Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Sr. Business Systems Analyst, National Medical Care, Inc., a Fresenius Medical Care N.A. company, Lexington, Massachusetts (Remote)

Provides analytical support in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of complex system projects. Utilizes system information and thorough knowledge of all parameters affecting and interfacing with the system; confirms or eliminates alternative solutions to IT or business problems/issues/decisions.  Duties include: 

• Acts as a subject matter expert for applications and works with various business units to enhance and improve business processes with automation. An experienced professional with a full understanding of business systems analysis, resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways. 
• Contributes to functionality and process design for systems by creating functional specifications and supporting documentation, detailing all process flows and functional operations. 
• Participates in pilot preparation; coordinates user acceptance testing and coordinates new model rollouts:
  • Establishes rollout process.
  • Executes, fine-tunes, and documents the process through initial deployments.
  • Transfers deployment responsibility to others and works in a support role as needed.
• Analyzes and documents functional requirements, business processes, determine requirements, and sets priorities for projects. Leads development efforts for sub-project deliverables. This includes but is not limited to:
  • Gathering requirements from stakeholders via discovery sessions; drafts reviews of business requirement documents, proofs requirement documents, and obtains approval of document from stakeholders.
  • Provides guidance and oversight for systems integration test case preparation.
  • Assists Quality Assurance in functional and end-to-end validation. 
  • Provides management project updates to integrations leadership.
  • Supports user acceptance testing.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.   
• May help lower-level staff with more complex tasks that require a higher level of understanding of functions and mentors other staff as applicable.
• May escalate issues to supervisor/manager for resolution, as deemed necessary.
• Reviews and complies with the Code of Business Conduct and all applicable company policies and procedures, local, state, and federal laws and regulations.

Requirements:

Position requires a bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Information Systems, Information Technology, Biotechnology or a related field.  Position also requires 5 years of experience as a Systems Analyst or Software Quality Assurance/Test Analyst and 5 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement above) working with the following:

• Automation Tools including Selenium IDE, Selenium Web Driver, QTP, SOAP UI, Eclipse and Maven;
• Mobile testing, Automation testing, Validation Testing, Manual Testing, Web Testing and Browser compatibility testing;
• Scrum agile methodology and Waterfall Methodology;
• Project management tools including JIRA, Azure DevOps, and AHA;
• Creating documentation including specification documents and user stories;
• Leading virtual project teams including off-shore and on-shore members;
• Testing applicable client operating systems (Windows, macOS, iOS and Android) on phones, tablets and computers; and creating acceptance criteria.

Note that this is a telecommuting position working from home.  May reside anywhere in the United States.