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ATS resume keywords for Business Analysis

These are the 25 terms our scorer checks a Business Analysis resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • business analyst
  • requirements gathering
  • functional specification
  • brd
  • frd
  • user stories
  • acceptance criteria
  • gap analysis
  • process mapping
  • as is to be
  • stakeholder management
  • uat
  • sit
  • test cases
  • traceability matrix
  • data mapping
  • sql
  • api integration
  • wireframes
  • jira
  • confluence
  • change request
  • impact analysis
  • business process reengineering
  • elicitation

The eight questions for Business Analysis

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many requirements documents, user stories or process maps have you authored?
  2. 2.How many stakeholders, business units or teams do you work across?
  3. 3.What has measurably improved because of a change you specified?
  4. 4.How many projects, releases or programmes have you supported through to go live?
  5. 5.Which tools do you model, document and manage requirements in?
  6. 6.How many test cases or UAT cycles have you owned or coordinated?
  7. 7.What is the value, volume or scale of the process or product you analyse?
  8. 8.What decision did leadership take because of your analysis?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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