Business Analyst, Engineering

Position Summary

The Business Analyst, Engineering works closely with Product Management, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Quality, and other stakeholders to translate product and business needs into detailed, clear, and testable engineering requirements. The role primarily supports software development while also coordinating cross-disciplinary requirements involving system, electrical, and mechanical components.

Primary Responsibilities

Requirements Definition and Management

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate product, customer, business, and operational needs.
• Translate high-level product requirements into detailed, unambiguous, feasible, and testable engineering requirements.
• Primarily develop software requirements while collaborating with other engineering disciplines when product behavior or requirements span multiple product components.
• Develop and maintain functional requirements, system behavior descriptions, business rules, workflows, use cases, process flows, interface requirements, data requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Capture expected behavior, alternate flows, boundary conditions, error conditions, and operational constraints necessary for implementation and verification.
• Facilitate requirements reviews and drive clarification of ambiguities, gaps, conflicts, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Maintain traceability between product requirements, engineering requirements, development work items, and verification activities.
• Assess and document the impact of requirement changes across affected product areas and engineering disciplines.

Backlog and Work Item Management

• Create, organize, and maintain engineering backlog items derived from approved requirements.
• Decompose requirements into clear and actionable work items suitable for engineering implementation.
• Ensure backlog items contain sufficient context, requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain relationships and traceability among requirements, backlog items, defects, and verification work in the applicable lifecycle-management tools.
• Support backlog refinement and planning activities with Product Management and Engineering.
• Keep backlog content current as requirements are clarified or changed.

Engineering and Verification Support

• Serve as a primary point of contact for requirements clarification during development and testing.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers and, as needed, other engineering disciplines to ensure requirements accurately describe intended product behavior across the product.
• Support Quality and Test teams by clarifying expected behavior and acceptance criteria during verification and validation.
• Assist with defect analysis, requirement interpretation, and change-impact assessment.
• Participate in cross-functional reviews to confirm that proposed solutions address the documented requirements.
• Contribute to specifications, product documentation, test cases, test plans, and supporting technical artifacts as needed that meet ISO 13485 regulations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Management to understand product objectives, customer needs, and approved priorities.
• Work with Engineering, Quality, Service, Manufacturing, Operations, and other stakeholders to obtain the information required to produce complete requirements.
• Facilitate working sessions and reviews to develop requirements and achieve stakeholder alignment.
• Communicate requirement decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and changes clearly to affected teams.
• Support verification and validation activities such as design verification or software qualification testing, on both physical and virtual systems.

Working Conditions

• Occasional travel (<10%) is expected depending on the project phase
• Hybrid work (4 days / week onsite in Billerica, MA)