Senior Business Analyst - Bioinformatics & Software Testing

Business Analyst III

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Job Description Summary:

You are expected to work as a product owner and do extensive domain test.

Daily Activities Include:

• Analyzing software product design, write requirements and software specifications
• Engaging with customers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
• Participating in agile activities including product demonstrations, retrospectives, backlog grooming and sprint planning
• Cross check all the requirements are met through extensive domain testing (manual)
• Detailed documentation of requirements with clear acceptance criteria.
• Support the verification of the software product/applications at various stages of the development.
• Ensuring traceability among Customer Wants, Customer Requirements, Product Requirements and Product Specifications.

Essential Functions:

• Serve as a customer advocate and ensure quality and usability of our software
• Collaboration with globally distributed teams.
• Act as a domain expert to the development team
• Collaborate with other engineers and product managers in the business to understand and provide input to product requirements.
• Analyze and develop domain test plans and protocols for AWS/Web based scientific analysis software that analyses samples and runs various algorithms
• Instruct team members and other staff in test techniques and methods.
• Participate in project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents.
• Effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats.
• Perform and coordinate QA activities such as test planning, test design, preparation of traceability matrix, test execution, test results analysis and reporting.
• Maintain excellent knowledge base of industry trends and developments.
• Perform other duties as required.
• Represent the team in cross-organizational development forums as well as customer requirements gathering and software validation and training sessions
• Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand complex problems and resolve them efficiently. Use prior knowledge and experience to provide functional and technical support and leadership to colleagues
• Participate in training and orienting new test engineers as they join the team

*Minimum Qualifications (must have)

• Experience  in Agile development
• Experience in Bioinformatics like next-generation sequencing and assay design.
• M.Sc/PhD/MS in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science or equivalent
• Ability to review, synthesize, and present scientific data and methods.
• 5+ years of experience in Cell and Gene therapy, and CAR-T cell therapy lab. 5+ years of experience in designing experiments are protocols to get accurate output.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills and a commitment to the mission of the institution.

*Preferred Qualifications (nice to have)

• Experience in one of the Languages: Python, Perl, Linux/Unix scripting
• Experience in developing requirements and testing the software applications.
• Experience working within an Agile development process (Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc). Agile certification is a big plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to present technical information to both business and technology teams with clarity and precision.

Experience Level

Senior Level