Wednesday 22 May 2013

Interview Questions for Software Testing Professionals

Interview Questions for Software Testing Professionals

A) Tester Role and Responsibilities:
B) Software Engineering, Quality Standards:
C) Manual Testing Concepts:
D) Test Automation Concepts (QTP):
E) General Software testing interview questions:
F) Environmental, Development Technologies

A) Tester Role and Responsibilities:

  • Differentiate Priority and Severity in your Defect Report?
  • Generally, when will you plan for test automation for a project in your company?
  • How many Defects did you detect in your project?
  • How many Test Cases did you write for this project?
  • How will you report daily/weekly status in your Organization?
  • Tell me about your Current Project? / Explain about your Current Project?
  • To whom do you report in your Company?
  • What are metrics? In your projects what metrics did you collect?
  • What are your capabilities in test automation?
  • What are your responsibilities in your current Project?
  • What is the Bug Life Cycle Process in your Company’s Defect Management System?
  • What is the latest defect that you raised in your project?
  • What is your Company automation framework, explain it?
  • What is your company Testing process?
  • What risks did you face in your project? How you solved them?
  • What will you do that your defect is rejected?
  • When should testing start in a project? Why?
  • Write 2 or 3 Test Cases from your Project?

B) Software Engineering, Quality Standards:

  • Differentiate QA and QC what types of documents would you need for QA, QC and Testing?
  • Give brief description about the Agile Development Model?
  • How can we choose a Life Cycle Model for a Project?
  • What are the differences between Waterfall Model and V model?
  • What are the different phases in SDLC?
  • What is Software Quality?
  • What is the Difference between QA and Testing?
  • What is the difference between Verification and Validation?
  • What is the major Difference between ISO, IEEE standards and CMMI Levels?
  • What is the relation between CMM and Life Cycle Model?

C) Manual Testing Concepts:

  • Define Test Strategy and Test Plan?
  • Describe the phases of Testing?
  • Did you use any tools to write Test Cases?
  • Did you work with Use Cases?
  • How can it be known when to stop testing?
  • How metrics improve the quality of a Product?
  • What are Test Scenario, Test Case and Use Case?
  • What document did you refer to write the Test Cases?
  • What if the application has functionality that wasn’t in the Requirements?
  • What is Exhaustive Testing?
  • What is a bug? What types of bugs do you know? What should be done after a bug found?
  • What is a variable?
  • What is an equivalence class? Why it is important while writing Test Cases?
  • What is boundary value analysis give an example for it?
  • What is different between Black Box and White Box Testing?
  • What is exploratory Testing?
  • What is logic?
  • What is peer review, give an example?
  • What is the Initial stage of testing?
  • What is the difference between Inspection and Informal Review?
  • What is the difference between Static and Dynamic Testing?
  • What is the difference between Test Driver and Test Stub?
  • What is the difference between build version and Software Version?
  • What is the difference between function and Procedure?
  • What is the difference between priority and severity in a defect Report?
  • What is the purpose of the testing?
  • What is your base for your test cases?
  • When is good time for system testing?
  • Where do you get your expected results?
  • What is Equivalence class partitioning?

D) Test Automation Concepts (QTP):

  • Differentiate Conditional Statements and Loop statements in the VB Script? 
  • Differentiate methods and Classes in the VB Script? 
  • Explain Obout Object Identification Configuration in QTP? 
  • Explain the Testing Process in QTP? 
  • How can we create and use functions in QTP? 
  • How to add verification steps to tests? 
  • How to connect to application database? 
  • How to parameterize tests? 
  • In QuickTest Pro can we insert Checkpoints programmatically? How? 
  • In how many ways can we prepare automated tests (Scripts) in QTP? 
  • What Test Cases Can’t be Automated? 
  • What are the Important Factors in a Tool selection? 
  • What are the major differences between Functions and Actions in QTP? What advantages there in Functions than Actions? 
  • What automation framework did you follow for your last project? 
  • What is Automation Object Model? 
  • What is Automation? 
  • What is Recovery Scenario? In QTP how many types of recovery scenarios are there, what are they? 
  • What is Synchronization? 
  • What is Windows Script Host? 
  • What is descriptive programming? What is it’s advantage? 
  • What is parametrization? 
  • What is the Object Repository? 
  • What is your company’s automation framework explain it? 
  • What test Cases can be Automated?

E) General Software testing interview questions:

  • Why you chose Software testing as a Career?
  • Why are you looking for a change?
  • Are you interested to take new responsibilities if required?
  • What are you expecting from our company?
  • Do you know about our Company?
  • What are your strengths?
  • What is your weakness?
  • What type of coordination do you expect from your collogues?
  • Which roles do you like, Leader or follower, why?
  • Why are you staying with one company for a long time?
  • Why do you like this job?
  • Are you willing to work on shifts?
  • Are you willing to relocate?

F) Environmental, Development Technologies :

  • Can we have 3 tier applications with out having web Technology?
  • Can we operate a windows based application on UNIX Environment, Explain it?
  • Differentiate Intranet, Internet and Extranet Applications?
  • Do you know about embedded systems, give brief explanation?
  • Explain about the IP Address and the MAC Address?
  • Give brief description about J2EE?
  • Give brief description about the .Net Technology?
  • Give brief description about the Java Technology?
  • Give definitions for the Master Data, Metadata and Runtime Data?
  • In Microsoft Windows, how many types of Operating systems are there, what are they, and give examples?
  • What are the difference between General Programming Languages (C, C++, Java, and VC++ etc.) and Scripting Languages (VB script, Java script and Perl Script etc.)?
  • What are the major advantages in Web Applications than Client/Server Applications?
  • What does the Build Deployment mean?
  • What is IIS, give explanation?
  • What is the Configuration Management?
  • What is the Main Purpose of XML in the Web?
  • What is the difference between UNIX and LINUX?
  • What is the difference between Web Server and Application Server?

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