Ashish Singh Kanwar

223 Brisdale Drive, Brampton, ON L7A 2S7, Canada

Phone: +1 (647) 243-8684, E-Mail: askanwar.0172@gmail.com
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashish-singh-kanwar-8998b29

Mainframe Developer

 Mainframe professional with 10+ years of diversified experience in Application Design/Development and
Maintenance/Support in software methodologies on IBM Mainframes.
 Extensive experience in development/maintenance of new/old COBOL programs involving PS File, DB2
and VSAM storage in both batch and online (CICS) environments. With tools like In-Sync, File-Aid,
Endevor, FA-DB2, Platinum, SPUFI, AQT, QMF and Xpediter.
 Worked in Banking, Insurance and Travel business domains for different clients (TD Bank, Bank of
America, HSBC, Wells Fargo, Standard Life, ZFS, DSV).
 Deep understanding in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and
familiar with various Life Cycle Models like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Spiral and ‘V’ model.
 Experience in People Management, Performance Management, Management reporting and
conducted interviews for Mainframe role.
 Bachelor’s Degree in Technology.

Application Development:
 Adept in interacting with client, understanding, analyzing and evaluating the client/end-user
requirements, information system needs and then custom designing solutions (high-level and low-level
technical designs) for Mainframe systems.
 Participated in peer code reviews and actively contributed towards improving code quality. Provided aid
and mentor-ship to less experienced Software Engineers in the team.
 Have deep understanding and experience in creation/execution of Unit/Integration/System test cases
and scripts for mainframe projects. Have worked in collaborated QA and Development team structures
with experience on HP ALM/ Remedy/Test Director.
 Maintain the documentation involved for the software application like Installation, Regression and
Maintenance procedures.

Application Maintenance:
 Provided maintenance and production support to the various client environments.
 Handled deployment activities and deployment support during Project implementations. Have also
worked on on-call support for clients. Have also prepared DB2/Non-DB2 packages for deployment to
production.
 Researching and debugging production issues as they come up, analyzing and working on their fixes as
per SLA timelines depending on severity/ priority

Key Highlights:
 Experienced in EDI and XML technology and usage/understanding for various EDI file formats. Have
worked in projects involving EDI/XML files in Mainframe systems.
 Have worked in a project for TD Bank Canada while working in Accenture in Banking-Mortgages business.
The task was to componentize the mainframe modules for better structured organization of components.
 Have also worked as onshore coordinator while staying in Scotland at client site for around 6 months.
Have been praised for maintaining good communication between local and client team as well as
 parallelly working on a new project as a single resource in pilot phase for which later the team size grew
to 20. Being sole owner of all the estimation and planning for that Mainframe project.

Technical Skills:
Languages/ Editors Mainframe, COBOL, JCL, CICS, VSAM, TSO/ISPF, EDI, XML

Database DB2, SQL

Operating System zOS Mainframe

Tools QMF, AQT, SPUFI, , FileZilla, HP ALM, Remedy, Test Director, Putty, IBM
Debugger
Mainframe Tools Endevor, File Aid, In-Sync, Xpeditor, Platinum

Certifications:
 ACN-ATA Application Developer by MIT.

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Professional Experience:

Fidelity Information Services (FIS) (Apr 2015 – Present)

Tech Lead (Programmer Analyst Senior)
Team: Connexions
Connexions is a product by FIS that enables Banks and Financial institutes to communicate easily amongst each
other for payment orders and remittances - Connecting various file formats and payments processing via
Mainframes. Clients e.g. BOFA

Technologies
 COBOL, CICS (Online Front End), DB2, JCL, VSAM, zOS, SQL, Mainframe.
 XML, EDI (830/ 849/ 835/ etc.), ACH, BAI
 FileZilla, File Aid, Platinum, Xpediter

Responsibilities:
 Understanding, analyzing and evaluating the Client Requirements for Connexions System.
 Designing, coding, testing, debugging, diagnosing and correcting errors and faults in the software
application. Involved in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle for the system.
 A typical work request here will generally consist of screen changes, respective online program and report
changes, batch changes corresponding to the online change. Or change in DB2 or some process in batch
system.
 Provide maintenance and production support to the various Client environments.
 Maintain the documentation involved for the software application like Installation, Regression and
Maintenance procedures. Have also worked on Implementation plan and activities.
 Mentor/ Manage other Software Engineers in the team.

Key Highlights:
 Started the Connexions offshore team in 2015 after Knowledge Transfer sessions from client over
conferencing and delivered first delivery by 2015 end within estimated timelines.
 Delivered BOFA regulatory change within very tight deadlines single handedly as other senior resource
was on leave. It was very well appreciated by client and became a milestone delivery for the Connexions
offshore team attracting more work for the team. Was awarded SOQ award from Management for this.
  XML project to HSBC was another milestone delivered recently and currently being beta tested. That
project enabled Connexion system to accept XML as input/output format other that EDI. The project was
a pilot project to the introduction of Connexions to XML world and was very highly appreciated.

