It is not every day that you can say that the software you helped develop will save hundreds or thousands of lives per year, but at bioMérieux, we put innovation to work in life-saving diagnostic devices deployed across the world. With engineering centers in St. Louis, France, and Italy, our Systems Development team collaborates globally to build products that ensure patient health and consumer safety. From antibiotic susceptibility testing to organism identification with mass spectrometry, bioMérieux offers challenging opportunities in a science-based domain with a public health focus. If you’re passionate about solving real-world problems, you’ll find a home in our team of expert software developers, engineers, and microbiologists.This Software Business Analyst position is well suited by someone with a microbiology and/or clinical background. As a member of a highly collaborative, cross-functional software-development team, the Software Business Analyst will represent customer needs to the software-development team, develop specifications, and help develop software for innovative IVD solutions that help hospitals determine the correct antibiotics to treat millions of infected patients each year. Position Responsibilities: + Work with other business analysts, software developers, software testers, and microbiologists to analyze feature requirements and user stories to develop effective specifications and quality software + Work with technical staff to clarify requirements for new features, anomaly fixes, and automated tests + Review and improve legacy requirements documentation + Assist with product usability and associated studies + Assist with development and summary of key testing metrics + Assist with task estimation, backlog grooming, and planning of work + Support product-validation activities and field-related investigations + Support team retrospectives and other Agile ceremonies + Train on assigned procedures relevant to daily work + Focus on continuous improvement of daily processes and software quality Minimum Qualifications + Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology, Clinical Laboratory Science, Medical Technology, or related scientific discipline (e.g. Biology, Biomedical Engineering, etc.) or similar disciplines, and/or equivalent professional experience + 3+ years’ experience as a microbiologist working in a clinical lab environment + Significant experience in the use and operation of the bioMérieux VITEK 2 suite of lab instruments (VITEK 2 Compact, VITEK 2 XL) in a clinical environment using ID/AST concepts + Demonstrated ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment + Excellent verbal and written communication skills Preferred Qualifications: + Experience in an ISO/FDA regulated environment as a member of a product-development organization (medical-device or biotech industry) preferred + Familiarity with Lab Information Systems (LIS) and instrument interfacing + Experience in creating and executing lab-validation protocols and performing instrument-validation testing + Demonstrated ability to gather customer requirements and create specifications for clinical software processes and/or products