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Akansha Bhatia

Summary

Life70 and LifeComm SME | Lifesys

Detail-oriented and self motivated individual having 10+ years of IT experience in Analysis, technical design, development, integration, testing and project management of Mainframe Hosted Application Systems

Professional Summary

Mainframe professional with insurance: Excellent knowledge of Life70 Product, New Business, Ratebook, Admin Processing, Accounting, Commissions, and other interfaces.

Business Summary

Knowledge of US Life Insurance – LOMA Certification and product experience. Experience and knowledge of all facets of software development.

Technical Summary

Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile.

Experience in developing applications involving Assembler, COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, CA7 SCHEDULER, and VSAM.

Knowledge in Easytrieve, Documergue, AFP, HP Quality Center, FTP, Abend Aid, MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, and Microsoft Office.

Experience in various Disaster Recovery Testing & Validation.

Key-Strengths

Good exposure in interacting with clients and providing coordination between onsite and offshore teams. Expertise in obtaining the project requirements from user, writing system specifications, translating user requirements into technical specifications, preparation of requirements documents, formulating the requirements into design specifications and tracking project progress. Proficient in documenting all the phases of project from Requirement analysis to Maintenance.

Effective in cross-functional and global environments to manage multiple tasks and assignments concurrently. Extensive experience in production support of batch and online systems on IBM mainframe.

Good Team player, having interest towards exploring, learning and using new tools & software quickly as required. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills contributing to timely completion of project deliverables well ahead of schedule. Strong technical and analytical skills, problem-solving, communication, and work ethics.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Development Advisor

NTT DATA
10.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: LifeSys handles the full lifecycle of insurance policies, including new business, policy administration, billing, claims, and reporting. It leverages a rules-based approach, allowing for flexibility and customization to meet specific client requirements.
  • Assist with managing all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment.
  • Work effectively ensuring that all tasks, deliveries are done on time.
  • Use Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies to drive ongoing projects.
  • Coding in LINUX, COBOL, JCL.
  • Communicate with project stakeholders and Identifying the exact effort needed to complete the project and provide estimates.
  • Preparing Technical Specification by analyzing the system.
  • Preparing Detailed Design Documents, High Level Documents and Low Level Documents.
  • Creating Test plans and perform Unit Testing and Regression Testing.
  • Solving Defects in UAT phase of the project.
  • Tracking and Reviewing Client Deliverables.
  • Interacting with Client on Business decisions/issues.
  • Assist Team Members on Solutions when required.
  • Experience with multitude of source systems, including home grown systems.
  • Conversion Practice methodology produces fully functional policies, not merely converted data.
  • Experience with all in-scope product types and others.
  • Extensive conversion reporting balances both financial and nonfinancial components of the converted policy.
  • Interact with senior management on Client-Side developments.
  • Giving Ideas for better productivity of the project being undertaken.
  • Tracking deliverables on timelines.
  • Handling Data changes on the system.
  • LifeSys handles the full lifecycle of insurance policies, including new business, policy administration, billing, claims, and reporting. It leverages a rules-based approach, allowing for flexibility and customization to meet specific client requirements.

Senior Mainframe Developer

Genworth
12.2022 - 10.2023
  • Modernization and access systems and different resources. 5 Policy Admin platforms, Cyberlife, L70, Lifecomm, Ingenium, Adminserver will be converted to wmA.
  • I was involved in Life70 conversion for different products like whole life, term insurance, universal life etc.
  • Coded extensively interface parts for mods – Mainly in Cobol and Assembler.
  • Experience with multitude of source systems, including home grown systems.
  • Conversion Practice methodology produces fully functional policies, not merely converted data.
  • Experience with all in-scope product types and others.
  • Collect product rules and creates fact sheets, aiding with product rule definitions.
  • Employ common data-mapping between source systems and DXC Wealth Management Accelerator.
  • Balancing reports show what is out of balance.
  • Extensive conversion reporting balances both financial and nonfinancial components of the converted policy.
  • Hands-on experience on JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Easytrieve, CICS, DFHSORT, REXX, IBM SORT UTILITIES.
  • Resolving client queries.
  • Preparing Low Level Design Document.
  • Analysis and Designing.
  • Coding and testing.
  • Solving defects in UAT phase of the project.
  • Reviewing client deliverables.
  • Interacting with the client on business decisions/issues.
  • Guiding team on issues.
  • Documenting existing processes in the system.
  • Interact with senior management on Client-Side developments.
  • Giving Ideas for better productivity of the project being undertaken.
  • Tracking deliverables on timelines.
  • Handling Data changes on the system.

