Business Analyst Job Profile

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BA JOB Profile (Professional Business
Analyst Training organisation)
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Profile Highlights of COEPD

• We are professional group of 250 Professionals.
• single focus on Business Analyst Trainings.
• Delivered in Three Stages Training, Nurturing
  / Grooming and Post Support of Workshop.
• Do enhance knowledge and skills through our Blog
  and Forums.
• Teaching Methodology is Business Scenarios,
  Activities, Case studies, Role Plays through
  interactive mode.
• Real-time faculty who possess experience and
  exposure as Business Analyst, Consultant and
  Trainer.

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What is the role of a BA?

• Acts as a liaison between business people,
  business problems and technology to create
  automated solutions.
• Serves the Mission-Critical function of
  understanding specific business needs,
  determining and documenting accurate
  requirements.
• An integral member of a project team possess
  skills - people and technical skills to be
  successful.

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Important Skills

• Experience preparing business requirements,
  working with use cases, business process modeling
  or data modeling, or preparing use-case or
  sequence diagrams.
• Project management skills with Knowledge and
  experience in a particular industry.
• Technical understanding of system being analyzed
  and how it affects the various business units.
• Multi-tasking skills and the ability to balance
  multiple priorities and keep up with project
  scope changes.

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Important Skills Contd

• Able to work well with both internal and external
  clients.
• Self-starter with leadership skills in order to
  take charge of or facilitate requirement-gathering
  sessions.
• Strong attention to detail organizational skills.
• Quick learner who is easily able to learn new
  products, systems, applications and technologies.

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Typical Duties
1. Technology-Based Solutions- Need to work with
the IT solutions and need provide the solution,
which is typically a IT-based application or
product. 2. Giving Advice- BAs make conclusions
out of proper evaluations. A bigger part of the
profile is to explain tech-related details to
managers, staff members, and other non-technical
people from clients solution point of view. 3.
Finding Solutions to the Problem- Need to address
a specific problem or test the functionality of
the system developed for the clients problem.
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Business Analyst Job Description
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Activities

• Guide stakeholders on devising effective and
  efficient approaches to achieving project
  objectives.
• Identify business process improvement
  opportunities.
• Identify and define business requirements and
  Analyse and map business processes (current
  state/future state).
• Prepare or provide input to business cases,
  feasibility assessments, etc
• Produce high quality documentation.
• Report status and issues to the Project
  Manager(s).
• Analyse processes and data to identify gaps or
  perform process or data mapping.

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Deliverables

• Business Requirements constitute a specification
  of what the business wants. This is usually
  expressed in terms of broad outcomes the business
  requires, rather than specific functions the
  system may perform. Specific design elements are
  usually outside the scope of this document,
  although design standards may be referenced.
• Functional Requirements describe what the system,
  process, or product/service must do to fulfil the
  business requirements. Note that business
  requirements can often be split into sub-business
  requirements and many functional requirements.
  These are also called System Requirements.

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Deliverables Contd .

• Non Functional Requirements are requirements that
  cannot be met by a specific function, eg
  performance, scalability, security and usability
  requirements. These are often included within the
  System Requirements, where applicable.
• Report Specifications are reporting requirements
  such as the purpose of the report, justification
  of the report, report attributes and columns, or
  runtime parameters.

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Traceability Matrix is a cross matrix that traces
the requirements through each stage of the
requirements gathering process. High level
concepts will be matched to scope items which
will map to individual requirements which will
map to corresponding functions. This matrix
should also take into account any changes in
scope during the life of the project. At the end
of a project, this matrix should show each
function built into a system, its source and the
reason that any stated requirements may not have
been delivered.
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Knowledge Areas

• The BA will display a detailed understanding of
  the following subject areas
• Requirements Elicitation, Analysis,
  Specification, Verification, and Management
  Practices and the Ability to apply them in
  Practice.
• Familiarity with Requirements Engineering.
• SDLC Models STLC Models.
• Application Domain Knowledge, for credibility
  with user representatives and to work effectively
  with them.
• Awareness about IT-related concepts.
• Documentation types and various formats with
  standards.

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