A business analyst is a job role that is on a constant lookout for ways and means of defining business needs and suggesting solutions to those needs in a way to help improve the performance of organization.

Business Analyst duties include:

Monitor/Control:

• Assist in defining the project
• Develop and maintains business requirements and functional requirements
• Oversee User Acceptance Testing
• Verify that project deliverables meet the requirements

Participation:

• Assess current systems
• Gather necessary data and information to define the project requirements
• Check for the value stream in the project deliverables
• Document and analyze business processes using value-added/non-value added process
• Document “ability to” functional requirements for use by application designers and developers
• Participate in unit testing, system testing, and regression testing
• Test solutions to validate objectives