A Business Analyst (BA) is someone who analyzes an organization (real or hypothetical) and designs its processes and systems, assessing the business model and its integration with technology. The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) describes the role as “a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.”

Business Analyst also acts as a bridge between the business problems and the technology solutions. The business problems can be anything about business systems such as model, process or method. The technical solutions are using technology architecture, tools or software application.
The responsibilities of Business Analyst are:

• 1. Requirement Gathering
• 2. Investing goals and issues
• 3. Analyzing information
• 4. Communicating with variety of people
• 5. Documenting the findings
• 6. Evaluating solutions

The following benefits can be achieved by having necessary Business Analysis skills:

• 1. Competence in principles, theory and application of best practice Business Analysis
• 2. Participation in an internationally recognized professional group
• 3. Recognition of professional Business Analysis competence by peers and senior management
• 4. Provides individuals with personal satisfaction of accomplishing a significant milestone in their BA career
• 5. Achieving and maintaining certification helps to ensure continually improving, and remaining up-to-date in the Business Analysis environment
• 6. Increases earnings through gaining an industry certification which formally recognizes experienced BA professionals

Similar to Testers and Developers, lifetime of Business Analyst is eight years, usually we will not find Business Analysts with more than nine years of experience. Ideally there are two roles after Business Analyst namely:

• 1. Project Manager
• 2. Functional Consultant

The below hierarchy diagram shows the business hierarchy of a Business Analyst.

The following topics are covered under the Business Analysis training course:

• 1. Understanding and Capturing business needs
• 2. Requirement Analysis Process
• 3. Creating Requirement gathering strategy
• 4. Modeling Data and Processes
• 5. UML Methodology
• 6. Creating Effective Use Cases
• 7. Business Analysis Tools
• 8. Requirement Gathering, Business Modeling & Analysis Tools – MS Visio & Enterprise Architect
• 9. Project Documentation and Management
• 10. Software Testing
• 11. Overview of International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)®, Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®), Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®)

A Business Analyst requires three set of skills:

• 1. Technical Skills: Requirements Elicitation, Analysis, Documentation, Validation, Modeling etc, SQL and RDBMS skills, Systems thinking, Methodologies (Agile and RUP)
• 2. Business Skills : Domain Vocabulary, Domain Rules, Process knowledge, Business drivers, Industry trends etc.
• 3. Communication, Project and Leadership skills

The following are the tools that are included in Business Analysis training:

• 1. MS-Project
• 2. MS-Visio
• 3. Balsamiq UI (or Mockup/MockFlow)
• 4. ISM-Service Now
• 5. HP Quality Center & TOAD
• 6. Data Dictionaries in Excel
• 7. Rational Requisite Pro
• 8. Enterprise Architect
• 9. Rational Rose

You can start your career as a Business Analyst through 3 different ways.

• 1. Pursue MBA and directly become a Business Analyst.

Become a Business Analyst from the below road maps.

• 2. Software Developer → Sr. Software Developer → Business Analyst.
• 3. Software Test Engineer → Sr. Software Test Engineer → Business Analyst.

To become a certified Business Analyst, follow the below steps:

• Step 1: Try to understand BABOK®, by joining a BOOK study group. Study groups can be informal, and focused mostly on reading and discussing the BABOK® contents, or more formal, and focused on exam preparation.
• Step 2: Applying for the CBAP® requires 5 years of business analysis experience, as defined by the BABOK®. Candidate must also demonstrate 900 hours of experience across at least 4 of the 6 knowledge areas.
• Step 3: Verify whether CBAP®is the right path.
• Step 4: Earn appropriate professional development hours.
• Step 5: Submit CBAP® application.
• Step 6: Schedule CBAP® exam and prepare for it.
• Step 7: Clear the exam and get certified.

