Chalapathi Gopi. Pallelapati.

 +91 9962267725;  pcgopi7@gmail.com

Mainframe Professional
Professional Summary:

 9.5 years of experienced, resourceful and effective Team Lead with proven efficiency
of Development, Testing and Support teams.
 Hands on Experience in development, customization and implementation of
business applications using Mainframe technologies.
 Good exposure to requirement analysis, designing and structuring applications.
 Good experience in Application Development and Maintenance using COBOL, JCL,
VSAM, CICS, DB2,IMS DB
 Worked extensively in Telecom, Logistics and Banking (Cards and Payments)
domains.
 Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a track record of motivating and
developing good team players.

Technical Summary:
 Expertise in JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, IMS DB
 Schedulers: CA 7 , Zeke & Control-M
 Tools & Utilities: ESP, CAFM, PEGASYS, ENDEAVOR, CHANGEMAN,
XPEDITOR, SPUFI, File-aid, REMEDY WEB, QC, JIRA, Service Now

Strengths:
 Quick learner in emerging technologies
 Self-motivated
 Able Team lead.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

3. Legato Health Technologies January 2019 – Till Date.

Project Details:

Project: WGS Enrollment & Billing

Role: Senior Software Engineer
Client: Anthem Inc.
Team Size : 30
Skills: JCL, COBOL, IMSDB, DB2
Duration: January 2019 – Till Date
Project Description:
Anthem, Inc., is a provider of health insurance in the United States. It is the largest for-
profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. As of 2018,
the company had approximately 40 million members.
Anthem is ranked 29th on the Fortune 500.

Role/Responsibilities:
 I lead a shift with minimum of 5 members a day from offshore, assigning and
prioritizing the tasks/tickets to resources on daily basis and reviewing the results
 Coordinating the issue resolutions and deliverables’ status with onshore and
business
 Debugging of COBOL programs and analyzing the application modules to fix the
production defects raised thru JIRA defects/tasks.
 Use all type of SORT and other utilities in JCL to perform various data
manipulations on production/test datasets
 Taking care of monthly infra release maintenance (IPL) activities
 Promotion of emergency fixes thru Endeavor tool. Also work on schedule changes
thru SNOW tickets.
 Planning and assignment of monthly based shift schedule to offshore
 Participate in KT sessions with team & trained many new joiners in grooming
their knowledge
 Participation in weekly technical review meetings with development teams.

2. DXC Technology. November 2016 – December 2018.

Project Details:

Project: South East Toyota (SET)

Role: Professional 1 Application Delivery
Client: JM Family Enterprises Inc.
Team Size : 8
Skills: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS, MQ
Duration: August 2018 – December 2018

Project Description:
South East Toyota is a distributing company of Toyota cars in South East region of
USA. The programs in this application are currently using Legasuite process to
communicate between the different interfaces and I worked on remediating this and replace
with MQ process.

Role/Responsibilities:
 Analyze the existing programs those are currently using Legasuite
  Prepare the detailed technical design document with the all the requirements for
migration to MQ.
 Coding the new components or making necessary code changes to existing modules
as per the design requirements for MQ conversion.
 Promoting the changes to DEV& QUAL (SYSTEM) environments thru Changeman.
 Performing all test efforts required in DEV environment to cover unit and regression
testing of the code changes & application (using EXPEDITOR).
 Document the unit and regression test results for DEV.
 Communicating with onshore through regular meetings and status calls.
 Provide the design walk-thru for the software changes

Project: Machine To Machine Communications (M2M)

Role: Professional 1 Application Delivery
Client: Verizon Data Services
Team Size : 10
Skills: JCL, COBOL, DB2, CICS
Duration: February 2017 – August 2018

Project Description:
M2M is a machine to machine communication system which enables business
customers of Verizon (ex. Cars like Toyota, Ford) to provide their consumers with Verizon’s
internet/data plans to be used with their vehicles. A diagnostic device called WAM is
installed in the machines for this data access. Verizon initially charge the business customers
for the data usage provided to end-users (car owners) for some initial period (ex. 3 months),
after which if the consumer is interested to continue, he/she should subscribe to the
plans/features. For this subscription post their free trial period, Verizon will directly charge
the consumers instead of business customers.

