Resume template · Updated October 2026
Business analyst resume template
Short answer
Henrietta suits a business analyst: a plain business document with hairline rules, the kind of page you could hand a steering committee. The fictional sample is a health-insurance BA six years in, with workshops she ran, process maps, SQL used to size a backlog and acceptance testing she led. Her IIBA CCBA sits in the headline because certifications print near the end of the page.
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Why Henrietta suits a business analyst resume
Business analysis is judged on clear documents, and Henrietta looks like one: a left-aligned name, black and grey type and hairline rules under each heading. Its three-column skills grid holds a BA's short method names (BPMN, UAT, gap analysis) neatly, though it drops the group labels, so lead with elicitation and modelling.
Second choice: Meridian. Meridian prints skills before experience; pick it when the posting is heavy on SQL and BI tools and you want those read first.
What goes in each section, in Henrietta's order
Henrietta prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. Domain first, then the kind of analysis. "Health insurance and retail" tells a hiring manager whether you can talk to their stakeholders on day one; "requirements, process mapping and UAT" tells them how you work.
- Work Experience. Each bullet should pair an artifact with its effect: workshops run, stories written, a process map that removed handoffs, test cycles led. Name the groups you worked with (nurses, store managers, finance), because a BA's value is translating between them.
- Education. Degree and year. A business or information systems degree helps, but analysts arrive from every field, and none needs defending.
- Skills. Henrietta prints the groups as columns without labels, so put methods in the first group, tools in the second and soft skills in the third. Elicitation and modelling belong at the top of the first column.
- Certifications. IIBA's ladder runs ECBA (entry), CCBA (two to three years of practice) and CBAP (more than five). List the one you hold with its year, and repeat it in the headline when the posting names it.
The sample resume as text
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Grace Adebayo
Business Analyst, CCBA
Denver, CO | grace.adebayo@example.com | (303) 555-0119 | linkedin.com/in/sample-grace-adebayo
Business analyst with six years in health insurance and retail, turning workshops with frontline staff into user stories, process maps and test plans. Works alongside developers from discovery through user acceptance testing.
Experience
Business Analyst, Larkspur Health Plans, Denver, CO (08/2022 to Present)
- Led requirements for a new prior-authorization portal: ran 14 workshops with nurses, providers and claims staff and wrote 60 user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Mapped the current and future authorization process in BPMN, exposing three manual handoffs that the portal removed.
- Queried the claims warehouse in SQL to size the backlog of pending authorizations, which set the scope of the first release.
- Ran user acceptance testing with 20 staff across two release cycles and tracked every defect to closure in Jira.
Junior Business Analyst, Silverpine Retail Group, Boulder, CO (06/2020 to 07/2022)
- Documented requirements for bringing store returns into the e-commerce order system, from interviews with store managers and the finance team.
- Built a Power BI report on return reasons that the merchandising team reviews every month.
- Kept the requirements traceability matrix for a nine-month point-of-sale upgrade.
Education
BS, Business Administration (Management Information Systems), Front Range State University (05/2020)
Certifications
- Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA), International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) (2024)
Skills
Requirements elicitation, User stories and acceptance criteria, Process modelling (BPMN), Gap analysis, User acceptance testing, SQL, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Power BI, Excel, Workshop facilitation, Stakeholder management, Plain-language writing
How to make the sample yours
Swap the domain vocabulary
Prior authorization and claims are health-insurance words. Replace them with your own industry's terms (policies and underwriting, orders and fulfilment, ledgers and close) so a domain expert recognises the work.
Count the outputs honestly
Fourteen workshops and 60 user stories are illustrations. Take your own counts from Jira or your calendar, or describe the scope without a number.
Show the data skill you actually have
If you write SQL, keep a bullet where a query informed a decision. If you only read reports, write "analysed claims reports" instead and leave SQL out of the grid.
Tie acceptance testing to the release
Replace the UAT bullet with your own: how many testers, how many cycles, what got fixed before go-live or what stopped a release.
Match agile or waterfall wording to the posting
Some teams want user stories and backlog refinement; others want business requirements documents and formal sign-off. Use the vocabulary of the job you want, where you have done that work.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- business analysis
- requirements elicitation
- user stories
- acceptance criteria
- process mapping
- BPMN
- gap analysis
- stakeholder management
- user acceptance testing (UAT)
- SQL
- Power BI
- Jira
- requirements traceability
- BABOK Guide
- CCBA
Mistakes to avoid
- Bullets that list documents you wrote without saying what they changed or decided.
- Claiming product decisions that belonged to the product owner or sponsor. Write "recommended" where you recommended.
- A skills grid full of Office applications. Excel earns its place; Word and Outlook do not.
- Mixing up IIBA levels, for example writing CBAP when you hold CCBA. Screeners can check.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 5 of 5 | 7 of 7 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 5 of 5 | 7 of 7 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 5 of 5 | 7 of 7 |
Frequently asked questions
Which IIBA certification should a business analyst list?
The one you hold, with its full title the first time. ECBA is the entry certificate, CCBA is aimed at people with two to three years of business analysis work, and CBAP at those with more than five.
Do business analysts need SQL on their resume?
Not always, but many postings ask for it, especially in data-heavy industries. List it only if you write queries yourself, and show one bullet where a query shaped a decision.
How do I show business analysis work under a different job title?
Keep the real title, then lead the bullets with analysis: requirements gathered, processes mapped, testing coordinated. Many BAs start as coordinators, support analysts or operations staff.
Should I attach requirements documents I wrote?
Usually not, because most are confidential to the employer. A sanitized process map or a sample user story from a course can be a useful interview prop, but it does not belong on the resume.
Is two pages too long for a business analyst?
One page suits most analysts with under eight years of experience. Senior BAs who have led several large programs can use two, as long as the second page is still about analysis work.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Henrietta PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 5 section headings and all 7 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
Guides and templates for this resume
Sources, checked 29 October 2026
We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.
- International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA): Business Analysis Certifications (ECBA (foundational), CCBA (two to three years of BA experience) and CBAP (over five years))
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