Fresher interview question for software testing (QA) manual + basic automation
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This document contains 112 questions related to software testing, quality assurance, and automation. The questions cover a wide range of topics including the roles of QA and testing, test planning, bug reporting, test types, automation, metrics, and more. The questions are intended for software testing interviews and range from basic to more advanced.
Fresher interview question for software testing (QA) manual + basic automation
- 1. Fresher Interview Question For Software Testing (QA) Manual + Basic Automation: ( Part-1 ) Q1. What isdifferencebetweenQA,QCand Software Testing? Q2. Whento start QA in a project? Q3. What are verificationandvalidationanddifference betweenthese two? Q4. What is difference betweenSmoke testingandSanityTesting? Q5. What is destructive testing,andwhatare itsbenefits? Q6. What is Testware? Q7. What is difference betweenRetestingandRegressiontesting? Q8. Explainbuglife cycle. Q9. What is severityandpriorityof bug?Give some example. Q10. Howmuch the bug isaffectingthe functionalityof the application? Q10. What are the commonproblemswithsoftware automation? Q11. What isthe role of QA ina projectdevelopment? Q12. What is Traceability ? Q13. What isthe difference betweenbuildandrelease? Q14. What are the keychallengesof softwaretesting? Q15.Why you choose automatedtestingovermanual testing? Q16. What isthe basisfor choosingthe SDLC model fordevelopmentof software? Q17. Explainbugleakage andbugrelease. Q18. What isregressiontesting? Q19.What is data driventesting? Q20. What isalphaand betatesting?
- 2. Fresher Interview Question For Software Testing (QA) Manual + Basic Automation: (Part -2 ) 1. What typesof documentswouldyouneedforQA,QC,andTesting? 2. What did youinclude inatest plan? 3. Describe anybug youremember. 4. What is the purpose of the testing? 5. What do you like (notlike)inthisjob? 6. What is qualityassurance? 7. What is the differencebetweenQA andtesting? 8. How do youscope,organize,andexecute atestproject? 9. What is the role of QA in a developmentproject? 10. What isthe role of QA ina companythat producessoftware? 11. Define qualityforme as youunderstandit 12. Describe tome the difference betweenvalidationandverification. 13. Describe tome what yousee as a process.Nota particularprocess,justthe basicsof havinga process. 14. Describe tome whenyouwouldconsideremployingafailure mode andeffectanalysis. 15. Describe tome the Software DevelopmentLife Cycle asyouwoulddefine it. 16. What are the propertiesof agood requirement? 17. How doyou differentiate the roles of QualityAssurance ManagerandProjectManager? 18. Tell me aboutany qualityeffortsyouhave overseenorimplemented.Describe some of the challengesyoufacedandhowyouovercame them. 19. How doyou deal withenvironmentsthatare hostile toquality change efforts? 20. In general,howdoyousee automationfittingintothe overall processof testing? 21. How doyou promote the conceptof phase containmentanddefectprevention?
- 3. 22. If you come onboard,give me a general ideaof whatyourfirstoverall taskswill be asfar as startinga qualityeffort. 23. What kindsof testinghave youdone? 24. Have you evercreateda testplan? 25. Have you everwrittentestcasesordidyou justexecute those writtenbyothers? 26. What didyour base yourtest cases? 27. How doyou determine whattotest? 28. How doyou decide whenyouhave ‘testedenough?’ 29. How doyou testif you have minimal ornodocumentationaboutthe product? 30. Describe me tothe basicelementsyouputinadefectreport? 31. How doyou performregressiontesting? 32. At whatstage of the life cycle doestestingbegininyouropinion? 33. How doyou analyze yourtestresults?Whatmetricsdoyou try to provide? 34. Realisingyouwon’tbe able totesteverything –how do youdecide what to testfirst? 35. Where doyou getyour expectedresults? 36. If automating– what isyour processfordeterminingwhattoautomate andinwhatorder? 37. In the past,I have beenaskedtoverballystartmappingouta test planfora commonsituation,such as an ATM. The interviewermightsay,“Justthinkingoutloud,if youwere taskedtotestanATM, what itemsmightyoutestplaninclude?“These type questionsare notmeantto be answeredconclusively, but itis a goodway for the interviewertosee how youapproach the task. 38. If you’re givenaprogram that will average studentgrades,whatkindsof inputswouldyouuse? 39. Tell me aboutthe bestbug youeverfound. 40. What made youpick testingoveranothercareer? 41. What isthe exactdifference betweenIntegration&Systemtesting,give me exampleswithyour project. 42. How didyougo abouttestinga project? 43. Whenshouldtestingstartina project?Why?
