Role description
Business Analyst (Healthcare Data & QA)
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with strong healthcare domain expertise and hands-on QA experience to support healthcare data initiatives. The ideal candidate will bridge business and technical teams by gathering requirements, analyzing complex healthcare processes, validating data, and ensuring high-quality delivery across claims, prior authorization, interoperability, and correspondence systems.
What You'll Do
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate healthcare business processes into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Create user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and traceability matrices.
• Lead requirements management throughout the SDLC using Agile methodologies.
• Design and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and validation activities.
• Validate healthcare data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and reporting solutions.
• Perform data reconciliation, data quality checks, and root cause analysis using SQL.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of large healthcare datasets across multiple systems.
• Partner with development, QA, and business teams to resolve defects and clarify requirements.
• Support regulatory compliance initiatives involving HIPAA, PHI handling, and healthcare coding standards.
This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.
What You Need
Required
• 6-10+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, QA Analyst, or combined BSA/QA role.
• 4-6+ years of healthcare domain experience in claims, prior authorization, interoperability, and correspondence.
• 4-6+ years of experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, and end-to-end traceability management.
• 4-6+ years of hands-on QA experience involving data validation, ETL/ELT testing, and reporting systems.
• 3-5+ years of advanced SQL experience for data validation, reconciliation, and analysis.
• 3-5+ years of experience validating large-scale healthcare datasets.
• 2-4+ years of experience with healthcare regulations and standards including HIPAA, PHI, ICD, and CPT coding.
• 2-3+ years of experience working in Agile environments and writing user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
Preferred
• Exposure to HL7/FHIR healthcare interoperability standards.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of healthcare data warehousing, reporting, and analytics environments.
• Experience with healthcare digital transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to data governance, data quality frameworks, and healthcare interoperability programs.
Key Skills
Business Analysis, Claims Management, Cloud Data Warehousing, Google Cloud Platform, Agile, ETL, FHIR, Functional Testing, Microsoft Azure, Requirements Gathering, Reporting and Analytics
Location & Compensation
Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.
Role Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Compensation Range: $88000 - $132000
Benefits
Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.
Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).
All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.
As part of our recruitment process, UST may use AI or automated tools to support activities such as application screening, scheduling, or interview assistance. All hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team. Where applicable law requires it, further notice will be provided separately.
