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Dharini Pavadai

Chester

Summary

Successful Senior Software Engineer offering 11 years of experience in software development ,testing , maintenance and support for mainframe/distributed applications. Proud team player focused on achieving project objectives with speed and accuracy. Software Developer/Tester/Operator skilled at technical leadership, communication and presentations. Experienced in full project life cycle from design to implementation to integration.

Work History

Production Services Specialist

Bank of america
02.2021 - Current

Ø I'm currently working as well Production services Specialist in 3 LOB's - Global wealth and Investment management system,Retail and global wholesale banking .

Ø The scope of the role is to provide 24/7 batch support in Mainframes Production environment .Some of the key responsibilities are Abends handling ,job reruns ,One time adhoc runs ,Job failure analysis and fix , escalation to support and fix with in expected SLA ,PBI/PKE(probelem management process) , Jobs monitoring through Webgui & IBM TWS workload scheduler and several reports generation .

Associate

Cognizant Technologies
02.2018 - 09.2019

Ø Client was Northwestern mutual account - US.

Ø The scope/responsibilities of the role were Project planning, requirement analysis, development, testing, technical deliverables reviewer, Deployment activities, system testing, Integration testing,Regression testing and updating status to client - daily stand up in agile SDLC.

Ø Worked with Agile scrum team - PI, sprint planning, user stories and acceptance criteria creation, regular status update & status report creation and retrospection.

Ø Received a Global Excellence Award from Northwestern Mutual Account for my key contributions to New Issue Operations Team.

Ø I worked with requirements in MF COBOL-JCL Combo, Online processing – CICS with COBOL, VSAM and DB2.

Senior Software Engineer

HCL technologies
01.2015 - 02.2018

Ø Clients were American General Life Insurance- US, Lloyds Banking Group - HBOS insurance - UK, AXA insurance –US.

Ø The scope/responsibilities of the role were requirement analysis, project estimation, BRD/HLSD documentation, code development &testing, technical deliverables reviewer, quality control activities, UAT & implementation support, Deployment activities, Data mining, updating status to client - daily stand up in Agile SDLC.

Ø I was a Key member in the client's functional group.

Ø Received a token of appreciation & Certificate, for completing the Mainframe Senior Developer Certification successfully, which was offered by HCL Technologies.

Ø As a Senior developer, I had mentored and trained the Mainframe Junior developers with the relevant technical skills in HCL Technologies.

Ø I worked with requirements in MF COBOL-JCL Combo, Online processing – CICS with COBOL, VSAM, DB2 and SQL as well.

Software Engineer

Steria India Limited
07.2011 - 12.2014

Ø Client was AXA Sun life insurance and friends life insurance- UK.

Ø The scope/responsibilities of the role were code development & testing, support for UAT, implementation and warranty.

Ø I worked with requirements in MF COBOL JCL Combo, Online processing – CICS with COBOL, VSAM and DB2.

Education

Computer Science Engineering

Anna University, Dhanalakshmi College Of Eng
Chennai, India
04.2011

Skills

  • Agile Methodology
  • Certified scrum Master
  • Mainframe - COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 and CICS
  • Mainframe express,SQL
  • TFS,QC ,JIRA,Cherwell,BMC Remedy
  • ITIL V4
  • Data Mining
  • Build releases
  • Team Reporting
  • Defect monitoring
  • Test strategies and coverages
  • MS Office
  • Tools - z/OS,TSO/ISPF, CA ENDEVOR, DEBUGGER, PLATINUM, TELON, INSYNC, HPS, BMC, OPC(TWS),CA7,CA11,CA1,WEBCLIENT,SAR,CONTROL-D,NDM, CONNECT DIRECT, FILE-AID, FILE-MANAGER, SPUFI, PANVALET, FAULT ANALYSER , COMPAREX, CORRESPONDENCE MANAGER, XPEDITOR, CHANEGMAN ,QMF,BMC DB2, SAS and REXX as well
  • Document Handling -Business Requirements Document, High/Low level Design documents, Detailed platform analysis document, Technical specification, unit test plan, system test plan , requirement traceability matrix, implementation plan and Status reports
  • Manual Testing, System/Functional test, Integration testing and Regression testing
  • Incident management ,Problem Management and critical Bugs– Root cause analysis & fix and Production support

Visa Details

Eligible to work in UK. Indefinite Leave to Remain visa  that entitles to work full time without restriction in the IT industry and without the need for a sponsorship of any kind.

Certification

  • ITIL V4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
  • Db2 for z/OS Database Administration Essentials and Design v12
  • VSAM with Access Method Services
  • Structured COBOL Workshop for Enterprise COBOL
  • JCL-Job Control Language
  • Introduction to TSO/ISPF
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • SQL Basics

Timeline

Production Services Specialist

Bank of america
02.2021 - Current

Associate

Cognizant Technologies
02.2018 - 09.2019

Senior Software Engineer

HCL technologies
01.2015 - 02.2018

Software Engineer

Steria India Limited
07.2011 - 12.2014

Computer Science Engineering

Anna University, Dhanalakshmi College Of Eng
Dharini Pavadai