Paluru Balasukumar

balasukumar.paluru123@gmail.com
Phone : +91-9663788333

SUMMARY

 Having around 5+ years of total experience in IT Industry on various IBM Mainframes application
development, enhancement and maintenance. Extensive experience in the IT industry, involved
with full project life cycle, complete Software Development Life Cycle SDLC. 
 Extensive Knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation,
testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of Mainframe applications. 
 Having strong experience on preparing technical and functional specifications for complex
projects.
 Hands on experience on developing new programs using COBOL, IMS DB/DC & DB2 for the
requirements and also, providing support for the existing system .
 Hands on experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS DB/DC, VSAM,and MVS. Worked on Technical
Tools like FILE-AID, XPEDITOR, SDSF,XMIT,CHANGEMAN,ServiceNow, ENDEVOR, Control-M.
 Excellent working knowledge in Core Application design, Development, Testing and Production
support. Strong technical skills in developing Mainframe batch processes using COBOL, JCL, DB2
and IMS.
 Performed multiple roles across all the phases of software development life cycle as well as
managing end to end deliverables using Waterfall as well as agile development methodology.
 Tracking all the production related incidents via Service Now and working directly with client to
provide them regular updates within defined SLA’s.
 Excellent knowledge on project management tools like Clarity, Microsoft Project Plan, MS Office,
and SharePoint for managing project financials and reporting.
 Quick learner and Self-motivated with strong facilitation and communication skills resulting in
clear and focused communication between all levels of management, clients, business
stakeholders and technical teams.

EXPERIENCE:

Period Organization Position Held

SEP/2015 – AUG/2016 TATA Consultancy Services Software Engineer

SEP/2016 – Till Date Cognizant Technology Associate Engineer

Solutions
 TECHNICAL SKILLS

TECHNOLOGY: IBM Mainframe

DATABASES: DB2,IMSDB
LANGUAGES: COBOL,JCL,CICS,Easytrieve
ACCESS METHOD: VSAM
Z/OS, MVS
OPERATING SYSTEM:
TOOLS: File-Aid, QC, XPEDITOR, QMF,SPUFI,DCLGEN
CONFIGURATION MGMT: ENDEVOR

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project 1 : UBS-Credit Card & Payments

Title Developer
Client ACAPS(Automated Credit Application System)
Technology COBOL, JCL,VSAM
Database IMSDB,DB2
Tools FM,FMI,Xpeditor,Endevour
Team Size 08
Role Mainframe Developer
Period 01st August 2019 – Till Date

Project Description:

ACAPS (Automated credit application processing system) a middleware system used within the bank to decision
loans, credit cards..Basically when a banker enters the customer information on a front end system, ACAPS takes
the information and using bank owned factors, credit bureau information, and Determines if the funds can be
issued, at what amount, and at what rate.
The ACAPS system is supported by credit scoring, credit bureau report retrieval, documentation preparation,
application decisions as well as interest rates and accounting functions.

Responsibilities:

 Involvement in all the phases of software development and end to end module delivery.
 Develop/Enhance the new/existing COBOL and IMSDB modules as per client requirements.
 Created Test jobs using JCL for Unit, System and User Acceptance testing cycles.
 Setting up XPEDITOR for debugging the batch COBOL programs.
 Developed Batch/online programs using COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IMSDB and CICS.
 Participating the daily standup meeting and update status to the team.
 Have been using ChangeMan as versioning control tool to keep track of Mainframe components like
JCL, PROGRAM, PROCs etc.
 Application Developments, enhancements and modification.
  Unit testing of the developed/modified program.
 Review code, Technical design and test plan documents.
 Providing technical support and coordination among team
 Involved in FSD’s(Functional Specification Documents) peer reviews.
 Carrying out impact analysis.
 Direct interaction with BA’s.

Project 2 : UNUM INSURANCE

Title Developer
Client UNUM
Technology COBOL, JCL,VSAM
Database DB2
Tools SPUFI,QMF,SERVICENOW
Team Size 08
Role Mainframe Developer
Period 01st July 2018 – 31st July2019

Project Description:

Unum Group (NYSE:UNM) is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Fortune insurance company formerly known as
UnumProvident. Unum is the top disability insurer in both the United States and United Kingdom and also offers
other insurance products including accident, critical illness and life insurance. Unum is divided into three
business segments: Unum US, Unum UK and Colonial Life. It provides disability insurance, as well as group
benefits, life insurance and other services.

Ultimate the responsibility is to keep the Production environment up and to facilitate the applications belonging
to the different portfolios like; Benefits and Admin for Business purpose.

Responsibilities:

 Analyzing business requirements and identifying solutions for the same.

 Involved in coding and testing.
 Performing Impact analysis of Business needs/requests.
 Creating test documents for capturing test results.
  Developing test plans and Testing of enhancements.
 Resolving the environmental issues
 Creating test regions to perform the Unit testing, SIT and UAT.
 Performing database tuning using DB2 Apptune.
 Documentation as per the quality procedures.
 Supporting SIT, UAT & Regression.
 Taking care of the implementation activities.
 Resolving production Abends
 Implementation of the enhancements in the real time environment.