Senior Mainframe Developer

AIG insurance
03.2022 - 12.2022
  • Involved in Lifecomm product upgradation project. It was a purely technical project which required depth of knowledge of technology. In Lifecomm, admin master file is maintained with data which contains policy information. This file has a constraint to store certain amount of data, AIG has limitation in term of storage and new functionality.
  • Coded extensively interface parts for mods – Mainly in Cobol and DB2.
  • Worked on tools like JIRA and CISM for executing and requesting batch requirement.
  • Hands-on experience on JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Easytrieve, CICS, DFHSORT, REXX, IBM SORT UTILITIES.
  • Resolving client queries.
  • Preparing Low Level Design Document.
  • Analysis and Designing.
  • Coding and testing.
  • Solving defects in UAT phase of the project.
  • Reviewing client deliverables.
  • Interacting with the client on business decisions/issues.
  • Guiding team on issues.
  • Documenting existing processes in the system.
  • Interact with senior management on Client-Side developments.
  • Giving Ideas for better productivity of the project being undertaken.
  • Tracking deliverables on timelines.
  • Handling Data changes on the system.

Senior Mainframe Developer

Mercedes Benz Financial Services
05.2021 - 03.2022
  • Involved in MBFS and DTFS separation project. It was both technical and business project which required depth of knowledge of technology as well business. The company split resulted in implementing similar functionalities on both truck and car sides. Apart from implementing functionalities was trained on the business area as well to handle the business queries and project requirements.
  • Coded extensively interface parts for mods – Mainly in Cobol and DB2.
  • Worked on tools like JIRA and CISM for executing and requesting batch requirement.
  • Hands-on experience on JCL, COBOL, VSAM, Easytrieve, CICS, DFHSORT, REXX, IBM SORT UTILITIES.
  • Resolving client queries.
  • Preparing Low Level Design Document.
  • Analysis and Designing.
  • Coding and testing.
  • Solving defects in UAT phase of the project.
  • Reviewing client deliverables.
  • Interacting with the client on business decisions/issues.
  • Guiding team on issues.
  • Documenting existing processes in the system.
  • Interact with senior management on Client-Side developments.
  • Giving Ideas for better productivity of the project being undertaken.
  • Tracking deliverables on timelines.
  • Handling Data changes on the system.

Programmer Analyst

DXC technologies
08.2016 - 05.2021
  • Involved in Life-70 product upgradation project. It was a purely technical project which required depth of knowledge of technology. In Life 70, admin master file is maintained with data which contains policy information. This file has a constrain to store certain amount of data. As part of this new product upgradation Equitable has ability to store all the new information’s of newer policies as well and enhance and adapt new functionality which help them to sell new products easily.
  • Programmer Analyst having 5+ years of experience in all areas of software construction and programming with a solid track record of performance in managing highly complex system in Assembler, Cobol, VSAM and JCL.
  • Implement Waterfall and Agile project management methodologies to drive ongoing projects.
  • Analyze existing code in Assembler and COBOL in Batch as well as Online environment to understand system functionalities.
  • Perform coding in Assembler, JCL, Cobol and Easytrieve to modify existing functionalities and add new functionalities to the system.
  • Use VSAM and QSAM file systems for data handling.
  • Work on IBM OS/ 390, Z/OS operating systems, code, and test online transactions on CICS platform and support batch processing using CA-7 scheduler.
  • Perform system analysis using XPEDITER, File Aid, IBM Utilities and Librarian software tools.
  • Perform Workflow management using Azure DevOps and change management using Service Now.
  • Perform defect management using HP Quality Centre: log, comment, assign defects and run reports.
  • Communicate with project stakeholders and identify exact effort needed to complete projects while providing estimates.
  • Prepare Detailed Design Documents, High Level Documents and Low-Level Documents.
  • Creating test plans and perform Unit Testing and Regression Testing.
  • Solving Defects in UAT phase of the project while tracking and reviewing client deliverables.
  • Confer with user-clients to implement business decisions, issues, and requirements.
  • Document new and existing processes in the system on Microsoft SharePoint for knowledge transfer as well as audit purposes.

