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phanesh · 17-11-08, 11:18 AM

QA Testing Interview Questions - Part 1

1. What is Metrics Analysis?

2. What is Web Services Testing?

3. what is the difference between Testing Engineering and SQA Engineering

4. what are the roles & responsibilities of an SQA in a CMMI Level company?

5. If the requirements are added frequently or some of major requirements are missing, What do you do?

6. After releasing the product, if clients/user find the bug, then what is the responsibility of QA/Test engineer and How to handle the situation.

7. What is the Database Verification? What type of information would you look at in the Database?

8. What is Metrics Analysis?

9. What is the meaning of Effort Variacne , Schedule variance , Residual Defect Density , and Productivity? and what are the difference ?

10. What is benchmark testing? How do you use it? Give me some examples

11. why do you use stubs and drivers in top down and bottom up approaches , how do they help

12. what is the best practice of QA by using Mercury Products?

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

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

15. What is the role of documentation in the quality assurance?

16. Security Testing

17. As a QA Engineer / QA Tester what was your activities during the whole day?

18. What is the roll of documentation in Quality assurance ?

19. What is the most important part of setting up Automation?What is the best practice for scripting?How do you test a website? What are the 3 main requirement types Mentioned in the SDLC?

20. What is TRM?

21. How do you ensure the quality of the product?

22. what is the difference between the test case and a test script

23. What are coding standards for unit testing?

24. Explain the techniques used to estimate the number of test cases to be written for a particular project?

25. What are the different methodologies used in testing ???

26. What are the bottlenecks involved in performance testing?

27. Test cases for Document scenarios

28. What is the most important impact QA can have on a product development process?

29. hiI need answers for these questions1. What automating testing tools are you familiar with? 2. How did you use automating testing tools in your job? 3. Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool. 4. How do you plan test automation? 5. Can test automation improve test effectiveness? 6. What is data - driven automation? 7. What are the main attributes of test automation? 8. Does automation replace manual testing? 9. How will you choose a tool for test automation? 10. How you

30. encapsulation and information hiding

31. What is the job of Quality assurance engineer? Difference betweenthe testing & Quality Assurance job.

32. When is the best time for system testing?

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

34. What do you mean by forward treceability matrics & backward treceability matrics

35. What are the different types of QA Methodologies which are practiced in the QA industry?

36. how you used whitebox and block box technologies in your application?How did you use thos in page and sever base applications...

37. What is walkthrough and inspection?

38. What are the primary inputs required to build and test application components?

39. What is the difference between System Testing,Integration Testing & System Integration Testing?

40. What's RAD model?

41. what are the different positions in QA hierarchy

42. hi , i had an interview for a qa and got stuck up in the very first question..Although i have the answer i could not put it in words , can someone help me ..The question was very basic " Tell me your role as a qa from the beginning of the project, how you choose whether to automate or test manually and till you complete testing the application?he was expecting like the all process of qa testing . can someone help me as i have another interview

43. What are the parameters of Quality cost?

44. 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)

45. If we have 50 functional requirements in S/WRS document and we prepared test cases for that document. How can u find the mistake or loss the functionality in SRS document? Is it possible to review in Traceability Matrix?

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

47. QA Testing : What are the key elements for creating test plan?

48. What is the difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control?

49. If you have just joined an organization as a QA person, what would you look for to determine whether there QA process works or not?

50. How do you introduce a new software QA Process?

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phanesh · 17-11-08, 11:19 AM

QA testing interview questions - Part 2

51. Who would you include when you write a test case? And what would you include when you you write a test case?

52. What is your methodology for creating test plans?

53. What is a deferred bug? and why is it deferred?

54. What is the diffence between functional testing & black box testing?

55. How do you decide when you have 'tested enough?'

56. if the actual result doesn't match with expected result in this situation what should we do?

