Sr Business Analyst

Abbott • Lake Forest, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Abbott's Core Labs division is hiring a Senior Business Analyst in Lake Forest, Illinois. The role serves as the primary business-analysis contributor and a key liaison among business stakeholders, Product Management, customers, and software development teams. The analyst independently owns and drives complex discovery and analysis activities for assigned software products and capabilities, partnering with Global Marketing, Research & Development, Information Technology, Quality, Operations, Regulatory, and Business Development to deliver software solutions that provide measurable value to customers.

The Senior Business Analyst leads requirements discovery, analyzes processes and workflows, develops and maintains analysis artifacts, and helps define scalable, compliant software solutions. The role supports delivery across the software development lifecycle, including Agile planning, requirements traceability and change control, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and post-release activities. The position also identifies risks, dependencies, and compliance considerations and manages analysis activities across concurrent initiatives and product releases.

Requirements

• Associate degree.
• At least 7 years of experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead requirements-definition activities for complex software products or enterprise applications.
• Experience working with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Experience with medical devices, healthcare software, diagnostic products, or clinical laboratory workflows.
• Experience documenting user needs, product requirements, software requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and workflow diagrams.
• Experience supporting on-market software products, software releases, and customer-reported issues.
• Experience with requirements traceability, change control, design controls, verification and validation, or other regulated-product-development practices.
• Experience with Jira, Jama, Confluence, Lucidchart, or similar product-development and requirements-management tools.
• Experience with business-intelligence or data-visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery and analysis with business stakeholders, product managers, subject matter experts, customers, and technical teams.
• Analyze business processes, system interactions, user workflows, and operational data to identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Elicit, document, manage, and maintain business, functional, non-functional, and system requirements.
• Develop user stories, use cases, process flows, requirements specifications, acceptance criteria, and other analysis artifacts.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, UX, Engineering, Quality, and Regulatory teams to define scalable and compliant software solutions.
• Manage requirements traceability, scope, and change control throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Assess and communicate the impact of requirement changes on project scope, timelines, risks, quality, and cost.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment by resolving competing priorities, clarifying business objectives, and recommending data-driven solutions.
• Support Agile product planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, release readiness, and post-release activities.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing planning and execution to validate solutions against business requirements.
• Partner with Quality Assurance teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and alignment with approved requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and compliance considerations and ensure adherence to quality system and regulatory requirements.
• Independently manage requirements and analysis activities across multiple concurrent initiatives and product releases.
• Build partnerships across business and technical teams and contribute business-analysis and product-delivery best practices.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Employees may qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, described as an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor's degree.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree