AstraZeneca Looking for IT Business Analyst – Quality Assurance at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

Job Description

The Quality Assurance IT Business Analyst performs business analysis and design either alone delivering small to medium size business change activities; or as a member or lead of a BA team in a large or global business change. The Business Analyst operates with a high level of interactive communication, demonstrating high levels of inclusion and cultural sensitivity.

The role will partner with the Business Relationship Manager, taking ownership to deliver high quality business cases, business process designs and ensure that proposed solutions meet established AstraZeneca quality and compliance standards and business solution needs!

The Business Analyst will share best practices in relevant communities of practice, chipping in to internal IT processes and standards for business analysis and design!

Typical Accountabilities

The Business Analyst is encouraged to perform at Sophisticated level in the following:

Quality Assurance domain expert – solid grasp of pharmaceutical industry Quality Assurance business processes and system (i.e. QMS, Change Control, Quality Events, etc..)

Business Needs Identification – Operates at a functional level in assessing and defining business need and areas for improvement. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals. Actively monitors and identifies capability gaps and proposes potential solutions through research internally and externally.

Business Analysis Planning – Selects the appropriate analysis approach to a piece of work depending on its complexity, level of risk, known assumptions, constraints and dependencies. Proficient in prioritizing and recommending appropriate approaches. Capable of planning and leading their own and other team member’s activities to meet deliverables and deadlines. Accountable for performance and quality of analytical work delivered, both their own and the work of others.

Stakeholder Analysis & Change – Optimally identifies stakeholders from all areas of the business, and actively builds and maintains relationships according to individual stakeholder needs and levels of influence. Chips in to communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition – Responsible and accountable for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts. Highly adaptable to changing business priorities with ability to plan ahead, accounting for potential changes and corrective actions. Sophisticated requirements elicitation and management skill-set; including traceability, testing and validation. Leads the work with the business to identify functional and technical requirements, translating the requirements into design specifications reflecting Functional Design, User Interface Design and Business Process Design. Closely partnering with the Architecture team, ensuring the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits.

Business Case Definition – Shapes and defines the business case, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.

Solution Evaluation – Highly proficient in analyzing and assessing solution proposals and able to articulate supporting reasoning. i.e. assessing business readiness, improving value vs. spend.

Work closely with

Business Stakeholders to ensure that solutions fulfill their future strategic needs and challenges Business Relationship Managers to develop and maintain the business relationship, support business process change and act as point of contact for application development Business customers to identify business requirements and effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands Process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability and competitiveness IT Architecture, Delivery and Support to ensure clear understanding of requirements and effective testing so that the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations. Test Lead to define the testing approach and the components of testing to ensure traceability of requirements and efficiency of overall solution. Change Management/Communication Lead to ensure the Change Management and Communications plans and delivery support the Stakeholder Analysis.

Education, Qualifications, and Experience

Essential

Validated experience of optimally deploying a variety of business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change

Demonstrable experience of working with sophisticated coordinated systems, using creative and critical thinking to deliver outstanding results

Strong engagement, communication and stakeholder leadership skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills

Experience of working in a regulated environment

Experience of virtual teamwork to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions

Experience of mentoring, coaching or developing others

Experience of working with and leading third party suppliers/vendors

High School Diploma

Desirable

Degree in relevant field or formal certification in business analysis practice

Lean SIGMA training

Practical usage of Agile Methodology

Experience of working in a global organization with sophisticated/geographical context

Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge

Cross industry business awareness/business domain knowledge

Skills and Capabilities

Essential

Intuition for business

Challenge, negotiation and influence

Presentation, Communication & Facilitation

Customer Focus

Stakeholder Management

Benefits Management and Realization

Networking

Compliance

Planning

Business Process Management

Requirements Management

Desirable

User Centered Design (User Experience, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)

WHY JOIN US

Here our work has a direct impact on patients – transforming our ability to develop life-changing

medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working,

combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with

a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more.

Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make

the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working

and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed

with the investment to succeed, we’re driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry.

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

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