Lucid Technologies Inc

Responsible for communication with ELR and eCR data providers, hospitals, laboratories, clinics, the HIE, internal IT staff, and others as well as researching electronic data issues and testing all electronic data received from submitters.

The NEDSS Base System (NBS) is an integrated communicable disease surveillance information system that helps local, state, and territorial public health departments manage reportable disease data and sends notifiable disease data to the CDC.  The NBS Business Analyst is an integral part of the communicable disease investigation team. This position is responsible for communication with electronic lab report (ELR) and electronic case report (eCR) data providers, hospitals, laboratories, clinics, the Health Information Exchange (HIE), internal IT staff, and others. The position is also responsible for researching electronic data issues and testing all electronic data received from submitters.   

• Work through complex issues that include creating test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts mapped to workflow, and system design requirements 

• Manage the entire NBS Merge process:  ensure merges and unmerges are achieved timely; work with NBS programs to fix all merge issues

• Provide support to the ELR and eCR technical teams on various projects/tasks as assigned

• Fix and resolve Rhapsody ELR failures in the NBS Production environment and reprocess ELR messages into the NBS system

• Coordinate with the eCR technical team to respond to eCR onboarding issues  

• Assist with developing technical documentation for NBS

• Research and resolve front-end/user and back-end/system problems by diagnosing the root cause, hypothesizing, and mapping out a possible solution, and testing the solution in the QA environment

• Assist users in monitoring and analyzing their data via SQL querying and reporting

• Work closely with end users, project management, application developers, and others to understand features and create a robust, comprehensive test strategy to verify functionality

• Work one day each weekend on merges and unmerges

• Additional duties

Experience working as a Senior Business Analyst Required 7 Years 

Experience writing, refining, and analyzing SQL queries to answer questions and resolve issues Required 7 Years

Experience creating test scenarios, test cases, and test scripts mapped to workflow, and system design requirements Required 7 Years

Experience testing and debugging applications Required 7 Years

Curiosity with the ability to problem-solve in a creative but vigilant manner Required 7 Years

Critical thinking skills with a strong emphasis on accuracy, precision, and logical reasoning Required 

Solid verbal and written communication skills Required 

User-level experience with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel Required 

Experience in public health or medical related industry Highly desired