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Business Analyst Interview Questions
What kind of tools do you use in your role as a BA?
Describe how you would achieve alignment between the business and IT?
In what area do you think you need to improve?
How do you prioritize requirements?
How would you handle receiving criticism from a superior?
What sections do you normally include in your BRD?
Give an example of a time when you had to be relatively quick in coming to a decision?
Tell me about your time at your last/current job?
Who do you collaborate with the most and how do you collaborate with them?
How technical are you/what technical skills do you have?
What kinds of reports do you create and how do you create them?
Given that you have a user story that does not have a timeline or its not urgent. Because of that, all the other requirements that have urgency or timelines keeps pushing the one without timeline down the backlog. What would you do to build the story with no timeline?
What do you know about our company?
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with difficult stakeholders
If we had a product that was doing so well in some geographical areas but was flunking in one geographical area, what are the steps you would take to find the issue?
As a BA, who do you often collaborate with?
What unique skill do you bring to the job?
Describe a time when you had to steer a client toward a different course of action than the one they were set on taking?
What makes a requirement a requirement?
What deliverables have you had to produce on the projects you've worked on in the past?
Why do you want to work here?
Which environment do you prefer to work in: agile or waterfall?
Why are you looking for a new job?
What experience do you have with conducting UAT and writing test plans?
What do you do in your spare time?
Tell me about a time you failed. How did you deal with the situation?
What part of the BA role do you like the most?
Describe a time when you faced problems or stresses at work and how did you cope?
People in our company, even developers, operations, and internal end users do not understand one of the products we have. What will you do as the business analyst to ensure they understand?
Tell me about yourself
Tell me about a time when you had to implement a new process
What kind of documents have you created?
Tell me about a time when you had to push back on something ?
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