A Business analyst plays a key role in handling organisational business and projects and thus need to possess technological knowledge and skills as well as industry specific domain knowledge. Some of the key requirements for business analyst are mentioned below:

• Good understanding and analysing skill to understand complex business processes.
• Good documentation and writing skill with specifications for Information Systems.
• Knowledge of the entire end-to-end project life cycle in order to execute for deliverables starting from the initial conceptual design stage, system testing to the end of the process.
• Ability to interact directly with end users
• Excellent client meeting skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with result oriented attitude.
• Energetic and enthusiastic approach with particular attention to the given assignment.
• Should have some technical knowledge of programming languages, system architecture, database etc.
• Comfortable with designing and drawing workflows, case diagrams, business model diagrams, flowcharts etc.
• Should have the knowledge of Bug reporting tools such as QTP, SDLC etc.
• Knowledge of complete project management and process.