Candidates About

Dipika Kapadia

MAINFRAME ANALYST / DEVELOPER / TEST LEAD / TESTER

Professional Summary

14+ years of IT industry experience, Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture. Highly seasoned and experienced in Analytical and trouble shooting skills, Mainframe Programmer Analyst with exceptional skills in all areas of software construction and programming. Able to function independently or as part of a team..

SKILLS

IBM  OS/MVS           Z/OS                           COBOL                      COBOL II

CICS                         DB2                            REXX                         EZTRIEVE

SQL                            ESP                            SYNCSORT             VSAM

IDCAMS                    MVS/JCL                   BMC UTILITIES      CHANGEMAN

XPEDITER               INTER-TEST                       ENDOVER                MICROFOCUS COBOL

MQ                              MS PROJECT          IMS DB/DC

Mainframe Programmer                                                                                        2013- 2016

TCS Consulting  

• Primary production support person, handled Mainframe related issues, which involves identifying and fixing defects successfully
• Strong Analytical skills for COBOL, CICS, DB2 and REXX programs experienced working on complex system implemented successfully and timely manner
• Analyzed, Created and modified programs based on the requirements
• Carried out the system and Integration testing and prepared the Traceability matrix, Setup daily test for the UAT testing and ensure the output is as expected

United Parcel Service                                                                               1996 -  2011 Mainframe Programmer Analyst (2008 - 2011)

·         Involved in coding of New Batch and CICS Programs to implement the new functionality and change the existing functionality of COBOL, CICS, DB2

      and REXX programs which involved strong analytical skills for DB2, COBOL,       CICS and REXX  programs. and working on complex system.

·         Actively involved in defect resolution process, Root Cause Analysis which prevented re-occurring defects and meet the quality goals

·         Strong analytical skills, Analyzed user requirement and created function designs and specification for impacted COBOL, CICS and DB2 Programs, JCL, Procedures, symbolic libraries and tables dealing with rules and regulations.

Dipika Kapadia                               Page 2                             kapadiadipika@gmail.com

United Parcel Service                                                                                          1996 - 2011 Mainframe Developer (2005 - 2008)

·         Coded and Tested multiple COBOL, DB2, CICS and REXX programs

·         Played active role in version control, comparing code changes and ensure the perfection, Consolidate Documents for impacted recompile modules

·         Verified scheduling changes created by production team to ensure accuracy

·         Provided support for running system test, parallel test and UAT test and  involved in defect resolution and analysis

·         Exposed to SQL Stored Procedure

Mainframe Test Lead (2001 - 2004)

• Led and motivated team which resulted in successful implementation.
• Led meeting for defect handling between test, programmers and users group.

Provided reports for test progress.

• Created and implemented Project plan for testing of all the phases of billing cycle which included the extracting data from MQ loading to the data and running all the jobs for billing cycle.
• Created and distributed daily status of test to all cross functional application and management team which helped the completion of test cycle ahead of time.

·         Resolved all JCL, SYMLIB, Procedure, BMC Utilities, IDCAMS and sync sort related issues while monitoring Mainframe jobs.

• Led meeting for defect handling between test, programmers and users group.

Reported test progress.

Mainframe Q.A. Tester  (Morristown, NJ 1999 - 2000)

• Created test data for Integration test for requirements and tested online screens. Also created test-data and tested several applications.

·         Set up test environment for running billing cycle, scheduled Cobol and Linux  programs running for billing cycle using Enterprise System Platform

·         Monitored COBOL, CICS and DB2 jobs running using ESP, Resolved all JCL, SYMLIB, Procedure, BMC Utilities, IDCAMS and sync sort related issues while monitoring Mainframe jobs.

·         Presented process to the team and upper management, and also teach the process to team members.

External customer technical support Analyst  (Morristown, NJ 1996 – 1998)

·         World class Help desk trouble-shooting software and hardware, scanner, printers, scale, modems.

·         Maintained and log calls using Expert Advisor in OS/2

EDUCATION

Chubb Institute, Jersey City, NJ                                   

Mainframe Programming(Grade Avg.- 93.8 )

Bhavan’s College, Mumbai, India 

Completed one year of college

Successfully Completed Courses: REXX Programming, Structured System Analysis, Advanced JCL, Communication planning and information distribution