Candidates About

 

Nitin Kushwaha

SUMMARY

·         Nitin is Cobol developer with more than 13 years of experience working in mainframe technologies: (COBOL, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM, CICS), used for both the batch and online environment.

·         6 year work experience in Banking domain and 7+ year work experience in insurance domain  

·         In current role with NTT Data, he develops in mainframe technologies and also advises team members on development efforts.

·         He has worked in a production support environment, providing on call support and resolving issues related to the development and enhancement of the mainframe.

·         He has experience with client interaction and coordination between onshore and offshore teams.

 

TEAM SKILLS

 

·         Capable of working in a team with people at all levels as well as working independently under pressure.

·         Accustomed to working in a fast paced time-frame goal oriented environment and able to deliver under pressure and time constraints.

·         A committed team player with excellent communication and leadership qualities. Key technical contact for cross-group collaboration issues.

 

PERSONAL SKILLS

 

·         Self motivating, capable of incisive thought, innate ability to adapt to new work culture.

·         Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skill. Clear understanding of business rules, positive mental attitude and ever willing to achieve excellence.         

 

EDUCATION

 

Masters of Computer Applications from IIT Roorkee, India  (Indian Institute of Technology – Roorkee, India ) in 2003.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

 Total IT Experience: 13 Years

  Currently working at NTT Data, Lincoln, NE as software developer / technical lead since Nov 2012.

  Worked at NTT Data, Noida, India from July 2003 till Oct 2012

 

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT

 

Programming Languages	COBOL, JCL, Easytrieve
Environment	Mainframe Technologoes
Tools/Utilities	Endevor, Xpeditor, File-aid, Abend-aid, CICS, SPUFI
Databases	VSAM, DB2, IMS-DB
Operating Systems	MVS (ZOS)

 

 

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS                             

 

Organization:                                   NTT Data Insurance Solutions

Project Name:                                 Enhancement and Support of LifeSys (NTT Data’s policy management             system)

Duration/Size:                                  May 2009 – Present

Role:                                                   Developer / Technical Lead

Technology:                                      Mainframe, TSO, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, JCL,

Client:                                                 Multiple Insurance companies using LifeSys

 

Project Description:                        

This project is a development and enhancement project on NTT Data’s Policy Administration System – LifeSys, which is an end to end product of NTT data to support life insurance companies based in USA.

 

Role & Responsibilities:

·         Involved in end-to-end development of software products from requirement analysis to system study, designing, testing, documentation and implementation.

·         Co-ordination with the offshore team on interfaces requirements, development hurdles and other technical problems.

·         Interacting with BA and client in order to understand the requirements.

·         Preparing high level technical specifications based on BRDs (Business Requirement Document).

·         Organizing and coordinating meetings with stake holders to discuss project concerns and progress.

·         Delivering the projects and keeping track of post system testing install performance.

·         Moving the changed programs, jobs, data sets to dedicated testing environment.

·         Setting jobs to run in test environment and help in setting up test data

·         Providing on-call support to the production cycle, resolving production abends and providing permanent fix next day.

·         Involved in modernization project as a LifeSys SME to migrate from Mainframe to Linux based server

 

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Organization:                                   NTT Data, India

Project Name:                                 Enhancement and support of Bookkeeping system

Duration/Size:                                  April 2007 – May 2009

Role:                                                   Senior Analyst / Developer

Technology:                                      Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, IMS)

Tools:                                                Endevor, File-aid, Xpediter, SPUFI, QMF, Abend-aid

Client:                                                Bank of Ireland, Ireland

  

Project Description:                        

Bookkeeping is the core application of Bank of Ireland. This application does all the night processing on accounts, calculates / posts fees, charges and interest. There are always enhancements in the bookkeeping system on the basis of business requirements. These enhancements get implemented in the form of change requests. Bookkeeping project is the NTT Data’s engagement with BOI to provide support in dealing with these change requests.

 

Role & Responsibilities:

·         Helping team in the analysis of requirement, preparation of program specifications, UTC preparation, Coding and unit testing.

·         Conduction Defect prevention sessions.

·         Peer review for the final deliverables.

·         Moving the changed programs, jobs, data sets to dedicated testing environment.

·         Organizing and coordinating meetings with stake holders to discuss project concerns and progress.

·         Mentoring new people joining in the project.

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Organization:                                   NTT Data, India

Project Name:                                 Banking 365

Duration/Size:                                  August 2006 – April 2007

Role:                                                   Developer

Technology:                                      Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, IMS)

Client:                                                 Bank of Ireland, Ireland

  

Project Description:                        

Bank of Ireland 365 is the system to handle the online interface of Bank’s online banking. It goes through regular updates to meet changing customer requirements. In the project it adopted some new functionality on the existing architecture like International Payments, Add Domestic Beneficiary, Mobile Top-up and create/modify Standing Orders to be provided through the B365online site. The objective is to provide customers with the facility to do cross-border transactions with the international beneficiaries online, add and delete domestic as well as international beneficiaries, view their beneficiary list and make the payment to domestic as well as international beneficiaries through the online screens.

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Role & Responsibilities:

·         Coding and bug fixing

·         Maintain project standards and procedures and to maintain related documentation

·         Coding COBOL-IMS and DB2 programs and unit testing them.

·         Coding Easytrieve Programs

·         Writing Unit Test Plans, Unit Test Results, Specifications.

·         Performing unit testing using EXPEDITOR, and FILEAID for IMS and DB2.

·         Performing Link testing, shakedown testing, Baseline testing and System testing

 

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Organization:                                   NTT Data, India

Project Name:                                 Bank of Ireland Alnova implementation

Duration:                                           July 2003 – August 2006

Role:                                                   Developer

Technology:                                      Mainframe (COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, SQL, IMS)

Client:                                                 Bank of Ireland, Ireland

 

Project Description:                        

The Alnova program is a replacement of Bookkeeping system and ancillary systems such as Online, IVR and call center applications in Northern Ireland and Great Britain. The replacement task involves development of interfaces for existing Bank of Ireland applications & Data conversion from hierarchal database’s to RDBMS.

 

Role & Responsibilities:

·         Coding and unit testing

·         Code review, Unit test result review & Peer review of deliverables

·         Business & User Acceptance (UAT & BAT) testing support & Execution on OPC

·         Defect tracking, Change request closure