Responsibilities:
 Analyze the user stories created by the business and assign them among the
resources.
 Prepare the detailed technical design document with the all the requirements for the
project.
 Coding the new components or making necessary code changes to existing modules
as per the design.
 Promoting the changes to DEV & QUAL (SYSTEM) environments thru Endeavor.
 Performing all test efforts required in DEV environment to cover unit and regression
testing of the code changes & application (using EXPEDITOR and middleware called
DVS TestMe)
 Document the unit and regression test results for DEV
 Coordinating between offshore and onshore through regular meetings and status
calls.
 Provide the design walk-thru for the software changes
 Providing release support on monthly basis
1. Syntel International Pvt. Ltd. December 2011- October 2016.

Project Details:

Project: CABS & TOLL Enhancement & Support

Role: Sr. Software Engineer
Client: CenturyLink Telecommunications
Team Size : 5
Skills: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, CICS
Duration: June 2014 to October 2016

Project Description:
Century Link is a leading provider of communications, high speed internet and
Entertainment services through broadband and fiber optic networks operating 33 states.
CenturyTel acquired EMBARQ and Qwest, to form Century Link. Syntel is working on
performance improvement of Carrier Access billing systems (CABS and TOLL business
systems) and supporting Embarq/Qwest acquisition

Responsibilities:
 Have lead a team of 5 members from offshore, assigning and prioritizing the
tasks/tickets to resources on daily basis and reviewing the results
 Coordinating the issue resolutions and deliverables’ status with onshore and
clients
 Developing new COBOL programs and testing them with the existing application
 Conducting impact analysis of changes and Unit testing of the
developed/modified components
 Debugging of COBOL programs using INTERTEST tool and fixing the program
issues permanently in production
 Used all type of SORT and other utilities in JCL to perform various data
manipulations on production/test datasets
 Promotion of new/weekly changes through PEGASYS tool
 Developed new online CICS screens for new requirements
 Planning and assignment of monthly based shift schedule to offshore
 Participated in KT sessions with team & trained new joiners in grooming their
knowledge
 Participation in monthly review meetings with delivery team from offshore and
onshore

Project: Card Acceptance and Processing Network (CAPN)

Role: Software Engineer
Client: American Express
Skills: JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2
Duration: February 2012 to May 2014

Project Description:
Financial Capture is the Module of Card Acceptance and Processing Network. It
involves the capture and processing of AMEX Card Holders transactions all over the world,
and handles billing the proprietary and network Card Holders and the Bank Issuers. The
transactions are identified whether they are local or foreign and appropriate Markup is
applied and billed accordingly.

EMEA FINCAP is for the Market Europe and Middle East Africa. This is designed to
handle Card member and Service Establishment billing for the market Europe and Middle
East Africa. It covers all the transactions captured in Europe (France, Denmark, Germany,
England, etc.) and Middle East Africa.

Responsibilities:

 Testing efforts to ensure correct billing of Card Members as well as Service

Establishments
 Involved in a Level- I Project named RSS Third Rate which involved migration
from one application to another application
 Design activities for new code to be developed for applying third rate in EMEA
markets.
 Conducting impact analysis of code changes and Unit testing of the
developed/modified components
 Fixing Defects for the released work packages
 Routing of the Cards Launched and the Mark up that has to be applied for the
New Card Ranges.
 Created test cases for the test scenarios and uploading them into QC (Quality Center)
for executing and documenting the results.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

Bachelor Degree:
B.Tech, CVR College of Engineering, JNTU-Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

HSC:
New Wave Junior College, Khammam, Telangana, India.

SSLC:
ZPSS Vennavally, Telangana, India.

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