Job #: 2776
Title: BA Application Tester
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
The Business Analyst/Application Tester is primarily responsible for the continuous improvement of our data driven strategic planning with the goals of increased visibility, flexibility and efficiency.
The BA/Application Tester work closely with Business Process Owners, Systems Architect, Functional Team, Application Developers and Support team to build and support the strategic approaches and methods to a variety of analyses.
Consultant will develop data artifacts (data dictionary) for the Data management and Cost Accounting Module.
Preparing, maintaining and owning business glossary and data catalog documents.
Participate in high level workflow analysis and assist with benchmarking KPIs.
Act as a data artifacts subject matter expert for assigned business service lines.
Carefully analyze the data and draw conclusions, communicating the results in a clear, concise and actionable manner. ·
Maintain and update existing suite of reporting and dashboards. ·
Working in cross‐functional project teams that include ETL development, Data Quality Assurance, and Data visualization.
Communicate directly with team members/support team to diagnose and resolve issues.
Work with other team members to continually improve our delivery of information and dashboards.
Actively participate on project team meetings to achieve team goals and departmental goals.
Compliance with business policies and industry standard best practices with regard to information security. ·
Managing risk associated with handling sensitive data
Use analytic tools such as Tableau and SAS for through data analysis and visualization. ·
Off‐hours and on‐call production support may be required.
Adherence to internal and external production SLAs. ·
Limited travel may be required
Qualifications / Required Skills
Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of work experience in data artifacts creation, Information analysis and visualization. ·
Experience in preparing and conducting extensive business KPI analysis.
Experience with full lifecycle report and dashboard building, including requirements gathering, querying and aggregating data, report / dashboard rollout and upkeep.
Minimum 4 years of experience working with healthcare data and helping businesses make better data driven decisions. ·
Minimum 4 years of strong troubleshooting and problem‐solving skills
Comfortable working with ambiguous projects and requests.
Experience with process documentation and efficiency improvement
Willingness to participate in team on‐call rotation, and perform off hours work as needed.
Strong technical and project management/process leadership skills
Excellent troubleshooting and problem‐solving skills.
Knowledge of healthcare industry systems and applications is a plus.
Ability to work within a diverse, technically oriented, team setting is a must.
Demonstrated ability to take ownership of incidents, coordinate effective response, and drive improvements through root cause analysis and lessons learned.
The ability to quickly absorb new changes in computer technologies is necessary