Abhusha BODELE

• Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Trained personnel on use of IT tools and applications.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
• Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
• Managed various IT projects to meet deadlines and customer requirements.
• Assessed and analyzed customer requirements to develop effective IT project plans.
• Coordinated with external vendors to deliver IT project components.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
• Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Strong experience on JCL-Monitored Batch, supported batch and provided ABEND resolutions for both EMEA and AMER region.
• Individual contribution on EMEA side for NTPA(New Trade processing architecture) application
• Tested functional and compatibility of new programs or updates in comparison to existing applications
• Recorded findings of inspection process, collaborating with quality team to implement corrective actions
• Created and revised procedures, checklists and job aids to reduce errors
• Led process improvement projects to help operations meet and exceed quality standards and reduce costs
• Consulted manuals and process documents to investigate malfunctions
• Implemented test scripts and recorded results
• Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team
• Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and
  customer needs
• Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA
  perspective
• Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues
• Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
• Assessed and analyzed customer requirements to develop effective IT project plans

Services Pune

Tools: Waterfall Methodology, SQL, FSA screen

Application: Trade processing

Team Size - 2

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership and business training on various projects
• Worked closely with business analysts, supervisors, managers, developers, and database
• Developed Test specifications, test scripts, reviewed code, maintained
• Project environment included COBOL 2, DB2, SQL, JCL, and FSA
• Provided 24/7 on-call support and resolved technical issues
• Work with business unit managers to understand project scope, suggest possible alternatives and document each step of design
• Strong presentation skills with ability to take very technical concepts and present them to no technical teams
• Provided KT to peers
• Delivered work before deadline with zero defect
• Performed QA testing, Regression testing, Batch testing
• No escalation raised
• Event leader in team as well as SST group level in CITI.

Methodology - Waterfall

Team Size – 5

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Perform Daily task like date rolls and screen changes
• Created High Level design document in line with approved functional specifications
• Post Implementation Support, Production Support, Creation of test id
• Work allocation, Effort estimation and Team management to ensure all deliveries
• Made enhancement in existing program
• Analyzed existing COBOL programs, Jobs, DB2.

Team Size – 5

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning testing procedures
• Perform tasks of writing test scripts and test cases by referring specifications of requirements
• Handle responsibilities of analyzing test results and troubleshooting environment issues
• Responsible for verifying database interaction defects as well as conduct performance and capacity testing
• Assigned tasks of testing and evaluating mainframe interactions with distributed systems
• Handle responsibilities of preparing detailed test cases by analyzing technical requirements
• Worked varied hours to meet seasonal and business needs.

Project - Unicredit

Team Size: 2

Language:, , JCL, DB2

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed new Cobol/DB2/JCL programs based on existing code
• Re-designed Cobol/DB2 application using SQL
• Created and reviewed unit test plans, performed unit tests
• Performed code validation and peer reviews
• Analyze customer business development requirement, coordinated with customer requirements
• Code Validation and Peer review
• Analyzed job log and resolved ABENDs performed impact analysis to resolve user queries
• Full filling day to day work request which are requested by clients.

Project: Hartford Insurance (2011-2014)
Tools: DB2 Tool: XREF, MCS, MFE, And COBOL

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze customer business development requirement, coordinated with customer requirements
• Created and reviewed unit test plans, performed unit tests
• Defect free delivery of assigned work while ensuring that SLA is met
• Developed new Micro-focus Cobol programs based on existing code
• Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to development team
• Researched, designed and implemented scalable applications for information identification, extraction,
  analysis, retrieval and indexing
• Tested troubleshooting methods, devised innovative solutions, and documented resolutions for inclusion in
  knowledge base for support team use.