Business Analyst resume keywords

What a business analyst resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.

Also covers: Systems Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, Operations Analyst, Reporting Analyst.

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Skills and keywords

These are the terms most consistently used to screen business analyst applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.

Requirements gatheringProcess mappingStakeholder managementSQLExcelJiraUser storiesData analysisDocumentationAgile

Example bullets

Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.

  • Gathered requirements from N stakeholders for system.
  • Mapped process, finding N steps to remove and saving N hours a week.
  • Wrote N user stories that shipped in period.

Verbs that signal ownership

Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”:

gatheredmappedwrote