Arun Kumar

+1-623-268-3888
arunsoods@gmail.com
Phoenix, AZ

Career Objective
To be a part of an organization that would make the best use of my learning abilities and technical skills
and would help me to grow on my skills leading to my betterment along with the company.

Experience Summary – Technology Lead – Mainframe

 Technology Lead with 9+ years of industry experience.
 With 9+years of IT experience in IBM Mainframes, which involves development and testing of
application software using COBOL, JCL, IMS, CICS, MQ, VSAM and DB2.
 Current responsibilities include extensive client interaction to translate functional requirements
into technical specifications.
 Good exposure and knowledge on quality processes used for development and maintenance of
Project lifecycle.
 Skilled in application development, Estimations, Project schedule, Performance testing, System
Testing & Testing of Mainframe applications.
 Worked on Projects in Agile Methodology, Test driven approach.
 Sound analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to learn new technologies quickly.
 Possess good verbal and written communication skills
 Have good experience in understanding Banking Financial project and resolving production
queries.
 I have good experience in working and leading Production Support Team.
 I have good skills and experience of automation and development in Splunk.

Skills & Trainings

Languages COBOL, JCL, VSAM, TSO, ISPF, CICS, REXX

Databases DB2, IMS
Domain Financial Services.
Tools Expeditor, Change man, File Manager, SPUFI, CA7, Fault Analyzer, Endeavor
Others Splunk for reporting, Migrating the application to Cloud
Certifications / IBM Certified Database Associate (DB2 9 Fundamentals)
Professional Awards Infosys Global Agile Developer
Protocol MQ WebSphere, Db2 RESTful services, z/OS connect APIs, Service-Now
Version Control ChangeMan, ISPW, Endevor and GitHub
Scheduler Control-M, Jobtrac, OPC
Mainframe Tool FileAID, ISPF, IBM Data Studio, BMC & Compuware Tools, Xpeditor, Strobe
Modernization/DevOps Compuware Topaz, XLR, SonarQube, Jenkins, Total Test, Zowe, IDZ & RDZ
 Tools
ALM Tools Rally, Jira, and Confluence for team collaboration

Educational Qualifications
 Master of Computer Applications in 2013 from NIT Allahabad
 Bachelor of Computer Application in 2010 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Visa Status
Valid H-1B Work Visa (Out-of-Cap)

Professional Experience
Client: American Express, Phoenix, AZ Aug 2018 – Till
date
Role: Mainframe Developer/Lead

Project Description: The project involves the development and maintenance of the Merchant Finance
(MF) product of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. Core business of this product is
to provide Loans to the eligible American Express merchants and generate revenue by applying a fixed
fee on the loan amount, for a given loan term. This project includes multiple cross platform applications,
and all play a vital role in their area of expertise. It is an end-to-end project that involves requirement
gathering, design, build, testing, implementation, and support. The initial system was developed based on
waterfall methodology but about two years back it adopted to Agile methodology and all new features are
being built around that.

Responsibilities:
 Analyze the Business requirements and propose technical solutions to Business or Functional
requirements. 
 Continuous communication with onshore counterparts, SMEs, and other managers from client
sides to gather requirements for the Change requests.
 Work with cross work streams and determining solution design impacting the core frameworks
and components.
 Design Feasible Technical Solution through the changes in Databases and Existing Programs or
New programs (using the concepts of JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2, IMS DB, IMS DC, SQL, etc), so that the
required Solution is implemented with Lesser Possible Efforts and Issues/Impediments.
 To prepare accurate estimates for development of software by understanding the technical
specifications and providing development efforts.
 Migrating the mainframe application to Cloud.
 Worked on enhancements related Cobol-CICS programs which involves automation of report
generation.
 To ensure and influence development standards are adhered to design and coding standards. 
 To ensure delivered code is maintainable and supportable, and is coded with attention to
robustness, Performance testing, stability, scalability, and testability.

