Kavitha K
Mainframe Test Engineer
Tallahassee, Florida
Summary
- Over 17+ years in Analysis,Design,Coding,Testing application software in Mainframe platform.
- Specialized in delivering complex global IT of implementations, upgrade and support of Mainframe technology.
- Expertise in Agile/Sprint based project execution methodology.
- Expertise in leading and managing development and testing teams by providing technical guidance, mentoring team members to ensure high rate of customer satisfaction.
- Experience in Legacy Modernization with expertise in Reengineering, Reverse Engineering and Business Rules Extraction projects.
- Deigned and developed REXX based code quality tools in mainframe. Conducted organizational wide sessions on code quality tools.
- Experience in Solution Designing, Implementation, Application Maintenance, Functional Analyst, Quality Reviews, Coding, Testing and post implementation support
- Varied degree of expertise in technologies like COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, SQL, DB2, REXX, Easytrieve, File-Aid, ENDEVOR. Micro Focus Modernization Workbench, IBM-Rational Assert Analyzer, Perl, Python and Power BI
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer Senior
FIS Global Business Solutions India Private Limite
10.2022 - 03.2024
- Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
- Reviewed, evaluated, and identified requirements for testability.
- Collaborated with development teams to identify, reproduce, and resolve software issues promptly.
- Supported transition to agile development methodologies, increasing team's responsiveness to changing project requirements.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
03.2011 - 10.2022
- Lead Business UAT Testing (ISO Project, where MT message format is converted to MX format).
- Attend Daily Defect triage calls along with stakeholders to prioritize the defect fixes.
- Provided support for functional testing and had discussions with other teams (scrum teams) before UAT execution starts.
- Involved in UiPath Automation where we automated defect creation in Jira. Involved in defect management process.
- Gather the business requirements, understand them, and analyze in order to help the team to derive the test cases.
- Involved in design, analysis, and testing (Business) of Payment applications. Responsible in designing Test cases in Jira.
- Involved in defects tracking and re-test as and when the fixes are deployed. Involved in the preparation of daily/weekly testing status report to client. Oversee all testing activities that include design, execute, and manage issues/defects.
- Maintained up-to-date documentation of all test plans, procedures, results, and defect tracking databases for future reference or audits.
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives
- Led a migration project to convert CA Ideal and Datacom artifacts to COBOL / DB2 / CICS for an insurance client
- Been part of client's tools engineering team that develops and maintenances REXX tools in mainframe.
- Anchored team from onsite for the migration of the source from mainframe to IBMs Rational Assert Analyzer (RAA) a static analysis tool at New York. Enabled client SME team of size 15 to use RAA.
- Provided Re-Platform recommendations for identified components in each functional area and recommended renovation opportunities in current application for an insurance client. Worked with clients for evolving the architecture of the project.
- Estimated the effort for legacy remediation of existing mainframe systems for a retail client.
- Key Member in implementation of Healthcare Reforms for a health Insurance provider. Prepared techno functional documents, High level designs, Architectural diagrams and functional flow diagrams.
- Extracted the business rules and reference data applications written in COBOL programming language for an insurance company.
- Performed impact analysis and prepared estimation and approach preparation for byte expansion for an insurance client.
- Worked in the development of Cognizant's code quality tools, COBOL Standards Verifier , Test Coverage Analyzer, Code Generator , Code Profiler.
- Designed and developed a tool to convert Ideal panels into its equivalent CICS screens.
- Designed and developed tools to generate DB2 DDLs from DATACOM definitions for DATACOB to DB2 migration.
- Assisted in production support. Troubleshoot existing information systems to identify errors or deficiencies and develop solution.
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2007 - 01.2011
- Led a development and support team of size 18.
- Involved in design and development of COBOL programs, JCL, PROCs, and PARMs.
- Created and modified existing JCL's & Analyzed and Modified existing COBOL programs as per requirements.
- Involved in Unit Testing of Both online and Batch programs.
- rained entry-level programmers and provided analysis, program specifications, coding, and testing for COBOL batch and online programs.
Education
B.E Computer Science And Engineering
Anna University
04.2001 -
Skills
COBOL ,JCL, REXX, CICS, DB2, VSAM, SQL, QMF, Jira, TFS, Easytrieve ,Basics of Perl, Basics of Python, IBM-Rational Assert Analyzer, Microsoft Power BI
Timeline
Software Engineer Senior
FIS Global Business Solutions India Private Limite
10.2022 - 03.2024
Technology Specialist
Cognizant Technologies Solutions
03.2011 - 10.2022
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2007 - 01.2011
B.E Computer Science And Engineering
Anna University
04.2001 -
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