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Hi, I have been rejected at a couple of BA interviews because the client interviewer thinks I am too technical. But if the interviewer asks me for instances from practical experiences I find it difficult to give just a bird's eye view. I am flummoxed whether to project myself as a generic BA or a technical BA, or how do I maintain a balance between the two.

If you're making to the interview process then it's probably not your resume that's the issue.

I'm trying to understand if you believe the issue here is that the answers you provided to certain questions were too technical, or that you provided too much detailed information. Those are two different issues. You can be asked a technical question and provide too much detail, and you can be asked a soft skills or business question and reply with technical jargon not relevant to the question.

Can you provide a few questions that you thought were an issue and give the general type of response you gave?

Do you know your interviewer ? Google and find out their skills. 

If they're not technically inclined and you use tech-speak jargon, then that would be a concern. Because it's been an eternal problem of tech folks using acronyms and tech-speak which leave the non-IT community befuddled. 

Articulate your answer in plain English