JOB DESCRIPTION:The OpportunityOur location in
Lake Forest, IL, currently has an opportunity for a
Senior Business Analyst in our Core Labs division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.
The
Senior Business Analyst will serve as the primary business-analysis contributor and a key liaison among business stakeholders, Product Management, customers, and software development teams. This individual will independently own and drive complex discovery and analysis activities for assigned software products and capabilities. The
Senior Business Analyst will also work across Global Marketing, Research & Development, Information Technology, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, and Business Development to deliver software solutions that provide measurable value to customers.
The Senior Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, driving the successful delivery of software solutions across Global Marketing, R&D, IT, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, and Business Development.
What You'll Work On- Lead requirements discovery and analysis activities with business stakeholders, product managers, subject matter experts, customers, and technical teams.
- Analyze business processes, system interactions, user workflows, and operational data to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Elicit, document, manage, and maintain business, functional, non-functional, and system requirements.
- Develop user stories, use cases, process flows, requirements specifications, acceptance criteria, and other analysis artifacts.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, UX, Engineering, Quality, and Regulatory teams to define scalable and compliant software solutions.
- Manage requirements traceability, scope, and change control throughout the SDLC.
- Assess and communicate the impact of requirement changes on project scope, timelines, risks, quality, and cost.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment by resolving competing priorities, clarifying business objectives, and recommending data-driven solutions.
- Support Agile product planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, release readiness, and post-release activities.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning and execution to validate solutions against business requirements.
- Partner with Quality Assurance teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and alignment with approved requirements.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and compliance considerations while ensuring adherence to quality system and regulatory requirements.
- Independently manage requirements and analysis activities across multiple concurrent initiatives and product releases.
- Build strong partnerships across business and technical teams while contributing best practices for business analysis and product delivery.
Required Qualifications- Associates Degree
- 7 or more years of experience
Preferred Qualifications- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Bachelor's Degree or higher level of education.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead requirements-definition activities for complex software products or enterprise applications.
- Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
- Experience with medical devices, healthcare software, diagnostic products, or clinical laboratory workflows is preferred.
- Experience documenting user needs, product requirements, software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and workflow diagrams.
- Experience supporting on-market software products, software releases, and customer-reported issues.
- Experience with requirements traceability, change control, design controls, verification and validation, or other regulated-product-development practices is preferred.
- Experience with Jira, Jama, Confluence, Lucid chart, or similar product-development and requirements-management tools.
- Experience with business-intelligence or data-visualization tools is preferred.
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The base pay for this position is $86,700.00 - $173,300.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:Product Development
DIVISION:CRLB Core Lab
LOCATION:United States > Lake Forest : CP01
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Yes, 10 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
