Manual Testing - Common Interview Questions

1. Boundary value analyses

2. Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular process, just the basics of having a
process.

3. When is a good time for system testing?

4. What is the difference between software Matrix and software Metrics?

5. One product is going to be released after 2 or 3 days using ad-hoc testing one bug is found that
crashing the system how a tester will rated according to priority and severity?I) Low priority and high
severity.II) High priority and low severityIII) Low priority and low severityIV) High priority and high
severity

6. What is the purpose of the testing?

7. Identify the Bug

8. Caching configuration

9. Who are all the members involved in product release?

10. Difference between mercury Quality Centre and Rational Clear Quest 

11. What is the difference between system testing and module testing?

12. Testing Estimations: What are the approaches for giving testing estimations

13. What are properties of good requirement?

14. what are the essentials of software testing process?

15. Explain Real time scenario's of Testing?

16. How will you test a Session?Can we parametrize the properties of Object Reprosity?What are
software metrics? 

17. How much interaction with user should tester have and why?

18. Why do you want to join our company?

19. Give me 5 strong & weak points of yours

20. Difference between Black & White box testing

21. Walkthrough & Review

22. Testing Cost

23. Which of the following is the formal verification method

24. Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.

25. What did you include in a test plan?

26. What are the three key skills a Tester should possess ?

27. Describe to me the difference between validation and verification.

28. What is the criteria used for selecting tools

29. V-model and modified V-model

30. Explain me the Flow of "V Model SDLC"?

31. How do Computer Aided Software testing tools support test management?

32. What is the exact difference between QTP and RFT ?

33. You have run all your tests and they all pass. Is this good news or bad news? 2. Automated testing is
necessary when a. testing has to be done very quickly(Only one test for a application) b. number of
resources are very less c. most of the test cases are similar in nature d. all of the above3. What is an
Inconsistent bug? 4. How do you go about testing a project? 5. How do you go about testing of Web
Application?6. How do you go about testing of Client Server Application? 7. Ho

34. Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report?

35. What is cyclo metric number?

36. Give me some examples of how you have participated in Integration Testing.

37. How many types of functional testings can be done in manual testing? Explain.

38. How do you conduct testing without connecting to data base? Which types of testings you will do at
that time?

39. After a bug is found at the Clients place, sent to the Development team for fixing it and then given to
the Testing team, What is that type of Testing called?

40. what is criteria for suspension of testing?

41. What is Clear Quest?

42. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin?

43. When is Whitebox Testing performed in the testing life cycle? 

44. What types of testing does non-functional testing include?

45. When we find a defect we use the defect tab of the test director to report the bug to the developers.
Do we need the defect description from the test director for any other purpose, other than reporting it to
the developers. 

46 Tell me about any quality efforts you have overseen or implemented. Describe some of the challenges
you faced and how you overcame them. 

47. How do you know your code has met specifications when there are no specifications?

48. How do you survive chaos?

49. What do you like about Windows? 

50. Discuss the economics of automation and the role of metrics in testing.

51. Why was integration testing considered as a different item than Functional Testing

52. How does unit testing play a role in the development / software lifecycle?

53. How would you define a "bug?"

54. What should Development require of QA?

55. What did your base your test cases?

56. Have you ever created a test plan?

57. If you come onboard, give me a general idea of what your first overall tasks will be as far as starting
a quality effort.

58. What is your experience with change control? Our development team has only 10 members. Do you
think managing change is such a big deal for us?

59. what is pre-condition and post-condition ?

60. What is difference between waterfall and v _model?

61. 1) what is Injuctiontesting

62. What is the difference between functional requirements and business requirements.

63. What is CMM and CMMI? What is the difference?

64. A company is planning to launch an Online Recruitment job website for selection, scheduling and
Interview candidates. Write a Test Plan for that.2.What Report document a Tester submits to developer
and Higher Testing Authority.3.Scenario A: Web Form with one Input data control Scenario B: Web form
with several input data controlsWhat type of Testing you do for Scenario B which you don't need to do in
Scenario A.4. What Testing tools you are using in your company and what other three tools 

65. Which of the following statements about regression testing are true? (1) Regression Testing must
consist of a fixed set of tests to create a baseline(2) Regressoin Testing should be used to detect defects
in new features(3) Regression Testing can be run on every build(4) Regression Testing should be
targeted to areas of high risk and known code change(5) Regression Testing, when automated, is highly
effective in preventing defectsChoose any one: (1&3), (1&5), (3&4), (1,4&5), (2,3&4) 

66. how will u know that the testcase written by you is correct before your testing goes to live

67. Please help me friend who know perfectly ans of this question i faced this question 2 times i m try
Please help me friend who know perfectly ans of this question i faced this question 2 times i m trying to
ans of this question but my ans is not satisfyed to interviewer plz give ans fastQ) plz give 5 to 6 examples
of high priority and low severity & high severity and low priority?Q) Why your Company choose V model
for testing? And what is the main difference between V model and Waterfall model?
68. How do you confirm if your script is scalable, maintainable and portable.

69. What is Traceability Matrix ? Who prepares this document ?

70. what is non-regression testing? what is the difference between regression and non-regression
testing? what is the need for non-regression testing any example?

71. . Realising you won't be able to test everything - how do you decide what to test first? 

72. what is backward compatibility testing ?

73. What is the difference between Client Server Testing and Web Testing?

74. How do you scope out the size of the testing effort?

75. What do you do (with the project tasks) when the schedule fails?

76. How do you test if we have minimal or no documentation about the product?

77. What is the responsibility of programmers vs QA?

78. How you will begin to improve the QA process?

79. How do you know when your code has met specifications?

80. Describe your personal software development process.

81. What should QA require of Development?

82. What is the definition of test conditions?Thanks

83. How to find that tools work well with your existing system?
84. What is a "Good Tester"?

85. How do you perform regression testing?

86. How do you estimate staff requirements?

87. What development model should programmers and the test group use?

88. What is the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget?

89. What has not worked well in your previous QA experience and what would you change?

90. Define each of the following and explain how each relates to the other: Unit, System, and Integration
testing

91. Difference between SRS and FRS? 

92. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?

93. Do you support automated testing? Why?

94. What methodologies have you used to develop test cases?

95. How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you learn from those
problems?

96. What would you like to do five years from now?

97. How to generate Test estimates and risk analysis?

98. What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?

99. how can smart identifiers used to capture the object details?

100. what is the difference between frs (functional requirement specification) and srs (software
requirement specification) ?

101. In case anybody cares, here are the questions that I will be asking:

102. What is Scenarios in term of testing

103. when do we apply equivalence partioning tecnique and boundary value analysis,Tell me with some
example?

104. What is the Use Equivalence class partitioning

105. Would you like to work in a team or alone, why?

106. How can you use technology to solve problem?

107. Describe the role that QA plays in the software lifecycle.

108. What are your strengths?

109. What are your greatest weaknesses?

110. Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black-box testing.

111. What is unit testing?

112. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan? 
113. When should testing be stopped?

114. What is software quality assurance?

115. What is quality assurance?

116. What type of metrics would you use?

117. Difference between Efficiency and Effectiveness?

118. What is visual source safe?

119. What is a test data?Give examples

120. Low level recording.

121. Let me know Quality control and Quality assurance ?Can you tell me about sanity and smoke testing
and its diffrences

122. Write a Test Cases for Triangle types ? 

123. waterfall model - execution and planning stage

124. What ways you followed for defect management?

125. How can we review the Test Plan document?

126. 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?
127. Defination for TestPlan in IEEE format?

128. what is sandbox testing and how it is used

129. What is MS 6 Rule in Testing...?

130. What is meant by TRM in Testing?

131. what are the contents of Traceblity Matrix & Metrics for traceablity?

132. What is Mutation testing & when can it be done?

133. Apart from requirements traceability to test cases what is the other benefit of traceability
matrix..Can anyone please let me know..This is urgent and it was asked in interview

134. What is meant by component testing? What is difference between Component Testing and
Integration Testing

135. what are the levels(level-1,level-2........) of functional testing?

136. who are stakeholders

137. Yardi software pvt. Ltd. Software tester Questions

138. What is conventional testing and unconventional testing.

139. Who should you hire in a testing group and why?

140. What is the compatible testing?2. What is the difference between compatible testing and
configuration testing?3. Write the test cases on a chair?
141. Very Important Question and helps the interviewer in identifying whether you are real time software
tester or a FAKE. Give me a scenario in your project wherein you used all these three testing types :
Regression testing, Retesting and Integration testing and also write a few test cases for all these tests. 

142. How would you do the Integration and System Testing in Notepad....? 

143. As a testing enginner..What is time you spent on each phase? Assume that you spend 6 months on
a project, how many day it takes to build the test cases and execute the testcases.... Give a rough idea?

144. What are the benefits for an organization if CMM level certified?

145. what is the first job a testing engineer does in a company on first day of joining?

146. What would be a good stress test on an excel sheet which has defined number of rows and
columns? 

147. Explain how testing fits in V-model?

148. What is a test design exactly?

149. What is angile testing? ... 

150. what is the diffrence between smoke testing & sanity testing

151. Is there any difference between Smoke Testing & Sanity Testing ?

152. what is the difference between smoke and sanity testing?

153. What is IEEE? Why is it important?

154. What is IEEE? Why is it important?

155. what is testplan? 

156. What is Test stratergy & Test methodology?

157. What is the difference between Retesting and Regression Testing? 

158. How do you go about testing a web application?

159. what is the difference b/w system testing and functional testing

160. whats the diff. between project and product?give an example to both.

161. Integration testing question:For example there are 4 modules i.e. A,B,C,DA out Put is Input to BB
out Put is Input to CC out Put is Input to DThere is no alternative Flow If C module is not completed , 1.
How can we perform integration testing On Module D?2. What are the possible Intergation Test cases for
the above condition?

162. What is Asset Testing? 

163. What is Release candidate?

164. How would you define Quality Assurance?

165. What is difference b/w Application and DLL

166. What is Black phase in SDLC

167. What is Registry

168. What is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)? At what CMM level were the last few companies you
worked?

169. which are the types of bug report?

170. What is Error seeding? 

171. What are test closure documents?

172. How do you prepare Test Data for your current project?

173. How would you ensure 100% coverage of testing?

174. what is Clarify/ABP Integration-Integration between Clarify and Clients' Billing Platform.Please let me
know asap.

175. What is the Performance testing; those can be done Manually & Automatically?

176. Explain the differences between White-box, Gray-box, and Black-box testing.

177. On what basis can we say that a product is thoroughly tested and handed over to customer?

178. In the Static Testing, what all can be tested?Can test condition, test case & test script help you in
performing the static testing?

179. If testcases are excuted with existing requirements and the requirements are frequently changing,
what steps fot be taken for the test completion ?

180. what is test Strategy...what is it relation with test plan and test design...

181. Please explain a testing strategy 

182. I was asked in an Interview"Is CMM(Capability Maturity Model) part of Quality Assurance or Quality
Control?"Thanks in Advance,Shantanu

183. I had this question in interview.How do you test a cursor?

184. what is menat by exploratory testing?

185. Can any one tell what are the components of test cases. I faced this in one of my interview.

186. why do u like testing?.. y did u select this domain?. what do u like most in testing job?. how do u
satisfy with this job?.

187. Can anyone tell me what is usability testing and in which stage it should be done ?

188. what is meant by thread and incremental testing? 

189. What is checklist?

190. what is the diff. b/w template and doccument?

191. Define Verification and Validation. Explain the differences between the two.

192. when u test a web application in different browsers what difference u will find(i mean changes with
application)

193. I had this question in interview you are finished the testing (There is no bug) and it was send to the
client (UAT) for testing,the client finds a bug in its testing environment, client raised a question and said i
found the bug.So my question is what is the valuble answer the tester should reply to client or test
manager who is tested the application.

194. Regresion testing comes under which stage of V-Model

195. Are there any major difference between Agile Testing and Rapid Software Testing?

196. what is meant by waterfall model?What is advantage and disadvantage of waterfall model?

197. can u do 100% testing? can u make bug free product?

198. what is system integration testing? Does it fall under white box or black box?

199. How do you feel about cyclomatic complexity?

200. What is the difference b/w frame work,architecture and methadology in testing?I mean Define--
what is frame work,architecture and methadology?

201. how to write aregular expression for an email id..like kishoreyellow@gmail.com..etc many will be

there ??

202. After getting a build,how it comes to test engineer.i.e configuring..plz explain the process

203. how would you test the field length of an input screen is correct?

204. what is banking domain and explain briefly?

205. How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change efforts?

206. Does the estimation of time for the testing effort depend solely on the methodology used or are
there some other factors involved?

207. How would you differentiaite between.. Bug and Defect and Failure and Error.

208. What is the difference between a test strategy and a test plan?

209. Describe to me what you see as a process. Not a particular process, just the basics of having a
process. 

210. when would you use production data in a test environment?

211. Could someone please tell me what the differences are between test plans and cases with respect to
integration and regression testing are? Thanks
212. define what poduct evaluation actually is with regards to testing? Thanks in advance

213. What is testing we are going to do when a New Build come to Testing Department (i mean whether
it is smoke or sanity) and next test where r going to do please give with example?

214. Have you ever written test cases or did you just execute those written by others?

215. How many test cases will be written for a project(approximately)?

216. Has anyone done HR Data Validation and Reconciliation. And if U have, can you please explain it to
me.

217. What are the contents in the Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Design?What is Test Approach?
Where to included? Whether in Test plan or Test strategy? Please reply immediately

218. what is version control?(question asked to me in an interview)

219. What is globalisation testing?

220. what is nightly build?

221. what is the difference b/w CMM &CMMI?

222. what is SCADA systems, how they function, and how automated tools could be used to test their
functionality.What is Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification and PQ

223. In 3 tier Architecture What are the factors should be considered for testing?

224. Can anyone site an example of the most complex query that you have come across in the real time
scenarios?

225. What is the difference between useabliity testing and GUI testing?

226. At what stage of sdlc testing starts.

227. How involved where you with your Team Lead in writing the Test Plan?

228. what is base lining?

229. What is productivity/defect density/change management and their differences in testing terms?

230. wat is perturbation testing?

231. What you mean Domain Specific Testing? Testing is not Domain Specific?

232. What is criteria for enterence exit sign on sign off in qa

233. What is the definition of test procedure and does this differ from a test case?

234. How would you rate Previous Employer X to Previous Employer Y, who gave you the best
opportunities?

235. What is meant by path testing? 

236. Describe components of a typical test plan, such as tools for interactive products and for database
products, as well as cause-and-effect graphs and data-flow diagrams.

237. Why Boundary Value Analysis is more comprehensive than Equivalence Class Partioning?

238. what is test belt?

239. what is test design and how it is helpful before writing the test cases?

240. Does the development environment affect in any way black box testing is performed. Some people
say yes but I don't see how it does.
241. What is a PLM domain or what will be domain of web based product?

242. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin in your opinion?

243. What is the difference between SRS(System requirement specification) and BRS(Business
requirement specification)?

244. What is UAT testing.When it is to be done?

245. what is the difference b/w system testing & end-end testing?

246. What is the relationship between Use Case and Test Case?

247. what is test case?

248. What is migration testing?

249. What is the difference between System Testing and End-To-End Testing. Give at least 2 Examples.

250. How do u established link with requirements and test cases to do traceability matrix?

251. what are the roles of tester or test lead in deployement

252. What is the Test we are going to do when a New Build is come to test environment(i mean whether
it is smoke or sanity and next stage what is ? please give with example?

253. under which category of testing ,user acceptance testing comes?

254. How will you prepare a defect management policy ?

255. If the tester is on vacation how can we handle the situtation in his absence

256. what is the difference between incremental and decrental testing

257. what are the attributes of test automation

258. Describe any bug you remember.

259. What is a show stopper?

260. Explain in detail the flow of DATA in a sample application(or any).

261. What is a "Good Tester"?

262. What is structural and behavioural Testing

263. What did you do,whilst getting involved in assisting your Team Lead to write Test Plan?

264. What is mutation Testing ? please give an example of mutation testing.

265. what is localization testing

266. If the interviewer gives you some documentation and asks yoiu to create a test plan, what should
you say do?

267. What is the role of QA in a development project?

268. What tactic can tester use ti insure that bugs which are founded are fixed?

269. Difference between TESTING TECHNIQUES and TESTING LEVELS

270. How will you test notepad?

271. What are the seviority levels?

272. For a bug with high severity can we give the priority also to be high...If so why we need both?For
exampleseverity=1 and priority=1...Cant we have only priority/severity??

273. what is incremental testing explain with an example

274. What is the Waterfall Development Method and do you agree with all the steps?

275. Define quality for me as you understand it

276. Why we are using Java virtual machine (JVM) while loading large scale softwares?

277. is it necessery to do manual testing before go to automation?

278. What are the different methodologys used in testing ???

279. what is QA and QC? Explain Briefly.

280. What is Cyclomatic Complexity? Explain it with example?

281. What is meant by reliability testing and in which phase this test is performed and by whom?

282. What development model should programmers and the test group use? 

283. what is meant by excepted result?

284. what is meant by recovery and realization testing?

285. What is embedded testing?list out the components in embedded testing

286. What are all the basic elements in a defect report?

287. What are the key challenges of testing?

288. We believe in ad-hoc software processes for projects. Do you agree with this? Please explain your
answer.

289. Are regression tests required or do you feel there is a better use for resources?

290. What methodologies have you used to develop test cases?

291. what is terminologewhy testing necessaryfundamental test processpsychology of testing 

292. what factors will effect the performance of synchronization process?

293. What are the 5 points of the difference between configuration testing and compatibility testing?
What is S-graph

294. what is the main difference between Boundary value Analysis and Equivalance partitioning.

295. what is meant by butterfly model?

296. Describe to me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would define it.

297. What is the most challenging situation you have faced in your testing career?

298. What is known as test harneses, test beds and Test suites 

299. What is the exact difference between Integration & System testing, give me examples with your
project.

300. what is meant by V_model?what is advantage and disadvantage of V_model?

302. How would you describe the involvement you have had with the bug-fix cycle between Development
and QA?

303. How do you handle conflict with programmers?

304. what is meant by sparial model?and advantage and disadvantage?

305. Can you please explain these different approaches of testing a distributed system to me?-
Simulation-based- Fault Injection-based- Scenario-based- Risk-based- Temporal-based What are they
good for? when to apply each of them? Thank you in advance for your replies.Please give me also some
interesting link if you have.

306. What is ISO 9000? Have you ever been in an ISO shop?

307. What is the Entry And Exit Criteria of a test plan ?2.How to Automate your test plan ? 

308. Describe components of a typical test plan, such as tools for interactive products and for database
products, as well as cause-and-effect graphs and data-flow diagrams. 

309. How do you get programmers to build testability support into their code? 

310. What is Test Metrics and how to caluclate the Test Metrics?

311. Have you done exploratory or specification-driven testing? 

312. what is meant by scalability testing? what is the tool used for this testing?

313. What is Gap Anaylsis?

314. What are some of the typical bugs you encountered in your last assignment? 

315. What is the value of a testing group? How do you justify your work and budget? 

316. What is the role of the test group vis-Ã*-vis documentation, tech support, and so forth? 

317. How should you learn about problems discovered in the field, and what should you learn from those
problems? 

318. Discuss the economics of automation and the role of metrics in testing. 

319. What is the technique used in testing mobile phones and wall clocks.

320. How to break an application by testing ?

321. How many hours a week should a tester work?

322. What are the properties of a good requirement?

323. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project? 

324. How do you differentiate the roles of Quality Assurance Manager and Project Manager? 

325. what is workaround ?

326. what is the different between test log and test report?

327. What is the difference between QA and testing?

328. At what stage the design of a project or application is validated

329. What are the Testing levels and types

330. What do you like least about Quality Assurance/Testing?

331. Are regression tests required or do you feel there is a better use for resources?

332. what are six sigma standards how many types are there 

333. Can any one tell me.. what is exact diff between system and End-to End testing??
334. How much interaction with users should testers have, and why?

335. Explain the complete working of defect/bug life cycle?

336. What do you like (not like) in this job?

337. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software? 

338. What processes/methodologies are you familiar with?

339. What are the roles of glass-box and black-box testing tools?

340. what is seviarity& priority? what is test format? test procedure? what is port testing is it part of
system testing or not? 

341. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing? 

342. What certifications are available in testing???

343. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?

344. what is the differerence between release notes for bugs and instruction notes for enhancements?

345. What are the common bugs encountered while testing an application manually or using test
director,winrunner

346. How would you build a test team?

347. What criteria do you use when determining when to automate a test or leave it manual?

348. Is there any difference between testing process in a product development and in service based IT
organisation?

349. What is Negative testing?

350. Is a "A fast database retrieval rate" a testable requirement?

351. What is the role of a bug tracking system?

352. What type of documents would you need for QA/QC/Testing?

353. What is the Record and playback method in Testing?

354. When should you begin test planning?

355. Write a test case for testing a printer which should work based on LAN configuration?

356. How would you go about testing google earth manually?

357. How would you define Quality Assurance?

358. What do you like most about Quality Assurance/Testing?

359. What is IEEE 829? (This standard is important for Software Test Documentation- Why?)

360. What is a break in function? How do u perform in the software?

361. What are two of your weaknesses?

362. what are the bug and testing metrics

363. waht is testlog document in testing process?

364. what is the difference between QA,QC and testing?

365. what is release candidate???

366. What is the testing lifecycle and explain each of its phases?

367. What is an equivalence class?

368. What is ISO 9003? Why is it important

369. What is Negative testing?

370. We believe in ad-hoc software processes for projects. Do you agree with this? Please explain your
answer.

371. How do you test if you have minimal or no documentation about the product?
372. What do you think the role of test-group manager should be?

373. What are ISO standards? Why are they important?

374. When are you done testing?

375Define the following and explain their usefulness: Change Management, Configuration Management,
Version Control, and Defect Tracking.

376. How do you go about going into a new organization? How do you assimilate?

377. Who should test your code?

378. What are the different is manual database checking types? 

379. What is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)? At what CMM level were the last few companies you
worked?

380. What automated tools are you familiar with?

381. What is the difference between QA and QC?

382. What is difference between Authentication and Authorization?

383. How can one file compare future dated output files from a program which has change, against the
baseline run which used current date for input. The client does not want to mask dates on the output
files to allow compares. - Answer-Rerun baseline and future date input files same # of days as future
dated run of program with change. Now run a file compare against the baseline future dated output and
the changed programs future dated output.

384. We have a testing assignment that is time-driven. Do you think automated tests are

385. Define the following and explain their usefulness: Change Management, Configuration Management,
Version Control, and Defect Tracking.

386. Define each of the following and explain how each relates to the other: Unit, System, and
Integration testing.

387In 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?
388. What is the Waterfall Development Method and do you agree with all the steps?

389. Discuss what test metrics you feel are important to publish an organization?

390. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?

391. When should testing start in a project? Why?

392. What is Localization testing and Globalization testing?

393. What is UML and how to use it for testing?

394. If automating - what is your process for determining what to automate and in what order?

395. How do you analyze your test results? What metrics do you try to provide?

396. Tell me about the best bug you ever found.

397. What made you pick testing over another career?

398. What sort of things would you put down in a bug report?

399. What do you like about QA?

400. When do you start developing your automation tests?

401. What is a successful product?

402. Have you ever completely tested any part of a product? How? 

403. How do you prioritize testing tasks within a project?

404. Is an "A fast database retrieval rate" a testable requirement?

405. What are basic, core, practises for a QA specialist?

406. What is good code?

407. Who in the company is responsible for Quality?

408. Describe a past experience with implementing a test harness in the development of software.

409. Describe to me when you would consider employing a failure mode and effect analysis.

410. Who defines quality?

411. What do you plan to become after say 2-5yrs (Ex: QA Manager, Why?) 

412. What is Configuration management? Tools used?

413. Where do you get your expected results?

414. How do you determine what to test?

415. How do you promote the concept of phase containment and defect prevention?

416. In general, how do you see automation fitting into the overall process of testing?

417. What are the properties of a good requirement?

418. Should we test every possible combination/scenario for a program?

419. How did you go about testing a project?

420. What is IEEE 829? (This standard is important for Software Test Documentation-Why?)

421. What is the testing lifecycle and explain each of its phases?

422. What do you think the role of test-group manager should be? Relative to senior management?
Relative to other technical groups in the company? Relative to your staff?

423. How do you know when the product is tested well enough?

424. How do you develop a test plan and schedule? Describe bottom-up and top-down approaches.

425. What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you resolve
it?

426. What are ISO standards? Why are they important?

427. What kinds of testing have you done?

428. What is the V-Model Development Method and do you agree with this model?

429. Do you support automated testing? Why?

430. What is the V-Model Development Method and do you agree with this model?

431. How do you differentiate the roles of Quality Assurance Manager and Project Manager?

432. When should you begin testing?

433. Who is Kent Beck, Dr Grace Hopper, Dennis Ritchie?

434. What issues come up in test automation, and how do you manage them?

435. When have you had to focus on data integrity?

436. When is a good time for system testing?

437. What you will do during the first day of job?

438. Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?

439. Describe your experiences with code analyzers.

440. Do you have a favourite QA book? More than one? Which ones? And why.

441. What are two of your strengths that you will bring to our QA/testing team?

442. Explain some techniques for developing software components with respect to testability.

443. 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.

444. How well you work with a team?

445. What problem you have right now or in the past? How you solved it?

446. What do you like about computers?

447. What is the role of the test group vis-Ã*¶is documentation, tech support, and so forth?

448. How do you get programmers to build testability support into their code?
449. Have you done exploratory or specification-driven testing?

450. Should every business test its software the same way?

451. What are some of the typical bugs you encountered in your last assignment?

452. Do you know of metrics that help you estimate the size of the testing effort?

453. How should your staff be managed? How about your overtime?

454. What characteristics would you seek in a candidate for test-group manager?

455. How do your characteristics compare to the profile of the ideal manager that you just described?

456. How does your preferred work style work with the ideal test-manager role that you just described?
What is different between the way you work and the role you described?

457. What is the role of metrics in comparing staff performance in human resources management?

458. How do you estimate staff requirements?

459. What do you do (with the project staff) when the schedule fails?

460. Describe some staff conflicts you have handled.

461. Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?

462. What was a problem you had in your previous assignment (testing if possible)? How did you resolve
it?

463. Could you tell me two things you did in your prev. assignment (QA/Testing related hopefully) that
you are proud of?

464. How do you go about going into a new organization? How do you assimilate?

465. Are reusable test cases a big plus of automated testing and explain why.

466. Do you think tools are required for managing change. Explain and please list some tools/practices
which can help you managing change.

467. Our software designers use UML for modeling applications. Based on their use cases, we would like
to plan a test strategy. Do you agree with this approach or would this mean more effort for the testers.
468. Give me an example of something you tried at work but did not work out so you had to go at things
another way.

469. Our software designers use UML for modeling applications. Based on their use cases, we would like
to plan a test strategy. Do you agree with this approach or would this mean more effort for the testers.

470. Tell me about a difficult time you had at work and how you worked through it. Subscribe 

471. Give me an example of something you tried at work but did not work out so you had to go at things
another way.

472. We have a testing assignment that is time-driven. Do you think automated tests are the best
solution?

473. What is your experience with change control? Our development team has only 10 members. Do you
think managing change is such a big deal for us?

474. Are reusable test cases a big plus of automated testing and explain why.

475. Do you think tools are required for managing change. Explain and please list some tools/practices
which can help you managing change.

476. What is ISO 9000? Have you ever been in an ISO shop?

477. What is ISO 9003? Why is it important

478. Could you tell me two things you did in your previous assignment (QA/Testing related hopefully)
that you are proud of?

479. List 5 words that best describe your strengths.

480. 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?

481. What is the difference between testing and Quality Assurance?

482. What are two of your strengths that you will bring to our QA/testing team?

483. What do you like most about Quality Assurance/Testing?

484. What do you like least about Quality Assurance/Testing?

485. How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change efforts?