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Job Description

 

  • Participates in and conducts development activities with offshore resources.
  • Prepares test plans for unit testing, regression testing, system and production parallel testing.
  • Conducts technical walkthroughs with all stakeholders.
  • Supports system testing activities and resolves any technical issues.
  • Ability to problem solve, code, test, and deploy application fixes in a fast-paced SLA driven environment.
  • Codes and tests high priority and critical changes utilizing COBOL, JCL, DB2, and VSAM.
  • Handles change requests for implementing changes and owning them until closure.
  • Provides emergency bug fixes to production issues and resolving client research requests.
  • Provides production support by fixing batch process abnormal ends within strict SLAs.
  • Meets with project managers to provide daily or weekly project statuses.

 

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
  • 5+ years of software development engineering experience.
  • Working knowledge in an IBM Mainframe environment – proficient with COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, and working with IBM Mainframe ZOS toolsets.
  • Strong knowledge of the following: Job Scheduling (CA7); IDCAMS, SyncSort; Infogix; File-Aid; Abend-Aid; File Transmission (FTP/NDM); Endevor; Clarity
  • Application Production Support – ability to provide 24x7 support for up to a week at a time.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
  • Experience in technical design writing and documentation.
  • Proficient with usage of MS office – Outlook, Word, Excel. SharePoint
  • Estimation, Analysis, Design, Design reviews, Coding, Code reviews, unit testing in small increments of work (mainframe)
  • Troubleshooting (root cause analysis) and debugging applications in different mainframe programming languages
  • Software testing and quality assurance
  • Document software code and ensure that technical documentation i.e. configuration guides, install guides, system designs, others meet requirements
  • Develop and Integrate software with existing systems
  • Maintain standards compliance
  • Report status of assigned software development and/or maintenance tasks consistently following the specified software development methodology
  • Communicate effectively with a positive and confident attitude

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Education

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