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Accenture (May 2012 – Jan 2015)
Senior Software Engineer
Team: Standard Life Insurance

Technologies:
 COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM, zOS, SQL, Mainframe.
 File Aid, Platinum, Endevor, AQT, IBM Debugger

Responsibilities:
 Worked in Quotes Part of team in insurance domain. The system is responsible for generating Insurance-
Quote.
 Role was to implement RDR regulatory changes to Mainframe Quotes system and afterwards Asset and
Revaluation Accounting changes to the Asset Management system.
 Feasibility Analysis on implementing RDR (Retail Distribution Review) changes to Quote (Mainframe)
system.
 Required all phases of software development life cycle. Requirement Gathering, Feasibility, Design, Built,
Unit test, Integration test, System Test for both the changes.

Key Highlights:
 The role also involved onsite travel to Scotland and stay for 6 months in which primary role was to
Analyze, Estimate design a new change to Asset and Revaluation Accounting. As well as acting as onshore
coordinator enabling smooth communication between 35 member existing offshore and client team.
 RDR was rolled out in 3 phases and Asset Management change in 2 phases with successful UATs and least
user defects.
 Was awarded Accenture OSCAR award during this phase in Accenture.

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Accenture (Mar 2011 – May 2012)
Software Engineer
Team: Zurich Financial Services

Technologies:
 COBOL, CICS (Online Front End), DB2, JCL, VSAM, zOS, SQL, Mainframe.
 FileZilla, File Aid, Platinum, IBM Debugger

Responsibilities:
 Role includes writing CICS and Batch programs for new menus for Life Insurance project in ZFS.
 Have done Reviews for design artifacts and code.
 Have worked on Implementation activities.
 Setting up test environment for Unit Test Coding and testing has per the client specifications and
standards.
 Review of all deliverables created by Accenture Onshore/Offshore Developers within the Client Project.
  Written 20 CICS (Maps/ Programs) and 10 Batch programs from scratch for this project.
 Participate in Design, build and SIT (system integration) till deployment, status calls with the Client's
Systems Analyst (SA) Team.
 Worked on the LIFE-Backend part of the system for enhancement including monitoring.

Key Highlights:
 Was new to CICS, So, self-learned the CICS language and delivered the projects/tasks without any delay.
 Complete Life insurance CICS online was created by Accenture.

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Accenture (Jan 2011 – Mar 2011)
Software Engineer
Team: TD Bank

Technologies:
 COBOL, CICS (Online Front End), DB2, JCL, VSAM, zOS, SQL, Mainframe.
 XML, EDI (830/ 849/ 835/ etc.), ACH, BAI
 FileZilla, File Aid, Platinum, Xpediter

Responsibilities:

 Handling requirement gathering, system analysis and finalization of technical / functional specifications
and design documents for the project.
 Prepared Technical design Document, from Business Requirement Document (BRD)
 Coordinating with Onsite and Client, training and mentoring new joiners.
 Participate in reviews of software development deliverables (e.g. design, code, test plans).
 Assist with the development, implementation, and maintenance of existing, new or enhanced systems
 Primary role was to componentize the Mortgages business modules for standardization. Whole
application was changing so the need to test all the system was also there including existing acceptance/
regression tests.
 Secondary role involved creating data (files - tables) for various programs being changed to MF COBOL for
testing and validation purpose. It included batch and DB2 programs.
 Facilitate Deployment Activities and Deployment Support during Project Implementation.
Accenture (Nov 2008 – Jan 2011)
Associate Software Engineer
Team: DSV Despina

Technologies:
 IBM VAGEN, COBOL, CICS (Online Front End), DB2, Mainframe.
 EDI, XML, Remedy

Responsibilities:

 Monitoring Remedy - Client Application Support Tool (Ticketing Tool), Monitoring Jobs of the Client
Application.
 Handled the incidents and problem records of complex applications and reduced the back logs.
 Development, Testing, Release Management & Support.
 Defect Management using Test Director and communication between client and third-party supporters.
 Version verification in IBM VAG to ensure correct change goes into production.
 Script verification and execution (UNIX - PUTTY). Scripts that put the changes in code from quality
environment to the production.
 Promote Testing which is done to ensure requirement is met on production environment after release.
 CRD (Change request) and RFC (request for change) detection via functional knowledge and code
debugging on tickets.
 EDI Inhouse file debugging, Job Logs reviewing, debugging various jobs which handles I/O files.
 Reporting, PMR: Monthly report on incidents handled at Accenture India - depending on severity and
priority, AM Status: Weekly report on incidents pending with Accenture, AO WSR: Weekly internal
Accenture report.