Mohd Sadique Khan

• Development of Object oriented Cobol Class and methods to be used as part of Enhancements in the Existing sTBA Health Platform.
• Development of new Cobol Dynamics and methods to add a new feature in product for specific client using TBA/Upoint/GUI as a Product.
• Development of Cobol-DB2 program as per Captive requirement to correct the Provider information data in the Live Environment.
• Development of COBOL-CICS-DB2 program and related MAP screens and associated Cobol-Db2 program as a product suite for the Business user, that can be used for the correction of Provider Information by the user itself rather than contacting IT Support team.
• Developed all the CICS Maps, Copybooks, COBOL-CICS-DB2 programs and associated functionality.
• Development of Cobol Selection Definitions, Selection Rule, Data Assignments, Part Part that can be used as a program control of flow for assigning the exact data and values on the Upoint/GUI frontend.
• Resolving all the issues faced by more than 300 clients using this product as per their customization needs.
• Worked in Agile Model using Rally with regular Scrum Meetings.

Responsibilities allocated were:

• Working together with Vendor Team with respect to Test Environment readiness for various project Testing.
• Preparation of Test Environment as per request from the Testing team to support their test execution as per regression pack in System Testing (Qplex), SIT (Qplex) and NFT (Mplex) Environments.
• Creation of Jobs (JCL), Procs, DB2 Test Tables, Files and Loading of sanitize data into the test environment as per request by cloning production versions.
• Supporting the test cycle for any of the Environmental asks and providing resolution for any Job failure and abends through JIRA.
• Liaising with DBA and CICS team to ensure necessary infra is in place.
• Configuration of Qplex test Connex that act as authorization engine between VISA and RBS Debit Cards Authorization system with latest code and configuration changes to keep it up and running.
• ICSF Key Management in test Environments that decides the Debit Card Expiry date.
• Deployment of production changes in all test environments (SIT, ST, and NFT) to keep it in sync with production through Build documents.
• Scheduling of Test Jobs, DB2 SQL updates, file changes, Load modules and DBRM deployment as per build document for test Environment readiness.
• Building of New ST, SIT and Non-Functional Test Environments as a replica of production to avoid contention among Environments for dedicated mandatory/regulatory testing.
• Supporting long term projects like Connex Upgrade and other Visa Mandatory changes.
• Supporting various other requests as per Environment perspective.
• Development of Cobol-DB2 program as per Captive requirement to correct the Provider information data in the Live Environment.
• Development of COBOL-CICS-DB2 program and related MAP screens and associated Cobol-Db2 program as a product suite for the Business user, that can be used for the correction of Provider Information by the user itself rather than contacting IT Support team.
• Developed all the CICS Maps, Copybooks, COBOL-CICS-DB2 programs and associated functionality.
• Successfully deployed all the projects within the one month timeframe.
• Worked in Agile Methodology using Rally with regular Scrum Meetings

Responsibilities allocated were:

• Working together with Vendor Team with respect to Test Environment readiness for various project Testing.
• Preparation of Test Environment as per request from the Testing team to support their test execution as per regression pack in System Testing (Qplex), SIT (Qplex) and NFT (Mplex) Environments.
• Creation of Jobs (JCL), Procs, DB2 Test Tables, Files and Loading of sanitize data into the test environment as per request by cloning production versions.
• Supporting the test cycle for any of the Environmental asks and providing resolution for any Job failure and abends through JIRA.
• Liaising with DBA and CICS team to ensure necessary infra is in place.
• Configuration of Qplex test Connex that act as authorization engine between VISA and RBS Debit Cards Authorization system with latest code and configuration changes to keep it up and running.
• ICSF Key Management in test Environments that decides the Debit Card Expiry date.
• Deployment of production changes in all test environments (SIT, ST, and NFT) to keep it in sync with production through Build documents.
• Scheduling of Test Jobs, DB2 SQL updates, file changes, Load modules and DBRM deployment as per build document for test Environment readiness.
• Building of New ST, SIT and Non-Functional Test Environments as a replica of production to avoid contention among Environments for dedicated mandatory/regulatory testing.
• Supporting long term projects like Connex Upgrade and other Visa Mandatory changes.
• Supporting various other requests as per Environment perspective.
• Development of Cobol-DB2 program as per Captive requirement to correct the Provider information data in the Live Environment.
• Development of COBOL-CICS-DB2 program and related MAP screens and associated Cobol-Db2 program as a product suite for the Business user, that can be used for the correction of Provider Information by the user itself rather than contacting IT Support team.
• Developed all the CICS Maps, Copybooks, COBOL-CICS-DB2 programs and associated functionality.
• Successfully deployed all the projects within the one month timeframe.
• Worked in Agile Methodology using Rally with regular Scrum Meetings

