About Career Path

A Business Analyst career can start from having a technical background, including software testing experience, and/or business knowledge. With three to five years of experience, you can get a position of a senior/lead business analyst or product manager. Moving through the career ladder this role will transform into a Subject Matter Expert. Some companies have job positions that combine functions of Project Management and Business Analyst.

Responsibilities

A Business Analyst works with company's employees and stakeholders to understand their business problems and needs and create and document specific business requirements. He/she is a good at communicating and paying attention to details and will spend a lot of time analyzing and solving business problems.

List of typical business analysis solutions:

• prepare business cases;
• elicit and analyze requirements;
• write business requirements documents;
• schedule resources and sources for elicitation;
• recommend solutions;
• act as stakeholder advocate;