COBOL Cover Letter

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the COBOL position.

Previously, I was responsible for development of projects involving application development, migrations, and additions to existing COBOL applications.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• System monitoring to proactively identify problems
• Escalating issues to the Support Manager when needed
• Interacting across the business, other Platform teams, Change Management, Incident Management, Problem Management and Risk Management
• Should posses good analytical, problem solving / debugging skills
• Should have positive attitude, self starting, motivated quick learner
• Should have working knowledge of SDLC processes
• Experience of financial domain (financial instruments understanding)
• Basic Understanding of Agile development and Scrum

Please consider me for the COBOL opportunity. I am including my resume that lists my qualifications and experience.

In the previous role, I was responsible for full application development life cycle support to include designing programs, creating user interfaces and documenting code to implement new computer programs as well as maintain existing programs.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Developing, testing and implementing bug fixes
• Confirming requirements, developing, testing and implementing application enhancements and changes
• Maintenance of system documentation, knowledge database and code repository
• Good knowledge of DB2, CICS
• Solid professional software development experience including designing and implementing large distributed enterprise applications that are scalable, reliable and highly-available
• Strong OO design skills, understanding of enterprise software design patterns and data structures
• Experience with server-side architectures, web application development, and Service Oriented Architecture
• Software engineering skills with specific experience in COBOL development object-oriented development experience with C# or Java/J2EE

I would like to submit my application for the COBOL opening. Please accept this letter and the attached resume.

Previously, I was responsible for design development of projects involving application development, migrations, and additions to existing COBOL applications.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Build expertise on COBOL, CICS, MFAST (screen development), IDMS, JCL, SQL,UNIX/PERL Scripting knowledge and Linux Commands
• Understand the application functionality and document the understanding in SharePoint site and KT tracker of the project
• Understand the technical framework and code of the application, flows, interface with up/downstream applications, various environments involved and the release process and lifecycle for different applications
• Improve domain knowledge by understanding application functionality and business need it fulfils.• Understand the technology stack of the project
• Actively participate in training sessions provided (if any) by asking relevant questions
• Work experience in COBOL
• Strong sales experience, ideally with a revenue target, able to provide track record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota
• Proven track record of consistently achieving or exceeding quota

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the COBOL position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for end users and other partner groups with continuing training and assistance for a specific application, system or process.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Strong development experience in COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM
• Hands on experience on creating Technical Specification document and Analysis flow diagrams
• Experience on Preparing Unit Test Cases, performed component Testing and loaded test cases on HP-Quality center
• Banking Domain experience would be a value add
• Willing to code COBOL program running on mainframe
• Delivery of 2nd line of applications support
• Analysis of issues and problems raised by users via Service Desk or 2nd line of applications support
• Resolution of incidents

I submit this application to express my sincere interest in the COBOL position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for development of projects involving application development, migrations, and additions to existing mainframe applications.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Good knowledge of database concepts and technologies
• Intense interest in both software technology and the businesses it supports
• Readiness for a highly collaborative, team-oriented work environment
• Comfortable performing many roles such as Project Manager, Business Analyst, Architect, Developer
• Previous experience with complex data and problem analysis/resolution in complex integrated environment with technologies such as mainframe, IMS, Cobol, DB2, web services, Java
• Experience with payment networks, authorizations, credit / debit card processing
• Experience on the Tandem/Non-Stop platforms with knowledge of Tandem/Non-Stop System including Guardian/OSS, Pathway, etc
• Willing to learn Customer 1 and Install 1