Common Business Analyst Interview Questions:

The interview naturally starts with a few primary questions like -

● Can you brief us about yourself, your education, qualifications and work experience?
● What are your ambitions in life?
● What are your professional strengths and weaknesses?
● What sets you apart from the other candidates?
● What were the reasons for quitting your previous organization?
● How long can we expect you to work for us?
The interview questions gradually progress towards more job related questions and this is where you have to score the highest. This
section will cover the maximum terms and technical details of business analysis.
● What are the responsibilities of a business analyst?
● How would you define a software project life cycle? Can you quickly explain the various testing stages involved?
● Name some SDLC methodologies.
● Tell us something more about Regression Testing.
● What is the difference between Waterfall Method and Prototyping Model? What is the hybrid of these two methods called?
● What is Rational Unified Process (RUP)?
● What is a Traceability Matrix? Why is it used? And, at what stage does a BA start or stop using it?
● What is the purpose of a Test Director Tool in a project?
● What is the meaning of GAP analysis?
● What do you know about UI Design Patterns?
● What are the principles of UI Designs?
● Brief us about UML modeling.
● Elaborate the importance of flow charts.
● What do you understand by System Design Document (SDD)?
● Explain in brief about Risk Management.
● What are the advantages of Requirement Management Tool?
● What are the duties and responsibilities of a test manager?
● What is a Use Case? What is a Test Case? What is the relation between the two?
● How do you evaluate a business plan?
● What differentiates Black box testing and White box testing?
● What does User Acceptance Testing involve?
● What is Data mapping?
● Who is the end user of the output produced by BAs?
● What does the term 3NF denote? Give explanations.
● What are the challenges faced by a business analyst?

Questions.
1) Give me some highlights of your experience and your last project.
2) tell me some of the methodologies you have worked on.
3) What’s the difference between waterfall and RUP
4) when would you use Agile.
5) What kind of diagrams you have used.
6) What are state diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams.
7) What is UML? and how and what have you used in UML
8) What is BPM, BPML and how you have used business process mapping to improve efficiency.
9) What do you think abt Disaster recovery and Business process continuity.
10) Do you have exposure to SOX, Medicare Part D, HL7, privacy act in HIPAA? if yes breifly explain.
11) What are the different requirement gathering tools you have used ?
12) How and when have you conducted JAD, JRP sessions and what are the limitations to that method.
13) Tell me one scenario where you have to be innovative and come up with a out of the box solution.
14) what are the deliverables in RUP methodology.
15) What is your role as BA in a project ???