Pooja Dangat - Software Engineer - Cognizant Technology Pvt Ltd

Summary

Experienced and dedicated Mainframe Development, Testing and Support professional with 3+ years of hands-on experience in ensuring the seamless operation of critical mainframe systems. Skilled in incident management, problem resolution, and system optimization to deliver high-quality support and enhance user satisfaction. Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives. Seeking to leverage technical expertise in mainframe development to contribute to a dynamic organization.

Overview

3

years of professional experience

1

Certification

Work History

Software Engineer

Cognizant Technology Pvt Ltd

Mumbai, India

07.2022 - Current

Project Description: Metlife
MetLife, Inc. is a major global financial services company primarily known for providing insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs. A combination of legacy technologies like COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, File-Aid and CMAN are utilized.
Hands on experience in working with Mainframe related tools such as TSO/ISPF, CMAN, SPUFI.
Conducted extensive functional and regression testing, ensuring software quality and reliability.
Customizing JCL in test regions, resolving the errors, and ensuring smooth batch processing.
Reporting daily batch/job status to stakeholders.
Generating and sending daily/weekly/monthly reports to the business.
Monitored and resolved job abends/failures, ensuring smooth batch processing.
Job setup, scheduling, monitoring and execution of batch jobs.
Analysis and initial triage of job failures, implementing workarounds for long running batches.
Developed and validated complex DB2 queries to support testing and troubleshooting activities.
Environment readiness validation and analyzed application and system issues and liaised with the appropriate teams to find the implement solutions.
Managed test environments to release level including database refreshes and readiness validation.
Collaborated with development, testing teams and other stakeholders to resolve application and system issues.

Education

M.Sc - Computer Science

Guru Nanak Khalsa College

04.2022

B.Sc - Computer Science

V.K Krishna Menon College

10.2020

Skills

Programming Languages: COBOL, JCL
Testing: Manual testing, Mainframe testing, SDLC
Operating System: Windows, z/OS

Databases: IBM DB2, VSAM, SQL, IMS DB
Tools and Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI, SDSF, File-Aid, CMAN, IBM Utilities
Business Process Tools: MS Excel, MS Word

Certification

Mainframe Specialist – Job Control Language.
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Scrum and Agile Basics

LANGUAGES

English (Fluent)

Marathi (Native)

Hindi (Intermediate)

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