About

Sagar Rout is a Senior Software Engineer with 4.5+ years of experience in IBM Mainframe Application Development and System Testing. He possesses strong knowledge of the USA Banking & Finance domain and has worked on various credit card networks like VISA, MasterCard, American Express & Discover. He has hands-on experience in Transaction Settlement, Merchant Dispute Settlement, VISA claim resolution, and various dispute life cycle stages starting from Chargebacks, Chargeback-Reversals, Representments, Pre Arbitration & Arbitration stages. Sagar has worked on Clearing & Settlement process for Mastercard Network during his tenure in Mastercard. He has acquired knowledge on Currency Conversion, Interchange Fees, Domestic & Cross Border Settlement, Settlement Service Derivation, Reconciliation Process. He has also worked in 3 major releases for VISA, MasterCard, Discover for claim resolution & dispute settlement project during his tenure in Wipro Limited which involved all stages of SDLC. Sagar is technically proficient in IBM Mainframe Application Programming using COBOL, DB2, JCL, VSAM & CICS. He has experience of working in Agile framework and is aware of Agile Development methodologies and worked in CA Agile Central application. He possesses good analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work and handle multiple tasks independently as well as in a team. He is adaptable to various technologies with minimal time to switch between them, with Mainframe technology as the primary skill. Sagar is currently working as a Software Development Engineer II at Mastercard. Previously, he worked as a Software Development Engineer I in the Clearing & Settlement team at Mastercard and as a Project Engineer at Wipro. At Wipro, he worked on various Credit Card Networks like VISA, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX and was involved in the designing and development of batch (COBOL, COBOL-DB2, COBOL-VSAM) database systems. He has extensive knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, designing, development, implementation, testing, integration deployment, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications. Sagar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from c.v.raman college of engineering. He is 1x AWS Certified and has a relevant experience of 5.77 years.