• 1. Discovers new business needs and requirements
• 2. Ensures focus on value through prioritization
• 3. Introduces more effective implementations of new solutions
• 4. Provides a framework in which an IT team can scale as an organization

Quality Analysts

• 1. Responsible for the test execution of existing and new functionality in applications and systems
• 2. Ensure that the application functions as specified in the documented requirements, use cases, design, and other documentation
• 3. Utilize test tools to automate, record defects and issues, update/create test cases, and to track test case execution status

Business Analysts

• 1. Responsible for working with users to define and document system requirements for new implementations and enhancements
• 2. Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions, review design documentation with users and developers
• 3. Prepare process and data models, prioritize system functionality based on requirements, coordinate pilot and test activities, and design screens and reports

A Business Analyst functions primarily in a role prior to the software creation or improvement. They are involved in creating requirements and other artifacts that facilitate the design and development of software. They play an important key role during software testing, where they help confirm (through User Acceptance testing) that a piece of new or enhanced software actually does what the business needs it to do.

There are many reasons why enterprises need a ‘Business Analyst’. First, many times business stakeholders will be aware of the problem their enterprise is facing but they may not know how to solve the problem in the ‘Most Optimal’ manner.

• 1. Business Analyst plays a very key role in solving the problem in the most optimal manner and meeting the needs of your key stakeholder.
• 2. In an enterprise, where a problem or an issue is spread across multiple department, units or divisions, business stakeholders may not have an ‘end-to-end’ holistic view. In such situation, Business Analyst will act as a ‘Focal Point’ and work with all the different departments, units or divisions to elicit, analyse, model, document and validate the business/system level requirements.
• 3. Business stakeholders lack the right knowledge, skills and expertise to translate their own needs and requirements into ‘System-Level’ requirements, which is used as an input by the implementation team to design, develop and test a system/application.

Again, a Business Analyst is the only professional who has the right skills, expertise, knowledge and practical know-how of the ‘Tools and Techniques’ to understand the business needs, elicit, analyse and document the business requirements and translate these business requirements into system level requirements.

Business domain knowledge can be learned via various means. The primary channel is through training program. While the ‘Business Analysis’ training and placement program is ‘Domain Agnostic’ i.e. all the principles, tools and techniques taught during the training, applies to all the business domains.

Domain is a particular area or a specific work area to be worked upon. The domain can be understood in two ways namely:

• 1. Technical Domain – Java, J2ee, .NET, Flash or PHP are the technical domains for technical people like developers.
• 2. General Domain – Banking, Finance, CRM, Auctions, Healthcare, E-commerce, Logistics, Supply chain are the general domains for Business Analysts.

Domain knowledge means “knowing more”. For example, Healthcare – When it comes to Hospital, we think only about patient and doctor but it involves many things like lab, insurance etc. In insurance, there are different types like cashless, reimburse, other services like MRI, scanning, pharma, inventory, government rules and regulations pertaining to insurance, drug control board, reports, admin and software etc.

Majority of software companies will not work on all domains. Companies will work only on selected domains. Very rarely companies work on multiple domains. It is an added advantage to hire a Business Analyst with a specific domain knowledge as there will be a short period of training.
However, companies will not expect expertise in domain knowledge from freshers but if candidate is having expertise in the specific domain knowledge then that will be an added advantage over other candidates and can be picked by employer.

The best available option is google and the other option is your friends who are working on some domains instead of going to certification courses or classes to gain domain knowledge.

The specific job deliverables of a Business Analyst vary according to the employer’s needs. Some may be limited to IT-related projects only, while others may be involved in areas such as finance or accounting, marketing or operations. Business Analyst training online can be beneficial to
professionals currently working in banking, insurance, information technology, telecommunications, and marketing – since the essential skills and business knowledge required for success in any of these fields can facilitate understanding of employers’ needs.
Business Analysts are typically required to assess and validate their activities and to determine if a solution has fulfilled the requirements. They may use sophisticated methods, metrics and tools to achieve the business benefits and corporate goals in areas such as billing, production, workflow, customer relationship management and manufacturing.

Today, there is a huge demand for the professional individuals, who can identify the business needs, plan solutions and translate them into Information Technology (IT) specifications which enable enterprises to achieve the desired goals. They work in different areas such as Finance, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Utilities, Software services and so on. Business Analysts can switch between industries as they work on projects at a level of abstraction.

Business Analysts may overlap into roles such as project manager or consultant.

Sure, we highly encourage you to attend one of our live ‘Instructor-Led’ non-obligatory demo sessions. Demo session will give you great insights into what Business Analysis field is all about, the tools and techniques Business Analysts use on a day-to-day basis, career prospects and everything you would like to know regarding the Business Analysis field. You can also ask any questions or concerns you have to the instructor before making a decision.

