Oriental Trading Company, A Berkshire Hathaway Company

IT Business Analyst

Oriental Trading Company, A Berkshire Hathaway Company  •  Omaha, NE (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

As our IT Business Analyst, you will be responsible for acting 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. You will gather requirements, design validation strategies, and execute testing to verify deliverables, including writing scripts as part of Test-Driven Development (TDD). This role requires strong collaboration with IT and business stakeholders to ensure project outcomes align with business objectives. Additionally, this role will serve as a subject matter expert, supporting technical teams in understanding functional requirements.

*This is an onsite position in Omaha, NE*

Detailed Description

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions

  • 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
  • Marginal Functions

  • Performs other related duties and projects as assigned
  • Here’s what you need to join the fun:

    Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

    • 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.

    Education

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

    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

    Other Qualifications

    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 by a Japanese American, the Oriental Trading history of fun spans the better part of the last century. Today, Oriental Trading offers more than 60,000 products to individuals, teachers, schools, churches, businesses and nonprofits. With a corporate vision to “Make Life More Fun,” Oriental Trading (a Berkshire Hathaway company) spreads joy and smiles to millions each year through a robust family of brands; Oriental Trading, Fun Express, MindWare, SmileMakers, Morris Costumes and halloweenexpress.com.

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    Oriental Trading Company, A Berkshire Hathaway Company

    About Oriental Trading Company, A Berkshire Hathaway Company

    Oriental Trading Company has one simple mission: to make life more fun. For individuals, nonprofits, churches and schools, we provide countless reasons to share smiles while making all of life's moments more special.

    With more than 40,000 unique products, we're the nation's largest direct retailer of value-priced party supplies, toys and crafts as well as a leading provider of fundraising products. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, Oriental Trading has continued its long-standing commitment to excellent customer service, even being recognized by Foresee as one of the Top 20 Internet Retailers based on customer satisfaction. Additionally, Oriental Trading has been rated one of the Top 100 Online Retailers by Internet Retailer.

    Our history with fun is one that spans for the better part of the last century. Founded in 1932, we became a major supplier of novelties to the U.S. carnival trade in the 1950s before expanding in the succeeding decades through catalogs, direct marketing and eventually the internet in 1999.

    In 2012, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway saw tremendous value and growth opportunity in Oriental Trading and made the decision to purchase our company. Shortly after, Oriental Trading acquired two companies that aligned with our mission: MindWare, a manufacturer, wholesaler and direct retailer of “brainy toys for kids of all ages,” and SmileMakers, a leading brand specializing in patient giveaways and promotion products for dental and healthcare markets. To better meet the needs of our customers, Oriental Trading created several new brands in 2017; Marry Me, Fun365, and CustomFun365.

    For over 85 years, we've helped friends and families around the world spark imaginations and celebrate special moments. Spreading fun one smile at a time? That's our specialty!

    Ready to Make Your Career More Fun? Learn more at MyOTCCareer.com.

    Industry
    Retail & Ecommerce
    Company Size
    1,001-5,000 employees
    Headquarters
    Omaha, Nebraska
    Year Founded
    1932
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