Pavan Kumar Konda
Breinigsville,PA
Summary
- 15+ years of progressive experience in Business Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Quality Assurance, Documentation, Implementation and Production Support on IBM Mainframe Platform using COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS and IMS DB/DC.
- Worked extensively on COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, SQL, CICS, MQ Series with strong hands-on experience in various mainframe tools and Utilities such as Changeman, Xpeditor, Endeavor & ISPF utilities
- Working experience in Java development and implementing API’s.
- Expertise in DB2 with respect to Application development and performance tuning and working with DB2 Stored procedures
- Strong working experience in leading and delivering complex Migration projects from Mainframe to Serve applications using middleware / modernization tools like CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG), CICS Web Services, OpenLegacy and MQ-Series
- Strong working experience in Platform Integration, Functional and Business Point Research and Analysis,Requirement Extraction, Technical Architecture, Reverse Engineering, Functional Point Validation and Production Support
- Excellent capacity for handling multiple tasks simultaneously, completing projects in timely manner. Proficient in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle.
- Well versed with Waterfall SDLC and Agile Methodologies (Scrum and KANBAN). Certified in SCALED Agile Framework.
- Worked extensively in Onshore – Offshore model in Client capacity managing vendor teams. Have also worked in Onshore – Offshore model in Client facing roles.
- Working experience in migrating Life insurance products and functionality to SaaS platform such as Accenture Life Insurance and Annuity Platform (ALIP). Hands on experience in configuring Life Insurance Products on ALIP.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Software Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance
07.2022 - Current
- Technical lead and Manager of Legacy Life Insurance Policy Administration system overseeing new project development and testing in all aspects of solution design, development, testing, validation, implementation and support.
- Managing diverse team of Developers, BA's and Testers, leading and supporting through all life cycle phases.
- Business requirements elicitation by conducting meetings with business users, Translation of business requirements into functional specifications and Develop detailed technical design for offshore development and testing team to complete development and testing.
- Direct projects through all life cycle phases in KANBAN Agile methodology. Define project plan complete scope, milestone, resources, requirements and deliverable.
- Mentoring and training teams members on various aspects of Life Insurance processes and guiding them in analysis, design and development.
- Assisting Production support team in SME capacity in resolving batch abends and incidents.
Lead Software Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance
11.2020 - 06.2022
- Working as Lead Software engineer handled Migration and Launch of Life and Term Insurance Products on ALIP Platform
- Analyzing business and technical requirements and, identifying configuration changes in ALIP platform for Business functions, Products and Integrations.
- Collaborate with ALIP vendor, IT teams, Business teams (Actuarial, Operations, Compensation) focusing on analysis, documentation and walkthrough with vendor teams.
- Leading technical communications with ALIP vendor team and other IT teams.
- Assume responsibility for design and configuration of products, configuring transactions and implementing calculations on ALIP.
- Mentoring and training team members on Business and Product configuration on ALIP.
- Utilize JIRA in creating users’ stories, documents, and technical specifications including designing, modifying, and tracking during different phases of implementation.
- Responsible for Platform Integration, Functional and Business Point Research and Analysis, Requirement Extraction, Technical Architecture, Reverse Engineering, Functional Point Validation.
Senior Software Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance
09.2015 - 10.2020
- Working as Senior Software Engineer handled several projects in Life Insurance Administration space. Projects include Payment Automation, Mainframe Modernization, Life Insurance Product Development and Maintainence.
- Payment automation include automating different payments such as Premiums, Loan, Loan interest etc. Avery process intensive and high volume process, processing upwards of 500K transactions every month.
- Implementation of payment automation included working in COBOL, DB2, VSAM, JCL & DB2 Stored Procedures.
- Mainframe Modernization included migration of CICS functionality to distributed front end applications, creating CICS Web services, creating new CICS programs to interface with Mainframe backend via CTG and implementing mainframe functionality on distributed front end from scratch.
- Mainframe modernization involved working with CICS, CICS transaction server, CTG alongside Mainframe coding technologies
- Got trained in Java technologies and have implemented few Mainframe functionalities in Java from scratch , creating front end screens using Java Script, JQuery, using JDBC to connect to DB2 in Spring Framework. Implemented RESTful API's using Java for policy quotes, calculations and Transaction history.
Technical Specialist / Onsite Coordinator
Capgemini (Client - Guardian Life Insurance)
10.2007 - 08.2015
- Working as Consultant Technical Specialist handled several projects in Life Insurance Administration space. Projects include GPAC and Life Insurance Product Development and Maintainence.
- GPAC is modern home grown Distributed front end to LCS - Policy Administration system. GPAC interacts with backend Legacy (Mainframe) applications for majority of the business and transaction processing logic.
- GPAC implementation included creating new Online Interface programs in CICS via CTG.
- Co-ordinate with Front end (Distributed) development team, resolving queries and providing support to analyze therequirements and guiding them with th necessary information they need from thebackend (Mainframe) system.
- Co-ordinate work and tasks to all offshore team members and review their work. Managing and mentoring offshore team in all life cycle phases
- Product development and maintainence include adding and enhancing existing products and functionalities. Implementing code in Mainframe Assembler, COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new technologies into existing systems.
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini (Client - Guardian Life Insurance)
08.2005 - 09.2007
- Part of the production support team involved in the timely resolution of production problem ticket (Severity 1 & Severity 2) and maintainence ticket both batch and Online/Real time.
- Implemented enhancements to th systems, Long-term fixes for recurring production defects, New Product Enhancements, Regular Maintenance tasks, Production fixes.
Education
Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
BLDEA's College of Engineering And Technology
Karnataka University09.2001
Skills
- Languages: COBOL, CICS, SQL, JCL, EASYTRIEVE, Core JAVA, Java Script, jQuery, JSON, Assembler Programming
- Database: DB2, VSAM Mainframe, IMS DB, PostgreSQL
- Tools: IBM M/F TOOLS, TSO/ISPF, MVS/DB2 FILE-AID, ISPF DIALOGS CA-XPEDITER, IBM UTILITIES, CHANGE-MAN, ENDEVOR, SPUFI, SPOOL,DB2 ADMIN, CA-7,FTP, SFTP, Control-M, File-Aid
- Other Tools: JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow and MS OFFICE (EXCEL,POWERPOINT,WORD,VISIO)
- Middleware Tools: MQ-Series, CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG), CICS Transaction Server for CICS Web Services, Open Legacy
- Product : Accenture Life and Annuity Insurance Platform (ALIP)
- Functional : Life Insurance Policy Administration, Life Insurance New Business, Accounting, Compensation, Actuarial, Life Insurance Operations, Billing, Lockbox and Correspondence
Certification
Associate, Life Management Institute (ALMI) │ Life Office Management Association (LOMA)
AWS Cloud Practitioner │ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The Open Group Architecture Framework 9 Certified │ TOGAF
Certified SAFe 4 Agilist & Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master │ Scaled Agile
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Master │ Guardian Life
Timeline
Lead Software Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance
07.2022 - Current
Lead Software Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance
11.2020 - 06.2022
Senior Software Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance
09.2015 - 10.2020
Technical Specialist / Onsite Coordinator
Capgemini (Client - Guardian Life Insurance)
10.2007 - 08.2015
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini (Client - Guardian Life Insurance)
08.2005 - 09.2007
Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering
BLDEA's College of Engineering And Technology
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