Roopa Sharma
Application Development Team Lead
Madurai
Summary
Seasoned Mainframe Developer with over 8 Years of IT experience. Worked in Development, Maintenance, Testing, Support and Analysis of software applications on IBM Mainframe Systems. Experienced in all phases of Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) - Requirements Gathering, Functional gap analysis, Construction, Unit Testing, and Support to various Testing techniques - Integration, User Acceptance (UAT) Test, Regression Test, and Production support.
Skilled at weathering unforeseen speed bumps in development lifecycles. Dedicated to helping programmers and other personnel coalesce around projects to produce exceptional development output.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Application Development Team Lead
Accenture
Chennai
04.2021 - Current
- Very quickly taken the knowledge transition and managed the on-call support in very short span of time
- Taken complete ownership in understanding the business functionality, involved in critical build activities, fixing the SIT/UAT/Prod issues on time and also documenting the steps for future reference
- Proactively identified the functional grey areas and worked with the most challenging SME by setting up daily standup call to resolve the gaps
- Mentoring the junior who came from testing background, enabled her quickly and made her more productive to work on the development activities
- Providing the rotational Oncall support in alternate weeks and resolving all the critical batch abends independently
- Resolved system test and validation problems to provide normal program functioning.
- Defined project-wide performance metrics such as developmental milestones, timeline goals and required completion dates.
- Effectively done managing the offshore capacity planning, work allocation, Oncall planning, providing monthly release support etc
- Participated in successful implementation of 3 Major Releases
- Supported for the major environment migration activity (from Spain Data Centre to UK data Centre)
- Worked on another critical delivery RTGS inbound and outbound testing, though it was a grey area for loans application, actively contributed on understanding the flow and completed the testing successfully.
Professional 1 Product Developer
DXC Technology
Bengaluru
02.2017 - 03.2021
- Provided technical support for Mainframe production cycles jobs and troubleshoots issues
- Ensured that batch workloads ran to completion— without error or delay
- Provided end to end support to business user on their queries and issues
- Provided additional support to existing production support procedures
- Interact with infrastructure, release management, change management, QA, DBA and application teams
- Provided regular status reports to management on application status and other metrics
- Collaborated with management to improve and customize reports related to production support
- Coordinated escalations and resolutions of major service issues
- Reported promptly to management and business partners regarding critical outages until resolution
- Involved and coordinated in structured peer reviews and walkthrough
- Developed operational documents for Applications
- Analyzed designs, developed and executed custom application features and functions
- Developed apt standards and controls to ensure every system functions effectively to perform all varied applications irrespective of operating systems
- Designed, coded, tested, debugged and recorded those programs proficient to work at top technical level of applications programming activities
- Evaluated, designed, coded and tested improvements as required in complex modules.
Senior Software Developer
Sopra Steria India Limited
Chennai
09.2016 - 03.2017
- Performed analysis on the business requirements and prepared design documents based on the requests
- Responsible for coding according to the code standards specified and ensured that it satisfies all the requirements specified
- Created Test plans for the unit testing and
- System testing based on the business requirements
- Test execution and preparation of Unit test results documents
- Performed code and test results reviews and shared my comments with the team to make sure that the code is delivered with Zero-defects to the Client.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Chennai
07.2014 - 09.2016
- Performed analysis on the business requirements and prepared design documents based on the requests
- Responsible for coding according to the code standards specified and ensured that it satisfies all the requirements specified
- Creation of Test plans for the unit testing and System testing based on the business requirements
- Test executions and preparation of Unit test results documents
- Performed code and test results reviews and shared my comments with the team to make sure that the code is delivered with Zero-defects to the Client
- Guided the new joiners to the team and provided KT sessions
- Tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products
- Performed regression and system-level testing to verify software quality and functionality of applications and modules pre-release
- Debugged and modified software components and developed code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches
- Provided end-to-end warranty support after implementation.
Education
B. TECH - Computer Science And Engineering
B S Anangpuria Institute of Technology And Managem
Faridabad, Haryana 09.2010 - 06.2014
Affiliations
- Accenture Celebrates Excellence award for Q4, FY21 Individual award in the The Extra Mile Award category
- DXC Quarterly Champs award for Q2-FY21
- DXC Extra mile award Q4-FY18
- DXC Extra mile award Q4-FY17
- Cognizant Diamond in the rough award for Q2-FY15
Timeline
Application Development Team Lead
Accenture
04.2021 - Current
Professional 1 Product Developer
DXC Technology
02.2017 - 03.2021
Senior Software Developer
Sopra Steria India Limited
09.2016 - 03.2017
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2014 - 09.2016
B. TECH - Computer Science And Engineering
B S Anangpuria Institute of Technology And Managem
09.2010 - 06.2014