Analyst in Bristol

Mirada is a global medical imaging company with over 2000 sites using our technology worldwide. Our mission is to accelerate cancer care by equipping clinicians and healthcare professionals with the world’s best medical imaging and AI-powered automation. We blend the scale of an established business with the fast-moving pace of a start-up. With over 1.5 million patients treated each year using Mirada products, our work makes a real difference throughout oncology and cancer care.

The product department is responsible for the management of the development of medical software products sold directly to end users under Mirada’s brand, integrated in other vendors’ solutions or custom built as contracted. The department coordinates the work of the product department and collaborates with the Quality and Regulatory department to ensure that products are manufactured to the required standards for the countries where they are sold, and with the Science and Product Management departments to ensure all Mirada products contain the required functionality and satisfy the users’ needs.

The Analyst is responsible for ensuring that Mirada products meet customer needs. This role is involved throughout all stages of the development lifecycle, including working with customers and product management to define their requirements, communicating these to the Software Development team and performing analysis to ensure that the designed solution meets the specified requirements at various levels of specification.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Functional Product Planning: Working with Product Management to define the content of products and versions via the production of business requirements.
• Maintaining a list of prioritised feature requests for subsequent assignment to product versions following Product Management lead.
• Gathering feature/requirement requests from any sources available, including but not limited to customers.
• Product specification: Specifying customer requirements using appropriate requirement notation in product/user requirements specifications.
• Clarifying requirements concepts with customers/end users during the specification process to ensure that the understanding of their needs is correct at the earliest opportunity within the development process.
• Co-ordinating with test team to define acceptance criteria.
• Validation and management of requirements throughout the full development lifecycle.
• Coordinating with the development team to specify software requirements and product design that meet the customer/product requirements.
• Managing Requirements Change Requests.
• Reviewing any architectural/UI design/low level requirements specifications to ensure they adequately meet the intent of the higher-level requirements specifications.
• Conduct ongoing risk analysis of the product and maintaining the risk files.
• Product verification/Validation: Maintaining full requirements traceability.
• Reviewing test specifications/plans/reports created by development, as required.
• Prioritisation of defects within products relating to customer/end user needs.
• Ensuring that products have been adequately tested prior to release to customers/end users.
• Contributing to/reviewing user documentation.
• Working with customers/end users to allow them to use delivered products effectively.
• Creating and executing validation & verification tests and creating reports as required.
• Process: Providing and tracking estimates for all work performed.
• Assisting CS to resolve support requests as necessary.

Skills and Experience

• Essential:
• GCSE Maths and English A-C or international equivalent.
• Appropriate degree, diploma (Science, Computing, Technology).
• Understanding of the practicalities of software development.
• Knowledge of requirements engineering.
• Experience of working within cross functional project teams on software projects.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycles/methodologies (e.g. Agile/Waterfall).
• Experience of working with change management/issue tracking systems (e.g. Jira).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills, with ability to work to deadlines.
• Requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, documentation and management.
• Functional/UI design and evaluation.
• Use of Microsoft Office.
• Desirable:
• Formal business analyst qualifications such as the BCS business analysis professional certifications, the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis, or equivalent (IIBA CBAP).
• Familiarity of working within a regulated environment.
• Medical Imaging domain knowledge.
• Knowledge of risk analysis techniques, such as FMEA.
• Software Testing Planning, specification, execution and reporting.

Why work for Mirada?

• Flexible working: Our flexible working environment is designed to work around you and your family, offering improved work/life balance.
• Holiday: We offer 25 days of annual leave (not including bank holidays). Your annual leave accrual increases by 1 day per year of service after you have been with Mirada Medical for 4 years (Max 3 Additional Days). You can also buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave and spread the cost over 11 months.
• Competitive salary and pension: We offer an enhanced pension contribution (up to 5%).
• Study Leave: Buy up to 5 days study leave per year and spread the cost over the remainder of the year. Mirada will also match your purchased days, doubling your study leave.
• Private healthcare: We offer private medical and dental insurance provided by BUPA (opt-in).