Senior Business Analyst

About the job Senior Business Analyst

Interview Type : Webcam only

Work Arrangement : Remote

Engagement Type : Contract

Short Description :

Responsible for communication with ELR and eCR data providers, hospitals, laboratories, clinics, the HIE, internal IT staff, and others as well as researching electronic data issues and testing all electronic data received from submitters.

Complete Description :

The NEDSS Base System (NBS) is an integrated communicable disease surveillance information system that helps local, state, and territorial public health departments manage reportable disease data and sends notifiable disease data to the CDC. The NBS Business Analyst is an integral part of the communicable disease investigation team. This position is responsible for communication with electronic lab report (ELR) and electronic case report (eCR) data providers, hospitals, laboratories, clinics, the Health Information Exchange (HIE), internal IT staff, and others. The position is also responsible for researching electronic data issues and testing all electronic data received from submitters.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities :

Work through complex issues that include creating test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts mapped to workflow, and system design requirements

Manage the entire NBS Merge process : ensure merges and unmerges are achieved timely; work with NBS programs to fix all merge issues

Provide support to the ELR and eCR technical teams on various projects / tasks as assigned

Fix and resolve Rhapsody ELR failures in the NBS Production environment and reprocess ELR messages into the NBS system

Coordinate with the eCR technical team to respond to eCR onboarding issues

Assist with developing technical documentation for NBS

Research and resolve front-end / user and back-end / system problems by diagnosing the root cause, hypothesizing, and mapping out a possible solution, and testing the solution in the QA environment

Assist users in monitoring and analyzing their data via SQL querying and reporting

Work closely with end users, project management, application developers, and others to understand features and create a robust, comprehensive test strategy to verify functionality

Work one day each weekend on merges and unmerges

Additional duties