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

58. What do you like most in QA and Why? What do you like in least in QA and Why?

59. How do you perform system readiness and operational readiness tests

60. What is an exit and entry criteria in a Test Plan ?Please explain
61. General Statistics: (a) What is the average number of files processed on a given day? (b) What is the peak number of files processed on a given day? (c) How many records are in an average file? (d) What % records in [1] result in deltas in step [2] being log shipped to step [3] on... (d.1) an average day (d.2) a peak day

62. How do you determine what to test?

63. What is a Risk ? What are the important components of the risk?
64. XML Testing
65. What is the difference between load, stress and volume testing?

66. How do you test an application with over 500 users without using any performance tools.

67. What is Test Life Cycle?

68. This is interview question. you have new functionality to be tested and also you have a bug fix that needs to be tested. How do you go about testing each of these?

69. EDI Testing

70If you do not have a application/build to test what would be your approach/strategy for testing. what is the type of testing you think would be suitable to test a particular build you only have test cases derived from SRS/BRS.
71. 1) what is keyword driven testing? 2) what is the use of environmental variables?

72. Why do you have to build a QA environment to conduct a performance test? What issues have you faced building a QA environment?

73. diff b/w metric and measurement?

74. 1. How would you start automation? (means at what point of time in your project)2. Have you done back end testing?3. How QTP recognize objects?4. What are the errors you came across using QTP?5. What you have used in QTP?6. How would you run QTP Scripts from test director?These are my interview questions.Please help me.Thanks in advance.

75. In Unix,what commands(shell) does a QA Tester interacts with and in which situations ..Example?

76. what is backend and frontend testing?

77. In a system- Level test effor, how do you know when test development and execution is complete?

78. What is dirty testing?

79. How do you interect with Business Analyst?

80. what is the difference between checked and verified?
81. What is the Compatibility testing difference between testing in IE explorer and testing in Firefox?

82. Hello,How can object recognition problems be resolved? Thanks

83. Hi, What are the challenges QA Analyst faces? (Urgent) I have this question in my interview, can anybody help plz. Thanks

84. how to calculate the bug rate?

85. What are the contents of Risk management Plan? Have you ever prepared a Risk Management Plan ?

86. when do u know that testing is over?

87. How can we perform testing without expected results?

88. How do you really determine if a test step passed or failed?

89. What are the boundary values for an OK button?

90. What is a GUI Prototype?
91. What is a deliverable ? Can you please mention the names of deliverables in your current project .

92. What is the differences between verifying and validating data.

93. What are the boundary conditions for an OK button?

94. What is configuration Management?

95. Who writes the Business requirements? What you do when you have the BRD?

96. How you validate the products in testing

97. what is the role of QA in a project developement?

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

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

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

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phanesh · 17-11-08, 11:20 AM

QA testing interview questions - Part 3

101. what is use case? What is the diffrence between test cases and use cases?

102. Describe me any bug which may arise at the time of testing.With real time environment.

103. Describe bottom-up and top-down approaches

104. give example of a bug having high proirity and low severity ?

105. Can anyone explain , "What is meant by Equivalnce Partitioning "?

106. what is the difference between stub and driver?

107. What do you mean by Requirements coverage ? Why is the purpose of this ?

108. What is Requirements Traceability ? What is the purpose of it ? Explain types of traceability matrices ?

109. How can you say your project testing is completed? Explain the various factors?

110. what is bucket testing? and which automation tool use for it ? why?

111. What is the QA Testing Methodology and What environment would you use to do your QA Tesing?

112. how we measure the test coverage?when to stop the testing?

113. what are the deliverables?whom do u send deliverables?

114. what is meant by distribution and version control mechanisms.? Give with examples?

115. What is Mass Testing?

116. Could we test window's calculator through winrunner. for e.g if i have to show get the value of calculator buttons.

117. These are the the jJob Summary responsibilities for the Sr.QA analyst oppurtunity position which I'm goint to that company.Could you please in detail analyse and provide examples to each of these points.:Automate and test new or modified software programs. Evaluate and test new or modified software programs.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:• Plan, schedule, coordinate, and implement automation testing projects.• Maintain and update automation test databases.• Work wit

118. Let us know your understanding of Audits ?

119. How do you ensure comprehensive test coverage?

120. Explain about Metrics and types of metrics like schedule variance , effort variance?

121. in winrunner Can multiple GUI maps be combined? If Yes. How?