Environment: JHS, CTLM, Data Studio, CICS, MQ, SPUFI, Changeman, JCL, IMS, Cobol, VSAM, Splunk,
TSO, ISPF
Application Modernization | DevOps in Mainframe (April 2015 – Aug 2018)
Technology Lead – Mainframes Infosys Limited,
Client – American Express (AMEX)

Responsibilities:
 This project was little different than others. It was an infra uplift as well migration project. As part
of this project, my responsibility was to seamlessly embrace DevOps for the mainframe
application. This led to decommissioning of various conventional tools and migration towards
new set of modern tools.
 Conventional version control tool - ChangeMan was replaced by ISPW. Traditional terminal
TN3270 was replaced by file explorer in Compuware Topaz. Now, most of Mainframe related
stuffs could have done outside (without logging in) of terminal.
 Being a technical lead and working at client location, all team leads were educated about these
tools directly from the product companies (mainly Compuware) where they explained all
important aspects about the tools in DevOps model, and on various occasions, they had given us
demos too. My other responsibility was to educate all my team members about DevOps model for
Mainframe, and the pipeline of various tools.
 Had to do reverse engineering, prepared estimation, and planned roadmap to validate whether all
Mainframe components were compatible with ISPW. This made us tested all types of existing
components as well as new components under Compuware ISPW. This testing very extensive and
not limited to just check the compatibility, rather it involved compiling of all types of modules and
generating loads out of them. Also, the way we used to Xpedite the code; it was different with
ISPW.
 This migration involved thousands of mainframe components like Cobol loads, JCLs, datacards,
copybooks, DBRs, bind cards, plans etc. which we were supposed to test, check compatibly, and
move them to E2 LPAR for a through integration testing.
 With the help of XL Release, we customized our pipeline, and made our release and workflow
automated for our mainframe application. Later, SonarQube and Jenkins were introduced to the
pipeline to scan code for quality and coverage. Technology Solutions: Compuware Topaz, ISPW, XL
Release, SonarQube and Jenkins.

Client: HSBC, Pune, India Jan 2013 – April 2015

Role: Software Engineer

Project Description: HSBC continues to process over 225,000 U.S. real estate secured accounts on the
Century Two (CII) application, whose operation has become increasingly risky due to substantial
regulatory scrutiny and loss of knowledgeable resources both in technology and operational area. A rapid
assessment has been conducted to evaluate the considerations and cost to convert accounts from CII to
Loan SERV real estate platform, where approximately 500,000 accounts are currently processed. The
assessment further suggests that a two-part conversion, with closed-end accounts (comprising 75% of all
CII real-estate loans) converting in 2Q13 and revolving accounts converting in 2014 will provide the
greatest benefits in the least time. This is the phase II of Sequoia Project. After successful migration of CE
loans as part of Sequoia, the next objective is to board revolving loans from Century Two subsystem to
Loan SERV subsystem.
The objective is to convert all US Revolving loans on CII currently to the 840 sub-institutions of FISERV’s
Loan platform. The conversion considers non real estate US out of scope and will allow RE charge offs and
REO loans to run-off CII. The conversion avoids customizing Loan SERV where alternatives exit and
strictly adheres to a ‘lift and shift’ migration approach .

Responsibilities:
 Document functional & non-functional requirements.
 Provide solution for functional & non-functional requirements.
 Provide inputs during project estimation and scheduling exercises based on the impact to the
application due to changes required to accommodate project requirements.
 Involved in all the phases of SDLC cycle from coding to Testing and in Implementation Phase

Environment: JHS, CTLM, SPUFI, Changeman, JCL, Cobol, VSAM, Endeavor

Personal Information

Full Name: Arun Kumar

Contact Number: +1-6232683888
Email: arunsoods@gamil.com
Present Location: Phoenix, AZ
SSN(4 Digits): 9132
Passport no: M9201742
DOB: Aug 9th 1988
Visa/Validity: H1B OCT 2023
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-kumar-28547749/