Heyyy,
Over the last one year, people have asked me one question - What does a Business Analyst do at Infosys. (so now you know the reason behind this post) Here is what I have been exposed to -
A business analyst is seen as a domain expert or a subject matter expert - different from the league of coders/ testers at Infosys. This means, you are expected to do a lot of domain trainings. I have done many in the past and tell you what - the experience has been good. As a trainer you need to do your homework properly and be up-to-date in your chosen domain.
Presales is another stream. As a presales anchor at Offshore - you should be able to handle Client Visits and lend Proposal support. This involves market research/ deck preparation. A deck is a suite of inputs - Value proposition of services, staffing plan, costing etc. As a presales anchor at onsite (or locations abroad), you can be projected as a BDM, and you literally get to acquire clients.
Apart from this, one can be into Delivery. In delivery, you would be expected to carry out user acceptance testing, suggest improvements to the project has been managed and services have been offered to clients. Also, one has to review test cases, even do testing (depends on your luck - manual/automation/performance are the possibilities)
Requirements gathering is yet another path that a BA gets to traverse. A requirements analyst - engineers requirements, gathers and documents them. You get to due-diligence of clients’ applications and interface with them to understand their requirements better.
These are some of the streams that I am able to think of 
Will add more as and when I recollect..Hope this is useful!!!
Chini
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