122. What is the difference in writing the test cases for Integration testing and system testing

123. what is defect leakage?

124. what are the modes of winrunner.(neither recording modes /nor run modes).

125. What is Release Acceptance Testing?What is Forced Error Testing?What is Data Integrity Testing?What is System Integration Testing

126. how do u conduct boundary analys testing for "ok"pushbutton

127. What is SQA Activities?

128. To whom you send test deliverables?

129. what is micro metrics,least square method and 3 point method

130. what is the strenght and weakness in testing

31. What do we do when there is a known bug at the time of software release?

132. What is the importance of a requirements traceability in a product testing?

133. What is heuristic checklist used in Unit Testing?

134. Difference between Configuration Management and Version Control.

135. what is "bug leakage?" and what is "bug release?"

136. What metrics used to measure the size of the software?

137. Could anybody explain the difference b/w Patch, Build and Pilot.

138. 1. Which function gives the diff in date.2.Exceptional error is what type of bug3. Dead end code is what type of bug4. Bug density is directly related to6.relation between cyclometric complexity & risk is7.Big bang approach is used in

139. Hi, friends All are doing fine with great strengths here i have some doubts 1) What are the demerits of winrunner?2) We write the test data after what are the principles to do testing an application?3) When we are in system testing but suddenly the customer wants to change something in the req phase and also he finds it is most visible to end user then we are again testing the whole application or particular module like to test the unit and integration and system testing. Because that I think

140. How to calculate the estimate for test case design and review?

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

142. Describe to me when you would consider employing a failure mode and defect analysis?

143. how can u test the white page

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17-11-08, 11:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
phanesh Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 229	QA testing interview questions QA Testing Interview Questions - Part 1 1. What is Metrics Analysis? 2. What is Web Services Testing? 3. what is the difference between Testing Engineering and SQA Engineering 4. what are the roles & responsibilities of an SQA in a CMMI Level company? 5. If the requirements are added frequently or some of major requirements are missing, What do you do? 6. After releasing the product, if clients/user find the bug, then what is the responsibility of QA/Test engineer and How to handle the situation. 7. What is the Database Verification? What type of information would you look at in the Database? 8. What is Metrics Analysis? 9. What is the meaning of Effort Variacne , Schedule variance , Residual Defect Density , and Productivity? and what are the difference ? 10. What is benchmark testing? How do you use it? Give me some examples 11. why do you use stubs and drivers in top down and bottom up approaches , how do they help 12. what is the best practice of QA by using Mercury Products? 13. How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change efforts? 14. What is the role of QA in a company that produces a software? 15. What is the role of documentation in the quality assurance? 16. Security Testing 17. As a QA Engineer / QA Tester what was your activities during the whole day? 18. What is the roll of documentation in Quality assurance ? 19. What is the most important part of setting up Automation?What is the best practice for scripting?How do you test a website? What are the 3 main requirement types Mentioned in the SDLC? 20. What is TRM? 21. How do you ensure the quality of the product? 22. what is the difference between the test case and a test script 23. What are coding standards for unit testing? 24. Explain the techniques used to estimate the number of test cases to be written for a particular project? 25. What are the different methodologies used in testing ??? 26. What are the bottlenecks involved in performance testing? 27. Test cases for Document scenarios 28. What is the most important impact QA can have on a product development process? 29. hiI need answers for these questions1. What automating testing tools are you familiar with? 2. How did you use automating testing tools in your job? 3. Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool. 4. How do you plan test automation? 5. Can test automation improve test effectiveness? 6. What is data - driven automation? 7. What are the main attributes of test automation? 8. Does automation replace manual testing? 9. How will you choose a tool for test automation? 10. How you 30. encapsulation and information hiding 31. What is the job of Quality assurance engineer? Difference betweenthe testing & Quality Assurance job. 32. When is the best time for system testing? 33. Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report? 34. What do you mean by forward treceability matrics & backward treceability matrics 35. What are the different types of QA Methodologies which are practiced in the QA industry? 36. how you used whitebox and block box technologies in your application?How did you use thos in page and sever base applications... 37. What is walkthrough and inspection? 38. What are the primary inputs required to build and test application components? 39. What is the difference between System Testing,Integration Testing & System Integration Testing? 40. What's RAD model? 41. what are the different positions in QA hierarchy 42. hi , i had an interview for a qa and got stuck up in the very first question..Although i have the answer i could not put it in words , can someone help me ..The question was very basic " Tell me your role as a qa from the beginning of the project, how you choose whether to automate or test manually and till you complete testing the application?he was expecting like the all process of qa testing . can someone help me as i have another interview 43. What are the parameters of Quality cost? 44. 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) 45. If we have 50 functional requirements in S/WRS document and we prepared test cases for that document. How can u find the mistake or loss the functionality in SRS document? Is it possible to review in Traceability Matrix? 46. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project? 47. QA Testing : What are the key elements for creating test plan? 48. What is the difference between Quality Assurance and Quality Control? 49. If you have just joined an organization as a QA person, what would you look for to determine whether there QA process works or not? 50. How do you introduce a new software QA Process? Users can discuss and share answers+questions by posting replys to this thread

