SQA Interview Questions

SQA Interview Questions

Author: Farah Gul-SQA Analyst
Date: 1st April,2015

Testing:

1.       What is security testing?

2.       What is performance testing?

3.       Difference between regression testing & confirmation (retesting) testing?

4.       Difference b/w functional and non-functional testing?

5.       How to test requirement document?

6.       What is implicit requirement & explicit requirement?

7.       Difference b/w web based application testing and desktop based application testing?

8.       Difference b/w load & stress testing?

9.       What is accessibility testing?

10.   What are the types of testing?

11.   Difference b/w smoke & sanity testing?

12.   What is the format of test case?

13.   How to ensure that correct values in displaying in dropdown?

14.   Why we test application at multiple browsers? Which browser is creating most problems?

15.   What is process of test planning, monitoring & controlling?

16.   Difference b/w mobile based testing & web based testing?

17.   What is test plan?

18.   What is behavior-driven, context-driven & test-driven testing?

19.   What is test courser?

20.   Difference b/w QA engineer & test engineer?

21.   What is priority & severity?

22.   What is test scenario?

23.   What is test management tool?

24.   How to decrease testing scope?

25.   How manage your work if one person of test team is not available for some days?

26.   What are reviews?

27.   How QA team should to communicate with Developer team?

28.   What is white box testing?

29.   What is static analysis tool?

30.   What is issue/defect management systems/tools?

31.   How to verify test cases against standard of your organization?

32.   How to implement new process in organization?

33.   What is the role of QA at each phase of SDLC?

34.   What is test framework?

35.   What is QA framework?

36.   What is test/QA management?

37.   What are software models?

38.   What are QA/test methodologies?

39.   What is testing strategies?

40.   What is testing types?

41.   What is black box testing?

42.   What is equivalence partitioning?

43.   What is statement coverage?

44.   What is throughput in performance testing?

45.   What is requirement traceability?

46.   What is integration testing? What are its types?

47.   What is boundary value testing?

48.   What are the characteristics of fair requirement?

49.   Which tool we used for test management?

50.   When we do performance testing?

51.   Why we do stress testing?

52.   What is functional requirement and non-functional requirement?

53.   What is called defect?

54.   What is unit test?

55.   How do you handle change requests?

56.   What is regression testing?

57.   How do you define quality?

58.   What are the characteristics of quality build?

59.   When build is ready for release?

60.   How do you estimate change request testing time?

61.   What is the output of design phase?

62.   How do you identify the impact of change request at application?

63.   What is grey box testing?

64.   What are characteristics of good QA engineer?

Software Development Process/Others:

1.       What is SDLC? Define each phase of SDLC in details?

2.       How to trace requirement in Agile SDLC?

3.       What is Processes?

4.       What is UML diagram?

5.       What are the types of architecture?

6.       What is web server?

7.       What is request response architecture?

8.       What are web services?

9.       What is the basic of agile methodologies?

10.   What is scrum?

11.   What is software architecture?

12.   What is V-Model?

13.   What is use case?

 

 

Automation:

1.       What is automation?

2.       What is the drawback of using automation?

3.       What are the benefits of using automation?

4.       In QTP, How to identify objects? What is virtual object, descriptive programming & object repository?

5.       Selenium-How to find elements on webpage? What are the types of commands? What are the types of assertion? What is selenese command?

6.       JMeter-What is ramp-up period?

7.       What is the use of automation tools?

Database:

1.       What is normalization?

2.       Where we used distinct command in SQL query?

3.       What is ERD?

4.       What is cardinality & modularity of relationship?

5.       What is super key, candidate key & composite key?

Object Oriented Programming

1.       What is encapsulation, abstraction, polymorphism, operator overloading?