Interview questions for a Business Analyst (With a large Internet search engine company):

• Can you go through your resume starting with your academics?
• If the end user doesn’t know what his specific requirements are or he has a big picture of requirements how you as a BA will drill down to the exact requirements.
• If I provided you with a workflow of events starting from kickoff of the project to UAT/training, explain me as a BA what role will you have in each phase and what timeline will you set for each phase?
• Have you dealt with difficult business users or How do you deal with difficult end users?
• What was your role in the last project / Explain me your last project.
• Have you worked with out-of-box solutions or implemented them?
• Do you have any exp. with document management systems?
• Was the end product in your last project a web based application or inhouse solution?
• How do you think you will gather requirement for our project?
• All your projects were year long, how will you deal with a fast paced project.
• Do you like projects on a short timeline?
• If there are multiple SMEs in a JAD session that disagree on a particular requirement how will you come to a closure?
• Sometimes JAD sessions can go on for hours together, how do you make sure that you control the sessions and achieve the desired result?
• How technically oriented are you?
• What’s your role with the development team?
• Explain to me what is in a FRD?
• What kind of domains have you worked on?
• Have you come across a situation where you didn’t meet the end users requirements and the UAT failed? How did you tackle the situation?
• Sometimes end user has a picture in mind of how the system/screen should look like but the end solution comes out to be different, how will you make sure that this doesn’t happen?