Akhil BANGA

• Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
• Led international project teams to successfully deliver complex initiatives within budgetary constraints.
• Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
• Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
• Collaborated closely with key departments to align technical initiatives with overall business objectives.
• Drove successful product launches by coordinating with stakeholders, managing schedules, and mitigating risks.
• Increased team efficiency with effective resource allocation, task prioritization, and workload balancing strategies.
• Delivered high-impact presentations to stakeholders demonstrating program value, progress updates, and strategic recommendations.
• Improved cross-functional communication by establishing regular meetings and facilitating clear documentation.
• Successfully managed multiple simultaneous projects while adhering to strict deadlines for optimal progress tracking.
• Collaborated with team to define and explore business challenges, creating technical roadmaps based on findings.
• Created comprehensive documentation for each stage of product development, facilitating clear communication among all stakeholders involved in the process.
• Spearheaded efforts to improve internal processes, leading to increased productivity across all departments involved in product development.
• Implemented agile methodologies for efficient project management and streamlined communication between teams.
• Managed risk assessments and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues during project execution.
• Mentored junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the organization.
• Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality products on time.
• Oversaw the entire lifecycle of product development from concept to launch, ensuring successful rollouts and customer satisfaction.

Regulation Services team is responsible for all the G20 obligations and MiFIR regulations. The team enables all the changes required for NAB to meet its regulatory obligations across the globe. NAB has built an inhouse application which enables them to report to the regulators.

• Project manage the following new changes:
• North America Re Architecture, Brexit, Eurostar, Benchmark
• Organize and facilitate the project plan initiation workshop with several stakeholders
• Organize and facilitate ideation and solution workshop with business and tech teams
• Estimate the project timeline in consultation with the delivery team and the product owner
• Creating financial forecasts for the project timelines
• Performed Cost Analysis based on change management and new regulations
• Provide regular updates to Head of Compliance on one-on-one basis
• Manage dependencies and risk conversation throughout the life of the project
• Elicited Business Requirements for Trade Position and Transaction reporting streams including analyzing existing business process, conducting workshops with stakeholders, documenting business requirements, and developing business cases
• Working closely with Compliance in monitoring and reviewing regulatory changes
• Reviewed Business requirements that were converted to technical deliverable cards for the inhouse developers
• Elicited new business processes for the changes
• Managing vendors – hiring resources, raising the SOW etc
• Sprint reports, weekly management reports and other reports
• Prepared and presented the monthly report to the leadership team monthly
• Communicated with external vendors ensuring all the data required for reporting is available
• Chaired working groups with senior stakeholders every week and presented all the changes and stats for the fixes implemented or planned to be implemented
• Participated in audit processes with National Futures Association to provide responses
• Implemented new Operating model in the team for improvement in delivering more story points
• Cleared the backlog for MIFiD Reporting and by implementing 90% of fixes that was causing over 15K breaks.

• Investment Data Management is an initiative taken by the agency to transform their current data model to a new Data as a Service (DasS) and Dataware house as a Service (DWasS)
• As part of this program there will be a new business unit introduced in the agency which will help them to make more informative and accurate decisions related to the investment decisions
• Responsibilities:
• Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards
• Worked on gathering Business Requirements for Trade Position and Transaction reporting streams including analyzing existing business process, conducting workshops with stakeholders, documenting business requirements and developing business cases
• Converted Business requirements to technical deliverable cards for the inhouse developers
• Worked with Business units, development teams and external vendors to develop solutions to resolve on-going reference/static (including client, trade and position details) and market data issues
• Created User Acceptance criteria for UAT testing
• Reviewing System Integration Test cases for the test team
• Showcase to the stakeholders on the progress made and to confirm if the requirements have been met
• Facilitated all the ideation/sprint planning/sprint retro/backlog refinement session and Risk Workshops for my scrum team

