Open To Work
Soumya V
Senior Mainframe Designer and Developer
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior Mainframe Designer and Developer with extensive experience at Capgemini, specializing in COBOL, CICS, DB2 and JCL. Demonstrated success in optimizing performance and mentoring teams for effective project deployments. Skilled in developing technical strategies and improving application design within agile frameworks. Recognized for delivering high-quality solutions that consistently exceed client expectations. I have a strong track record of managing cross-functional teams, driving delivery excellence, and aligning technology solutions with business objectives. I am particularly passionate about leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity, accelerate legacy code understanding, and improve engineering outcomes.
Overview
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Certification
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Mainframe Designer and Developer
Capgemini
Bangalore
12.2024 - Current
- Mainframe Application Designer and Developer in one of the Largest US based Investment Bank Clients.
- Formulate technical action plan for analyzing and resolving recurring abends, critical technical issues
- Developed design specifications for new stored procedure/API components to enhance system functionality
- Tracking individual projects Development, QA Testing cycle and production deployment planning
- Distributed new tasks and production incidents among team members to ensure efficient workflow.
- Mentored junior resources on best practices, standards, and development methodologies to strengthen team capabilities
- Review Team Deliverables and Runbook before Production deployment
Senior developer and Tech lead
HCL Technologies
Bangalore
06.2021 - 12.2024
- Sourced, loaded, and tabulated data from upstream systems for the Global Information Data Warehouse.
- Led development efforts before transitioning to design responsibilities, enhancing project scope.
- Analyzed requirements and implemented program changes to align with business objectives.
- Coordinated and participated in code reviews and unit testing sessions.
- To develop High level (by referring to BRD/SRD) and Low level document (Technical Detailed Design document).
- Facilitated handover process to the ST team upon development completion.
- Contributed to quality control processes, ensuring adherence to product standards and improving delivery quality.
- Gained hands-on experience in software installation and troubleshooting post-installation issues.
- Have learnt working on CA7, EZtrieve and JCL tools excessively.
Senior Application developer
IBM
Bangalore
10.2017 - 06.2021
- A trust fund account is a fund management account that includes a variety of assets, such as cash, property or estates, and stocks and bonds. Trust funds are typically established to preserve a person’s wealth or to ensure that loved ones are financially stable in future years.
- In Bank of America, Trust account can be established for customers who are High Net worth i.e., who own more than 3 billion dollar worth asset.
- Transitioned the project from another company, completing the entire knowledge transfer.
- Facilitated knowledge transfer and reverse knowledge transfer sessions during project transition.
- Documented the complete transition process daily.
- Collaborated with clients daily to address needs and concerns, enhancing client satisfaction.
- Working on Requirement analysis, High level design, Low level design and unit testing for the requirements provided by client.
- Received positive feedback from client SMEs, tech leads, and managers for contributions to projects.
- Mentoring new team members, Graduate Hires, took many sessions for Senior resources as well.
Senior developer
IBM
Bangalore
03.2018 - 12.2019
- As part of the corporate strategy to operate and report as one company all L-Chubb policy administration systems are being integrated into L-ACE systems for financial booking. Policies booked through an L-ACE system will flow to ATLAS to the additional downstream systems that have been integrated into ATLAS for policy and financial management. This will facilitate a single record of all premiums booking across the organization, for New and Renewal policies.
- Led and maintained team of 7 while performing mainframe development tasks.
- Delivered new and complex high-quality solutions to clients, addressing varying business requirements.
- Created low-level technical design documents based on customer requirements and established specific solutions, leading programming and testing efforts for client acceptance.
- Evaluated design and development throughout the project lifecycle.
- In response to these efforts on the policy side Claim-Vision must be enhanced to handle policy data from ATLAS. The purpose of this document is to identify those downstream impacts in Claim Vision Feeds and reports and enhance the programs accordingly to handle the new policy source.
- Broke larger epics into smaller user stories for clarity and focus.
- Groomed user stories and provided accurate estimates using story points for effective project planning.
- Collaborated with product owner and team to groom user stories for better alignment with project goals.
Senior developer and Technical lead
IBM
Bangalore
10.2017 - 03.2018
- Supported MetLife Group PPO Dental product by determining dental benefits through business logic and critical data for claims processing, interacting with multiple intake channels and partner systems to enforce business rules.
- MetLife is a leading Insurance Carrier in North American Market catering to both Individual and corporate needs of Insurance Customers.
- Extracted rules from original COBOL code for Business Team, ensuring clarity and accuracy in documentation.
- Analyzed and reviewed the rules extracted from team members and corrected them.
- Coordinated meetings and business review calls, enhancing communication between stakeholders and promoting alignment on project objectives.
- Hand over to Business team once rules extraction is complete.
Mainframe Developer
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
12.2015 - 10.2017
- Interact with Business Users to gather requirements, Analyzing the requirements provided by client and functional requirements of the systems after completion of analysis.
- Developed COBOL programs, JCLs, and control cards to create a common interface for retrieving royalty amounts, enhancing system integration.
- To develop High level and Low level document (Technical Detailed Design document).
- Unit testing: Prepare unit test plan for the new COBOL programs, JCLs, FTP processes.
- Coordinated with Onshore team for module build and unit testing, reviewed deliverables to ensure quality and alignment with requirements.
- Coordinated and participated in code reviews with Onshore team and conducted test case/test results walkthroughs with other interfaces to ensure accuracy.
- Worked on new CICS screen design.
- Assisted in software control management by overseeing version control processes.
- Presented documents during external and internal audits, ensuring all versions and configuration statuses remained current.
Mainframe tester
Hewlett Packard
Bangalore
01.2010 - 12.2015
- AXIS is an order provisioning system for land lines. This project deals with upgrading the existing functionalities for better customer experience and to improve the performance too. This proposal deals with the Design, build work, System Testing and System Integration Testing to be carried by HP.
- Telstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services.
- Developed and executed test cases (using file aid, xpeditor tool) and reported defects (in Quality Center), defining severity and priority for each.
- Ensured development tasks met quality criteria through test planning, execution, quality assurance, and issue tracking.
- Carry out regression testing every time when changes are made to the code to fix defects.
- Unit testing: Prepare unit test plan for the new COBOL programs, JCLs, FTP processes.
- Moved modified components to production, monitored post-implementation reports, and provided support.
Education
Masters in Computer Applications -
ICFAI university
Bangalore01-2012
Bachelors in Computer Science -
Vijaya College
Bangalore01-2009
Skills
- COBOL
- CICS
- JCL
- DB2
- VSAM
- TSO/ISPF
- Endevor
- Abend Aid
- Xpeditor
- IBM Debugger
- File Manager
- File Aid
- Message Queuing
- File Transfer Protocol
- CA7
- Jira
- IDZ
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Agile methodologies
Disclaimer
Bangalore, Soumya V
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workWork Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
HybridSalary Range
₹170000/yr - ₹200000/yrTimeline
Senior Mainframe Designer and Developer
Capgemini
12.2024 - Current
Senior developer and Tech lead
HCL Technologies
06.2021 - 12.2024
Senior developer
IBM
03.2018 - 12.2019
Senior Application developer
IBM
10.2017 - 06.2021
Senior developer and Technical lead
IBM
10.2017 - 03.2018
Mainframe Developer
Wipro Technologies
12.2015 - 10.2017
Mainframe tester
Hewlett Packard
01.2010 - 12.2015
Masters in Computer Applications -
ICFAI university
Bachelors in Computer Science -
Vijaya College