1. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?
2. What
did you include in a test plan?
3. Describe any bug you remember.
4. What
is the purpose of the testing?
5. What do you like (not like) in this
job?
6. What is quality assurance?
7. What is the difference between QA
and testing?
8. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?
9.
What is the role of QA in a development project?
10. What is the role of QA
in a company that produces software?
11. Define quality for me as you
understand it
12. Describe to me the difference between validation and
verification.
13. Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular
process, just the basics of having a process.
14. Describe to me when you
would consider employing a failure mode and effect analysis.
15. Describe to
me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would define it.
16. What are
the properties of a good requirement?
17. How do you differentiate the roles
of Quality Assurance Manager and Project Manager?
18. Tell me about any
quality efforts you have overseen or implemented. Describe some of the
challenges you faced and how you overcame them.
19. How do you deal with
environments that are hostile to quality change efforts?
20. In general, how
do you see automation fitting into the overall process of testing?
21. How do
you promote the concept of phase containment and defect prevention?
22. If
you come onboard, give me a general idea of what your first overall tasks will
be as far as starting a quality effort.
23. What kinds of testing have you
done?
24. Have you ever created a test plan?
25. Have you ever written
test cases or did you just execute those written by others?
26. What did your
base your test cases?
27. How do you determine what to test?
28. How do
you decide when you have ‘tested enough?’
29. How do you test if you have
minimal or no documentation about the product?
30. Describe me to the basic
elements you put in a defect report?
31. How do you perform regression
testing?
32. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin in your
opinion?
33. How do you analyze your test results? What metrics do you try to
provide?
34. Realising you won’t be able to test everything - how do you
decide what to test first?
35. Where do you get your expected results?
36.
If automating - what is your process for determining what to automate and in
what order?
37. In the past, I have been asked to verbally start mapping out
a test plan for a common situation, such as an ATM. The interviewer might say,
“Just thinking out loud, if you were tasked to test an ATM, what items might you
test plan include?” These type questions are not meant to be answered
conclusively, but it is a good way for the interviewer to see how you approach
the task.
38. If you’re given a program that will average student grades,
what kinds of inputs would you use?
39. Tell me about the best bug you ever
found.
40. What made you pick testing over another career?
41. What is the
exact difference between Integration & System testing, give me examples with
your project.
42. How did you go about testing a project?
43. When should
testing start in a project? Why?
44. How do you go about testing a web
application?
45. Difference between Black & White box testing
46. What
is Configuration management? Tools used?
47. What do you plan to become after
say 2-5yrs (Ex: QA Manager, Why?)
48. Would you like to work in a team or
alone, why?
49. Give me 5 strong & weak points of yours
50. Why do you
want to join our company?
51. When should testing be stopped?
52. What
sort of things would you put down in a bug report?
53. Who in the company is
responsible for Quality?
54. Who defines quality?
55. What is an
equivalence class?
56. Is a “A fast database retrieval rate” a testable
requirement?
57. Should we test every possible combination/scenario for a
program?
58. What criteria do you use when determining when to automate a
test or leave it manual?
59. When do you start developing your automation
tests?
60. Discuss what test metrics you feel are important to publish an
organization?
61. In case anybody cares, here are the questions that I will
be asking:
62. Describe the role that QA plays in the software
lifecycle.
63. What should Development require of QA?
64. What should QA
require of Development?
65. How would you define a “bug?”
66. Give me an
example of the best and worst experiences you’ve had with QA.
67. How does
unit testing play a role in the development/software lifecycle?
68. Explain
some techniques for developing software components with respect to
testability.
69. Describe a past experience with implementing a test harness
in the development of software.
70. Have you ever worked with QA in
developing test tools? Explain the participation Development should have with QA
in leveraging such test tools for QA use.
71. Give me some examples of how
you have participated in Integration Testing.
72. How would you describe the
involvement you have had with the bug-fix cycle between Development and
QA?
73. What is unit testing?
74. Describe your personal software
development process.
75. How do you know when your code has met
specifications?
76. How do you know your code has met specifications when
there are no specifications?
77. Describe your experiences with code
analyzers.
78. How do you feel about cyclomatic complexity?
79. Who should
test your code?
80. How do you survive chaos?
81. What
processes/methodologies are you familiar with?
82. What type of documents
would you need for QA/QC/Testing?
83. How can you use technology to solve
problem?
84. What type of metrics would you use?
85. How to find that
tools work well with your existing system?
86. What automated tools are you
familiar with?
87. How well you work with a team?
88. How would you ensure
100% coverage of testing?
89. How would you build a test team?
90. What
problem you have right now or in the past? How you solved it?
91. What will
you do during the first day of job?
92. What would you like to do five years
from now?
93. Tell me about the worst boss you’ve ever had.
94. What are
your greatest weaknesses?
95. What are your strengths?
96. What is a
successful product?
97. What do you like about Windows?
98. What is good
code?
99. Who is Kent Beck, Dr Grace Hopper, Dennis Ritchie?
100. What are
basic, core, practises for a QA specialist?
101. What do you like about
QA?
102. What has not worked well in your previous QA experience and what
would you change?
103. How you will begin to improve the QA process?
104.
What is the difference between QA and QC?
105. What is UML and how to use it
for testing?
106. What is CMM and CMMI? What is the difference?
107. What
do you like about computers?
108. Do you have a favourite QA book? More than
one? Which ones? And why.
109. What is the responsibility of programmers vs
QA?
110. What are the properties of a good requirement?
111. Ho to do test
if we have minimal or no documentation about the product?
112. What are all
the basic elements in a defect report?
