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I have been working as a Business Analyst for the past 5 years in various domains like Mortgage, Banking, Insurance and Broking Management and human resources. As a BA I have gained an in depth knowledge of the business process and the different phases of the software development life cycle. (This included requirements, analysis, design, modeling, development, testing, change and configuration management). Being a BA I have always got to interact with people, its about being apeople person which I enjoy doing the most. Most of my projects required me interacting with the business area experts, Developers, Management, Support Staff and other stakeholders and facilitated communication between the client and IT department and have thus developed excellent co-ordination, negotiation and interpersonal skills. From job perspective over the years I have improved my skills in requirement gathering, understanding my users rather understanding their needs, next I am also comfortable in creating and maintaining documentation. I had to think of the best format to communicate with the Information Technology Team and the best format for communicating with the business area experts. (I divided the documentation into categories like functionality specification and detail design specification.) This came along with the tasks of ensuring that business needs were met and I used MS Project and Rational Requisite Pro for this purpose. I would also like to add that since most of my projects were as per the RUP methodology I have gained an in depth knowledge of the subject due to my continued use of the concept. I have made use case diagrams and I have also made activity diagrams in Rational Rose, UML and MS Visio. I also modeled the flow of logic in a visual manner using sequence diagrams. Well these were some skills regarding the job perspective, but apart from that being a BA has in may ways tuned my personal qualities too, I have a good verbal written skills. And excellen