Debasish Debnath
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Summary
Organised and dependable IT professional with 9+ years of experience in Mainframe Technology.
Leading and delivering large-scale digital transformation, migration, and regulatory projects for clients. Skilled in team leadership, technical lead, software development, support, defect, and incident resolution. Successful at managing multiple priorities with positive attitude, planning and prioritisation. Willing to take on greater responsibilities to meet team goals. Dedicated to improving company goals and meeting business objectives.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Technical lead
Tata Consultancy Services
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
03.2023 - Current
- Project(s): Existing Business Development, Regulatory projects, Incidents & Service request Management
- Client: Key provider of life insurance, pensions, and asset management in United Kingdom
- Domain: Insurance- Pensions & Retirement
- Leading team from front at client location (Onsite).
- Providing leadership and technical guidance to team of 7 personnel, supervising activities to drive productivity and efficiency.
- Gathered and Translated complex customer requirements into technical specifications to guide development, delivery of project work and simplify implementation.
- Guiding team in Initial analysis, Sizing and Estimation
- Guiding team for technical documents in SDLC
- Creating action plans for timely resolution of technical risks, issues and conflicts.
- Delivering solutions throughout development stages, from design to final deployment.
- Training new and junior members.
- Delegating tasks to make best use of individuals' skills.
- Monitoring performance levels, implementing necessary changes to improve productivity and meet targets.
- Successfully beating planned quarterly and yearly target of incidents closure by more than 120%.
- Leading several value adds contribution to business like- Paperless transformation of mainframe prints.
- Oversee variety of projects simultaneously, managing deadlines and expectations.
- Reporting on team performance to higher leadership, proactively offering action for areas of improvement.
- Prioritising and assigning tasks for strategic and optimised distribution of workloads.
- Performance reviews and employee feedback to facilitate professional development.
Lead mainframe developer
Tata Consultancy Services
Kolkata, India
02.2019 - 02.2023
- Project(s): Existing Business Development, Regulatory projects, Incidents & Service request Management
- Client: Key provider of life insurance, pensions, and asset management in United Kingdom
- Domain: Insurance- Pensions & Retirement
- Gathered and Translated complex customer requirements into technical specifications to simplify implementation.
- Initial analysis, Sizing and Estimation
- Prepared technical documents in SDLC
- Produced coding and design solutions to create stable, well-performing applications.
- Observed established coding standards to achieve high code quality.
- Revised and improved code quality to decrease processing time and boost application performance.
- Created test plans to validate application functionality before release.
- Tested and implemented new features to identify and resolve bugs.
- Delivered solutions throughout development stages, from design to final deployment following SDLC.
- Determined and defined system improvements and deployed new features and releases.
- Managed code development and deployment processes in line with release cycles to fulfil company goals.
- Planned and delivered projects to spec, on time and meeting internal quality standards.
- Optimised end-to-end business flow, developing user acceptance plans to verify solutions against client requirements.
Production Support and Enhancement
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Kolkata, India
02.2015 - 01.2019
- Project: Mainframe Production Support and Enhancement
- Client: Leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in U.S. and worldwide.
- Domain: Retail and Consumer goods- Stores & Finance
- Enhanced and supported Client's business with application-based enhancements, automation, maintenance, and support
- Provided 24*7 production support/maintenance to business- batch/schedule process according to priority
- Root cause analysis & providing fix to issue occurred
- Worked on Incident/Problem/Request type tickets via Service-now tool
- Participated in Onshore/Offshore Client interaction for gathering business and functional requirements
- Involved in day-to-day operations of project, periodic progress reports, regular team interactions that involves problem solving and decision making
- Code development and deployment with pre and post implementation maintenance support
- Unit/Regression testing, test case preparation
- Able to function independently or as part of team
- Rollout operational changes and functional enhancements as per schedule
- Prepared status reports for Customers and internal stakeholders with objective of resolving incidents and addressed ad-hoc requests to support high complex issues within limits of pre-defined corporate guidelines.
- Documented standard development procedures and trained new personnel on requirements.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
West Bengal University of Technology
India 08.2010 - 08.2014
12th Satandard - Science
Douglas Memorial Higher Secondary School
India 04.2008 - 03.2010
10th Satandard -
Douglas Memorial Higher Secondary School
India 04.2006 - 03.2008
Skills
- Languages: COBOL, Meta COBOL, JCL, DYL280
- Databases: IBM DB2, DATACOM DB, VSAM
- OLTP: CICS, IDEAL
- Applications: Rumba Mainframe, Citrix
- Tools: TSO, ISPF, IBM File Manager, File Aid, QMF, SPUFI, Change man, XPEDITER, IBM Debugger tool, SERVICE NOW
- Domains: Insurance- Pensions & Retirement, Retail and Consumer goods
- Leadership
- Team supervision
- Complex resource management
- Technical leadership
- Adaptable
- Quick Learner
- Strategic thinking
- Team player
Accomplishments
- On the Spot Team award in April, 2024
- Winner of TCS Smart Learning competition in UK & Ireland geography in March, 2024
- Service and Commitment award in February, 2024
- Contextual Master award in June, 2022
- Star of the Month award in December, 2021
Affiliations
- Playing sports like Cricket, Football, Carom, Cards
- Watching movies
- Listening music
Languages
English
Fluent
Bengali
Native
Hindi
Fluent
Timeline
Technical lead
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2023 - Current
Lead mainframe developer
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2019 - 02.2023
Production Support and Enhancement
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2015 - 01.2019
Bachelor of Technology -
West Bengal University of Technology
08.2010 - 08.2014
12th Satandard - Science
Douglas Memorial Higher Secondary School
04.2008 - 03.2010
10th Satandard -
Douglas Memorial Higher Secondary School
04.2006 - 03.2008
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