Yes, you can become a Business Analyst by spending good time in understanding and knowing Business Analyst roles, tasks, responsibilities and domains. With good preparation only, you can become a Business Analyst.

No.

• 1. Acquire knowledge and skill related to Business Analysis through a formal training or certification to validate your knowledge.
• 2. Tester may actively participate in change management, impact analysis, solution scope activities and so on. Most part of the requirement elicitation is done at the client side at early stage.
• 3. Speak to your Manager or Project Manager (only if you have good relationship) for the possible role change within the project.
• 4. Speak to HR for career change options within the organization once you formally acquire your training/certification.

Financial is the most popular domain. Within ‘Financial’, there are various sub-domains such as retail banking, investment banking, secondary-mortgage, insurance, fixed income etc. While there are Business Analyst jobs in all domains, financial domain dominates the list, followed by healthcare, public sector, and logistics/supply chain.

No, few companies specifically states at the time of interview or job advertisement that, they need full time courses only.

We highly encourage you to attend one of our live ‘Instructor-Led’ non-obligatory demo sessions. Demo session will give you great insights into what Business Analysis field is all about, the tools and techniques business analysts use on a day-to-day basis, career prospects and everything you would like to know regarding the Business Analysis field. You can also ask any questions or concerns you have to the instructor before making a decision.

Great! Since you have an experience in information technology area, it will be very easy for you to transit into a Business Analyst role. Most importantly, you can leverage on your past IT experience to transition your career into a Business Analyst.

Definitely, there are no prerequisites to become a Business Analyst, any past experience will be of great asset, which can leverage upon.

While an national average salary (in USA) is within the range of 80,000 to 125,000 USD gross per annum, the exact amount will depend on many factors such as job title, geographic location, business domain, number of years of experience, certifications earned, project funding, W2/form 1099, and the number of consulting firms involved.

Of course, we can definitely help you to transit from your current role into a Business Analyst role. Please contact us on 515-978-9028 to discuss further and our team will work towards meeting your career goal.

In addition to providing quality training programs from certified trainers, our team of professionals will assist you in resume preparation, conducting mock interviews and marketing you to get your desired job and providing you with post-placement support.

Yes, but it may be bit difficult because you will have some irrelevant experience already and employers will prefer to have Business Analysts with relevant experience. You may need to work hard to give the best impression that, you can do justice to Business Analyst role.

No, apart from the information available on this site, if you have any VALID questions, I will try to answer but not for those who expect ready-made answers. Do some research and post your questions.

No. Initially I shared my phone number on the site and I had to face lot of problems hence I do not prefer to share my number.

It is an added advantage if you are aware of technical things but it is not mandatory to have technical hands-on. However, I recommend to know what are the technologies available in the market and what sort of technologies are better for a particular software. Usually this comes by experience.
As BA, you do usually interact with developers, you need to make best use of the time. As questions, know more about frameworks. You need to know – how code is written? But what technology, what framework? What are the other frameworks? Why this framework is applied? Why not other framework? Etc these questions will enable you to make techno-functional. Techno Functional people have more demand in the market.

No, Unfortunately we do not provide any services or help related to resume and jobs.

For IT Business Analysts, annual average wages total $68K per year. Total cash compensation to IT Business Analysts bottoms out near $48K and approaches $101K on the high end; the biggest paychecks include approximately $10K from bonuses and almost $8K from profit sharing. Earnings for this group are mostly affected by the particular firm, followed by career duration and location. Most IT Business Analysts report high levels of job satisfaction. Men working as IT Business Analysts who took the survey just slightly outnumber women at 58 percent. A large number enjoy medical while a fair number get dental coverage. Vision coverage is also available to a majority. The numbers in this rundown were provided by PayScale’s salary survey participants.