17-11-08, 11:19 AM	#2 (permalink)
phanesh Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 229	QA testing interview questions QA testing interview questions - Part 2 51. Who would you include when you write a test case? And what would you include when you you write a test case? 52. What is your methodology for creating test plans? 53. What is a deferred bug? and why is it deferred? 54. What is the diffence between functional testing & black box testing? 55. How do you decide when you have 'tested enough?' 56. if the actual result doesn't match with expected result in this situation what should we do? 57. How do you test if you have minimal or no documentation about the product? 58. What do you like most in QA and Why? What do you like in least in QA and Why? 59. How do you perform system readiness and operational readiness tests 60. What is an exit and entry criteria in a Test Plan ?Please explain 61. General Statistics: (a) What is the average number of files processed on a given day? (b) What is the peak number of files processed on a given day? (c) How many records are in an average file? (d) What % records in [1] result in deltas in step [2] being log shipped to step [3] on... (d.1) an average day (d.2) a peak day 62. How do you determine what to test? 63. What is a Risk ? What are the important components of the risk? 64. XML Testing 65. What is the difference between load, stress and volume testing? 66. How do you test an application with over 500 users without using any performance tools. 67. What is Test Life Cycle? 68. This is interview question. you have new functionality to be tested and also you have a bug fix that needs to be tested. How do you go about testing each of these? 69. EDI Testing 70If you do not have a application/build to test what would be your approach/strategy for testing. what is the type of testing you think would be suitable to test a particular build you only have test cases derived from SRS/BRS. 71. 1) what is keyword driven testing? 2) what is the use of environmental variables? 72. Why do you have to build a QA environment to conduct a performance test? What issues have you faced building a QA environment? 73. diff b/w metric and measurement? 74. 1. How would you start automation? (means at what point of time in your project)2. Have you done back end testing?3. How QTP recognize objects?4. What are the errors you came across using QTP?5. What you have used in QTP?6. How would you run QTP Scripts from test director?These are my interview questions.Please help me.Thanks in advance. 75. In Unix,what commands(shell) does a QA Tester interacts with and in which situations ..Example? 76. what is backend and frontend testing? 77. In a system- Level test effor, how do you know when test development and execution is complete? 78. What is dirty testing? 79. How do you interect with Business Analyst? 80. what is the difference between checked and verified? 81. What is the Compatibility testing difference between testing in IE explorer and testing in Firefox? 82. Hello,How can object recognition problems be resolved? Thanks 83. Hi, What are the challenges QA Analyst faces? (Urgent) I have this question in my interview, can anybody help plz. Thanks 84. how to calculate the bug rate? 85. What are the contents of Risk management Plan? Have you ever prepared a Risk Management Plan ? 86. when do u know that testing is over? 87. How can we perform testing without expected results? 88. How do you really determine if a test step passed or failed? 89. What are the boundary values for an OK button? 90. What is a GUI Prototype? 91. What is a deliverable ? Can you please mention the names of deliverables in your current project . 92. What is the differences between verifying and validating data. 93. What are the boundary conditions for an OK button? 94. What is configuration Management? 95. Who writes the Business requirements? What you do when you have the BRD? 96. How you validate the products in testing 97. what is the role of QA in a project developement? 98. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software? 99. Describe to me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would define it? 100. Describe to the basic elements you put in a defect report? Users can discuss and share answers+questions by posting replys to this thread

