Vikas Kumar
Toronto,ON
Summary
- Having 10+ years of complete software Development experience and developing Mainframe applications.
- Have strong knowledge on COBOL,DB2,JCL,VSAM,FILEAID, MICROFOCUS and good hands on CICS, REXX.
- Worked in Banking and Finance domain for US Based bank Northern Trust.
- Have Good knowledge and working experience in both Agile and waterfall model.
- Expert in overall SDLC including requirement gathering, development, testing, debugging, deployment, documentation, production support.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Mainframe Developer and L3 Support
The Northern Trust, Infosys Limited
10.2019 - Current
- Responsible for translation of business requirements into functional specifications and develop detailed technical design for development
- Followed Agile Methodology in delivering projects using Scrum framework.
- Enhanced existing COBOL and DB2 programs as per Business requirements.
- Created
- Worked on creating Unit test plan and executing unit test cases.
- Worked as production support analyst and provided on-call support by monitoring critical job flows and quickly fixing job abends.
- Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IDCAMS and IEBGENER to write various jobs based on Business requirements.
- Worked on creating various JCLs, PROCs, Control Cards to run jobs.
- Created and assessed various VSAM files KSDS, ESDS for Data.
- Resolved Production data failures and interacted with different interface application teams to resolve issues.
- Troubleshot complex issues in mainframe environments, leading to quicker resolutions and minimal downtime
- Authored code fixes and enhancements for COBOL modules, JCLs and PROCs in future code releases and patches.
- Designed and developed robust COBOL programs, resulting in improved operational productivity
Technology Analyst, Mainframe
The Northern Trust, Infosys Limited.
05.2018 - 09.2019
- Involved in understanding requirements from Business Requirements, Functional requirements and High level designs and preparing technical design.
- Primary Technical point of contact for any production issues and responsible for doing problem analysis, identify impacts and determine required fix and timeline for production install
- Worked on creating Unit test plan and executing unit test cases.
- Provide root cause analysis of defect and resolution of it in system testing phase.
- Supported and Monitored Batch cycle execution during UAT testing.
- Used various IBM Utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER , IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
- Worked on creating various JCL's, PROCS to run jobs.
- Created and accessed various VSAM files like ESDS,KSDS for data.
- Used version control tool Endevor for deploying project into production.
- Used Xpeditor to debug various online and batch programs.
- Worked on optimizing SQL queries and did performance tuning for DB2 database to get better and faster results.
- Experience in supporting multiple large scale development, QA and production database environments.
- Provided support for production environments for DB2 batch jobs.
Mainframe Application Support and Operations Lead.
Renault Nissan, Accenture
02.2016 - 04.2018
- Worked as a Technical lead and led the team from offshore.
- Worked through all the Phases of SDLC which is waterfall methodology starting from the design phase to deploying and maintaining the application.
- Gathered requirements from Business users and worked closely with subject matter experts(SMEs).
- Developed Cobol, DB2, and CICS programs and performed unit testing.
- Created JCLs, and PROCs for running jobs and used various IBM utilities like IEBGENER, IDCAMS, and IEBCOPY.
- Worked on DFSORT, SORT, and ICETOOL utilities to perform sort/merge operations.
- Analyzed and resolved defects in system testing and UAT Phases.
- Implemented code in production using version control tools like Changeman.
- Created tickets in Service now for installing changes into production.
- Worked on various process improvement initiatives that saved a lot of time and money.
Sr. Technical Support Associate
Skiva Technologies Limited
06.2015 - 11.2015
- Optimized workflow processes, streamlining issue resolution and improving response times.
- Developed and implemented preventive maintenance procedures.
- Conducting analysis of product details & content to be published on the product manual & organization’s website.
- Ensuring analysis of business and providing feedback from customers’ point of view. • Managing calls for business expansion & resolving product queries and implementing company’s policy.
- Performed data analysis and evolved ideas such as platinum review program and ‘HOLIDAY SEASON SALES’.
Programmer Analyst
NASCO, Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 03.2015
- Working in Development environment daily analysis of and changes of JCL and Cobol and Copybooks
- Created and ensured that analysis were accurate for BRD (Business Required Documents). • Created design documents like Technical Design Document (TDD), Unit Test Plan (UTP),
- Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Performed coding and testing such as Unit testing and Integration testing also contributed in preparation of Unit Test Results
- Managed quality related aspects such as analysis of code architecture and creating monthly reports of debugs resolved.
- Creating Different Copybooks as per Client requests for Updates. •Debugging different JCL codes and also writing new codes.
- Weekly and Monthly analysis of Client Data for improvement and accuracy.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.TECH) - Electronics And Communication
Siksha O Anusandhan University
Bhubaneswar, India09.2013
Skills
- Agile/Scrum Methodology
- Databases: IBM DB2,IMS DB
- Programming Languages: COBOL,JCL ,CICS,VSAM
- Utilities/Tools : Easytrieve, Control -M, File-Aid, REXX, ISPF, MicroFocus,Syncsort, DFSORT, CA-7 Scheduler, TSO
- Source and Version Control: Endevor, ChangeMan, Git, Github, BitBucket
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Strong Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- ServiceNow, ITSM
- Code reviews
- Project Management
- CA-11 Scheduling
- File-AID Tool
- JCL Expertise
- Technical Analysis
- Code validation
- SDLC compliance
Timeline
Mainframe Developer and L3 Support
The Northern Trust, Infosys Limited
10.2019 - Current
Technology Analyst, Mainframe
The Northern Trust, Infosys Limited.
05.2018 - 09.2019
Mainframe Application Support and Operations Lead.
Renault Nissan, Accenture
02.2016 - 04.2018
Sr. Technical Support Associate
Skiva Technologies Limited
06.2015 - 11.2015
Programmer Analyst
NASCO, Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2014 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Technology (B.TECH) - Electronics And Communication
Siksha O Anusandhan University
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