
Alev Toprak
Senior IT Business Analyst | Product Owner
Salary / Daily rate
Üsküdar, Kuzguncuk, 34674 Üsküdar/İstanbul, Türkiye
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
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.
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