BUSINESS ANALYST INTERVIEW QUESTION

-

 Now that the job market is booming and there are a lot of interviews happening, I thought of compiling the business analyst interview question list.

Note: This list is not exhaustive and must be used at the final stage of preparation.

Most of these questions were directed at me during my years of being interviewed. If you know the answers to all of these, then you should be good 😊 You can also use this list to learn about BA topics

Business Analyst Interview Question

  1. What are the roles and responsibilities of a Business Analyst?
  2. What are the key deliverables of a Business Analyst?
  3. What are the techniques used to gather requirements?
  4. What is a requirement priority?
  5. How will you prioritize requirements?
  6. What are the different requirement gathering techniques?
  7. What is FSD and who are the intended stakeholders?
  8. What is BRD and who are the intended stakeholders?
  9. What are the contents of a BRD?
  10. What are the contents of a FSD?
  11. What is a use case document?
  12. What are the different sections of a use case document?
  13. What are the main issues faced in collecting requirements?
  14. Have you ever worked in the UAT phase? If yes what was your contribution?
  15. Have you worked on Agile?
  16. What are the differences in the role of a BA in an Agile and waterfall model?
  17. How will you ensure that you have captured the requirements correctly?
  18. How will you ensure that you have captured all the requirements?
  19. What is a requirement?
  20. How will you classify if the reported issue is a defect?
  21. What are Features, Epics and user stories?
  22. What are the contents of a User Story?
  23. Could you give an example of how an Epic is split into user stories?
  24. What are the tools you use to capture requirements?
  25. Why you think a business analyst in needed in a project?
  26. Can you tell me the most challenging situation you had faced as a business analyst? And how you solved it?
  27. Could you please explain MoSCoW technique?
  28. What are UML diagrams?
  29. What are the different types of UML diagrams?
  30. What is a SRS?
  31. What are the contents of a SRS?
  32. How will you ensure that a requirement can be understood and actioned upon?
  33. What is gap analysis?
  34. What are the types of gap analysis?
  35. How you handle last minute requirements ?
  36. What is scope creep and how do you handle the same?
  37. What are the types of requirements?
  38. How do you capture NFRs ?
  39. What is a CR and how do you handle a CR ?

Popular posts from this blog

SWIFT MT – SERIAL AND COVER METHOD

-
Image
  SWIFT MT – Serial and Cover Method This is one of the most important articles from SWIFT payments’ perspective and it is critical that you fully understand the concepts laid out here. Payments are cleared and settled via 2 primary methods: Through a payment market infrastructure (PMI) Through correspondent banking Through payment market infrastructure: This is the case where bank A and bank B are direct participants of this PMI aka CSM. IN General usage the concept of serial and cover does not apply here but if you put a gun to my head, I would say is very close to the serial method. Through correspondent banking: This is the case where banks open accounts with each other (Nostro/Vostro) and settle funds directly. The prerequisite here is that banks need to open accounts with each other or in other words they need to have an  accounting relationship  with the other bank. Now, let us try to understand the connection between sending/receiving SWIFT messages and the moveme...
Read more

SEPA CREDIT TRANSFER – REJECT FLOW

-
Image
  SEPA Credit Transfer – Reject flow : Even though the happy path is the most common case, there are always exceptions and the different parties in an SCT payment chain can reject the payment due to several reasons. The status of the payment has to be conveyed to the ordering customer so that corrective action can be taken. Let us try to understand who are all the parties that can send Rejections and how they do it Reject definition:  “A ‘ Reject’  occurs when a SEPA Credit Transfer is not accepted for normal execution before inter-PSP Settlement. ” – EPC rule book. The main point to note here is that a payment is rejected before the settlement of the payment happens between banks. In case the payment is settled then the payment has to be Returned (we will get to this in the next article). Ordering bank (Originator PSP):  Upon receiving a Pain.001, the ordering bank (Originator PSP) will start processing the instruction and may decide to reject the pay...
Read more

SEPA CREDIT TRANSFER – RECALL FLOW

-
Image
  Sepa Credit Transfer – Recall flow : SEPA credit transfer – recall is a process through which an Originator or Originator PSP wants to cancel or get back the funds of an earlier credit transfer that was sent. Both the Originator and the Originator PSP can recall the payment for several reasons and here are some of them Originator: payment sent with incorrect information Wrong amount Payment sent to the wrong party Originator PSP: A duplicate message sent Fraudulent credit transfer message sent There are different parties in the payment chain and let us see how the different parties react to the recalls. It is important to note that when Originators initiate a recall they communicate to their PSP either via a payment message or email/phone call/branch visit. PSPs on the other hand send a message directly. Whenever an Originator initiates a recall request then it does not guarantee them the funds will be returned. There are 3 sub-flows within a recall flow: Payment not settled Posi...
Read more