• Analysis of Business requirement and converting those in Design Documents to be used for development of actual programs.
• Design and develop new requirement into applications using COBOL, CICS, VSAM, and JCL.
• Development of CICS Maps and Map sets as per Business need and coding of underlying Cobol Program.
• Coding of COBOL Fix Programs to fix the existing Insurance policy records as per new Business rule or Plan Configuration.
• Responsible to analyze the Project and actual product change needed as per Functional document and System Design Specifications.
• Engage with Clients to gather software requirement/Business rule and Design walkthrough of Work Order and ensure alignment in actual code.
• Evaluate the components impacted by change and risk involved.
• Estimate the actual efforts needed in SDLC in form of analysis, coding, testing and implementation.
• Development and Coding of Business requirement in form of System Design into actual programs and product Suite used in batch and Online Systems using JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, and IBM Debugger etc.
• Worked on enhancements and code development which involved the COBOL code changes, CICS screen changes, understanding the business requirement, preparation of specification document.
• Coding of all new requirements as per Design Document in New Business, Policy Administration, Benefit Recalculation, Plan Control, Rate Control and other Insurance Products in Convenience.
• Development of new Insurance Programs as per requirement from TD Bank and Scotia Life Financial.
• Post Deployment Activities to work on Defects/Problems to find the Root Cause (RCA) for issues and fix them as part of Production Support.
• Following agile methodology for coding of each module/Sprint.
• Regular Scrum meetings to update the progress of Actual Development Work.
• Create Test results and Test Cases.
• Unit Testing the Developed module as per approved test cases for Quality and Assurance.
• Delivered more than 30 Cobol-CICS-VSAM module changes within estimated timeframe.

• Responsible to support W&G Testing batch with respect to Collection & recovery platform for MPLEX which included monitoring of Batch, abends resolution, preparation of Batch Components through HP Quality Center.
• Support defect releases and project implementations through HP Quality Center.
• Optimization of batch cycles to reduce the defect count during Test Environment Support.
• Development of End to End Environment for testing as replica of Production with respect to Collection and Recovery involving Debt Manager, FICO, Experian Probe for Collection, Intra Day, Telephony, PAC reporting etc.
• Development of Schedule to run the Jobs in sequence for desired output.
• Loading of DB2 Tables with recent Centralized Testing Environment data for testing purpose using BMC utility and SPUFI.
• Multiple Tests run of complete End to End environment to fix the defects and error handover to client.
• CTE data backups using REXX and JCL into C&R environment for future testing.
• Monthly BAU Configuration release and package retrofitting into production involving Work group and Main package as part of Business Owned changes through MCR and TCR.
• Creation of Implementation and back-out plan.
• Understanding of system as a Subject Matter Expert for Probe (Event ID, Collection, Retail Banking) and Security Record Systems.
• Ownership of Testing Environments for application under as technical approver.
• Proactively identify any risk or issues, ensure closure by due date.
• Automation of manual task through Jobs and programs for Process Improvement.
• Code, test and debug new or modify existing programs according to specifications and to fulfill production requirements.
• Testing support to business as client facing to process the online transactions through small Batches executed multiple times during a day.
• Resolution of Mainframe Host issues faced by Business during test case execution.
• Work with vendor to provide logs and details for root cause and resolution.
• Communicating with business team and support their requirements.
• Communicating with Off-host Application team for their regular updates and consider files/databases in case of any data issues and accordingly work with Business and Off-Host Application teams.
• Involved in certain improvement and enhancement activities of the Project/batch.
• Coordinating with other application teams to cater any change in batch scheduling and decommissioning of certain Jobs/Applications
• Write Requirements/design documents and pass it on to Application development team if out of scope of support boundary.
• Consider the code for any urgent issues if necessary.
• Responsible for any production outage on the customer owned / vendor applications, investigating the same along with Problem resolution.
• Conduct design review meeting with SME.
• Received numerous awards for good work in team.