Alev Toprak

Senior IT Business Analyst | Product Owner

Salary / Daily rate

Üsküdar, Kuzguncuk, 34674 Üsküdar/İstanbul, Türkiye

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

SQL QueriesJira

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Senior IT Business Analyst & Product Owner with 13+ years driving fintech solutions and telecommunications software systems. Proven expertise in BSCS billing systems, banking risk management applications, and Agile/Scrum methodologies with JIRA. Ready to transform your business requirements into successful technical solutions.

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Work experience

Agile Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner

Finnovation Yazılım Çözümleri Ltd.Şti.

Dec 2024 - Mar 2025

4 months

(Reason for leaving job: Company didn't provide employment contract, salary and SGK) • Fintech Start up company experience • Defined requirements for Banking Risk and Asset Liability Management web application product for credit, market, operational risks for banking and financial institutions • Analyzed the demands from business units and converted them into technical and business requirements • Collaborated with the software development team to verify that technical solutions meet business needs • Understood user requirements and prepared detailed business analysis documents • Created workflows with UML • Tested web services with SOAP UI • Managed UAT (User Acceptance Testing) processes and created test scenarios • Worked with Scrum Agile methodology • Used JIRA for backlog management and sprint tracking • Experienced in SQL

Eastern Europe & Turkey Distributor Sales Manager

Intel Corporation

Jul 2022 - Jul 2024

2 years 1 month

(I was affected by the company's global downsizing.[News] Intel’s Layoff Streak Continues: 23,000 Jobs Cut in Two Years continues) • Distributor/Partner multinational sales team management in Eastern Europe & Turkey • Member of european team • Working language is only English • Global work experience • Responsible for sales of FPGA/ ASIC/ eASIC/ SoC chips • Developing business with Arrow as main distributor/partner company • Mainly working in defence and telecommunication sector in 5G and war plane, rockets projects besides industry, medical, etc. sectors • Developing and executing sectoral and regional sales strategy according to sales targets • Analysing customer requirements and finding suitable products • Driving alignment with factory production • Forecasting quarterly revenue every month • Conducting competitor analysis(Xilinx(AMD),Microsemi(Microchip), Lattice, etc.) • Collaborating with internal stakeholders like marketing, product and pricing groups • Organizing products and solutions technical trainings for customers • Attending customer meetings with Arrow sales team in Poland • Joining semi conductor events and doing presentations in Embedded World in Germany, Arrow Multisolution Day in Poland

Türk Telekom

Mar 2015 - Jul 2022

7 years 5 months

Senior Software Business Analyst

Jan 2017 - Jul 2022

5 years 7 months

• Responsible for BSCS (Postpaid Mobile Billing System) software system • Analysis software projects requirements and solutions • Gathering requirements from business partners and being a bridge between the business side and developers • Working with development&test teams in the SDLC process • Conducting use case & analysis documentation • Experienced in technical drawing of use cases, workflows, sequence diagrams, UMLs with MS Visio • Coordinating UAT(user acceptance tests) • Waterfall software development methodology • Experience in UML and SQL

AGILE Software Business Analyst

Mar 2015 - Dec 2016

1 year 10 months

• Responsible for BSCS (Postpaid Mobile Billing System) software system • Analysis software projects requirements and solutions • Gathering requirements from business partners and being a bridge between the business side and developers • Working with PO(product owner), scrummaster, developers as scrum team and stakeholders in Scrum Life Cycle • Jira for Product and Sprint Backlog management • Sprint meetings • Scrum Agile software development framework • Experience in UML and SQL

Software Test Engineer

Huawei

Sep 2011 - Mar 2015

3 years 7 months

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Responsible for OCS-CBS (Online Charging System-Convergent Billing System) software system • Analysis software projects requirements and solutions • Preparing and Running test cases • Log analysis • Defect management • Experience in SOAP UI and Huawei internal test tools • Experience in Linux commands and SQL • 2 months work experience in China

Business Analysis Trainee

Avea

Aug 2008 - Oct 2008

3 months

Skills: Presentation Skills


Education

TT Akademi

SQL

2015 - Present

11 years 10 months

TT Akademi

PL/SQL

2016 - Present

10 years 10 months

TT Akademi

Agile&Scrum Principles

2017 - Present

9 years 10 months

TT Akademi

Business Analysis and Modelling

2018 - Present

8 years 10 months

TT Akademi

CBAP Business Analysis

2019 - Present

7 years 10 months

TT Akademi

Integrated Perception and Image Management

2020 - Present

6 years 10 months

TT Akademi

Personal Development Academy

2021 - Present

5 years 10 months

Nar Eğitim ve Danışmanlık Merkezi

Sales Academy

2022 - Present

4 years 10 months

BTK Akademi

Agile Methodologies and SCRUM

2025 - Present

1 year 9 months

BTK Akademi

Business Analysis Methodology and Techniques

2025 - Present

1 year 9 months

BTK Akademi

Scrum Product Owner

2025 - Present

1 year 9 months

BTK Akademi

Project Management

2025 - Present

1 year 10 months

Sabancı Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA

2017 - 2018

1 year 1 month

EF İnternational Language School-Bristol/England

Advance

2011 - 2011

7 months

Istanbul University

Bachelor of

2005 - 2010

5 years 1 month

Istanbul University

Business Administration and Management

2008 - 2009

1 year 1 month

Bahçelievler Lisesi

2002 - 2005

2 years 11 months

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