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?