Santosh Kumari 82 Brittany Farms Rd, Apt # 329, New Britain, CT-06053 Mobile: 201-616-1 201-616-1865 865 Email:
[email protected] Website: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/santoshi-venkata/8/44a/195
Experience Summary: About 7 years of IT experience involving all the stages of SDLC cycle.
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About of 5 years of experience in Mainframe development using technologies – COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, IMS, TSO/ISPF, REXX, Batch scheduling, Expeditor, Endevor/Changeman, Endevor/Changeman, Debug Facility.
Brain bench certified Professional in ‘Cobol2’, ‘DB2’, ‘JCL’, ‘CICS’, ‘VSAM’, ‘RDBMS concepts’, ‘Software testing’ and ‘Programming ‘Programming concepts’. Strong knowledge about USA health care domain and worked in Payor, Provider, Clini Clinical cal IT, Pharmacy benefits, Member and Claims related projects •
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Experience in capturing requirements, developing functional design/specifications with the help of technical knowledge and business bu siness knowledge acquired.
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Having domain Knowledge of US of US Health care system and Federal laws like HMO, HMO, COBRA and HIPAA. HIPAA. •
Strong knowledge about EDI formats like 834, 835, 837, 997 etc., Also, knowledge about HIPAA 5010 changes to these transactions.
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Cognizant Certified Professional in ‘Mainframes’, ‘Introduction to Managed Healthcare’, ‘EDI Formats’, ‘Pharmacy Benefits Management’, ‘Software ‘Software Testing’, ‘Six sigma Green belt’ and several other Technical/Domain/Quality Technical/Domain/Quality areas. •
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Ability to write Complex SQL queries with strong knowledge of DB2.
Strong knowledge about database design, normalization, DB2 stored procedures, procedures , functions, referential integrity, Locking & Concurrency, Utilities Utilities etc., •
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Experience in leading a team, status reporting, metrics, estimates etc.,
In-depth experience in the design and development of online of online (CICS-DB2) and batch • (COBOL-DB2) (COBOL-DB2) database systems •
Received several accolades from Clients
Involved in all the stages of the development like analysis, design, build, test and deployment of code. •
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Very good communication skills both written and verbal
Experience in research and implementation implementation of automation tools and techniques to increase the efficiency of the product and to decrease the turnaround time for tedious tasks Very good at handling Onsite-Offshore model projects
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Strong commitment, organizational and detail oriented skills. Ability to work independently,
Skill Ski ll Set : Hardware – Client Server and IBM Mainframe • Programming Languages – COBOL, C, C++, Java • • Database & Tools – DB2, VSAM, RDBMS, Oracle, SQL SQL server Front End – CICS, IMS • Operating systems – systems – MVS, Windows, UNIX. •
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Quality Related Tools - Test director/Quality Center, Rational Manual Tester, TeamTrack, E-Tracker, Prolite, Q-View
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Other utilities – utilities – Rational Clear Quest, Rational Requisite Pro, JCL, QTP, File aid, , QMF, DB2 File aid, Easytrieve, Rexx, SAS, Xpeditor, Endevor, Abend-Aid, , FTP, NDM, MSoffice(Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, outlook, Access) & MQ Series.
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Work or k Experienc ie nce e: Company: Cognizant Technology solutions Project 4: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan – Michigan Operation System Project (Jun 2008 - Mar 2010) Role: Mainframe Developer
Project Description: Description: Michigan Operating System Project (MOSP) is a Migration Project. To position BCBSM for the future, Executive Leadership decided to move to a single operating platform by migrating Local business to the Michigan Operating System System on the NASCO platform. platform. The benefits from this initiative include greater flexibility and speed-to-market, reduced administrative cost etc., In order to achieve the Single Operating Platform objective, all membership and billing content that is currently interfaced to data sources within the LOCAL platform and other system interfaces (external and internal) must be redirected and interface to comparable sources within the NASCO platform. Job Summary: I have been involved in •
Analyzing the business requirements requirements and transforming the requirements to Functional design specifications
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Design, code, unit test, debug of the code and produced high quality deliverables with least number of defects Development of both online and batch programs with database connectivity like CICS-DB2 and COBOL-DB2
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Querying data from database (SQL) for creating data for unit testing using QMF, SPUFI etc., etc., and creati creating ng best best unit unit test test scenar scenarios ios coveri covering ng all all aspect aspects s of the busine business ss requirement
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Organi Organizin zing g and storin storing g refere reference nce inform informati ation on about about unit unit tests tests and test test cycles cycles in Rational Clear Quest. Quest .
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Requirements from the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), were traced to test cases. Requirements are managed through Rational Requisite Pro. Pro .
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Effective defect tracking through Rational Manual Tester .
Interacting with Business for getting the requirements for User acceptance testing and have a good rapport with Client partners.