• Markets in Financial Instruments Derivative II regulations are concerned with the framework of investments firms, trading venues in which financial instruments are traded
• The legislation has several core objectives, including: (a) increased investor protection; (b) alignment of regulation across the EU in certain areas; (c) increased competition across the financial markets; and (d) introduction of reinforced supervisory powers
• In response to the regulatory changes:
• NAB choose Bloomberg as their Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) and Approved Publication Authority (APA)
• NAB enhanced their existing Trade Reporting Engine (TReE) to ensure they are accurately meeting their Transaction Reporting obligations
• The application includes functionality for real time reporting to Bloomberg for trade reporting, monitoring and reconciliation
• NAB has also opted in to become a Systematic Internaliser (SI) for the FX Asset class
• Responsibilities:
• Eliciting requirements for all asset classes: Rates, Credit, Fx and Commodities
• Facilitated Program Manager to plan and engineer the project plans and timelines
• Worked on gathering Business Requirements for Trade Reporting and Transaction reporting streams including analyzing existing business process, conducting workshops with stakeholders, documenting business requirements and developing business cases
• Working closely with Compliance in monitoring and reviewing regulatory changes
• Worked with Business units, development teams and external vendors to develop solutions to resolve on-going reference/static (including client, trade details, confirmation) and market data issues
• Reported to and managed the expectations of the key stakeholders on project plans and progress, issues, risks, dependencies and other change management issues
• Formulated trading scenario models, business processes and system flows for the various OTC derivatives addressing order management and trading systems, client and exchange connectivity, trade orders, executions, allocations, booking and trade reporting
• Documented mapping for OTC derivatives across multiple applications as part of functional requirement specifications
• Developed gap analysis and business cases for Transaction Reporting stream
• Responsibilities included process mapping across front, middle and back office functions to determine functional areas and product classes impacted as part of Functional requirement documentation
• Documented Requirement Traceability Matrix for Transaction Reporting and Trade Reporting streams
• Conducted daily scrum meetings with project team and technology team to ensure all teams are in sync and working to achieve the common goal
• Defined a new reconciliation process across for the Operations team to ensure coverage across trade life cycle for reporting
• Project managed the Transition to BAU handover across all business owners
• Coordinated multiple asset teams to ensure all the changes required for the project are on time
• Performed UAT and assisted Test team with ensuring that the testing scenario are aligned with the business requirements
• Performed data analysis across multiple platforms and data mappings between different applications.

• The SimCorp Target Operating Model (TOM) is focused on ensuring the SimCorp investment book of record (IBOR) is maintained to support the investment management functions within VFMC, which include portfolio management & modelling, pre-trade compliance & order management
• VFMC is looking to leverage the service provider’s scale and global operating model to support the seamless interface between the provider’s investment book of records (IBOR) and the SimCorp investment book of records (IBOR)
• The project aims to deliver the following business objectives:
• Provide the investment team with an enhanced, complete & accurate data set across a broad range of instrument types and asset classes via the SimCorp investment book of records (IBOR), yet without increasing the support model in VFMC
• Feed all reference, static, market, price, transactional and valuation data into SimCorp investment book of records (IBOR) and ensure alignment of records via reconciliations to the service provider’s investment book of records (IBOR)
• Custodian change from NAS to StateStreet
• Middle Office services moved to StateStreet without impacting any current day to day business activities
• Responsibilities:
• Eliciting and Documenting the Business Requirements to implement a new Custodian to process a range of financial instruments including Loan/Debt Facilities, Bonds, Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange Derivatives
• Working with the Vendor to assess the systems’ functionality, facilitated system training sessions and user workshops across Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office functions
• Formulating proposed enhanced front-to-back trade process flows, system implementation plans and project schedules
• Liaising with Business stakeholders meetings to ensure that we are providing the desired solution
• Communications, end user training – including documentation, training plan - ensuring users have sufficient understanding of impact of changes on business processes and positive experience
• Management of testing – assignment and tracking of testing tasks
• Defect Management, system changes, lead contact with developers and business analysts in line with Agile methodology used by TSP program
• Running daily scrums with business, testing and development teams
• Running Retro sessions with the project team to ensure we are improving all the time
• Change management:
• Reviewing Test Summary Reports for various phases
• Created Conditional Memo Acceptance for business stakeholders and compliance
• Ensuring the changes are correctly prioritized and presented to leadership team
• Performed Cost impact analysis
• Creating joint test plans / approach to be shared and agreed with the vendor
• Creating Traceability matrix to ensure all business requirements are met
• Testing responsibilities:
• Logging defects in Jira and assigning them to appropriate teams for correction
• Attending daily / weekly sprint meetings with the business analyst and developers
• Reviewing test cases and scripts
• Used Jira to track development and testing progression.

• Institutional Pricing Tool Deposits (IPTD) is used in Australia and New Zealand for the pricing of term deposits
• The term deposit is keyed into IPT for pricing and then re-keyed into the appropriate booking system
• Locations outside of Australia and New Zealand are not using IPTD and have their own processes for pricing and systems for management of deposits
• This project aims to deliver on the following business objectives:-
• Make IPTD the booking system for fixed term deposits done in Australia, New Zealand, USA and UK
• Provide Straight Through Processing (STP) between IPTD and the source bookings systems such as Wallstreet, Midanz and DLD in order to eliminate dealer and/or operations teams having to re-key data
• Move towards a global view of ANZ deposits through the single IPTD platform
• Responsibilities:
• Managing a team of 6 testers located in Melbourne and Bangalore
• Ensure understanding of business process, trade booking impacts across all testers
• Stakeholder management
• Attending Business meetings to ensure that we are providing the desired solution
• Assigning and tracking of testing tasks
• Manage defects, changes, dealing with developers and business analysts in line with Running daily scrums with business, testing and development teams
• Change management:
• Creating Master Test Plans/ Strategy for the program across all locations
• Producing Test Summary Reports for various phases according to ANZ standards
• Created Conditional Memo Acceptance for business stakeholders and compliance
• Performed and managed SIT, E2E, UAT and System testing across all the applications involved
• Provided training sessions for traders globally, including creation of formal training documentation for users across the globe
• Testing responsibilities:
• Ensure integrity of trade messages– detailed checking of XML and PDXML messages
• Attending weekly sprints with the business analyst and developers
• Used ALM and Jira to track development and testing progression
• Defined scope for Load (Load Runner) and Automation testing (QTP) for regression suite to be used for each sprint
• Verifying FPML’s and SWML’s (Web Service) using SoapUI

