- Asha Verma is a technical lead at TCS Gurgaon with over 7 years of experience in IT, including 5.7 years of experience in mainframe development and 2.1 years in production support.
- She has worked on multiple projects in banking, financial services, insurance domains for clients in the US, taking on roles like team lead, team member, and handling requirements analysis, testing, and production support.
- She is proficient in languages like COBOL, SQL, JCL and mainframe tools like CA Endevor, File Aid and has a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering.
1. Curriculum Vitae
Asha Verma -Mail: verma.asha10@gmail.com
House no 399/40 Mob: +91-9911195344, 8826601064
Sec 40, Gurgaon
Haryana - 122001
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a challenging position and strive for excellence with dedication, proactive
approach, positive attitude and passion towards the work in a role of program
manager/business analyst.
SUMMARY:
• 7.8 years of overall IT experience.
• Cognizant Star guiding award for guiding junior team members and Dream Team Member
award for excellent contribution in release projects, having 5.7 years of diversified experience
in Mainframe development and 2.1 years in production Support.
• Client interaction to understand complex requirements and translate them to the development
team.
• Mentored peers within and across team, helping them in all technical & functional business
perspective. Assigning tasks to the team, ensuring task completion with coordination of team
members to ensure smooth transition of the project works.
• To ensure Time Sheet compliance, managing leaves, providing backup plans etc for team.
• Strong knowledge in Banking & Financial Services & Insurance domain.
• Worked with development team for fixing bugs and deficiencies based on the requirement.
• Ability to work & gel in team oriented projects.
• A team player with concern for quality at all levels and ability to perform under stress.
• Excellent technical documentation skills as prepared weekly status reports, various KT
documents for base lining processes.
• Extensive knowledge of SDLC and STLC.
• Conducted internal technical training sessions for the team members.
• Prepared implementation plans, reviewed change request for various one pagers.
• Preparing effort estimation for one pagers.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Primary Skills: IBM Mainframes.
Languages: SQL (DB2) COBOL, JCL, VSAM, C
Operating Systems: Vista, OS7 OS390 and Windows XP & Windows2000.
Tools: CA-Endevor, CA-Filemaster File AID
Database: SQL Server (DB2), DATACOM, VSAM, IDMS.
Configuration: Visual Source Safe (VSS), C2.0, Effort Estimation, execution.
EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:
November 2007 – till Aril 2013 in Cognizant Technology Solutions in Kolkata.
October 2013 till Present in TCS Gurgaon.
Working as Tech Lead at Tata Consultancy Services Gurgaon.
PROJECT #1:
2. Client : US based Client
Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2.
Environment : IBM Mainframe: OS-390
Tools Used : ENDEVEOR, FILE AID, FILE MASTER, Ultimatix Omegaview, JCLWTR
Database : DB2
Role : Team Lead (Mainframe-Support and Enhancement)
Domain : BFS
Team Size : 12
Duration : From October 2013 – Till Now.
Description:
DB account basically processes the credit and debit transactions of different vendors in its own
system PEP+. DB gets the feed from ACH(Automated clearing house) and private banks,
generate reports and send back to the corresponding destination through Collector.
Responsibilities:
• Requirement Analysis
• Handling abends/fixing.
• Preparing daily work tracker for team members and ensuring the completion of the same by
EOD with proper coordination with team members.
• Co-ordination with the client for offshore deliverable and fixes
• Responsible for all the deliverable regarding abends or other issues from offshore.
• Arranged Knowledge sharing sessions for the team.
PROJECT #2:
Client : US based Client
Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2.
Environment : IBM Mainframe: OS-390
Tools Used : ENDEVEOR, FILE AID, FILE MASTER, CITRIX
Role : Team Lead (Mainframe Development)
Domain : BFS (Cards & payments)
Team Size : 7
Duration : From June 2012 – Till April 2013.
Description:
Process through which financial transactions are recorded on a merchant’s record and noted on
merchant’s statement. It is also a factor in the overall balancing process.
Responsibilities:
• Requirement Analysis
• Detailed Design Document(DDD)
• Reviewing code changes for existing programs (Batch and Online) new modules, test cases
and test logs.
• Reviewing software quality maintenance, facing internal audits.
• Preparing daily work tracker for team members and ensuring the completion of the same by
EOD with proper coordination with team members.
• Co-ordination with the on-site team for offshore deliverable and new one pagers.
• Responsible for all the deliverable from offshore.
• Arranged Knowledge sharing sessions for the team.
• Ensuring Time Sheet compliance, managing leaves, providing backup plans etc. for the team.
