Business Analyst (Healthcare Data & QA)

About 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 qualifications

• 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.

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

Role Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Compensation Range: $88,000 - $132,000

Benefits

• Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year.
• 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).
• 10 paid holidays.
• Paid bereavement leave and jury duty.
• Eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents residing in the US.
• Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits.
• Option to purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines.
• Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated) and are eligible for the 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave (pro-rated), 401(k) with matching, and medical/dental/vision insurance for employee and dependents.
• Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave (pro-rated).
• Employees in states or localities with more generous paid sick leave laws receive those enhanced benefits.

About the company

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.