IT Business Analyst

About the role

As our IT Business Analyst, you will act as a critical liaison between the business and technical teams, translating business needs into clear functional specifications and ensuring software solutions meet high-quality standards. This role requires strong collaboration with IT and business stakeholders to ensure project outcomes align with business objectives. Additionally, you will serve as a subject matter expert, supporting technical teams in understanding functional requirements. This is an onsite position in Omaha, NE.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to elicit, document, and refine detailed business and functional requirements, translating business needs into clear functional specifications.
• Work with the technical team to produce design specifications, including process flows, screen layouts, and database requirements, while supporting development by clarifying business logic and ensuring alignment with requirements.
• Partner with IT Product Managers to define project scope, milestones, and deliverables, and assist in managing timelines and resources effectively.
• Support programming staff throughout the development stage, clarifying business logic and ensuring deliverables meet agreed-upon requirements.
• Communicate with IT and business stakeholders to maintain transparency around project scope, status, and deliverables, serving as a subject matter expert for functional requirements.
• Propose and evaluate solutions to business problems, contributing to process improvements that enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and quality.
• Monitor and analyze validation results, providing timely feedback to development teams and assisting with root cause analysis for rapid resolution of issues.
• Develop and execute validation strategies, including scripts as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD), and perform functional, integration, and regression testing to ensure deliverables meet business and functional requirements.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts or frameworks as needed to support efficient regression validation and integration testing within the development pipeline and reducing manual testing efforts.
• Ensure all requirements and validation activities align with Agile development standards, supporting the delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Abide by all policies and procedures of Oriental Trading Company.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
• Work requires in-person collaboration among colleagues and contractors.
• Performs other related duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Business Analyst, QA Engineer, or related discipline.
• 2+ years of experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• 1+ years of experience developing scripts as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD) to validate requirements.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from requirements gathering to deployment and validation preferred.
• Experience with automated testing tools (e.g., TestComplete, Selenium, QuickTest Pro) preferred.
• Experience with source control tools such as Git, GitHub or GitLab preferred.
• Experience using SQL for data retrieval and manipulation preferred.

Skills

• Ability to obtain and maintain a solid understanding of business process flows and their relationship to IT solutions.
• Ability to translate conceptual solutions into meaningful documentation, including user stories, specifications, data flow diagrams, and process models.
• Ability to assess current customer, enterprise, and industry trends and relate them to business performance.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts in clear, non-technical language.
• Strong collaboration skills, working effectively across business and technical teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint) for documentation, presentations, and analysis.

About the company

Join us at Oriental Trading, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, where fun means business! Oriental Trading Company (www.orientaltrading.com) is the nation’s largest direct retailer of value-priced party supplies, arts and crafts, toys and novelties, and a leading provider of teaching supplies and affordable home décor and giftware. Founded in 1932, Oriental Trading offers more than 60,000 products to individuals, teachers, schools, churches, businesses, and nonprofits.