Manojkumar Balamurugan
Senior Associate
Brampton,ON
Summary
- 12 years of IT experience on Mainframes platform working in Development, Enhancement and Maintenance projects.
- Innovative professional with proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems to increase customer satisfaction and stake holders
- Strong Cognizance in business process analysis, process mapping, driving design sessions, architecting solutions, authoring, and executing test scenarios, test cases, system testing, regression testing and maintaining traceability matrices for baseline documents.
- Skilled in employing root cause analysis to identify issues and develop process improvements that lead to cost savings.
- Implemented end-to-end tasks effectively throughout the project until its delivery to the customer.
- Consistently lauded for business acumen, proactive initiatives, quality of analysis, and writing skills
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Canada Inc.
Mississauga , ON
2019.07 - Current
- Participating in various requirements gathering meetings and translating discussion points into technical specifications, conducts meetings with clients to understand the high-level roadmap and the big picture of what is going on at the client’s side and communicate the observations to reporting manager and offshore team.
- Documenting the functional and nonfunctional system requirements based on business requirements and understanding of the current systems functionality and architecture.
- Developing the detailed design structure after understanding the requirements and prepare sprint release plans for the whole project.
- Implementing many processes and tools to give management visibility the project status that reflects risks, mitigation plans and performance on success metrics.
- Working with project managers, analysts, customers, and project team to scope, estimate, build and deploy quality solutions.
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Canada Inc.
Mississauga , ON
2018.11 - 2019.06
- Clarified business queries by analyzing and assessing the existing business systems and procedures and evaluate, modify, test new or existing software programs and procedures which are used to verify the functionality of programs coded to meet user requirements and conform to established guidelines and best practices.
- Maintained the established applications using defined procedures and doing research activities, evaluate it, recommend solutions, and use appropriate technology to meet user’s needs.
- Coordinate with dependent teams from the customer side and iron out any dependencies blocking the progress for the delivery team by reaching out and by scheduling meetings with the right stakeholder from the client-side.
- Performs acceptance testing and program implementation for all the projects.
- Organize team meetings with his team members to review his team activities to avoid any delivery slippage.
- Enhance the competence of his teammates by planning the delivery of solutions answering technical and procedural questions for less experienced team members teaching improved processes and mentoring team members.
- Acted as a single point of contact (SPOC) for both the offshore team as well as onshore clients
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Us Corp
Fort Wayne , Indiana
2017.08 - 2018.11
- Preparing Estimation, Requirement Document, Technical Design Documents, Test Plan and Test cases.
- Using CA Gen language, developed programs to pull details from Db2 tables and populated it in CA Gen online screens.
- Facilitated integration and end user testing of business solutions before deploying them into the production environment.
- Coordinated with Clients and programmed many urgent assignments where specification were not written.
- Completed all project deliverables abiding the project and company guidelines and standards and ensure that the whole team were also following the same standards.
- Developed and maintained lessons learned inputs to the project repository for utilization on future programs initiated by the enterprise.
- Captured all failure cases, research whole issues from the scratch, gather relevant facts and analyze potential solutions, and submits corresponding information to a higher-level technical staff for review.
- Reviewed team member work and provide necessary feedback before delivering to the business. Prevented many defects through structured review methodology.
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited
Chennai , India
2014.07 - 2017.08
- Managed all levels of project Life cycle activities such as analysis, coding, testing, and deploying the code to the production environment.
- Assisted higher level associates in defining software development project plans, including scoping, scheduling, and implementation. Managed bug fixes and enhancement activities in projects.
- Resolved every issue by conducting thorough analysis of the application and by employing appropriate debugging techniques.
- Worked in Agile environment with sprint deadline. Used Kanban tool for representing tasks in daily standup calls.
- Developed, managed, and executed a wide range of test cases to ensure the delivery of requirements and desired results are achieved.
- Oversaw Ad Hoc requests based on special business needs, monitored the production schedules, coordinated with production staff for scheduling and performing code migration activities.
- Written various scripts to enhance functionality and or performance of his applications whenever required.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited
Chennai , India
2011.07 - 2014.06
- Assisted Low level associates in the completion of complex assignments and even worked on small portions of those projects.
- Developed defect free, using mainframe language with an ability to apply continuous integration techniques and responsible for delivering business solutions under the supervision of a technical supervisor.
- Validate and send daily production checkout reports to the business
- Monitored systems batch jobs and provided resolution for minor batch and real time issues. Provided Immediate fixes to production abends as per the prose of the document.
- Gained experience in on call support which involved managing, resolving, and escalating reported problems for the applications and databases.
- Updated and Coordinated team issues and deliverables to Project Manager.
Programmer Analyst Trainee
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited
Chennai , India
2010.07 - 2011.07
- Analyzed the existing system to understand the scenario and incorporated new system.
- Writing new code or change the existing code according to the requirements by onshore clients.
- Analyzed the existing system, prepared preliminary recommendations and presented recommendations to the immediate supervisor.
- Assessed the programs wrote by his peers to ensure the software quality and functions.
- Created block diagrams and logic flowcharts to plan coding projects.
- Carried out various levels of testing with test data prepared by leads.
- Provided proper updates to Project lead.
Education
Bachelor of Science - B.E Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
Tamil Nadu 2006.04 - 2010.04
Skills
COBOL
Certification
(INS 21) Property and Liability insurance principles
Accomplishments
- Received Bronze Award for showing immense confidence while working with various vendors for the CA Gen Upgrade Project.
- Best Trainer award for training SYNC SORT techniques for new joiners.
- Trained approximately 200+ new joiners within 6 month time-frame and got 85% as trainer rating.
Timeline
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - CLF-C01
2020-12
Senior Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Canada Inc.
2019.07 - Current
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Canada Inc.
2018.11 - 2019.06
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions Us Corp
2017.08 - 2018.11
Associate
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited
2014.07 - 2017.08
(INS 21) Property and Liability insurance principles
2011-08
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited
2011.07 - 2014.06
Programmer Analyst Trainee
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Limited
2010.07 - 2011.07
Bachelor of Science - B.E Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
2006.04 - 2010.04
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