Varad Vardhan Gupta

• Developed, tested and debugged COBOL programs for mainframe applications.
• Understanding of Mainframe Batch Processes, Batch Monitoring, and handling critical production issues.
• On call production support 24/7, worked on production and testing environments abends and root cause analysis.
• Monitoring the downtime and uptime for different production cycles using CA7 and spool.
• Worked on development/updating of Cobol, JCL, and Ctl Cards using ISPW for version controls.
• Tuned and optimized DB2 SQL queries for better performance in a mainframe environment.
• Performed analysis on the Cobol component to resolve tickets created by business users.
• Used lira for tracking tickets and other tasks
• Converting the Cobol 2 version to Cobol 6.2 and performing testing.
• Resolved technical issues reported during system testing phases.
• Monitored system performance metrics such as CPU utilization, memory usage to identify potential bottlenecks or areas of improvement in the application codebase.

• Extensive knowledge in req. gathering, Analysis, Development, Implementation, testing, integration deployment, and Documentation applications.

• Creating Low level design developing new Cobol modules and amending the existing ones as per requirement.

• Create Unit test plan and execute Unit Testing for COBOL modules.

• Used various IBM utilities to write various jobs depending on requirements.

• Using SQL and SPUFI to retrieve and store data in the DB2 tables.

• Impact Analysis to identify code changes.

• Creation and maintenance of JCL, PR0Cs, PARMs and DB2

• Troubleshooting and Providing Fix in case of Abends or defects in testing and production.

• Enhanced the code according to the defects found. Performed and supp. Integration testing AND System Testing.

• Involved in Implementation activities (pre and post prod support) and Batch Monitoring.