience and expertise with an organization of repute, where I can apply and enhance my knowledge and skill to serve the firm to the best of my efforts.

• 9+ years of IT experience in development, maintenance, implementation and support of Core banking software product, Cards & Payments domains, Insurance domain and Retirement Benefits domain using Mainframe technologies. Having good knowledge in Banking and Insurance domain. Expertise in Mainframe technologies - COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, SDSF, CA-7, Control-M, Abend-aid MOVEit, TERADATA, Easytrieve, FILE-AID, ENDEVOR, XPEDITOR, SPUFI, ITIL V3 certified. Changeman, File manager, TSO/ISPF, JIRA, Agile Methodology, ServiceNow. Knowledge on creating Integrations in MIA & Dell-Boomi. Provided on-call support to address any abends or issues that arose during batch runs. Calendar Maintenance for Mainframe jobs (Control-M & CA7). Setup Time & When condition for production jobs in Mainframe (Control-M & CA7). Setting Condition/Resources on Control-M. JCL overriding and writing new JCL per requirement. Responsible for Incident/Change/Request Management, owning them & ensuring resolution with agreed SLA. Having good knowledge in banking domain (Core Banking Lending Application), Cards and payments processing application (Merchant Acquirer), and Retirement benefits. Having good knowledge of Code Deployment through Changeman, Endevor and Release activities. Having good knowledge of agile process. Developed and maintained COBOL programs for business applications, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices. Conducted thorough testing and debugging of COBOL-DB2 programs to identify and rectify issues, ensuring the integrity and reliability of the applications. Contributed to the enhancement and maintenance of existing COBOL-DB2 applications, incorporating new features and resolving performance bottlenecks. Analysing requirements preparing document of understanding. Writing the code as per business requirements and standards. Preparing unit test plan document and execute the test cases as per the UTP and document the results for review. Providing support to SIT & QA teams. Doing peer reviews and helping to team whenever required. Ensuring adherence to quality norms throughout the implementation process. Identifying, analysing defects, questionable functions, errors, and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, and content. Conducting system study and coordinating with team members for product documentation, system design & integration, coding, application maintenance, etc. Resolving the abends in test regions. Fixing the defects and delivering the quality products within SLA. Good Knowledge on Azure. Have knowledge in NDM file transfer. Conducting Knowledge transfer sessions to new hires. Hands-On Experience on tools like File-Manager, File-Aid, Ca7. Possess understanding of MOVEit Automation, a secure workflow automation tool, and its capabilities for orchestrating file transfers, scheduling, and ensuring data security. Knowledge on Azure Lab. Significant experience of working with customers, project managers and technical teams for securing & executing concurrent projects; proficient with process / standards implementation and enhancement. Proficient in supervising all the phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with concentration on software requirements specifications, requirements analysis, technical systems design and development in both agile and water fall methods. An effective communicator with excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills. Very good exposure on both waterfall and Agile methodologies., Innovate R Technologies Inc, Mississauga, Mainframe Developer, 02/23/23, Present, HPS, Drafting the high-level design for business requirements., Reviewing requirement documents to comprehend the issue and conducting analysis., Conducting analysis and coding using COBOL, COBOL-DB2, COBOL-CICS programs., Creating PROCs, JCLs, and other control card members based on requirements., Involve in research tasks based on Client requests. Use tools like File Manager., Involve in discussions with Leads after understanding the issue and proposed solutions., Co-ordinate with offshore team and Business analysts to fix the issues and test the fixed code., Make changes to existing modules to fix the issues and include the new requirements., Document the fixed details and test results., Preparing test jobs and conducting tests with multiple scenarios to ensure the current system is not affected., Prepare and run ADHOC jobs, DB2 SQL Queries to check whether any overlaps or issues present., Reviewing code and test results and presenting them to leads for approvals., Participating in status meetings and walkthrough sessions., Securing approvals from necessary managers to promote the fixed changes., Prepare the test packages using ENDEVOR and promote the fixed code., Monitor Batch jobs through Ca7/CNTL-M whether batch cycles are completed successfully., Updating required logs and documents to ensure fixed and test results are current., Involving in the Implementation support, Ensono, Mainframe Developer, 06/20/20, 05/22, Lending Application Development and Support, Kbank, Thailand, Preparing the High-level Design of the Business requirements., Preparing the functional Representation document and technical design Presentation document, Analysing the impact of changes while enhancing the Business., Involved in the business requirement clarification for testing teams., Involved in the Shake down testing., Involved in the coding and unit testing., Involved in the defect analysis., Resolving the defects in test regions and finding the root cause., Perform Review of Test cases and code., Involving in the Implementation support., Contributed to the enhancement and maintenance of existing COBOL-DB2 applications, incorporating new features and resolving performance bottlenecks., Analysing requirements preparing document of understanding, Writing the code as per business requirements and standards, Preparing unit test plan document and execute the test cases as per the UTP and document the results for review., Providing support to SIT & QA teams., WDMtech, Mainframe Engineer, 05/17, 06/20, CIGNA, Understanding the business requirements sent by the clients, analysing impact and preparing estimation., Preparing Program specification document, Developed UTC preparation and approvals., Conducted coding as per coding standards and designed build test data; executed test cases during unit testing., Preparing the jobs for Higher regions, Resolving the abends in test regions, Fixing the defects within SLA, Providing support to QA team during the Integration testing., Achieved best P2P (peer to peer) award., Couple of times grabbed STAR award., Actively participated in organizational events., IBM, Mainframe System Analyst (SME), 09/16, 02/17, Broadridge Financial Services, Fixing Mainframe job abends as per documentation, space abends, JCL errors on Ca7, Developed new programs, Screens and jobs for Client specific requirements., Involved in SIT/UAT Support for new developments., Coordinating with Global payments team on clarifications for new developments and participating in meetings with the customer (GP)., Involved in Migration phase Heartland Payments System to Global Payments (Coding and Testing), Involved in new developments for Heartland payment systems (Design, Estimate, coding and unit testing), Attending daily team meetings with onsite team regarding work related to projects., Involved in 24X7 Production support., Preparing functional and system test cases., Monitored the Daily and Monthly batches and helped in resolving issues during the batch cycles., Dell Services, Mainframe Batch Technical Analyst, 11/11, 09/16, CoreLogic, TENET, MSA, NLG, CHP, GPI, VERSO, Leveraged Accounts, Calendar Maintenance for Mainframe jobs (Control-M & CA7)., Setup Time & When condition for production jobs in Mainframe (Control-M & CA7)., Setting Condition/Resources on Control-M., JCL overriding and writing new JCL per requirement., Providing on call support (24
• 7) to End users, clients and other teams involved in production Within SLA., Smoke Testing after Region Refresh., Performing JCL Conversion and SQL OSR’s Requests on Daily Basis., Perform System Startup/Shutdown –IPL., Opening & closing CICS files, purging CICS tasks & transactions. Taking dump of various tasks/regions, MQ channel trouble shooting. Monitored monitor CPU, contention, batch, workload etc., Conestoga College, Waterloo, Post-Graduation Diploma in Virtualization and Cloud Computing, 05/22, 12/22, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, Delhi, Bachelors in engineering (Computer Science), 07/09, 06/13, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, Delhi, Diploma in Computer Engineering, 2005, 2008

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