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NIRANJANA SOWMINARAYANAN

Dallas,TX

Summary

  • Experienced Mainframe Developer with 14 years in the IT industry, offering a strong background in systems analysis and programming.
  • Specializing in Insurance, Banking, and Healthcare, bringing expertise in Mainframe application development, transformation, and backend support.
  • Proficient in Cobol, JCL, CICS, DB2, PowerShell scripting, and Python, well-equipped to handle diverse technical challenges.
  • Familiar with SAFe Agile scrum methodologies and experienced in the Banking domain as part of the DBT team, adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive successful project outcomes.
  • Skilled in project management using Confluence and Jira, effectively serving as a liaison between customer migration leads and vendors, ensuring clear directions for offshore teams.
  • Demonstrating leadership skills in transition planning, execution, KT activities, and grooming offshore teams, contributed to the seamless SDLC of projects from design and development to deployment and support of large-scale enterprise applications.
  • Committed to ongoing self-directed learning to stay up-to-date with industry trends, valuable experience in enhancement project developments adds further value to skill set.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Mainframe Delivery Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2022 - Current
  • Collaborated with business lines to understand business requirements and participate in development for SDLC documentation.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.

Mainframe Technical Lead

Wipro
01.2021 - 05.2022

• Develop high level solution to merge the TDA customers into Schwab database
• Plan walkthrough and acquire customer acceptance
• Participate in all Agile Ceremonies: Daily Standups, User story creation, grooming, Story pointing, Scrum of Scrums, PI planning and Retro etc
• Complete ownership of Code Review with Schwab technical Lead for approval
• Prepare test regions for Mock execution
• Schedule jobs in Control M
• Provide L1 support for stabilizing the region
• Perform Mock run
• Provide KT to offshore team members, technical documentation

Mainframe Developer

Ernst & Young
10.2020 - 01.2021

• Analysing the Cobol code
• Converting into Business requirement.
• Providing KT to offshore team for analysing the code.
• Documenting the analyses

Team Lead/ SME

IBM
11.2011 - 07.2016

• Develop different types of Automata on IPCenter (Service Request, Event and Schedule) with technical aspect of DB2, JCL scripting, PowerShell scripting.
• Develop Virtual Engineers on IPCenter for Automating admin tasks
• As part of SOP gathering, doing incident analysis and find the new opportunities for the automation on various projects.
• Taking care of quality analysis of the developed IPAutomata
• Taking care of the final Approval for the Automata release on Dev instance
• Create Dashboard on Blumix DevOPs and manage it for the CSI team
• Create and manage process workflow documents (Timeline chart and Workflow Chart)
• Define processes based on the workflow and re-engineering the existing process for the process compliance
• Working with various accounts and multiple clients for ensuring the automation fulfillment
• Support the definition of business processes
• Providing KT (Knowledge Transfer) to CSI team members and conduct Self- assessment for team members

Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2007 - 01.2011
  • Analysis of the Problem Request
  • Understanding the business & the technology of the client system
  • Coding the solution
  • Unit Testing
  • Reconciliation of the code
  • Integrated Testing
  • Pre implementation activities
  • Post implementation and Warranty support

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Madras Institute of Technology
Chennai
04-2007

Skills

  • COBOL
  • JCL expertise
  • VSAM
  • DB2
  • CICS
  • IBM utilities/TSO and ISPF usage
  • Xpediter
  • Changeman
  • Control-M / Zeke
  • Endevor
  • Python/Powershell

Status

GREEN CARD

Timeline

Mainframe Delivery Manager

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2022 - Current

Mainframe Technical Lead

Wipro
01.2021 - 05.2022

Mainframe Developer

Ernst & Young
10.2020 - 01.2021

Team Lead/ SME

IBM
11.2011 - 07.2016

Developer

Cognizant Technology Solutions
05.2007 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Madras Institute of Technology
NIRANJANA SOWMINARAYANAN