Job Description :
Position Title: Expert COBOL Developer
Duration: 4 Months
Location: Olympia, WA.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Required:
At least 5 years of recent experience and knowledge of maintaining complex iSeries applications using COBOL.
Strong development skills with hands on experience and troubleshooting skills.
Strong understanding of the software development cycle and experience with Agile delivery.
Strong written and communication skills.
Proven ability to deliver products with highest quality and on time.
2. Desired:
Post-secondary education and/or degree in Information Technology or a related field.
Demonstrated experience in working in an environment where IT security best practices, policies and procedures are required and audited, with having responsibility for enforcing and administering policies and procedures
Specific Tasks and Expectations:
1. Provide operational support of existing COBOL programs.
2. Participate in the decommissioning of the legacy COBOL applications.
3. Review COBOL application interactive processes and interfaces to define business flows and business rules.
4. Lead the analysis and resolution of production issues in existing COBOL applications
5. Read existing COBOL application and experience in viewing data in Subfiles to identify bad data in the flat files.
6. Use Data Base Cross-referencing (DBX) software (HawkEye) for cross referencing files and programs.
7. Apply Lean/Agile methods and advanced technical knowledge to evaluate and develop a solution (applications, interfaces and relational databases), and execute quality assurance testing and performance.
Suresh
Osair Technologies
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