BA questions asked in the interviews
List of BA Questions (HR Round)
1. Please tell me about yourself.
2. Why do you think you are good fit for BA Role?
3. Please brief me about your current roles and responsibilities in current organisation.
4. What are your top 2 strengths and weaknesses?
5. Why you are looking for switch?
6. Current CTC and expected CTC?
7. Ready to relocate?
List of BA Questions (Technical Round)
1. What is business analysis and who is a business analyst?
2. What Skills are required for BA and which skills do you have?
3. What is SDLC and what are the different stages of SDLC?
4. What is the role of a BA in waterfall methodology?
5. Name some documents which BA creates.
6. How will you handle difficult stakeholders?
7. What is RACI matrix and how it is used?
8. What requirement elicitation techniques you are aware of and which technique you will
choose?
9. What is the difference between Functional Requirements and Non-Functional
Requirements?
10. What are the good practises of requirement gathering?
11. What is the difference between mock-up, prototype, and POC?
12. You are a business analyst who joined a project recently. What will you do as your first few
steps in the project?
13. What is difference between sprint retrospective and sprint review?
14. What is use case? why we create use case specification/ documents?
15. What is the content that we cover in BRD? How it is different from FRD?
16. Why do you think is the most important reason to choose agile method over waterfall a
software development project?
17. Which BA tools you are aware of? Where these tools are used for?
18. What are the challenges you as BA will face during requirement elicitation from business
stakeholder?
19. How do we prioritise requirement? Which techniques you are aware of?
20. What is scope creep and how we can avoid scoop creep?
21. What do you mean by User Story. How it is different from Use Cases?
22. What should be the quality of User Story?
List of BA Questions (Behavioural)
1. Describe a time when you struggled to build a relationship with key stakeholder. How did you
eventually overcome that?
2. Tell me about a time you needed to get information from someone who wasn’t very responsive.
What did you do?
3. Give me an example of a time when you did not meet a client’s expectation. What happened,
and how did you attempt to rectify the situation?
4. When you’re working with a large number of customers, it’s tricky to deliver excellent service to
them all. How do you go about prioritizing your customers’ needs?
5. Tell me about a time you failed. How did you deal with the situation?
6. Sometimes it’s just not possible to get everything on your to-do list done. Tell me about a time
your responsibilities got a little overwhelming. What did you do?
7. Tell me about a successful presentation you gave and why you think it was a hit.
8. Tell me about your proudest professional accomplishment.
9. Where do you see yourself after 5 years?
10. 2 things you like and dislike about your past/ current organisation.
11. How long you are planning to stay in the company.