17-11-08, 11:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
phanesh Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 229	QA testing interview questions QA testing interview questions - Part 3 101. what is use case? What is the diffrence between test cases and use cases? 102. Describe me any bug which may arise at the time of testing.With real time environment. 103. Describe bottom-up and top-down approaches 104. give example of a bug having high proirity and low severity ? 105. Can anyone explain , "What is meant by Equivalnce Partitioning "? 106. what is the difference between stub and driver? 107. What do you mean by Requirements coverage ? Why is the purpose of this ? 108. What is Requirements Traceability ? What is the purpose of it ? Explain types of traceability matrices ? 109. How can you say your project testing is completed? Explain the various factors? 110. what is bucket testing? and which automation tool use for it ? why? 111. What is the QA Testing Methodology and What environment would you use to do your QA Tesing? 112. how we measure the test coverage?when to stop the testing? 113. what are the deliverables?whom do u send deliverables? 114. what is meant by distribution and version control mechanisms.? Give with examples? 115. What is Mass Testing? 116. Could we test window's calculator through winrunner. for e.g if i have to show get the value of calculator buttons. 117. These are the the jJob Summary responsibilities for the Sr.QA analyst oppurtunity position which I'm goint to that company.Could you please in detail analyse and provide examples to each of these points.:Automate and test new or modified software programs. Evaluate and test new or modified software programs.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:• Plan, schedule, coordinate, and implement automation testing projects.• Maintain and update automation test databases.• Work wit 118. Let us know your understanding of Audits ? 119. How do you ensure comprehensive test coverage? 120. Explain about Metrics and types of metrics like schedule variance , effort variance? 121. in winrunner Can multiple GUI maps be combined? If Yes. How? 122. What is the difference in writing the test cases for Integration testing and system testing 123. what is defect leakage? 124. what are the modes of winrunner.(neither recording modes /nor run modes). 125. What is Release Acceptance Testing?What is Forced Error Testing?What is Data Integrity Testing?What is System Integration Testing 126. how do u conduct boundary analys testing for "ok"pushbutton 127. What is SQA Activities? 128. To whom you send test deliverables? 129. what is micro metrics,least square method and 3 point method 130. what is the strenght and weakness in testing 31. What do we do when there is a known bug at the time of software release? 132. What is the importance of a requirements traceability in a product testing? 133. What is heuristic checklist used in Unit Testing? 134. Difference between Configuration Management and Version Control. 135. what is "bug leakage?" and what is "bug release?" 136. What metrics used to measure the size of the software? 137. Could anybody explain the difference b/w Patch, Build and Pilot. 138. 1. Which function gives the diff in date.2.Exceptional error is what type of bug3. Dead end code is what type of bug4. Bug density is directly related to6.relation between cyclometric complexity & risk is7.Big bang approach is used in 139. Hi, friends All are doing fine with great strengths here i have some doubts 1) What are the demerits of winrunner?2) We write the test data after what are the principles to do testing an application?3) When we are in system testing but suddenly the customer wants to change something in the req phase and also he finds it is most visible to end user then we are again testing the whole application or particular module like to test the unit and integration and system testing. Because that I think 140. How to calculate the estimate for test case design and review? 141. In general, how do you see automation fitting into the overall process of testing? 142. Describe to me when you would consider employing a failure mode and defect analysis? 143. how can u test the white page Users can discuss and share answers+ interview questions by posting replys to this thread