Candidates About

Nilanjana Basak

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT:

Ø  IT professional with 11 years of hands on experience in Mainframe Technology.

Ø  Expertise in Design, Development, Application Analysis, Maintenance and Implementation of Mainframe applications using MVS/TSO and IBM tools.

Ø  Good Domain knowledge on Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Annuities, Banking and Trade Finance, Mutual Funds, Brokerage and Investments.

Ø  Good Experience in providing Software Training to new professionals in mainframe.

Ø  Expertise in Mainframe Technologies likes COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS and REXX.

Ø  Good working experience on DB2, File aid and Endevor.

Ø  Expertise in using IBM tools like IEBGENER, IDCAMS, IEFBR14, and SYNCSORT.

Ø  Experience in all phases of software design lifecycle management and implementation.

Ø  Experience on Requirements management, Scope management, Risk monitoring and Contingency planning.

Ø  Good Knowledge on Waterfall and Agile Scrum Project Methodologies and Working on the Global Delivery Model.

Ø  Experience in detailing Test plans, Test cases, Tracking defects, reporting status to various levels.

Ø  Extensive experience in managing client’s expectations and delivering projects on/ahead of time by efficiently overcoming challenges.

Ø  Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner, team player and able to work independently with minimal supervision or in a team as well.

Ø  Exposure to architecting solutions in conjunction with SMEs and System architects.

Ø  Dynamic professional with strong analytical and reasoning skills.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:

ü  B.Tech in Information Technology – Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Ø  Senior Mainframe Developer/Technical Leader USA - 10/2013 – Till Date.

Ø  Project Leader, India – 06/2011 – 10/2013.

Ø  Business Analyst/Application Developer, India 01/2007 – 06/2011

Oct 2015 – Till date

Vanguard

Role : Senior Mainframe Developer

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Requirement Gathering through workshops with customer business organization
• Source system analysis to understand key data elements.
• Analysis of Interfaces for the applications.
• Involved in the Analysis of the various Data Mainframe modules and to suggest customization of the Data Layer.
• Involved in creation of Data Stories, estimation and planning of the various developmental activities required for the stories using agile methodology (sprint based).
• Implemented the ATDD (Automated Test Driven Development) for Mainframe Module like Stored procedure and Service Request, where the test cases are written before the development and did the development based on the story and then continue testing until all the stories are completed.
• Agile Tools like JIRA, Confluence etc. are used in the project to increase productivity and speed of implementation.
• Involved in the User Experimentation Analysis and in the A/B Testing of the various user experiments.
• Performance tuning of DB2 database and SQL
• Create scripts to FTP data files from mainframe to different servers.   

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM, File-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, Endevor, Eztrieve, FTP and MQ series, HP Exstream Dialogue

June 2015 – Oct 2015

Metlife.

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer and Project Lead

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Technical analysis of the Jobs & Programs to understand the data & process flow
• Analyzed the Interfaces for the applications.
• Analyzing the E1089 & E1090 applications to understand how the process & data flows around the systems for MEC Testing.
• Documentation of the current state.
• Preparing Data mapping document.
• Preparing Technican and Functioanl flow document.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM, File-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, Platinum, PANVALET, Eztrieve, FTP and MQ series.

Oct 2013 – June 2015

Sammons Financial Services

Role: Senior Mainframe Developer and Onsite Team Lead.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Requirement Gathering for redesigning In-Force Illustration system across various What-if functionalities and solves.
• Analysis of Product specification documents to do commonality analysis between 32 UL and Joint Products across the different functional areas.
• Designed solutions to implement functionalities around complex what-if scenarios touching end to end policy life cycle and preparation of FSD
• Requirement gathering and walkthrough with business on front end screen design.
• Involved in new product launch initiatives to facilitate product illustration and annual report generation.
• Co-ordination with offshore developers and elucidating requirement to the team
• Co-ordination for quality assurance using HP Quality Center
• Test Matrix development for functional testing.
• Provided support during all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. 
• Prepared project status report and present to customer organization.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, JCL, DB2, GDG, VSAM, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, Platinum, PANVALET, Eztrieve, HP ALM/QC, FTP and MQ series.

June 2011 – Oct 2013

ING

Role: Data Migration Track Lead.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Worked as offshore Team Member for Data Migration track and played a key role in different aspects of Data Migration.
• Worked with client to understand the BRD and FRD.
• Conducting review meetings with different stakeholders.
• Creating DATA MAPPING and TRANSFORMATION specs.
• Preparing PROCESS FLOW diagrams.
• Performing DATA GAP analysis between source and target system.
• Developing and testing of extraction, transformation and load routines. 
• Involved in the day-to-day development and implementation Process.
• Preparation of DATA AUDIT report.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, JCL, DB2, GDG, VSAM, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, Platinum, PANVALET, Eztrieve, FTP and MQ series.

Dec 2008 – May 2011

AXA-BELGIUM

Role: Mainframe Developer/ Onsite coordinator.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participated in analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation and documentation of the change requests.
• Development of new programs using detailed design documents, Impact analysis.
• Code review and analysis and Preparation of functionality flow documents.
• Taken responsibility for overall quality and timely delivery of all offshore deliverables.
• Coordinated with the onsite team leads in accordance with Cognizant’s onsite/offshore methodology.
• Involved in preparation of Test documents for Unit testing.
• Taken responsibility for weekly status reporting to the Cognizant’s account management team thru teleconference.
• Worked in the client location (BELGIUM) for 6 months for this project.

ENVIRONMENT: COBOL, JCL, DB2, GDG, VSAM, File-Aid, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, Platinum, PANVALET, Eztrieve

June 2007 – Dec 2008

AXA-WINTERTHUR

Role: Mainframe Developer.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participated in Coding PL/1-DB2 Programs.
• Participated in Unit testing of enhanced PL/1-DB2 modules.
• Participated in Validation of Test Data using DB2 File-Aid.
• Participated in Loading and unloading of Test Data into DB2 tables using DB2 Utilities.

ENVIRONMENT: JCL, COBOL, PL1, DB2, File-Aid, REXX, Abend-Aid, Expeditor, SPUFI, Platinum, PANVALET, Eztrieve.