Project3 : ABS(Account Billing System) – PL(Personal Lines)

Title Production Support
Client TRAVELLERES
Technology COBOL, DB2,JCL
Database DB2,IMSDB
Tools Endeavor, CA7
Team Size 05
Role Production Supporter
Period 20th Sep 2017 – 31st June 2018

ABS is the Account Billing System which handles numerous types of account and Policy level billing of Personal
sLines products from various Inputs and issue systems. The mission of ABS is to provide on time billing for
Personal Line products. Some of the functions that ABS performs are the updating of issue activity, payment
processing, direct entry updates ,internal ABS trigger activity, out of company statement bill/payment
processing, EFT and credit card processing, and EDI billing and payment processing, various types of system
reporting and issue system response feeds. All the information will be resides in IMSDB. According to this
information bill will be generate for each Policy and sending those bills to the customer to make payment.

The ABS system production cycle processes under multiple schedules – daily, weekly, monthly (various Types),
and special/”as needed”. This processing is done against various databases in ABS including ABS billing,
Statement Bill Client, Statement Bill recon/Bill, Statement Bill collection, ASSETS, Direct Entry/Sweep Collection,
PASS,VPALS and VSAM files for purged accounts, payment information and commission history.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Getting tickets into Ralley Board and Start initial analysis on tickets and update the analysis in tool on
same.
 Discuss with Onsite coordinator for clarifications on requests.
 Start doing further steps to resolve the tickets and close the tickets based on priority.
 Handling production issues, enhancements, changes, code fixing batch issues within the SLA (Service
level Agreement).
 Supported regression testing for the modifications done in the application.
 Doing unit testing and prepare the Test Design document and test cases.
 Proving timely information, resolution and maintenance a clear documentation repository
 Monitor batch jobs regularly and preparing status report (Health Checks) on daily basis.
  Involved in On-call support and resolved the abnormalities in batch cycle during shift hours.
 Prepared batch run status after ensuring the proper ending of mainframe batch cycle.
 Ensured the proper generation of reports and mailbox /FTP/SFTP transmissions.
 Provide month end support and monitored the complete batch cycle for provide the status to customers
as this is a critical application.

Project 4 : Verizon
Title Reverse Engineering for DVS
Client Verizon
Technology COBOL, DB2
Database DB2
Tools File Aid, SPUFI, QMF, Endeavor, Xpeditor
Team Size 25
Role Reverse Engineering Analyst
Period 8th Sep 2016 – 18th Sep 2017

Project Objective

Order rewire project aims at re-modeling DVS for better performance and operational cost reduction

Description of the Project:

DVS (Distributed Vision System) is a Middleware system (a.k.a. Service Bus) which allows Tier 1 applications
(front-end systems) to access VISION information. VISION (Virtual Information System Integrated Online
Network) is Verizon Wireless' leading billing system which provides all billing and account information on our
customer base, including reseller, Accounts Receivables/collections, and customer order operations
functionality.

Currently the core billing system is maintained in mainframes. As all the other systems are tightly coupled to this
billing system and in order to reduce the operating cost, a plan was proposed to move the billing system from
Mainframes to Java environment. As a team member my responsibility was to analyze all the COBOL modules
and come up with a High level design document that explains the core business logic involved in that module
and also to prepare detail design document that explains the flow of data and data dependencies between
different systems/data stores (table/files) for a particular module.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Analyze all the COBOL modules and come up with a High level design that explains the core business
logic involved in that module.
  Prepare detail design document that explains the flow of data and data dependencies between different
systems/data stores (table/files) for a particular module.

 Perform Effort estimation for API requests from Customers.

 Update the daily status to the onshore lead and project manager about the progress of the API.
 Review the deliverables like detailed Design and Table field mapping of the API before delivered to
Customer.
 Walkthrough the detailed design with the client SMEs and get sign off for the APIs.

Project 5 : RBS-TTDM
Client RBS
Environment: COBOL,JCL,VSAM,DB2

Tools File-Aid, QC, QMF, SPUFI, DCLGEN

Team Size: 16
Role Tester
Period 31st Sep 2016 – 31st Aug 2017

Description of the project:

The asset protection scheme was part of range of support that RBS group received UK govt following refinancing
of the bank in late 2008 and early 2009.The extent of states said that RBS group received required the approval
of the European commission and the group head to submit are structuring plan that demonstrates.

 This is a banking project which deals with the Data migration work stream and will cover the
requirement that relate to the migration of the data that come under ownership of core back of
 Start analysis on Business requirements.
Systems. Therefore back offices allows branches, service centers and head off departments online access to
main banking app such as standard order, direct debit etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Requirement (TDR) getting form QC and update the status on same.
 Preparing analysis document based on requirement and gets the clarification from Team Leader.
 Start working on the requests according to analysis documents.
 Preparing query for the requirement in DB2 using SPUFI and providing those data to tester through
TDOD screens. Working through TDOD (Client developed) screens for direct requirements.
 Discussion on requirement with testers for clarifications.
 Validate the requirement before delivering to tester.
 Sharing knowledge to team members.
 Conveyed offshore weekly calls.
Personal Details:
Full Name : Paluru Balasukumar
Marital Status : Married
PAN : BNFPP143A

Permanent Address : JangalaPalli Village & Post,

Venkatagiri Mandal,
Nellore District,
Andhra Pradesh – 524132.