Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay

$50/hr
Experienced Mainframe Application Specialist
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Hourly ($/hour)
Age:
39 years old
Location:
Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Experience:
10 years
Senior Mainframe/ COBOL Specialist, Warsaw, Poland. EU Residence Card/Blue Card Holder – No Work-Permit required Contact - +48 - / Email –- Career Profile • • • • • • • • • • • 10 years of diversified experience in IT Industry in development, support and maintenance projects for various Client facing roles in US, UK, Europe, Nordic & India customers. Risk Management through qualitative and quantitative analysis Management of triple constants (Scope, Time and Cost Management). Effective written/verbal Communication, Metrics presentation, Project status updates and Stakeholder Management Recognizing scope for automation, continuous improvement and value-addition during Project delivery schedule. Able to work collaboratively with diverse groups and individuals. Experience in analyzing the entire system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems. 2.5 years of experience in leading medium sized teams and managing project deliverables Substantial experience in Knowledge Management and knowledge transitioning Actively participating in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from Requirement Gathering to Design, Develop till PostDeployment Activities. Working experience as Quality Auditor in evaluating Project quality metrics, Project Risk Analysis and Mitigation, and, Process Handbook documentation and Project health checks and updates. Technologies: • • • • • • Operating System – 10 years of experience in IBM Mainframe technology (ZOS architecture) with strong programming background in JCL, CICS, SYNCSORT, DFSORT and REXX etc. Programming Language – COBOL, PL1. Domain Expertise - Telecom, Banking (Core, Investment), Insurance, Automobile. Relational Database Management Systems o DB2 – SQL queries, stored procedures, performance tuning, DB2 architecture etc. o Oracle – PL/SQL queries, stored procedures and performance tuning. UNIX Shell scripting – 1 year of supporting experience with basic knowledge on commands and scripting. Tools – DFSORT, XDC, CONNECT-DIRECT, NDM, TSO/ISPF, VANTAGE, CHANGEMAN, ENDEAVOR, FILEAID, FILEMANAGER, SPUFI, QMF, EXPEDITOR, STROBE, OPC, SSO, BETA392, TWS, CONTROL-D. Applications - HP Quality Centre, JIRA, Confluence, Fish Eye, ROCHADE. Professional Experience:  Credit Suisse, Warsaw, PL – Senior Mainframe Developer (Jan 19 – Nov 19) Project Name – Tax Management Interface System o o o Provide a sustainable tax infrastructure which allows it to decouple tax calculation as far as possible from the dependent applications, based on various tax results and to make tax requests transparent to the requester to gain flexibility for possible changes and adaptation to tax rules. Handle country specific tax laws and adaptations with minimized impact on tax calculation and processing systems. Based on client tax relevance and BU, the Tax Infrastructure decides which tax types are applicable for a specific Business Transaction.  Nordea AB, Gdansk, PL - Senior Mainframe Developer (Jul 16 – Dec 18). Project Name - GF IT CDW Sourcing o o o o Ensure disaster recovery plans for data centers, applications and infrastructure are created, maintained, approved and tested. Follow up on divergences identified during disaster recovery testing. Create reporting with status of compliance to Nordea Business Continuity Framework. Support technicians in infrastructure and operations to create test plans and reports – particularly within storage management o o o o o o o Work to ensure test of backup and restore procedures with best in class approach Analyzing business requirements and coming up with standardized copybooks for the files. Responding to ADHOC file delivery requests by different projects. Interfacing with clients for business gathering, conducting system analysis and finalizing technical / functional specifications for the project. Performing the development, Unit Testing to the Deployment as per the SDLC structure. Involved in Production Support activities for as per the requirement. Providing application deployment, post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard to the product / software application.  Interra IT, Kolkata, IN – Technology Lead (Jul 15 – Apr 16) Project Name - Mazda Vehicle Parts System o o o o Managing/ training different teams at different locations to deliver distributed system deployments. Delivering the requirements as per the Work Request from the Requirement capture to the Deployment. Maintaining the production environment and solving the issues and bugs. Suggesting enhancements and updates as per the discussions with the client.  Cognizant Technology Solutions – Associate (Feb 14 – Jul 15) Project Name - Life & Annuity Insurance Retail o o o o o o o Interfacing with clients for business gathering, conducting system analysis and finalizing technical / functional specifications for the project. Performing the development, Unit Testing to the Deployment as per the SDLC structure. Involved in Production Support activities for as per the requirement. Providing application deployment, post-implementation, application maintenance and enhancement support to the client with regard to the product / software application. Delivering the requirements as per the Work Request (New/Existing) as per SDLC cycle. Maintaining the production environment and solving the issues and bugs. Suggesting enhancements and updates as per the discussions with the client.  Tieto Software Technologies – Software Engineer (Jan 13 – Jan 14) Project Name - Nordea Savings System o o o Analysis, Coding, Unit Testing, Regression Testing, Implementation of the new requirements. Analysed the entire order entry flow of the system and the impact with the other backend and front-end systems. Preparing Technical Specifications for development & deployment cycles.  Tech Mahindra Limited – Technical Associate (Dec 09 – Jan 13) Project Name - AT&T Usage Billing System o o o o o o Worked on requests in streamlining new account opening process in mainframe so that it doesn’t create incomplete account information in DB2 tables and VSAM files. Worked on new requests that involved new online programs that coordinates with front end and retrieves data from DB2. Created test cases, test data and recorded test results for new/enhanced requests. Setup the Environments for System Test teams and coordinate in testing. Documented the flow of Application Programs to understand the system. Contributed in optimizations by reducing the CPU time consumption of batch jobs. CERTIFICATIONS • ITIL V3 Foundation Certified (EXIN). EDUCATION QUALIFICATION Bachelor of Technology (Electronics & Communication Engineering) Higher Secondary School (10+2) Secondary School (10) BOARD/UNIVERSITY PERIOD SCORE Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. Eastern Railway H.S. School, Asansol, West Bengal, India Asansol R.K. Mission Secondary School, Asansol, West Bengal, India 2004 - - 7.65 (GPA). 67.2% 83.25%
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