Systems Analyst, Digital Transformation
Thermo Fisher Scientific Carlsbad, California, United States · $83K–$125K/yr
Biotechnology Research · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Systems Analyst will serve as a business analyst and test lead to translate business needs into actionable digital requirements. They will coordinate across teams to ensure solutions are thoroughly tested and ready for release while driving operational efficiency.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a related field and at least 5 years of experience in systems analysis or software testing. Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies and experience with enterprise platforms like Jira or Azure DevOps is required.
Benefits
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Work Schedule
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Job Description
How will you make an impact?
The Systems Analyst, Digital Transformation will serve as a business analyst, and test lead for strategic digital initiatives. This role connects business priorities with technology delivery by translating needs into actionable requirements, and ensuring solutions are thoroughly tested and ready for release. Working across business, IT, quality, and vendor teams, the Systems Analyst will help deliver scalable digital capabilities that improve customer experience, employee productivity, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.
Key responsibilities
Business analysis and solution definition
- Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, workshops, process mapping, and current-state/future-state analysis to identify business needs and transformation opportunities.
- Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and manage functional, nonfunctional, data, reporting, integration, security, and compliance requirements.
- Translate business needs into clear process flows, use cases, user stories, system requirements, decision records, and traceability documentation.
- Identify process gaps, control requirements, data dependencies, and organizational impacts; recommend practical solutions that align with enterprise architecture and digital strategy.
Test leadership and release readiness
- Own the end-to-end test strategy for assigned initiatives, including system, integration, regression, user acceptance, and production-validation testing.
- Develop and maintain test plans, scenarios, test cases, test data, requirements traceability, entry and exit criteria, defect workflows, and test status reporting.
- Coordinate business testers, technical teams, and vendors; facilitate user acceptance testing and ensure defects are prioritized, resolved, retested, and documented.
- Assess solution quality and release risk, provide fact-based readiness recommendations, and confirm that acceptance criteria and business outcomes have been met before deployment.
- Drive test process improvements and appropriate automation to increase coverage, repeatability, speed, and quality.
How will you get here?
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 5+ years of related experience in systems analysis, business analysis, digital product delivery, quality assurance, software testing, or enterprise technology implementation.
- Demonstrated experience performing product owner responsibilities, including backlog management, prioritization, user-story development, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder decision-making.
- Demonstrated experience business analysis activities across complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience planning and leading system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
- Strong understanding of system architecture, integrations, APIs, data flows, web-based applications, cloud technologies, and enterprise platforms.
- Practical experience with Agile, Scrum, Lean, hybrid, and/or traditional software-delivery methodologies.
- Experience with product, requirements, and test-management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, HP ALM/Quality Center, or comparable platforms.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities
- Strong analytical thinking, problem solving, process design, and decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic product goals with detailed requirements, delivery constraints, and quality expectations.
- Ability to quickly understand complex business processes and translate them into scalable digital solutions.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, and deadlines.
- Results orientation, intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and a continuous-improvement mindset.
- Ability to work effectively in a highly matrixed, global environment.
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $83,300.00–$125,000.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
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