Product Owner / Business Analyst

Recruiter
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Location
India
Salary
Competitive salary
Posted
12 Jun 2021
Closes
13 Jun 2021
Ref
151104BR
Job role
Business analyst, CFO
Sector
IT/Telecoms
About Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 80,000 colleagues delivers an unrivalled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon.

Job Title: Business Analyst

The Team

Digital Engineering is engaged in rich Scientific application and platform engineering: Desktop, Enterprise hardened Cloud-ready and Cloud applications.

Daily Activities Include:
  • Understanding long-term product vision and roadmap, translating that into User Stories for the team
  • Identify, define, analyze, prioritize and refine the requirements, and communicate those requirements to the development team.
  • Cross check all the requirements are met through extensive domain testing (manual)
  • Managing product backlog, user stories and cross-product dependencies
  • Able to communicate product ideas using tools like wire framing, interface with Ux team.
  • Gathering and analyzing technical specifications
  • Participating in agile activities including product demonstrations, retrospectives, backlog grooming and sprint planning
  • Participate and help Team complies to ISO certification programs
  • Engaging with customers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle
  • Meeting with customers to understand their use of the Cloud Platform and translating these requirements to product use cases and scenarios


Essential Functions:
  • Serve as a customer advocate and ensure quality and usability of our software
  • Collaboration with globally distributed teams.
  • Act as a proxy product owner bridging the gap between the actual product owners and scrum teams
  • Collaborate with other engineers and product managers in the business to understand and provide input to product requirements.
  • Participate in project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents.
  • Effectively communicate testing activities and findings in oral and written formats.
  • Maintain excellent knowledge base of industry trends and developments.
  • Represent the team in cross-organizational and site level development forums as well as customer requirements gathering and software validation and training sessions
  • Rely on extensive experience and judgment to understand complex problems and resolve them efficiently, Use prior knowledge and experience to provide functional and technical support and leadership to colleagues
  • Experience to lead and drive ISO 9001/ISO 27001/any other equivalent compliance audits as part of product development


Minimum Qualifications (must have)
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational and communication skills and a commitment to the mission of the institution.
  • 6+ yrs academic or professional experience with programming or scripting as well as a solid understanding of SDLC, STLC and application of BioInformatics concepts in Software development.
  • Ability to review, synthesize, and present scientific data and methods.
  • PhD/M.Sc/MS in Bioinformatics/molecular biology or related areas of discipline. OR Computer science degree with demonstrated experience in molecular biology.
  • Experience in working in a laboratory, and is familiar with various techniques in molecular biology and cell biology.
  • Experience in Agile development


Preferred Qualifications (nice to have)
  • Experience in one of the Languages: Python, Perl, Linux/Unix scripting
  • Experience working within an Agile development process (Scrum, XP, Kanban, etc). Agile certification is a big plus.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills to present technical information to both business and technology teams with clarity and precision.
  • A good understanding of software development and bioinformatics is a huge plus.

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