Tell me about yourself - answer-I'm from Chicago I recently moved to Houston Texas with my family. I am continuing my education towards a bachelor's degree. I went to Oakton Community College in and now will be transferring to a university here in Houston. I have 2 years of working experience as a ...
BA INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
Tell me about yourself - answer-I'm from Chicago I recently moved to
Houston Texas with my family. I am continuing my education towards a
bachelor's degree. I went to Oakton Community College in and now will be
transferring to a university here in Houston. I have 2 years of working
experience as a Business Analyst.
Tell me about your last project - answer-Introduction: Sure. The domain that I
worked for in my last project at AIM/anthem was healthcare. It was
regulated, competitive and volatile. I paid attention to detail, was able to
cope in a fast paced environment which is all about being resilient and
adaptable to change. AIM anthem serves more than 50 million members
across 50 states. Its a parent company of BCBS. it's basically a pre-auth
company that handles exams including MRI's, x-rays, PT, ST, OT and even
the medications get authorized through them.
I worked on two functionalities in IMASIS which is the ERP enterprise
resource planning application that the company uses. The first being the
"upload/attach" functionality and the second: the "view document"
functionality.
Basically if someone sends a fax, it could be the servicing provider, the
ordering provider a member, a manual fax or an e-fax, it is, it's always
scanned and stored in a share drive. If someone wants to see the fax they
had to exit out of the application and go to the share drive and when they're
done, open up the application again.
The business wanted to create that functionality within the application to
make it easier and more accessible. This is where i created the upload/attach
functionality so a fax would be able to be uploaded within the application
itself in a PDF format. With the view document functionality i'm able to view
an image of the document before uploading it.
I first did "as is" analysis on the current application. I looked at who the users
are, the current features, understanding where the data is going and i came
up with open ended questions to take to be.
My to be analysis was in the form of a facilitated session or JAD which is joint
application development and a part of agile. As a BA i had 3 meeting
responsibilities: pre, during and post. In pre I made an agenda
, Do you work in both waterfall/agile methodology? Which one do your prefer
and why? - answer-I am comfortable with both agile and waterfall
methodologies, and I can be flexible with each one.
Have you worked with multiple stakeholders? - answer-Yes
How do you work under pressure? - answer-I work well under pressure and
the same with no pressure
If you were given multiple projects, how would you handle it? - answer-by
prioritizing and managing my time efficiently
How do you keep yourself up to date with industry knowledge? - answer-I am
constantly reading new articles online about the BA field and agile and
waterfall methodologies and new enhancements that are being put together
What is an epic? - answer-an epic is a higher level of business requirements
from smaller user stories
ex: I'm thirsty I want something to drink
What is a use case - answer-A use case is a written or diagrammatic
explanation of a project based application from beginning to end.
They capture all the possible ways the user and system can interact that
result in the user achieving the goal.
components of a use case:
use case name
use case ID
use case description
actor
precondition
trigger
post condition
happy/normal/straight path
alternate or exception path
How do you write a user story? - answer-Actor what & why
clear simple and concise
Give me an example of an epic - and then break it down into user stories. -
answer-Epic: I want to back up my hard drive
User story: As a user, I can indicate folders not to backup so that my backup
drive isn't filled up with things I don't need saved
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