Business Analyst resume keywords
These are the skills, tools and certifications that show up most often in business analyst job postings in the US. Use only the ones that are true for you.
Asked for in most postings
- requirements gathering
- process mapping
- stakeholder communication
- data analysis
- documentation
- user acceptance testing
- SQL
- Excel
Often listed as a plus
- Agile
- Jira
- Visio
- Power BI
- business process improvement
- CBAP
Example: the same experience, written two ways
Before: Worked between the business and IT teams.
After: Gathered requirements from 5 departments, mapped current and future processes in Visio and wrote the test cases for a new billing system.
Tip: Show the full chain: what you gathered, what you documented and what got built. Name the tools you used for each step.