R&D Senior Business Analyst

LIFE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading life sciences technology company in Singapore is seeking an experienced systems/business analyst to prepare technical specifications and manage requirements for software products. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in computer science and a minimum of 5 years of software development experience with a strong understanding of analysis tools like JIRA and Visio. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and support product development in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience with software development best practices.
• 8+ years industry experience in a systems/business analyst role.
• Understanding of computer systems and networking of Windows and Linux-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Prepare well-written technical requirements and specifications.
• Facilitate requirements workshops with cross-functional teams.
• Collaborate with the test team to ensure requirements are measurable and testable.

Skills

Technical writing

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Visio

Miro

Job description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Responsibilities

• Prepare well‑written technical requirements, functional specifications, and diagrams (e.g. UML, data flow, etc) for software and life sciences instrument systems, including detailing workflows and error‑handling scenarios.
• Apply standard process methodologies in developing and maintaining requirements, including user stories, use cases, functional requirements, non‑functional and performance requirements, and business rules.
• Facilitate requirements workshops with cross‑functional science, engineering, and product management teams to elicit and review technical requirements and risk controls for new and sustaining software products.
• Manage requirements, prepare analysis models and diagrams, and generate and generate reports using tools (e.g. JAMA, JIRA, HPALM, Visio and Miro or similar).
• Collaborate with the test team to ensure requirements and specifications are concise, accurate, measurable, and testable.
• Establish traceability between customer requirements, product requirements, and specifications. Prepare trace matrix reports.
• Participate in customer research and interview activities to elicit user needs for product development.
• Contribute to user interface design and usability testing activities to provide a seamless user experience in navigating complex scientific laboratory workflows.
• Collaborate with UX engineers and UI designers to prepare mockups and prototype user interfaces for complex life‑science domain software that meets the needs of our customers.
• Prepare and contribute to design compliance documentation and best‑practice disciplines across all aspects of software development within the SDLC.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with software development best practices, such as Agile or SCRUM.
• 8+ years industry experience in a systems/business analyst role.
• Proficient in the use of business analysis tools and techniques. (e.g., Jira, Miro Board, Visio)
• Understanding of computer systems, networking of Windows and Linux‑based systems.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Comfortable working as part of a distributed, global, and cross‑functional team.
• Prepared to work to aggressive timelines in an iterative software development environment.

Highly Preferred

• Experience in Life Sciences and genomics industries and/or DNA technology.
• Certification in Business Analysis (e.g., Certified Product Owner, Certified Scrum Master).