source: payscale.com

A business analyst, IT, focuses on improving operations that involve information technology within a company. The business analyst offers consultation to management in an effort to help the company become more effective. The IT business analyst will analyze the hardware, software, and IT services that are being employed in a company. Analyses will have to be carried out in order to determine areas that need improvement. It is also important to have strong research skills in order to determine the latest trends and solutions.
The analyst will then peruse the results and make suggestions as to what should be changed regarding company IT policies, IT structure, and IT operations. When problems are detected, the analyst should carry out problem-solving techniques in order to come up with a solution. When solutions are implemented, the analyst should continue to monitor these solutions to analyze their efficiency and to make continuous improvements. Knowledge of SQL is important, in order to be able to analyze data from databases. The business analyst should be able to carry out analyses, such as cost benefit analyses. Therefore, strong mathematical skills are essential. Presentation and report-making skills are important in order to present the findings to upper management.
Many positions require a master’s degree in information technology or a related field. Other positions prefer proven experience in IT business analyses over the educational requirements. Many positions offered are full-time. Some positions require that a business analyst works directly for a company, while others work for an agency that provides analyses services to various companies.

Business Analyst, IT Tasks

• Create project plans for information technology development and testing.
• Translate requirements into new information technology project specifications.
• Identify, communicate, and manage risks associated with projects.
• Identify business or customer requirements and information technology alternatives.

source: payscale.com

source: payscale.com

source: payscale.com

source: payscale.com

source: payscale.com

source: payscale.com

We provide three different modes of training:

1. Instructor Led Live Training (ILLT) – In this mode students attend the Live online sessions as per the training schedule. Assignments and course materials access is provided using the LMS system. Students can also view the videos of the past sessions and post questions using the LMS system. Students can ask trainers question live during the session or offline using the LMS system. 24×7 access to Support is available.
2. Instructor Led Video Training (ILVT) – In this mode students do not attend Live online sessions but learn from the Session video recordings. Assignments and course materials access is provided using the LMS system. Students can post questions offline for trainers using the LMS system. 24×7 access to Support is available.
3. Self-Paced Video Training (SPVT) – Self-paced video training program is designed to learn at your own pace. Students are given a access to the LMS system and learn thru pre-recorded session videos. They access the assignments and materials thru the LMS system. 24×7 access to Support is available.

We offer Three different modes of training – https://goo.gl/wnHxA1
Click on the below links to know the differences between live training, video training, self-paced video training:

1. Instructor Led Live Training (ILLT) – https://youtu.be/eE0HVpErs2M
2. Instructor Led Video Training (ILVT) – https://youtu.be/I7uiBi25tLk
3. Self-paced Video Training (SPVT) – https://youtu.be/1P6eGOSl-Lk

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• 6. Internet Connection: 28.8 Kbps, recommended 128+ Kbps
• 7. Monitor: 16 bit colors (high color)
• 8. Other: Sound card, microphone, and speakers OR headset with microphone

1Mbps of internet speed is recommended to attend the live classes. Even with lesser internet speed students can attend live session.

Some of the major benefits are:

• 1. Full Interactivity – Two-way voice over internet and web-conferencing tool. This tool enables participants to ask questions and collaborate with each other in an online virtual space and enables the online trainer to answer questions, take simulations, and receive answers instantaneously. Every trainee can view the trainers desktop and vice versa.
• 2. Cost Savings and Convenience – Courses can be completed from home, the office, or wherever the Internet is accessible. There is no need to travel to a specific location to attend a training program. Less overhead cost for the company and the savings is passed on to the trainees. Shorter course schedules mean that projects don’t have to be put on hold while participants train (for corporations).
• 3. Never Miss a Session – With online training, you can receive archived video recorded sessions to all enrollees and the streaming video recording links are posted on the Training blog after each session. Participants may view these sessions to review sessions post-class or make up a missed class as needed. Accesses to Video Recordings are available after the training end thus making it easy for you to review after training ends.
• 4. Location Independent – You may join for an online instructor-led course from any part of the world without having to travel. Trainees can attend from USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Australia, India and many other countries around the world.
• 5. Affordable – Classroom sessions are expensive. You pay for Hotel, Food, Travel plus Course Fees. All those overhead costs quickly add up to more than 5,000 dollars. Online training programs costs less and is a fraction of that cost of classroom training.
• 6. Best Trainers – If you are taking a Classroom training, you are restricted to take the training from the best instructors available in that area only. This is Not the case in Online training setup. We hire and work with Best trainers throughout the world with the power of internet.
• 7. Career Focused –The online IT training courses match the tasks, assignments or projects you perform for employers on the job guaranteeing that the new skills you gain after training are immediately relevant to your career or employer.
• 8. Shorter Sessions – By providing shorter session duration and then providing assignments, gives the trainees time to understand the concepts and practice from the assignments and be prepared for the next session. Online training sessions are each 2-3 hrs long and only cover 10hrs per week. Classes are scheduled 2-3 days apart giving you time to practice.

