Resume

Thanga Arun
[email protected] | +91-9095033407

Objective:
Results-driven Software Engineer with a strong focus on consistent performance, seeking to
leverage my expertise in financial domain. Committed to employing my technical skills to drive
innovation and efficiency while contributing to the success of the team and overall business
objectives.

Summary:
➢ 10 years of experience in Tandem with Domain knowledge in Cards and Payment.
➢ Expertise in Tandem Technologies, Buypass, Connex, TAL, C, TACL, COBOL,
FUP, GPC, Pathway, Spoolcom, Peruse, Enform, & Viewpoint.
➢ Good knowledge of Switching Technology and banking domain functionality as well as
technically
➢ Ability and Adaptability to work with different technologies on different platforms and
Payment Switches.
➢ Have experience on Operating Systems in Tandem.
➢ Having good knowledge on Buypass Switch and its components: Line Handlers, Routers
and Acquiring Interface.
➢ Have good knowledge on Connex Risk Development particularly on Risk related
components and its servers.
➢ Having good involvement in working with common Credit & Debit Networks (VISA,
Mastercard, Maestro etc..) for gathering the requirements for Mandates.
➢ Having good knowledge on CMS (Card Management System) and have experience on
CM2.
➢ Worked in Kanban Model & Agile Framework while performed various scrum activities.
➢ Effective Interpersonal, Leadership & presentation skills.
➢ Effectively participate in Requirements Analysis.
➢ Involve from Scratch of Requirement phase, Analysis and then up to coding phase.
➢ Ability to accomplish goals on time with good quality.
➢ Able to guide new resources about Tandem and TAL language.
➢ Having good experience to work on Kanban Model, Agile Methodology and perform
Scrum Activities.
Technical Skills:
1 Programming Languages TAL, TACL, C & COBOL.

2 Simulators CATS & SOAP UI.

3 Tools FUP, DDL , PATHWAY,ENSCRIBE & BATCHCOM.

4 Interfaces VISA, MASTERCARD & MAESTRO.

5 Payment Switches BUYPASS, CONNEX & EPOC.

Professional Experience:

Connex Risk Service Management

Summary:
✓ The project mainly covers the Risk related service management.
✓ Switch used was Connex and mainly worked on the Online risk related features.
✓ Worked on Standalone server written in TAL & Native C.
✓ Created a new server for cleanup activities for specific records in a file.
✓ Have a good understanding on Risk Factor & Suppression.
✓ Worked on various Test support tools which is specific to Clients.

Responsibilities:
✓ Requirement Analysis.
✓ Design Creation.
✓ Code Build.
✓ Performed Unit testing.
✓ Analyze on JIRA activities.
✓ Monitor Production environment.

Major Projects Worked:

Description • Cleanup of files which had older records. Main function of this code was to
delete the older records in Risk related files so that the older records can be
deleted.
• Created a new server and added in Batchcom to make sure it runs every
month for cleaning up the older records.
• For accessing the file, it uses the SWAP files to process for all the clients.
Language • Tandem C
Responsibilities • Gathered the requirement about the new functionality working with
stakeholders.
• Created a new server to automate the run every month.
• Done Unit testing and covered performance testing.

Description • Worked on Risk related servers to handle different types of Suppression &
Risk factors.
• Worked on different types of Suppression like Risk suppression, Travel
Suppression.
• Worked on various Test tools related to Risk factoring and suppression.
Language • TAL

Responsibilities • Creating Design Documents and Coding.

• Done Unit testing.
• Production Support.

