Thats a nice article! I am working with one of the software company as a Software QA engineer.
Currently my profile deals with communicating with BA guys along with developers and tech. support.
From last few months I am trying to search regarding BA Career path and wanted to know if its really possible to become BA without having much fair knowledge in Programming.

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~Harshal

Start working on bridging the gap between your current tech support role and your dream business analyst job.

To bridge that gap successfully, you need to learn or understand what business analysts do and then seek opportunities to practice business analysis.

The learning part is more straight forward. you can get information on how to learn business analysis here.

The practice part is more involved. Perhaps the best way to understand it is … on the job training.

For example, look for opportunities to document what your team is working on the same way a business analyst would.

Look for opportunities to lead meetings or facilitate interviews or give presentations.

Build relationships with your project managers, IT managers or Team Members and offer to help them with your recently learned BA skills. You will be surprised at the reception you will get as many IT teams are short staffed and will welcome any skilled or talented help they can get

I work as a Technical Analyst in a Financial Institution. The nature of my job is providing technical support to the bankers. I have been only in this field (Tech Support) and have an experience of about 5 yr including 2.5yr in the current.

To be honest i am desperately looking for a career change as i feel stagnant and do not see any advancement in my current employment. I know i have more potential in me which i cant deploy in my current position.

I have been wondering about the options of change in career or advance for a better living, with the skill i posses (Commerce gard and a diploma holder in IT with 5 yrs exp in Technical Support)

Upon research, BA seems really interesting to me. I love to to mingle with people. I believe i have good people school.

I kind of feel lost .

So how cud i start moving to BA from my current job. What course shud i be taking. Rather what how shud i make a move..?

Kindly request you to help me out in this?

Regards,

Kiran.

I wish to get into IT sector and subsequently progress to being a BA.

Can anyone please let me know, what is it that I should do or study to get into IT sector, considering the competition that I have to face?

And what is it that I should concentrate on to eventually becoming a BA?

Thanks a lot for the help.

Having an MBA does not make you a business analyst nor is it required to become a business analyst..

Also the educational requirements for becoming a business analyst are very specific.

An MBA is a business degree and while a business analyst is also a business oriented career, it is not the same as an MBA.

So, you have to start by acquiring business analysis skills like requirements analysis, requirements elicitation, requirements validation, Use Cases and UML.

Start by finding opportunities to transition to your business analyst career on your current job.

Note that you still may not be able to get a BA job … even with your current business intelligence experience except if you prepare yourself for the opportunity …

Prepare yourself for that opportunity by getting business analyst training because when the opportunity comes, you will only be chosen if you are qualified.

And if you are not qualified, your manager may prefer to hire an external Business Analyst!

So, you have to be more specific in your question.

Yo can start with the following questions:

1. Why do you want to become an analyst?

2. What type of analyst do you want to be?

3. What don’t you like about your current career?

Note: An analyst typically gathers, analyzes and validates requirements.

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Some of the tools or techniques use by business analysts will include Use Cases and UML Diagrams and of course any tool that will assist with the documentaion or generation of these models.

I would be eager to know about the responsibilities of a Business Analyst and the various tools and terminologies that would be needed for a smooth operation of the overall business.

Since I have only had an experience working on the java and J2EE platforms, I would be glad if you could guide me about the basics of the Business Analyst position and help me with the same.

Thanking You

Sincerely

Hariharan Mohan

Since your domain experience is in the ares of banking and finance and sales and marketing, you may consider becoming a “banking and finance business analyst” or a “marketing and sales business analyst”.

Why do I say that?

When you consider business analyst jobs, you would see that they tend to fall into two (2) major career paths:

1.) the domain business analyst career path

2.) the IT business analyst career path

Since you already have some domain experience, i would suggest that you start your job search with companies looking for business analysts with your kind of background before looking at other business analyst jobs

next, get some formal business analysis education or training.

finally do a gap analysis and use it to figure out the additional hands-on experience that you will need for transitioning to a business analysis career.

Since your current background is in the marketing of financial products, you may begin by looking at the financial business analyst career path.

I’ve a experience in banking/ finance field of around 4 years in marketing of financial products.

I am having BE ( Electronics & Telecomm ) with MBA ( Mktg ) as my qualification.

Kindly suggest how do I enter into the field of business analyst.

Looking forward for your revert.

The article was very comprehandable and accurate.

I have a hardcore 7.5 yrs of sales and marketing experience in banking and finance.

I have worked with around 4 reputed banks in credit cards and loans dept and would now want to persue my career in the IT sector as a BA.

Kindly suggest the way ahead.Could you please provide me online tutorials for BA entry level.

Thanks

i would like to became a business analyst.

i have 4 yrs exp in banking domain and pursing a M.C.A degree.

My job profile is providing the data support & data analysis to user using the SAS tools with SQL queries to extract the data.what should i do to get a Business analyst …

Please advice on the same.

Could you please provide me online tutorials for BA entry level.

Keep me in a loop for any article/discussion from you. You can reach me here shashidhart@tataelxsi.co.in

Best Regards,
Shashi

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Vish