3. • Preparing PIP (Process Improvement Plan).
PROJECT #3:
Client : US based Client
Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, IDMS, DB2, DATACOMM.
Environment : IBM Mainframe: OS-390
Tools Used : ENDEVEOR, FILE AID, Quality Center (ALM), SQL
Role : Team Member
Domain : Insurance
Team Size : 10
Duration : From November 2011 to May 2012.
Description:
Project was trying to sunset the ADABAS technology. The maintenance of relationships between
all applications were still largely manual. Which will eliminate the dual maintenance due to data
on a new DB2 structure.
Responsibilities:
• Requirement, Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Preparation of test plans and requirement trace-ability matrix.
• Designing Test cases from requirements.
• Test Data/Precondition creation. Structured test case execution, logging defects.
• Co-ordination with the on-site and offshore teams and responsible for the deliverable from
offshore.
• Test reporting, defect reporting and other management activities.
• Efforts estimation for Change request.
• Preparation of Test Scenarios and Cases for System Integration Testing.
• Quality docs/Project process orientation.
PROJECT #4:
Client : US based Client
Languages : COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 IDMS
Environment : IBM Mainframe: OS-390
Tools Used : ENDEVEOR, FILE AID, FILE MASTER, CITRIX
Role : Team Member (Mainframe Development)
Domain : BFS (Cards & payments)
Team Size : 11
Duration : From December 2010 to November 2011.
Description:
We handled transactions that were challenged by a cardholder and returned to the Acquirer by
the card holder's bank.
Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis, Design.
• Code changes for existing programs (Batch and Online), new programs.
• Support for UAT, production support, handling production issues.
• Reviewing Software quality maintenance documents, CR (change request).
• Co-ordination with the on-site and offshore teams, preparing Daily Status Report.
• Leading a track, preparing work breakdown structure, effort estimation for CRs.
4. PROJECT #5:
Name : US based Client
Languages : COBOL, JCL, DB2, CICS
Environment : IBM Mainframe: OS-390
Tools Used : ENDEVEOR, FILE AID, FILE MASTER, CITRIX
Role : Team Member (Mainframe Development)
Domain : BFS (Cards & payments)
Team Size : 14
Duration : From August 2008 to November 2010.
Description:
Responsibilities
• Requirement Analysis, Design.
• Code changes for existing programs (Batch and Online) Unit testing, Regression testing.
• Software quality maintenance, preparing Status Report.
• Handling production abends and bug fixing.
• Responsible for the task assigned to me from offshore.
• Preparation of CR (change request).
ENTRY LEVEL TRAINING IN COGNIZANT INDIA:
• Generic training included courses on computer hardware and system software concepts,
programming fundamentals, RDBMS, client server concepts and s/w development life cycle.
All courses were supplemented with intensive Hands-On sessions.
• Stream Specific Training for 3 Months in Mainframes which included Introduction to
Mainframes, JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2 and, Introduction XML. All these mo dules were
followed by intensive hands on and projects.
CERTIFICATIONS UNDERGONE:
• External ITIL V3 Foundation Certification.
• Internal Certification from Cognizant in COBOL, Level0 (Banking & Financial Services),
Level1 (Cards & Payments), Level1 (Retail Banking), DB2.
• Diploma in Banking domain (BFS) as BA (Business Analyst) through TCS Academy.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
B.Tech in Chemical Engineering (Spec in Paint Tech. 2007 Passed out)from HBTI Kanpur.
Application performs the dispute processing and provides capability to in-house investigation to
work the Credit Card Disputes. Provides a framework for a robust, unified, custom built system
solution for all disputes processing for the South, North and East Chargeback platform.
S No. Name of the
Institution
Name of the
Exam
Board/University Marks
Obtained
(%)
1 HBTI Kanpur B. Tech UP Technical University,
Lucknow
74
2 Dr S.L.P. Public
School, Kanpur
10+2 CBSE Board 77
3 JNV Raebareli 10th
standard CBSE Board 70
5. PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name : Asha Verma
Sex : Female
Nationality : Indian
Passport no : G3407805
Languages Known : English, Hindi & Bengali.
Permanent Address : 311, H-2 Block Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur UP Pin-208011
Date: 3rd
Jan, 2016
Place: Gurgaon
(Asha Verma)
6. PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name : Asha Verma
Sex : Female
Nationality : Indian
Passport no : G3407805
Languages Known : English, Hindi & Bengali.
Permanent Address : 311, H-2 Block Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur UP Pin-208011
Date: 3rd
Jan, 2016
Place: Gurgaon
(Asha Verma)