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Assigning the testing tasks to offshore resources and track the status.
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Reviewed and provided feedback on Unit Test scenarios, Unit test case/scripts, and data to offshore resources as well as other team members.
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Developed effective technical and user documentation user documentation
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Effective planning and working with multiple client vendors. vendors . Creating test data with Automation of Rational Robot and VB Script.
Worked on ANSI EDI 834, 835, 837, 997 formats for Membership Enrollment as well as Agent Commissions system (Membership & Billing area)
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Worked in conjunction with NASCO team for Membership and Billing, Claims • processing (NPS), (NPS) , Report generation etc., Worked on Various web portals like Connecture (IBU enrollments), Agent and group portal, Benefit focus eBilling Portal
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Developing few tools using REXX to minimize the routine/redundant activities. Example: FTP tool for Parm verification and Job scheduler tool
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Environment: COBOL, JCL, DB2, IMS, REXX, Endevor, FTP, NDM, SAS, TSO/ISPF, Rational Clear Quest, Rational Manual Tester, Rational Requisite Pro, Web services, MQ Series.
Project 3: UnitedHealth Group - Consolidated Eligibility System Role: Mainframe developer/Systems Analyst
(Nov 2005 - May 2008)
Project Description: Description: Consolidated Eligibility System (CES) is an application enhancement and maintenance project. The eligibility system houses a broad spectrum of information such as Customer level, Member Eligibility, Member Demographics and Benefit Plan level information. The system undergoes a cycle of enhancement and maintenance changes defined by the business needs of UnitedHealth Group (Uniprise account). This eligibility system plays a critical a role in Client’s business as the informatio information n stored in the systems is considered considered as ‘source ‘source of truth’. The system also provides provides feed to the other external systems. The availability of CES is crucial for Client’s Business. The system maintains all the member and plan level information for all the customers of Uniprise.
Job Summary: I have been involved in: Analysis, Coding, Debugging, Preparing the Technical Specification, Specification, Test Conditions, Test Cases and Test Data for the Unit testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, User acceptance testing, Enterprise testing as well as Deployment check outs.
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Development of Mainframe code using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS, SQL, DB2 • utilities like load, unload, etc., JCL utilities like sort, etc., •
Developed High complex SQL queries to fetch data from database to validate the data for testing
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Developed complex programs using stored procedures and functions
Provided estimates for Development Projects, set detailed schedules and expectations, delegated task among team members, monitored overall progress, and provided status report to upper management •
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Capturing Business Business requirem requirements, ents, transform transforming ing requireme requirements nts into into functio functional nal design specifications. specifications. Tracking the requirements through Requirements traceability matrix (RTM). Participated in reviews of various functional documents like Use case design, functional design specifications, test scenarios, test cases etc., Arrang Arranging ing meetin meetings gs for Busin Business ess requir requireme ements nts walkth walkthru, ru, functi functiona onall specif specifica icati tion on walkthru etc.,
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Maintaining the documents and various versions using version control system software – Microsoft Visual source safe.
Interacting with Business and Testing teams for discussions on Business requirement, Functional specification, Release meeting, Deployment meeting and walking through Test artifacts. Triaging the issues and providing an effective resolution Understanding the business & technology of the client system for providing them with quality deliverables. •
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Implementing standard methodologies like Peer Review Process, Test Readiness Process and Test Case Standards Peer reviews and group reviews.
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Generating reports with SAS programming with Mainframe
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Client walkthroughs for all the artifacts like Technical specifications, Test conditions and other artifacts. Reported defects in the application through Remote Bug Reporter using TestDirector. •
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Creating a new test environment including all online and backend processes along with connectivity to external systems for data exchange.
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Working with interfacing of various external systems like claim adjudication, adjudication, Provider details, CMS data processing, eServices etc.,
Environment: COBOL, DB2, CICS (including TSQ and TDQ), JCL, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, REXX, SAS, Expeditor, Assembler, Endevor, FTP, NDM, Test Director/Quality Director/Quality Center, VB Script, QTP, MQ series. Project 2: Company: Renaissance Softlabs Pvt Ltd: Mobile Tour Guide: Developer
(Jul 2004 - Jun 2005)
Developed a J2ME based mobile application by getting involved in all different phases of software development cycle. Lead a team of 6 other co-interns and coo rdinated with them for the development of the product with assistance from the mentors. Also, used other technologies like Apache Tomcat, Java etc., Project 1: Company: Veda Institute of Technology Library Management systems: Developer
(June 2001 - May 2002)
Developed a Java application for managing Library systems. Worked as an active team player as well as lead other team members from the initiation to the closure of the project. Received accolades from project mentors and external guides. Academic Profile: Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science Osmania University, India (87%) [Awarded Gold medal] Availability: Immediately.
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