• The recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC) has resulted in the G20 commitment to improve the transparency and robustness of Over the Counter (OTC) markets
• This commitment has led to a series of market reforms being proposed globally, with changes being primarily driven out of the US and EU regulators
• OTC reforms include requirements for regulatory reporting, mandatory clearing, and changes to trade execution
• In response to these regulatory changes:
• ANZ has built an in house reporting solution to enable ANZ to meet its regulatory reporting obligations
• The in-house application is called OTC Reporting Engine
• The application includes functionality for real time reporting to trade repositories, trade monitoring and reconciliation related to the trades that ANZ report to the regulators
• ANZ was the first Australian Bank to start clearing trades at the Clearing Houses (LCH, CME, ICE) as part of the Dodd Frank changes
• ANZ also became the first Australian Bank to become a member of London Clearing House
• ANZ has signed up to 13 Swap Execution facilities in order to meet Dodd Frank requirements around execution of trades using these platforms
• This has ensured continued liquidity and provision of service to our US based clients
• Responsibilities:
• Gathering requirements for all asset classes: Rates, Credit, Fx and Commodities
• Worked on gathering Business Requirements for Clearing and reporting stream including analyzing existing business process, conducting workshops with stakeholders, documenting business requirements and developing business cases
• Working closely with Compliance in monitoring and reviewing regulatory changes across US, Europe, APAC regions
• Worked with Business units, development teams and external vendors to develop solutions to resolve on-going reference/static (including client, trade details, confirmation) and market data issues
• Reported to and managed the expectations of the key stakeholders on project plans and progress, issues, risks, dependencies and other change management issues
• Tested rates and credit client clearing model using MarkitWire and IceLink across SCM and FCM models clearing and the collateral/margining processes using the Citibank Velocity and Bank of America Mercury platforms
• Formulated trading scenario models, business processes and system flows for the various OTC derivatives addressing order management and trading systems, client and exchange connectivity, trade orders, executions, allocations, booking and trade reporting
• Tested End to End flow of Fx asset class trades from upstream applications such as Fx All, Wallstreet and Fx Connect through to Reporting Engine via Midanz / CIM
• Platforms tested through various phases – Murex, Markitwire, Midanz and IceLink
• Documented mapping for Rates and Fx derivatives across multiple applications as part of functional requirement specifications
• Developed gap analysis and business cases for Clearing Stream
• Responsibilities included mapping processes across front, middle and back office functions to determine functional areas and product classes impacted.

• ANZ Bank had taken over the RBS bank and was going through Global Markets Integration Program
• While going through the integration process Anz had chosen FINIQ as a vendor to deliver a Cross Currency trading application
• FinIQ system provides improved pricing and processing efficiency, yielding an outsize return on investment
• The application focuses on three aspects of a transaction – pre deal, at deal and post deal
• Once the deal is accepted it is straight through processed to Murex
• The application was deployed across Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong in both Retail and Private banking space
• Responsibilities:
• Deriving test requirements by analyzing Business Requirements
• Creating, executing test scripts and capturing results using Quality Centre
• Writing Test Summary Reports in accordance to ANZ standards
• Writing Implementation documents for all the incremental releases
• Configuring Murex Mxml Exchange to enable flow of trades
• Ensuring all the trades are correctly reflected in Murex
• Testing the Integration between Finiq Application and Murex using MQ as middleware
• Configuring Control M jobs to ensure in-house trade message management
• Liaising with the vendor to ensure all the development efforts meet the business requirements
• Configure the test environments with the vendor
• Implementing application changes in Production.

