Business Analyst Resume

Things to keep in mind while preparing Business Analyst Resume

A testing professional can become a business analyst by upgrading his/her skills needed at the entry level. But to get shortlisted for an interview, your resume must align with the HR/Recruiter’s expectations. So, how should you prepare the resume for the business analyst role? Here are the things which you should keep in while preparing  Business Analyst Resume You can read Business analysis skills for a new business analyst to know more about the key skills. But just to summarize these skills:

  • Requirement Elicitation Techniques
  • Requirements Analysis and Modelling
  • UML Modelling
  • User Stories Modelling
  • Writing Requirements Specifications (SRS, FSD etc)
  • SELECT queries in SQL for ad-hoc reporting and testing

These skills should get reflected in your resume. Let’s try and see how to incorporate them and build a winning resume

Pick up a good template

Pick up a decent looking template from the web. The best resource is Microsoft Word itself. You can pick up from the existing ones or search the web resources to get one. The important thing about any resume is that it should not be too long or too short. One page resume is not for experienced professionals. You should also not create a 6-page resume. The ideal size of the resume should be 3 pages.

Highlight relevant skills

Focus on what might be expected from an entry-level business analyst. I have already highlighted some of the key skills. So, you can highlight these business analysis skills on the first page using bullet points. There are other areas of expertise, which are important for a BA. These are relating to customer interactions and communication skills. For example:

  • I was involved with the UAT coordination in the ………project. During this period, I coordinated with the development team to get the defects fixed and deployed.
  • I conducted the user training before the UAT phase. There were 30 people in the customer team.

These two skills help in highlighting customer orientation and presentation skills. Checkout – Data Analysis Skills for Business Analysts

Showing project experience

As a testing professional, you must have worked on projects to conduct functional testing. You must have a good understanding of the project. Leverage that understanding to showcase your role. In the role section for the project, you should mention the responsibilities so that the recruiter gets a semblance of your familiarity and exposure to business analysts. The format of the project section should be as shown below: Project:             Project Name Location:            Mumbai, India Period:               Dec’12 to Jul‘14 Role:                    Junior Business Analyst Platform Used: C#.NET, ASP.NET, LINQ, jQuery, JavaScript, XML, PL/SQL and SSIS Technology:      Ektron CMS, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Developer, SQL Server Management Studio (IDE), Tortoise SVN, Plateau and WinSCP Tools:                  Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005/2008 (Database) and SSIS Packages (Data Warehousing) Description:      The project focused on test preparation & admissions consulting company with three major modules on product development, student enrolment and finance management & development of 8 medium-scale applications My Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for requirement gathering & analysis from client
  • Maintained and improved existing system for better productivity
  • Handled bug fixing, performance testing, monitoring and reporting of the site
  • Developed and implemented an automation tool for timely delivery of project activities
  • Prepared status reports, software requirements specifications and scope documents regarding project activities

Learn More – Business Analyst Roles & Responsilblities

Master your resume and work experience

Last, but not least, you must be good at explaining all the information provided in the resume as considerable time is spent by the interviewer on your resume.  Since I have conducted many interviews, this is what I prefer to do. All the best…

About Techcanvass

Techcanvass offers IT certification courses for professionals. We are an IIBA endorsed education provider (EEP), iSQI ATP (for Certified Agile Business Analyst Training) as well as Agile Testing alliance partner for CP-SAT certification training in Selenium. We have a Business analyst training course with domain training in-built into it. This training program offers you the opportunity to get certified with ECBA certification as well as have banking domain understanding.

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