- 4. 44. How doyou go abouttestinga webapplication? 45. DifferencebetweenBlack&White box testing 46. What isConfigurationmanagement?Toolsused? 47. What do youplanto become aftersay2-5yrs (Ex:QA Manager, Why?) 48. Wouldyoulike towork ina team or alone,why? 49. Give me 5 strong& weakpointsof yours 50. Why doyou wantto join our company? 51. Whenshouldtestingbe stopped? 52. What sort of thingswouldyouputdownin a bug report? 53. Who inthe companyis responsible forQuality? 54. Who definesquality? 55. What isan equivalenceclass? 56. Is a “A fastdatabase retrieval rate”a testable requirement? 57. Shouldwe testeverypossible combination/scenariofora program? 58. What criteriadoyou use whendeterminingwhentoautomate atest or leave itmanual? 59. Whendo youstart developingyourautomationtests? 60. Discusswhattestmetricsyoufeel are importantto publishanorganization? 61. In case anybodycares,here are the questionsthatIwill be asking: 62. Describe the role thatQA playsinthe software lifecycle. 63. What shouldDevelopmentrequire of QA? 64. What shouldQA require of Development? 65. How wouldyoudefine a“bug?” 66. Give me an example of the bestandworstexperiencesyou’ve hadwithQA. 67. How doesunittestingplayarole inthe development/software lifecycle? 68. Explainsome techniques fordevelopingsoftware componentswithrespecttotestability.
- 5. 69. Describe apast experience withimplementingatestharnessinthe developmentof software. 70. Have you everworkedwithQA indevelopingtesttools?Explainthe participationDevelopment shouldhave withQA inleveragingsuchtesttoolsforQA use. 71. Give me some examplesof howyouhave participatedinIntegrationTesting. 72. How wouldyoudescribe the involvementyouhave hadwiththe bug-fix cycle betweenDevelopment and QA? 73. What isunittesting? 74. Describe yourpersonal software developmentprocess. 75. How doyou knowwhenyourcode has metspecifications? 76. How doyou knowyourcode has met specificationswhenthere are nospecifications? 77. Describe yourexperienceswithcode analyzers. 78. How doyou feel aboutcyclomaticcomplexity? 79. Who shouldtestyourcode? 80. How doyou survive chaos? 81. What processes/methodologiesare youfamiliarwith? 82. What type of documentswouldyouneedforQA / QC / Testing?83. How can youuse technologyto solve problem? 84. What type of metricswouldyouuse? 85. How to findthattoolsworkwell withyourexistingsystem? 86. What automatedtoolsare youfamiliarwith? 87. How well youworkwithateam? 88. How wouldyouensure 100% coverage of testing? 89. How wouldyoubuildatestteam? 90. What problemyouhave rightnowor inthe past?How yousolvedit? 91. What will youdoduringthe firstday of job? 92. What wouldyoulike todofive yearsfromnow? 93. Tell me aboutthe worst bossyou’ve everhad.
- 6. 94. What are yourgreatestweaknesses? 95. What are yourstrengths? 96. What isa successful product? 97. What do youlike aboutWindows? 98. What isgood code? 99. Who isKentBeck,Dr Grace Hopper,DennisRitchie? 100. What are basic,core,practisesfor a QA specialist? 101. What do you like aboutQA? 102. What has not workedwell inyourpreviousQA experience andwhatwouldyouchange? 103. How youwill begintoimprove the QA process? 104. What is the difference betweenQA andQC? 105. What is UML and howto use it for testing? 106. What is CMM and CMMI? What isthe difference? 107. What do you like aboutcomputers? 108. Do you have a favourite QA book?More than one?Whichones?Andwhy. 109. What is the responsibilityof programmersvsQA? 110. What are the propertiesof a goodrequirement? 111. Ho to dotestif we have minimal ornodocumentationaboutthe product? 112. What are all the basic elementsinadefectreport?