Suganya Chakkaravarthy

 Around 10 years of experience working with Insurance and Retail industry.

• Around 10  years of professional IT experience in Development, Maintenance, Migration projects using Mainframe, InformaticaPowerCenter and Z/os.
• Worked on Importing and exporting data from Microsoft SQL server  to Mainframe  and vice - versa
• Promoted as Team Lead in group projects, recognized by peers for creating excellent customer rapport resulting in increased customer satisfaction.
• Expertise working in a variety of industries including Retail, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Safeco and non-Safeco Claims.
• Involved in complete software development life cycle (SDLC) of the Requirements gathering, Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing and Implementation.
• Experience includes preparation of Functional Specification, Technical Specification which includes High level design and Low level design.
• Working on Various applications includes Premium data, loss data, Reinsurance system, monthly financial data to General Ledger, reconcile check issues & paid info from Banks, providing reports to regulatory, creating motor vehicle report & Insurance Bureau Score/National credit file in Data Vendor Reconciliation
• Extensive experience in Batch and Online Application development.
• Have a good understanding in the Retail and Consumer goods domain.
• Extensive working experience on COBOL, JCL Technologies and DYLAKOR
• Extensive working experience on databases DB2 and VSAM.
• Developed and maintained backend systems using COBOL on endevor  ensuring robust and efficient data processing and business logic implementation.
• Designed and implemented interactive display screens using AMT (Advanced Multitasking Terminal) technology, enhancing user experience and usability of applications.
• Extensive working experience on mainframe tools like TSO, ISPF, SDF, FILEAID, SPUFI, QMF, SAR, FTP.
• Extensive working experience on Batch Debugging tool XPEDITOR.
• Extensive working experience on version control tool ENDEVOR, CHANGEMAN.
• Experience in preparing Estimation for the Deliverables.
• Proficient in managing mainframe job processing using JES2.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to quickly understand clients' business needs.
• Very good experience in gathering requirements and analyzing technical impact.
• Experience in creating Test strategies, Test Plan, Test data and validating the Test Results.
• Experience in Unit Testing, Integrated Testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Participated in daily meetings with the team, walkthroughs and defect tracking meetings
• Have Experience in print technologies like SAR
• Good understanding of Business practices in the verticals like Insurance, Banking and Retail
• Excellent communication, team spirit, hardworking and leadership skills.
• Excellent exposure in interacting with clients and providing Coordination between onsite and offshore.
• Coordinating the technical team with the Business team, Test team, and Support team.
• Experience in ETL using Informatica PowerCenter9.6.1 from sources like Microsoft SQL server, and Mainframes Cobol Flat files

BE computer science and engineering