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Maneesha Yadav

Gaithersburg,MD

Summary

  • 15+ years of I.T. experience on IBM Mainframe technology with extensive proficiency in COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS, VSAM, Eazytrieve, CICS, Rexx,CA Scheduler, SPUFI, MQSeries, ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN, FILE-AID, IBM Debug tool, INTERTEST, SDFII
  • Mainframe Lead Developer / Senior Analyst Programmer with 15 years of experience in System study, Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Troubleshooting, Support and Implementation of full life cycle mainframe applications
  • Good experience in onsite offshore model and leading team. Well Acquainted with Software Development Cycle and its various Stages. Experienced in communication with client and business users for SDLC activities required for modules related to mainframe applications and in driving process improvement activities
  • Proven expertise in many facets of software development including Application Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation. The areas worked include IBM mainframes using COBOL, JCL, DB2, SQL, CICS, VSAM.
  • Have strong foundation in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC - Waterfall model), and also in Agile methodologies.
  • Working experience in the Software tools and utilities like TSO, SPUFI, File-Aid, CHANGEMAN, Debug tool, VSAM.
  • Executed mainframe development for P&C Insurance, Life insurance and Banking Services projects using mainframe tools and utilities.
  • Played different roles - Technical lead / Module Lead / Developer. Involved in Sizing and estimation of medium and large size projects and review of estimates
  • Have excellent team spirit, communication and interpersonal skills and with strong team leading capabilities. Flexible with work environment.
  • Strong logical and analytical skills leading to problem resolutions within timelines
  • Innovative, creative and able to adopt new technologies and systems.
  • Independent liaising with clients during requirement gathering & design

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Lead

DXC Technology
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
09.2008 - 11.2022
  • Led multiple projects like Estrella, Fraud Services, Quote Manipulation, Aviva Plus etc and successfully delivered with minimal defects.
  • Responsible for SDLC life cycle like analysis, design, development, unit testing, integration & regression testing and implementation.
  • Prepared Spike documents for the user stories and provided solutions to the development team.
  • Developed and communicated the progress of the tasks in the Project status update calls, and proactively suggested solutions for various technical issues.
  • Reviewed the code developed by the application team members and provided feedback and comments in case of any corrections or modification required.
  • Coordinated and helped team members with best practices which thereby increased efficiency.
  • Proactively communicated the technical issues faced by the team members the Product Owner and Scrum Master and always kept them updated of the issues.
  • Demoed the development work and the test results for the business line users in the Train Demo Meetings.
  • Tracked and Monitored the progress made by the development team during development phase.
  • Assumed ownership for end-to-end delivery of stories/projects from Initiation to Closure and ensured that the stories/projects have been delivered on-time.
  • During QA phase, helped the test engineers to understand the process and created utility programs to help them identify test samples in the respective environment to ease their effort.
  • Ensured that change requests have been created for the respective change in order to promote the deliverables through different staging environments.
  • Created implementation plan and coordinated UAT, captured sign off on successful completion.

Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
Gurgaon, Haryana
01.2007 - 09.2008
  • Involved in modifications, enhancements and development of components for the project Stock Plan Services
  • Analyzed change requests, problem reports and prepared estimates of schedule and efforts
  • Understanding the business requirement and preparing the system design specification and technical specification design
  • Migration of the components in the production environment through tools like Endevor and Clearcase.
  • Preparation of test data using platinum for DB2 and fileaid for VSAM.
  • Unit testing and debugging the components through Smarttest and Intertest.
  • Monitored the PACE queue and assigned service requests to team members.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Delhi

Skills

Primary Skills

COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, Rexx, EASYTRIEVE, MQ Series

Secondary Skills

Python, used Jira, Confluence, Git, Servicenow

Operating Systems

ZOS, MVS, OS/390, WINDOWS

Development Tools

FILE-AID, ABEND-AID, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, CA7 job Scheduler, SDFII, INTERTEST, CHANGEMAN, FILE MANAGER

Debug Tools

ABEND-AID, EXPEDITOR, INTERTEST,SMARTTEST

Database Connectivity

MQ Series, Rest API

Databases

VSAM, DB2

Configuration Tools

ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN

Accomplishments

  • CHAMP award in 2021

Certification

  • LOMA 280 Certified in 2010
  • SMAC in 2016

Timeline

Technical Lead

DXC Technology
09.2008 - 11.2022

Software Engineer

Fidelity Investments
01.2007 - 09.2008

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Maneesha Yadav