Business Analyst (Healthcare Data & QA)

UST; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

UST in Atlanta, GA is seeking an experienced Business Analyst with healthcare domain expertise and hands-on QA to support data initiatives and ensure high-quality delivery across claims, prior authorization, interoperability, and correspondence systems.

The role involves gathering requirements, translating processes into specs, creating user stories with acceptance criteria, and leading SDLC requirements management in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, QA Analyst, or combined BSA/QA role.
• 4-6+ years of healthcare domain experience in claims, prior authorization, interoperability, and correspondence.
• 4-6+ years of requirements elicitation, documentation, and end-to-end traceability management.
• 4-6+ years of hands-on QA involving data validation, ETL/ELT testing, and reporting systems.
• 3-5+ years of advanced SQL for data validation, reconciliation, and analysis.
• 3-5+ years of experience validating large-scale healthcare datasets.
• 2-4+ years of Agile environments and writing user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate healthcare processes into functional and technical specs.
• Create user stories, acceptance criteria, and traceability matrices.
• Lead requirements management throughout the SDLC using Agile methods.
• Design and execute test strategies, plans, and cases.
• Validate healthcare data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and reporting solutions.
• Perform data reconciliation and quality checks using SQL.
• Ensure accuracy of large healthcare datasets across systems.
• Coordinate with development, QA, and business teams to resolve defects.

Skills

Business Analysis

QA Testing

Healthcare Data

Requirements Elicitation

Traceability Management

SQL

Agile / User Stories

Data Validation

HIPAA / PHI

Communication / Stakeholder Mgmt

MS Office

Job description

Business Analyst (Healthcare Data & QA)

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with strong healthcare domain expertise and hands‑on QA experience to support healthcare data initiatives. The ideal candidate will bridge business and technical teams by gathering requirements, analyzing complex healthcare processes, validating data, and ensuring high‑quality delivery across claims, prior authorization, interoperability, and correspondence systems.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• Translate healthcare business processes into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Create user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and traceability matrices.
• Lead requirements management throughout the SDLC using Agile methodologies.
• Design and execute test strategies, test plans, test cases, and validation activities.
• Validate healthcare data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and reporting solutions.
• Perform data reconciliation, data quality checks, and root cause analysis using SQL.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency of large healthcare datasets across multiple systems.
• Partner with development, QA, and business teams to resolve defects and clarify requirements.
• Support regulatory compliance initiatives involving HIPAA, PHI handling, and healthcare coding standards.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What You Need

Required

• 6-10+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, QA Analyst, or combined BSA/QA role.
• 4-6+ years of healthcare domain experience in claims, prior authorization, interoperability, and correspondence.
• 4-6+ years of experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, and end-to-end traceability management.
• 4-6+ years of hands‑on QA experience involving data validation, ETL/ELT testing, and reporting systems.
• 3-5+ years of advanced SQL experience for data validation, reconciliation, and analysis.
• 3-5+ years of experience validating large-scale healthcare datasets.
• 2-4+ years of experience with healthcare regulations and standards including HIPAA, PHI, ICD, and CPT coding.
• 2-3+ years of experience working in Agile environments and writing user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.

Preferred

• Exposure to HL7/FHIR healthcare interoperability standards.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake and PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of healthcare data warehousing, reporting, and analytics environments.
• Experience with healthcare digital transformation initiatives.
• Exposure to data governance, data quality frameworks, and healthcare interoperability programs.

Key Skills

Business Analysis, Claims Management, Cloud Data Warehousing, Google Cloud Platform, Agile, ETL, FHIR, Functional Testing, Microsoft Azure, Requirements Gathering, Reporting and Analytics

Location & Compensation

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Compensation Range: $88000 - $132000

Who We Are

Since 1999, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a powerful impact through transformation. Headquartered in the United States, UST is powered by technology, driven by AI, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Our AI‑driven digital solutions, proprietary platforms, engineering, R&D, products, and innovation ecosystem turn core challenges into impactful, disruptive business outcomes. With deep industry knowledge and a future‑ready mindset, we infuse expertise, innovation, and agility into our clients' organizations-delivering measurable value and positive lasting change for them, their customers, and communities around the world. Together, with 30,000+ employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact-touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .