Wednesday, May 12, 2010

BASIC INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

   1. Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?
   2. What is the testing lifecycle and explain each of its phases?
   3. What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?
   4.        What is Negative testing?
   5. What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you resolve it?
   6.    How would you define Quality Assurance?
   7. What is the Waterfall Development Method and do you agree with all the steps?
   8. What is the V-Model Development Method and do you agree with this model?
   9. What is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)? At what CMM level were the last few companies you worked?
  10. What is a “Good Tester”?
  11. Could you tell me two things you did in your previous assignment (QA/Testing-related hopefully) that you are proud of?
  12.   What methodologies have you used to develop test cases?
  13. In an application currently in production, one module of code is being modified. Is it necessary to re-test the whole application or is it enough to just test functionality associated with that module?
  14. Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.
  15.    Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black box testing.
  16. Define the following and explain their usefulness: Change Management, Configuration Management, Version Control, and Defect Tracking.
  17. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?
  18. What are ISO standards? Why are they important?
  19. What is IEEE? Why is it important?
  20.        Do you support automated testing? Why?
  21.        Are regression tests required or do you feel there is a better use for resources?
  22.        What is meant by the bug state "Reproduce"         
  23.        What is the test case, test scenario, test suit and explain differences bewteen the above ones          
  24.        where do u store u'r Test cases?       
  25.        what type of documents can u prepare during Testing?         
  26.        what is tracebility matrix? what is negative testing    
  27.        how can u do regression testing tell me procedure?         
  28.        What are all the documents you are going to submit at the time of release as a testlead?         
  29.        what is test procedure?        
  30.        For what purpose are virtual users created?
  31.        how to test load,stress and performance test for web.
  32.        What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?
  33.        What is the different between project and a product?
  34.        Why did you choose software?
  35.        Software development life cycle ?
  36.        Software Testing Life Cycle?
  37.        What kind of testing you are performed?
  38.        What is a release notes ? what does it contains?
  39.        Explain about your current project?
  40.        What is your role in your project?
  41.        What are the tools you used?
  42.        What are the bug tracking tools you used?
  43.        How many Test Cases you have written for the current project?
  44.        What are the different types of testing you have done?
  45.         V-model