What is the role of the business systems analyst in testing?

manan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:45:00 GMT

The business systems analyst is often responsible for ensuring that the business requirements are satisfied by the final system implementation. This is called requirements validation.

Depending on the organization, a business analyst can be involved in a variety of testing activities:

One requirements validation technique used by business analysts and systems analysts is the creation of test cases to ensure the final implementation supports the system requirements. Creation of test cases prior to design and implementation often discover problems long before they occur in system development. Test cases could be created by the business analyst or the business analyst could be a reviewer or approver of the test cases created by the testing team.

Business Analysts who are part of a SCRUM team may either help the testers on the team or may actually be responsible for unit testing the code created by the team in cases when there are no dedicated testers.

It is also not uncommon, for business analysts to assist with end-to-end integrated testing performed by the technology team or assisting with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) performed by the business team or business users.

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What is the role of the business systems analyst in testing?