Optym - Senior Business Analyst (5-7 yrs)

Company Overview :

Founded in 2000, Optym is building SaaS solutions for the transportation and logistics industry and making it more efficient.

Optym's software solutions are used by leading railroads, airlines and trucking companies, and have created a cumulative business value of over $1 billion for its clients.

With its headquarters based in Dallas, Texas, and centers of excellence located in Europe and India, Optym's team consists of 250+ professionals.

Optym has about 50 highly specialized professionals in US and is expecting a major growth in the next five years. Optym offers competitive wages, excellent benefits, a great working environment, and the culture of entrepreneurship and ownership.

Optym offers a generous profit and equity sharing plan with the potential to increase your compensation substantially salary based on the success of Optym.

Job Description :

- We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with a strong background in analytics to join our team.

- We prefer candidates who can join us immediately and have experience in the supply chain industry.

- 5-7 years of professional experience as a Business Analyst.

- Should have good exposure/experience of working on JIRA, Confluence and Azure Devops.

- Should be able to work with the external partners and design the integration workflows.

- Should have a good understanding of supply chain processes in transportation domain.

- You should have worked on any of below domain :

1. Transportation and logistics.

2. Supply chain management.

3. Engineering and infrastructure.

4. Consulting firms.

Desirable Skills :

Familiar with rail operations and processes.

- Should be good at preparing project presentation and data analysis.

- Familiar with data presentation tool like Power BI or Tableau.

Responsibilities :

- Gather requirements by participating in requirements gathering workshop, map existing processes and develop to-be processes for global customers.

- Collaborate with product owners to determine scope of the project or feature and have clear understanding of the vision.

- Conduct interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.

- Identify and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.

- Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.

- Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.

- Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specification is correctly interpreted.

- Prepare Test Plans, Test Cases and conduct System Integration testing based on the elicited requirements.

- Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.

- Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements verbally and through written documentation to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.

- Collaborate with external partners and vendors and work along with the team in integrating the external application with the inhouse product.

- Develop and present value proposition including system demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.