Suresh Kamath

Excellence-driven professional with 25 years of experience, including developing key deliverables, and driving project success in various methodologies. Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining products.

Mainframe Programmer Analyst, Workplace Investing/FTS - Fidelity Investments - Jersey City, NJ

(2020-10)

Single client Feed (SCF) - Application Development, Onboarding of New Clients, Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding Review, Development in various regions (INT, ACPT), Production Implementation. Involved, supervised, and managed all the prod installs include post implementation validation with business partners and Client Service Managers. Worked with multiple teams and testing members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.

Working with various business and system groups in delivering quality software that meets Business objectives while adhering to Client methodology and best practices.

• Involved in supporting prod environment, Business ad-hoc requests, preparing/scheduling the batch jobs.
• Analyze COBOL/DB2/JCL programs and resolve technical issues. Multi-task and work on multiple projects concurrently

Mainframe Programmer Analyst, Fidelity Brokerage /FTS - Fidelity Investments - Jersey City, NJ

(2016-06 - 2020-09)

Purchase and Sales (P & S) - Involved and managed all the prod installs include post implementation validation with business partners. Support Equities, fixed Income and Option trade processing as well as street side comparison Break sheet Processing.

• Researched Epics created stories and modified online and batch programs to support addition of New Exchange MEMX and LTSE.
• Researched Epics created stories and modified online and batch programs to Support creation of table to maintain Historical data from Accrued Interest database.
• Created stories and modified online and batch programs to Support OCC mandate to add of 10-digit Actionable Identifier (Account number at Contra Firm) While sending CMTA clearance record to OCC.
• Automation of Journaling process for Equities, Fixed income and Options processing.
• Automation of applying contrary instructions to options that are in IN The Money during the Weekly and Monthly Expiration process.
• Timely notification of Client Trade breaks via Balancing Engine.
• Balance and reconcile street side and suspense account.
• Process corporate Actions, assignment and position compare with OCC for Options.

Mainframe Programmer Analyst - Citibank NA /Tech Mahindra - New York

(2006-03 - 2016-04)

Systematics (SI) - As a Project lead, managed a team that varied in size from 30 to 7 over 10 years. Managed all facets of project life cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment. Extensive experience in all phases of Data Migration Life Cycle (SDLC) including design, development, enhancement, and testing.

The data was migrated from VSAM datasets to DB2 tables. Involved in the designing of the database and field mapping from VSAM to DB2 tables, migrating that data and enhancing the program and jobs, writing new programs to access the new DB2 tables. Coded, modified and tested programs primarily in Relationship Management (RM Version 202.00), Savings and Time (ST Version 203.00) and IMPACS (IM Version 203.00) using COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM.

• Refresh test database with masked data. Maintain BCR dates and run BCR patching jobs in order to skip the posting dates beyond the system-imposed limit to facilitate testing.
• Train the team on approach to be followed when an abend happens, simulate abend resolution and provide best solution for the abend.
• Provided permanent Solutions to avoid frequently occurring abends. Resolved trouble tickets and updated problem resolution Repository.
• Resolved Abends and provided fix for the various bugs for the SI nightly batch cycle. Provided support for User Acceptance Testing with UAT cases and resolving any issues with the users and performed UAT and participated in writing test plans.
• Provide metrics to upper management on a weekly and monthly basis. Data Masking of Production data to be migrated to test regions.

Mainframe Programmer Analyst - Citibank NA /Tech Mahindra - New York

(2006-03 - 2016-04)

AFS (Automated Financial System) - Created the project plan and the technical specs to extract and mask the relevant data. Coded JCL and program to extract the data from production DB2 database and manipulate the data to put them in the format required by data masking engine. Coded XML cards to be used by data masking Engine to identify the fields that need to be replaced by fake data and the way to interpret the fields that need to be masked.

• Created detailed test plans and testing strategies and ensure these are executed extensively with referring Data with application of SQL queries to retrieve data and test.
• Responsibilities included over-looking Test Planning, Test Case development and test script execution for Integration, Regression, Performance, Functional and System Testing.
• Provided support for User Acceptance Testing with UAT cases and resolving any issues with the users and performed UAT and participated in writing test plans.

Mainframe Programmer Analyst - Bear Stearns/Hexaware Technologies - New York

(2004-06 - 2006-02)

Consolidated Interest Systems (CIS) - Worked with internal and external users to define requirements and coordinated user management and developer expectations. Analyzed and designed various parts of the CIS phase I system in order to provide Enhancements to the system. Interact extensively with the users and design the support system in order to meet their needs. Maintained proper communication with developers making sure modifications and requirements were addressed.

• Assisted in UAT and in developing user manuals.
• Gathered business requirements and created Used Case Diagrams using Power Designer and closely working in areas such as change management and Traceability Matrix.
• Created detailed test plans and testing strategies and ensure these are executed extensively with referring Data with application of SQL queries to retrieve data and test.
• Provided support for the Nightly Batch Cycle, Resolved Abends and provided fix for the various bugs in CIS phase I systems.

Mainframe Programmer Analyst - Equitable life Insurance/Hexaware Technologies - New York

(2000-06 - 2004-05)

LIFE 70 - Created the project plan and the technical specs to extract legacy data and migrate the data to an Oracle database via ROMA, MQ series channels for the Reinsurance Project. Identified the business requirement and test objectives to develop test plans and test cases. Interacted with business and third-party agents to resolve any problems they have in areas of data transmission.

• Coded programs to automate the date card generation for the cycle date for the Life70 cycle.
• Captured system performance Data and generated LIFE 70 status report, market timing report and various other weekly and monthly reports for the senior management.
• Reviewed daily FTP processes to ensure trouble free run.

Mainframe Programmer Analyst - Dresser Rand/Hexaware Technologies - Olean, NY

(1999-05 - 2000-05)

Analyzed the billing system and developed Request for Information and request for quotes. Developed CICS and Batch programs using stored procedures to migrate key DB2 data from legacy system to Oracle server via a MQ series protocol.

• Developed test scenarios for the software for system and regression tests. Logged defects and tracked the progression from fixing, verification and closure.
• Reviewed daily FTP processes to ensure trouble free run.
• Prepared Technical Documents and User Manual of the software and also ensured proper documentation in all SDLC phases.

Analyst - Alliance Capital/Hexaware Technologies - New York, NY

(1999-02 - 1999-05)

Performed GAP analysis by identifying existing technologies, documenting the enhancements to meet the end state requirements. Studied the flowcharts and internal and external interface details to capture gap information in system interfaces.

• Prepared the project plan for level 2 testing (for internal interface) & point to point testing (for external interface).
• Created matrices to identify the system gaps & uploaded.