Resume keywordsBusiness Analyst
Business Analyst resume keywords
Show that you turned vague requests into requirements a team could build, and name the result.
Skills to show
Use the exact phrase where it is true, inside a bullet and not only in a list.
- requirements gathering
- process mapping
- user stories
- gap analysis
- stakeholder management
- UAT
- data analysis
- business case
Tools and software
- SQL
- Excel
- Visio
- Jira
- Confluence
- Power BI
- Tableau
Verbs that fit business analyst work
- analyzed
- documented
- mapped
- defined
- facilitated
- recommended
Example bullets
The numbers are examples. Replace them with your own and round honestly.
- Gathered requirements from 6 departments and wrote 85 user stories for a new claims portal.
- Mapped the order-to-cash process and found 3 manual steps whose removal saved 120 staff hours a month.
- Ran UAT with 20 users and logged 47 defects, 45 of which were closed before go-live.
Mistakes to avoid
- Describing documents you wrote but not what they led to.
- Skipping the domain (banking, retail, health), which recruiters filter on.