Business Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Ques 1. What are the main challenges faced by a business analyst?

The following three challenges faced by a business analyst mostly:

• Change management: It is the most difficult challenge because it happens in real time. It occurs when you get the requirements from the client side and when development is started and client will come up with some changes or enhancements.
• Cross team management: It is due to conflict between team and individuals. It requires soft skills and smartness.
• Communication problems: Sometimes this type of problem can happen. You might be good at English speaking and understanding the English language, but sometimes you get difficulty to understand a different kind of English accent. For example, Americans speak English differently, the Romans speak English differently, the Chinese speak English differently, etc.

Ques 2. What is project management? Can you explain?

Project management is the process of planning, organizing, motivating and controlling resources, procedures, and protocols to achieve a specific goal. It is used to coordinate scientific and daily problems.

The primary challenge to project management is to meet all the project goals like time, quality, scope, budget, etc.

Ques 3. What are the diagrams mostly used by business analysts?

• Use case diagram
• Activity diagram
• Business domain model
• Data model
• Data flow diagram
• Feature matrix
• State diagram
• Sequence diagram
• Scope model etc.

Ques 4. What is INVEST?

INVEST stands for Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Sized Appropriately, and Testable. It is used to help project managers and technical team to deliver quality products/services.

Ques 5. Which model is better according to you, the Waterfall model or Spiral Model?

You should answer this question on the type and scope of the project. You can also say that a life cycle model is always selected on the basis of organizational culture and various other scenarios to develop the system.

Ques 6. What is SaaS?

SaaS refers to Software as a Service. It is related to cloud computing. It is different from other software bundles as you don't need this type of software to be installed on your machine. All you need is an Internet connection and a Web Browser to use it.

Ques 7. What steps are required to develop a product from an idea?

You have to perform: 

• Market Analysis
• Competitor Analysis
• SWOT Analysis
• Personas
• Strategic Vision and Feature Set
• Prioritize Features
• Use Cases
• SDLC
• Storyboards
• Test Cases
• Monitoring
• Scalability etc...

Ques 8. What do you mean by project deliverables?

These are the set of measurable services and products delivered to the end customer after project completion. It is the outcome of the project.