IT Business Analyst is the person involved in gathering business requirement from the users, analyzing and translating into specifications, which developers will refer for designing and coding the software. In addition the business analyst is the person who has business domain knowledge of various domains so that he can understand the problem and opportunities and suggest the effective solution to achieve the organizational goals. He act as an intermediate between Client, Stakeholders, Users, Developers, Testers and Deployment Team.
Business Analyst is the best job to get into the IT industry with Basic IT knowledge. As per the survey 60 to 70% projects fail because of lack of proper requirement gathering which itself suggest the need for the business analyst in IT Industry. Business Analyst is among the TOP 10 recession proof jobs which is highest paid among these 10 as per Forbes Magazine Survey. There is quite a good increase in the jobs for Business Analyst. Good overseas opportunities.