Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about your path into business analysis and the domains you have worked in?
- What part of the analyst role do you find most rewarding?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through how you ran requirements gathering for a recent project, from first stakeholder meeting to signed-off scope.
- How do you write acceptance criteria that developers and testers interpret the same way?
- Tell us about a time your data analysis changed a decision stakeholders had already made.
- How do you handle two senior stakeholders who give you conflicting requirements?
- Which tools do you rely on for documentation, process mapping, and analysis, and how do you use them together?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Describe a time a project you supported failed to deliver its expected value. What did you take from it?
- Tell us about a moment you had to deliver an unpopular finding to a stakeholder. How did you present it?
- How do you stay useful to a development team during a sprint without becoming a bottleneck?
Problem-solving / case
- A department head asks for a new dashboard, but you suspect the real problem is a broken process upstream. How do you proceed?
- Midway through delivery, users reveal a compliance requirement nobody mentioned. What do you do first?
- You have two weeks to scope a system replacement for a process nobody has documented. Outline your plan.
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