Associate Software Engineer

Knights of Columbus
08.2015 - 08.2016
  • Company Overview: It is a worldwide leader in financial protection and wealth management. The operations are diverse geographically, with major operations in Western Europe, North America and the Asia/Pacific region.
  • I am working on sub-module Life 2012, which is used for New Business and Policy owner services. LIFE70 were written in early 1960’ / 1970’s, meant for traditional life insurance. Those were later on customized to cater the needs of newer products like Variable Universal Life.
  • Worked through all the project life cycle SDLC Software Development Life Cycle which is a Water fall methodology starting from high level design to system/integration testing.
  • Prepared High level and Low Technical Design Doc as per Business design doc provided by Business system analyst.
  • Review the tech specs and participate in the tech spec meeting.
  • Perform Impact analysis of system to identifying code changes.
  • Coding Cobol-DB2 modules.
  • Used various IBM utilities like DFSORT, IEBGENER, and IDCAMS to write various jobs depending on requirements.
  • Maintenance of JCLs, PROCs, PARMs and Loads for application.
  • Write complex queries using SPUFI to perform various operations on database.
  • Create unit test plan and execute Unit Testing.
  • Provide root cause analysis of defect and resolution of it in System testing phase.
  • Used XPEDITOR to debug both online and batch programs.
  • Worked towards providing value add to customers in addition to Client satisfaction.
  • Live movement of project into production with version control tool Endevor.
  • Providing Fix in case of abends or defects.
  • Postproduction warranty support.
  • It is a worldwide leader in financial protection and wealth management. The operations are diverse geographically, with major operations in Western Europe, North America and the Asia/Pacific region.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & communication engineering

Manav Rachna International University
India

Skills

  • Linux
  • COBOL
  • JCL
  • DB2
  • Easytrieve
  • ASSEMBLER
  • VSAM
  • CICS
  • QSAM
  • XPEDITER
  • File Aid
  • IBM Utilities
  • Librarian software tools
  • Service Now
  • HP quality center
  • Confluence
  • Microsoft SharePoint
  • JIRA
  • EIB
  • RACF
  • MS Windows XP
  • MS Windows 7
  • MS Windows 8
  • MS Windows 81
  • MVS Z/OS

Accomplishments

  • Participated in National science Olympiad at school level.
  • Awarded 2nd position in National Math’s Olympiad at school level.
  • Awarded 2nd position in Street play organized by Manav Rachna international university.
  • Participated in various quiz, debate and group discussions at both intra and inter college levels.
  • Dramatics certification from National School of Drama.

Technical Summary

Linux, COBOL, JCL, DB2, Easytrieve, ASSEMBLER, VSAM, CICS, QSAM, VSAM, DB2, CICS, XPEDITER, File Aid, IBM Utilities, Librarian software tools, Service Now, HP quality center, Confluence, Microsoft SharePoint, JIRA, EIB, RACF, MS Windows XP, MS Windows 7, MS Windows 8, MS Windows 8.1, MVS Z/OS

Timeline

Software Development Advisor

NTT DATA
10.2023 - Current

Senior Mainframe Developer

Genworth
12.2022 - 10.2023

Senior Mainframe Developer

AIG insurance
03.2022 - 12.2022

Senior Mainframe Developer

Mercedes Benz Financial Services
05.2021 - 03.2022

Programmer Analyst

DXC technologies
08.2016 - 05.2021

Associate Software Engineer

Knights of Columbus
08.2015 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & communication engineering

Manav Rachna International University

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