All Instructors from ZaranTech are working professionals from leading organizations who have minimum of 8 years of real-time consulting experience working on live projects and good subject knowledge. They have minimum 3+ years of experience in training. Most of our trainers are Certified professionals as well and help the students to get certified.

Yes, you will be working on the case-studies/project which helps you to implement the gained skills and knowledge practically towards the end of the training workshop.

Trainee can choose any of the following payment methods to enrol our training program:

• 1. For USD payment, trainee can pay by Paypal and Bank of America
• 2. Bank payments from anywhere in USA
• 3. Money orders
• 4. International Wire transfer
• 5. ACH transfers
• 6. Chase Quickpay
• 7. Bank of America transfers
• 8. Wells Fargo Surepay
• 9. Credit Card
• 10. Debit Card
• 11. Net Banking

Note:

• 1. Instalment option is also available
• 2. We accept credit card, debit card and net banking for all leading banks

Since most of our trainers are working professional themselves, we provide Instructor-led Live training as per the following schedules and try to complete 8-10 hrs of Live training per week:

• 1. Weekday evenings Mon-Fri – start time at 7 or 7:30pm CST with each session 2-3 hrs.
• 2. Weekend batch timings are Sat-Sun with start times of 8am, 4pm, 7pm CST with each session 3-4hrs

You can Raise a Ticket from the Blog and a Support team member will respond to your query. We help 24×7 through our ticketing system.

Once the session is complete, all the session videos will be uploaded on the blog. You can access the missed session videos on the blog. The videos recordings and access to the training blog is available to you for 6 months. The materials access thru Google drive repository is available to you for lifetime.

After the session is complete, all the session videos are uploaded for you to view using the blog. You can access the blog from any device (laptop, tablets, mobile phone) connected to internet and watch the videos.

Yes, as a sample we can surely provide you some videos from previous workshops.

In ILLT, you have an option to attend the live classes of other trainers. But, this has to be informed to the respective co-ordinators before completing three live sessions.
In case of ILVT and SPVT, you have an option to access other trainer’s videos on raising request to the co-ordinators and support team. But the access to the previously shared videos will be restricted.

To know more about our Terms of Service including the Refund and Rescheduling policy, please visit,

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The soft copy of course completion certificate from ZaranTech will be sent to you via e-mail after your training completion. Here is a Sample, https://goo.gl/Ben1V1

Once you have enrolled to the training program, our support team will send an email to your registered Email ID. The video link in an e-mail explains how to login to the training blog and access the training program and content. This takes less than 2-3 hrs.

We will help you to setup Virtual Machine in your System with local access. The detailed installation guides will be provided for setting up the environment. In case your system doesn’t meet the prerequisites e.g. 4GB RAM, you will be provided remote access to the Server for the practicals. For any doubt, the 24*7 support team will promptly assist you.

Most of our courses are designed to get you a job first and are also geared for you to get certified. After the course completion, your trainer will provide all details about the certification you can appear for the qualifications of each. We also provide you with Certification faqs and dumps from past certification exams. Our trainers help each and every student in getting them certified.

Enroll to our Self paced video training.
Video Explanation – What is Self Paced Video Training – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1P9_fkg9mE

Our corporate office is located in West Des Moines, Iowa. And our mailing address is mentioned on the “Contact Us” page of our website.

We cannot share the trainers Linkedin profile but we surely can send you a screenshot of it. This is because the trainer don’t want to be contacted through inmail as they themselves are Sr. consultants/Solution architects at reputed firms and keep very busy with work. This is something we are telling from our past experience. Rest assured, please know that the experience of the trainers are what they say. You can also attend a Live Demo webinar with the trainer and ask any question to them and get a clarity on trainer’s experience and subject knowledge.

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