Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Projects
Accomplishments
Certification
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Santhosh Kumar Kesarapu

Hyderabad

Summary

To have a growth-oriented and challenging career where I can enhance my skills through continuous learning, teamwork, and staying current with industry trends to contribute to organizational success.

Experienced professional with a strong background in technology-related roles. Proficient in software development, system administration, and technical support. Skilled in problem-solving and optimizing performance.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services India limited
Hyderabad
04.2022 - Current
  • Working as a consultant for Capgemini Technology Services India, Hyderabad, from April 2022 to the present.
  • Having 4.3 years of experience in IBM Mainframes, with a skill set in COBOL, JCL, VSAM, and DB2.
  • Proficient in COBOL, JCL, and DB2, and exposed to GitHub, Dynatrace, APIs, Pure Path, Open Cloud Platform, Elastic Cloud, Catchpoint, Blue Prism, DevOps pipeline, and Windows and Linux server production and maintenance activities.
  • Exposure to the full cycle of software development, including Requirements Analysis, Program Design, Development, Unit Testing, Integrated Testing, Maintenance, and Process Documentation.
  • Strong programming, debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to think strategically and work toward the successful achievement of organizational goals.
  • Assessed company operations for compliance with safety standards.
  • Organized client meetings to provide project updates.
  • Evaluated needs of departments and delegated tasks to optimize overall production.
  • Utilized a document management system to organize company files, keeping up-to-date, and easily accessible data by creating process documentation for defect resolution and root cause analysis, and maintaining incident playbooks.
  • Managed project timelines and deliverables to ensure client satisfaction.
  • Supported clients in implementing new technology systems and processes.
  • Collaborated with clients to develop action plans to address specific challenges and objectives.
  • Working as an L1 (on-call) production support member for Commercial and Credit credit card systems applications, along with leasing applications, for batch jobs, APIs, and services for frontend UI applications (UI screens).
  • Defect analysis and finding the root cause of production issues and process failures.
  • Resolving the incidents.
  • Analyzing mainframe batch job failure issues, and XML scripts. Analyzing Catchpoint script failures and providing fixes for automated runs, API services, and process failures.
  • NPID (Application ID, Service ID, UCMD) Production Renewals.
  • Production certificate renewals, IIS, and Congo’s.
  • Handling frontend UI applications, internal or external, and server issues/errors.
  • Handling Windows and Linux server failures, analyzing logs, and interacting with application teams.
  • Interaction with onsite teams, business teams.
  • Interaction with real-time bank branch users for any application issues, account creation, account lock, and password-related issues.
  • Automated BOT IDs monitor and maintain activities.
  • Fire call and vault production password renewal and maintenance activities.
  • Creating process documentation for defect resolution and root cause analysis, maintaining incident playbooks.
  • Supported production releases and post-implementation validations to make sure all affected applications are working as expected.
  • Meeting productivity and quality targets.
  • Training team members for all existing and newly handed-over process activities.

Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
Pune
07.2021 - 04.2022
  • Compiled COBOL programs using version 6.3 to ensure functionality and compatibility.
  • Conducted unit and regression tests following compilation completion.
  • Managed production activities, including recompilation and user acceptance testing.
  • Supported production releases by troubleshooting issues and implementing solutions.
  • Resolved incidents to maintain operational efficiency and minimize downtime.

Education

B.tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

TudiRamReddyInstitute of Technology&Sciences
BibiNagar, Nalgonda(Dist),TS
01.2015

Intermediate - MPC

ArunodayaJuniorCollege
Hanmakonda, Warangal(Dist),TS
01.2011

S.S.C -

VaniVidyaViharHighSchool
Godavarikhani, Peddapalli(Dist),TS
01.2009

Skills

  • Operating systems: OS/390, Z/OS, Windows, Linux
  • Mainframes: COBOL, JCL, Endeavor, GitHub, DB2, SQL, File-AID, SPUFI, QMF, OMS
  • Debugging tools: IBM Debugger, Fault Analyzer, OnDemand, Open Cloud Platform
  • Automation and monitoring tools: Dynatrace, PurePath, APIs, Open Cloud Platform, Elastic Cloud, Catchpoint, Blue Prism, and DevOps, Helios
  • Ticketing tools: ServiceNow, Jira, and PagerDuty
  • Windows and Linux servers and frontend UI applications: maintain frontend UI applications, including application, OpenEdge, and database servers, and Linux servers
  • Business, retail and credit operations, front-end UI applications usage and maintenance, and post-implementation validations prod/live support
  • Data storage and access methods: DB2, VSAM, File Manager, IMS database, Microsoft Database, XML scripts

Projects

1. Current client: Royal Bank of Canada

Project Name: RBC-CCBPT

Organization: Capgemini Technology Services India Limited

Technology and tools: mainframes, JCL, COBOL, Endeavor, GitHub, DB2, SQL, File-AID, SPUFI, QMF, OMS

Automation and monitoring tools: Dynatrace, PurePath, APIs, Open Cloud Platform

Catchpoint, BluePrism, DevOps, Helios

Ticketing tools: ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty

Windows and Linux servers and frontend UI applications: production maintenance and front-end UI application support, including (application, OpenEdge, and database servers), Linux server, XML scripts, business, retail, and credit operations, front-end UI applications usage and maintenance, and post-implementation validations prod support

Start/End Date

Apr 2022 to Till date 2025

Role

Team Member

Project Description

Complete maintenance and continue live production support activities for all retail credit and commercial applications and servers for all platforms is an ambitious initiative taken by the RBC-RCCBPT-SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) team

Including the automation process and modernizing all legacy applications by bringing them to new and open platforms, thereby reducing costs by eliminating costly infrastructures and reducing manual efforts in repetitive tasks

2. Previous client: Northern Trust

Project Name

TNT COBOL Compiler Upgrade FPP BFS (PRJ-9226)

Organization

Hexaware Technologies, Pune

SCLM, COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM (partially used)

Start/End Date

Aug 2021 to March 2022

Role

Team Member

Accomplishments

  • Sound technical knowledge and strong analytical skills
  • Active team player and active participation in all team activities
  • Achieved PAT on the Back Award 2024
  • Achieved promotion from the grade of Associate Consultant to Consultant

Certification

  • PAT on the back 07/2024

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Disclaime

Name: Kesarapu Santhosh Kumar, Mail: santhurishi1717@gmail.com, Mobile: +91 6304083876. 

I hereby declare that the above-provided information is true, genuine, and correct to my knowledge, thanking you, Name: Santhosh Kumar, Kesarapu

Timeline

Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services India limited
04.2022 - Current

Software Engineer

Hexaware Technologies
07.2021 - 04.2022

B.tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

TudiRamReddyInstitute of Technology&Sciences

Intermediate - MPC

ArunodayaJuniorCollege

S.S.C -

VaniVidyaViharHighSchool
Santhosh Kumar Kesarapu