Buypass Front End Merchant System

Summary:
✓ This project mainly deals with Buypass Application for Managing all types of
transactions from Acquiring perspective.
✓ Act as an acquiring switch and hence route all transactions to corresponding Interchange
process.
✓ Participated on various Requirements analysis call during initial stage of project.
✓ Worked on Standalone codes in TAL module for Loaders.
✓ Provided Production support during installation on the Prod Environment.
✓ Worked closely with Networks like Visa, Mastercard & Maestro for the Network
Amendment.
✓ Modified the codes for the interfaces like Visa, MasterCard, Maestro.
✓ All Network Modules will be tested for transactions is being successfully routed to the
appropriate Acquirer with all the details.
✓ Unit testing has been done before delivery of the project.
✓ Created stand-alone codes for receiving the card details and Merchant details for
processing the transaction.
✓ All the Stand-alone codes have been tested with all error handling aspects before delivering
to the client.
Responsibilities:
✓ Requirements Gathering & Design Creation.
✓ Design Creation.
✓ Code Build.
✓ Unit testing.
✓ Monitor Production environment.
✓ Work closely with Merchants & Networks.
✓ Scrum Activities

Major Projects Worked:

Description • Worked on Network Mandates for both Credit & Debit like Visa,
Mastercard & Maestro.
• Modified respective network codes in order to be comply with the network
mandates and its amendment Changes.
• For Debit network particularly worked on DE48 for changes.
Language • TAL

Responsibilities • Gathered the requirement about the network mandates with the client team.
• Created the Design document and started with coding.
• Done Unit testing.
• Supported the production Install and validate the changes wherever
applicable.

Description • Incomm added new support for OTC cards which was a new functionality.
• This is related to the Healthcare and its associated products.
• All the Changes will be handled in the DE104 with network response also
handled in the same Data Elements.
Language • Tandem C

Responsibilities • Gathered the requirement about new requirements from client.

• Created a design document for new functionality.
• Performed Code changes & Unit Testing.
• Supported the production Install and validate the changes.
Description • Worked on Auth Optimization Project where the main objective is to
increase the approval rate of credit card transactions.
• The functionality will be to invoke the Auth optimizer server once we get a
decline from the network.
• Account number & Expiration changes are the sets if decline we may retry
with updated details to get the approvals.
• Funds related declines cannot be processed through this.
Language • TAL

Responsibilities • Worked on Credit modules to support Auth Optimizer changes.

• Done extensive Unit testing.
• Provided support for Production Install.

Description • EPC Accounting Software the purpose of this standalone module was to
account the number of transactions we get through this Frontend.
• All types of transactions will be logged, and the respective numbers can be
seen via Fcom Utility by giving appropriate commands.
• For accessing the file, it uses the SWAP files to process for all the clients.
Language • TAL

Responsibilities • Created the Design document and done the coding.

• Done Unit testing and performed volume testing.
• Validated the changes in Production Environment.
Card Management System
Summary:
✓ This project mainly deals with all related activities to card management systems.
✓ Worked with the CM2 Application which has many servers for handling all the required
details about managing the card information.
✓ Developed server codes in both TAL and COBOL for managing the applications.
✓ Worked on Soap UI for Testing.
✓ Performed Scrum Activities apart from the Project Related work.
✓ Handled all backend Database Activities for New and Old Cards.
✓ Worked in CWSi Application which is Client Specific.

Responsibilities:
✓ Involve in Design and Requirements Phase.
✓ Design Creation.
✓ Code Build.
✓ Performed Unit testing.
✓ Scrum Activities.
✓ Monitor Production environment

Major Projects Worked:

Description • This project mainly handles with Card Management system.
• It has various server to handle different types of requests like Name server,
Card Master etc...
• Worked on Test tools like SOAP UPI to handle the request which is
connected to the server in the Tandem for different types of requests.
• Its main focus on CM related application from online request and handle the
same.
Language • TAL & COBOL.

Responsibilities • Involved in Requirements phase to obtain the project scope and its
functionality.
• Created Design from scratch and Coding.
• Done Unit testing.
• Support for Production Install.
 Work Experience:
Company Held Position Duration
Wipro Technologies Technical Lead June-2024 – Till date
Fiserv Professional April-2020 – June-2024
Financial Software & System Sr. Software Engineer November-2018 – April-2020
Cognizant Technology Solutions Programmer Analyst June-2015 – November-2018

Academic Qualifications:

Course Institution Year of Passing Percentage

B.E Velammal College of Engineering and Technology, Madurai 2015 7.30

HSC Dolphin public Higher Secondary School, Madurai 2011 84.75

Mahatma Montessori Matriculation Higher Secondary

SSLC 2009 72.20
School, Madurai.