Balaprasanth P

DOMAIN - P&C INSURANCE

• Have been working as an Individual Contributor for the past 3 years.
• I have developed 5 small REXX macros and have created 3 mid level tools for team's improvement.
• Working in REXX apart from my main work - Cobol , JCL, VSAM in the current organization.
• Whenever there is a chance i work in REXX to create tools to simplify work or improve things for the better.
• Working with client from DAY1 and have become an SME in my line of business in the last 6 months.

DOMAIN - HEALTHCARE

RESPONIBILITIES

• Started as Technical Support Engineer (SIT/UAT) in Mainframe Batch Monitoring.
• Fortified SIT/UAT regions by debugging and providing permanent job fix for 20 + Jobs.
• Move to Development (Migration) by identifying 5+ Prod Defects within 6months of joining.
• Guided and involved in humongous task of creating 600+ test jobs in SIT/UAT within short span of 2Months utilizing only 4 resources.
• Engineered the construction of TESSRCH REXX Tool from Scratch that systematically saved 10000 Man hours /year in our Quality Assurance Portfolio.
• Recognized as distinguished Developer from Mainframe side for Migration project and got involved in requirement gathering from the inception of the project.
• Implemented DB2 tool to invoke selective data refresh from Prod to SIT/UAT on-demand.
• This tool brought down UAT testing wait time by 40 hours / month.
• Our team upgraded legacy code to reduce overall Turnaround Time to 40 minutes from 4 hours.
• Built REXX macro to bring down efforts on Impact Analysis.
• Responsible for the technical design and development of the program as well as documentation of the Unit testing results.

DOMAIN - LIFE INSURANCE

• Started as Cobol developer in waterfall architecture of Software development life cycle.
• Involved in design and coding of new application programs within few months of joining the team.
• Lead the full-fledged production releases within 2 years of joining our team.
• Removed licensing cost involved in utilizing DYLAKOR Utilities. We translated over 150 DYL280 program logics to SORT and COBOL modules.
• Independently handled 1 major application bug to mitigate extra cost paid to Customer.
• Revamped our code logic in more than 10 components completely and deployed bug free changes to production.
• Configured REXX tool to improve quality of Unit test case execution. This eliminated UNIT TESTING defect leakage by 20%.
• Involved in the continuous improvement of the REXX tool to incorporate additional feature that mail the results to the user.
• Built REXX job to copy data from generic skeleton to generate Regression jobs.
• Creation of jobs helped in saving 400 hours/ year.
• Have handled CICS screen changes to include new functionalities.