Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Certification
Competence Skills
Personal Information
Timeline
Generic

Birsen Elles

Product Owner
Istanbul,34

Summary

Adept at deconstructing and planning stories in order to promote improvements to product design and implementation. Excellent relationship-building, organizational, and project management skills with a focus on overcoming technical challenges and implementing successful resolutions.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Product Owner

GE Aviation
01.2021 - Current
  • Manage aviation software products; Aircraft Records Management, MRO Connect, Workflow Management, M&E Systems Integrations
  • Work with global cross-functional teams to deliver high revenue aviation products
  • Manage product backlog; continuously ordering and prioritizing to ensure that the backlog meets customer needs based on value
  • Collaborate with customer and business stakeholders to develop roadmaps both at the product and portfolio level, then planning and managing milestones
  • Lead software development activities and QA activities
  • Follow up Freshdesk tickets
  • Define deployment notes and prepare release boards.
  • Manage applications integrations to product environment.

Senior Software QA Engineer

GE Aviation
09.2018 - 01.2021

Planned and devised cohesive test plans for projects using advanced testing technologies. Defined and create automation, functional and nonfunctional test infrastructures.

Senior Software QA Engineer

Verifone
04.2016 - 09.2018

Collaborated with QA analysts to establish, meet and maintain quality assurance thresholds based on best-practice tools.

POST terminal applications tested and integrated to EMV services

Senior Integration Test Engineer

Alcatel-Lucent
06.2013 - 04.2016

Developed effective test strategies based on requirements analysis and risk assessment for optimal Payment, Policy & Charging Facilities.

Senior Integration Test Engineer

Alcatel-Lucent
05.2012 - 06.2013

Provided software solutions to improve quality of Femtocell Systems

Junior Test Engineer

Huawei
06.2011 - 05.2012

Leveraged telecom core network (NGIN) best practices to maintain high standards of quality assurance throughout the project lifecycle.

Technical Support Engineer

Toshiba Turkey
03.2010 - 06.2011

Diagnosed and troubleshot hardware, software and network issues for Toshiba notebook technologies

Education

Computer Systems and Technologies -

Angel Kanchev University of Ruse
Ruse, Bulgaria
01.2004 - 04.2009

Physical Sciences - undefined

Cemberlitas Anatolian High School
Istanbul, Turkey
01.2000 - 04.2004

Skills

Technical acumen

undefined

Certification

ISTQB – Foundation Level, 2021

Competence Skills

  • Aviation- Aircraft Records Management
  • Telecommunication
  • Policy & Charging
  • Payment & POST Solutions
  • EMV Services
  • SoapUI
  • Cucumber Framework
  • Selenium Web Driver
  • PyCharm
  • Robot Framework
  • Load Runner
  • TMSS HP QC
  • HP QTP
  • SQL
  • Azure DevOps
  • Aha
  • Jira
  • Zephyr
  • CISCO Packet Tracer
  • Secure CRT
  • VMware Workstation
  • VMware Server
  • Local Area Network
  • TCP/IP

Personal Information

Nationality: EU/ TR - Dual Nationality

Timeline

Product Owner

GE Aviation
01.2021 - Current

Senior Software QA Engineer

GE Aviation
09.2018 - 01.2021

Senior Software QA Engineer

Verifone
04.2016 - 09.2018

Senior Integration Test Engineer

Alcatel-Lucent
06.2013 - 04.2016

Senior Integration Test Engineer

Alcatel-Lucent
05.2012 - 06.2013

Junior Test Engineer

Huawei
06.2011 - 05.2012

Technical Support Engineer

Toshiba Turkey
03.2010 - 06.2011

Computer Systems and Technologies -

Angel Kanchev University of Ruse
01.2004 - 04.2009

Physical Sciences - undefined

Cemberlitas Anatolian High School
01.2000 - 04.2004
ISTQB – Foundation Level, 2021
EEC- Anglo - Global Business Communication and Etiquette, 2015
TCE – Toshiba notebook technologies and specifications, 2010
CCNA - Cisco Certified Networking Associate, 2008
Birsen EllesProduct Owner