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The candidate was asked a series of questions about their software testing experience and knowledge. They were asked to describe projects they have worked on, the types of testing conducted, and their responsibilities as a team lead. Questions also covered testing processes, test case design, defect reporting, and familiarity with techniques like black box and white box testing. The interview further explored the candidate's understanding of concepts like test cases, bugs, software quality assurance, and methodologies. Automated testing tools and strategies were also discussed.

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Interview Questions

The candidate was asked a series of questions about their software testing experience and knowledge. They were asked to describe projects they have worked on, the types of testing conducted, and their responsibilities as a team lead. Questions also covered testing processes, test case design, defect reporting, and familiarity with techniques like black box and white box testing. The interview further explored the candidate's understanding of concepts like test cases, bugs, software quality assurance, and methodologies. Automated testing tools and strategies were also discussed.

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General (Introduce yourself before you start the Interview)

1. Tell me something about your experience and the projects you have worked on. 2. What type of projects have you worked on? Architecture, technology. What was your role and responsibility? 3. What are the different types of testing that you have worked on in your last project? 4. What are the other types of testing that you are familiar with? 5. Which areas of testing do you think you are strong at? 6. What is the testing process that you have followed in your last organization? 7. What are your responsibilities as a Team Lead? 8. If you are to work in a project, what inputs would you require to start writing a test case? 9. How do you go about writing a test case? What details will you capture in a test case? 10. How do you report a defect? What details will you capture for a defect? 11. What really interested you in pursuing further with testing? 12. What is software testing 13. What is black box testing and white box testing 14. What are the various types of testing 15. What are the testing techniques 16. What is a test case and the contents captured 17. What are the testing methodology 18. What is a bug 19. What is bug lifecycle 20. What is 'Software Quality Assurance'? 21. What is 'Software Testing'? 22. What are some recent major computer system failures caused by software bugs? 23. Why is it often hard for management to get serious about quality assurance? 24. Why does software have bugs? 25. How can new Software QA processes be introduced in an existing organization? 26. What is verification? validation? 27. What is a 'walkthrough'? 28. What's an 'inspection'? 29. What kinds of testing should be considered? 30. What are 5 common problems in the software development process? 31. What are 5 common solutions to software development problems? 32. What is software 'quality'? 33. What is 'good code'? 34. What is 'good design'? 35. What is SEI? CMM? ISO? Will it help? 36. What is the 'software life cycle'? 37. Will automated testing tools make testing easier? 38. Explain the boundary value analysis (BVA) method as applied to determine blackbox test cases. 39. Explain the equivalence partitioning (EP) method as applied to determine blackbox test cases. 40. Explain the following SW integration strategies: top-down, bottom-up, clusterbased. Give pros and cons of each such strategy. 41. SW testing is an incremental process. Explain? 42. Explain the following tests: unit testing, integration testing, and regression testing. 43. Explain the usage of stub and driver using suitable examples. 44. Explain the following tests: validation testing and system testing. 45. What is acceptance testing? Explain alpha and beta testing.

46. What is test data and when will it be developed 47. What is McCabe complexity 48. What is 'configuration management'? 49. How does a client/server environment affect testing? 50. What is stress testing and load testing 51. What are the tools used for load testing and stress testing 52. What is the methodology for load testing 53. Why is load testing done? 54. How do you select the scenarios for load testing 55. What is throughput

General Automation Questions


1. What automating testing tools are you familiar with? Winrunner, load runner, silk 2. How did you use automating testing tools in your job? How to evaluate a testing tool? 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 will evaluate the tool for test automation? 11. What are main benefits of test automation? 12. What could go wrong with test automation? 13. How you will describe testing activities? 14. What testing activities you may want to automate? 15. Describe common problems of test automation. 16. What types of scripting techniques for test automation do you know? 17. What are principles of good testing scripts for automation? 18. What tools are available for support of testing during software development life cycle? 19. Can the activities of test case design be automated? 20. What are the limitations of automating software testing? 21. What skills needed to be a good test automator? 22. How to find that tools work well with your existing system?

Winrunner Questions
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. GUI? 13. 14. 15. How you used WinRunner in your project? Explain WinRunner testing process? What is contained in the GUI map? How does WinRunner recognize objects on the application? Have you created test scripts and what is contained in the test scripts? How does WinRunner evaluates test results? Have you performed debugging of the scripts? How do you run your test scripts? How do you analyze results and report the defects? What are the different modes of recording? What is the purpose of loading WinRunner Add-Ins? What are the reasons that WinRunner fails to identify an object on the What do you mean by the logical name of the object If the object does not have a name then what will be the logical name What is the different between GUI map and GUI map files

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How do you view the contents of the GUI map When you create GUI map do you record all the objects of specific objects What is the purpose of set_window command How do you load GUI map How do you find an object in an GUI map What is the purpose of GUI spy What is a checkpoint and what are different types of checkpoints What are the synchronization points

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