• Sensis has gone under a major transformation from its previous system called GENISIS to a new technology based system called iGen
• This system has enabled Sensis to deliver high quality customer satisfaction and also improved their business processes
• This role is based on the Post Production releases
• Responsibilities:
• Planning and setting up Test Lab in Quality Centre for the weekly Dot Releases
• Training floor support team on iGen functionality
• Retesting Production defects
• Mentoring new testers on the testing processes of the project
• Engaging with business Stake Holders to ensure all Post production requirements have been covered
• Defect management with developers and business to clarify the priorities and severities of the defects that have been raised
• Liaising with business stake holders and understanding business requirements
• Creating Test cases for the Change Requests
• Performing Business Acceptance Testing for the Post Production Change Requests

• ITG is a specialized brokerage agency and financial technology firm which provides ‘best execution’ to their clients
• ITG has grown in the market and have spread their business to the whole Asia Pacific which includes whole Asia, Australia and New Zealand
• As the company is a leader in proving financial technology they followed AGILE methodology and XP Programming
• I was involved in manual and automation testing for the Middle Back Office Team
• The team had developers in Israel, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia
• Responsibilities:
• Writing stories for the backlog to ensure Quality of all the applications was maintained
• Creating test cases and test scripts for the stories
• Writing automation scripts using ‘Fitnesse’
• Used SQLDbx for querying database for validating and maintaining stocks
• Testing the stock capturing and trading tool
• Validating the pricing for all the stocks that are traded in Asia Pacific
• Testing of the Report Application (DART)
• Validating the reports for the compliance team
• Ensuring the logs of all the applications used are recording all the messages from SHARES (ASX database) and verifying the changes in database
• Providing support to Production team for release of new applications
• Ensuring instructions for the release candidates have been correctly documented
• Liaising with client managers to ensure the requirements of the clients have been correctly implemented
• Testing of application used for clearing the orders of the clients
• This application is used to calculate the commission ITG earned from their clients.

• Sensis have been undergoing a substantial transformation project (over 120 testers) labelled ‘Project Morph’
• The specific application under test during this assignment is ‘iGen’ which replaces more than 80 existing databases and over 100 systems, enabling Sensis to implement a new way of working, delivering tremendous improvements to their customers, people and business
• Responsibilities:
• Analysis of test data, specifications and business requirements for various domains (Fulfil, Enterprise and Billing)
• Deriving & designing Test Conditions and Test Scripts for Fulfil, Enterprise and Billing domains
• Performed End to End testing for the complete product cycle
• Performed risk based testing which involved prioritizing business functionality and the test scripts according
• Performed static testing by reviewing and validating Functional and GUI Docs as entry criteria for Test phases
• Used SQL Developer, Toad and Xpontus for querying databases and for XML validations
• Responsible for Test Planning, Impact Analysis, Test scheduling and Test Execution (Phase 4)
• Provided constructive recommendations to the key stake holders for quality improvement
• Liaised with business and stake holders to improve testing standards
• Triage defects and prioritise according to business /tech requirements and close coordination with offshore team
• Documented handover and User manuals for the client.

• E-Banking & Telephone Banking, a leading financial institution, provides full banking services on the Internet with online payment, online transfers and integrating different type of accounts
• The website was providing secure services to customers wherein customers would log in to their account to perform various tasks, make decisions and the task could be performed online
• The new e-banking system uses the token services to authenticate a customer
• Responsibilities:
• Designed and developed test scripts for manual testing of all the modules analyzing documents
• Defining the standard templates and process development to get the quality product to the organization
• Performed Functional, System, Regression and Shake-out testing at different phases of the program
• Performed Database integrity testing by executing SQL statements
• Developed test scripts for Data Driven Testing
• Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed, compared and stored in Quality Center
• Project: NPF (National Portfolio Facility)
• This project was focused on redesigning loan structures for corporate customers of NAB so that they can manage all their corporate loans and credit cards under a single package
• Responsibilities:
• Involved in the Use Acceptance Testing of Release 3 of NPF Project
• Test Data preparation using bank internal application ebobs and austrack
• Customer access restriction for Convenient Banking Profile (CBP) customers
• Used Seibel application (Financial domain)
• Test scenario and test plan preparation for integration between ebobs, CBP, Internet Banking and Seibel application Financial services using Quality Center
• Test Execution using Mercury Quality Center
• Defect coordination and use of Quality Center to track and close a defect.

• POS application was designed with features that work well for any type of café or that Compass owned
• Café’s can customize the order of menus to fit their way of doing business and speed up the payment and order entry process
• It also includes the inventory management system to help the business and reordering and restocking process
• Additionally reports can be printed in every aspect of the business
• Responsibilities:
• Reviewed the Business Requirements Documents and Technical Specifications
• Involved in Integration, System, Database and end-to-end testing of the modules
• Performed Functional and Regression tests
• Created and Maintained Bug Reports for identified errors in the application to Track the errors by using Quality Center.

• First point of Contact for over 500 Clients and helping clients setup different sites
• Providing Technical Support to Melbourne Head Office
• Verifying requirements with the stakeholders
• Manually testing in house applications as per the requirements.