All Cool Geek Interview Questions

HR Interview Questions - General Questions

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Tell me about yourself?
Mention some of your achievements that you are proud of?
Why do you want to change your job?
Why have you changed so many jobs in past few years?
What are your strengths? Mention at least 3.
What are the challenges that you faced in your previous job and how did you manage to overcome them?
What are your weaknesses?
What makes you angry?
What do you worry about the most?
How do you manage work pressure?
Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?
What do you know about our company?
Did you receive any rewards and recognitions in your previous and current company?
Why do you think we should hire you?
What are the changes you would want to bring in after joining our company?
What you liked and disliked in your boss?
What you liked and disliked in your company?
What is ideal company, location and job for you?
How is your work life balance in your previous or current company?
How many hours do you normally work in a week and how much you can stretch?
Are you ready to relocate or travel?
Why you want to join our company?
Can you provide few contacts in your previous company for reference?
What are the books that you have read in recent past?
What are your hobbies?
Was there a situation where in you had to take leaves for more than 3 days?
How much salary are you expecting?

HR Interview Questions - Team Lead or Project Manager

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What are the people challenges that you faced and how do you resolve them?
What is the biggest team size you have managed so far?
How do you motivate your team members?
How do you recognize and reward your team members?
How many people have you mentored in your career?
Have you conducted any trainings and brown bag sessions?
How do you handle a person who is not delivering to expectations?
How do you communicate negative feedback to your team members?
Were you involved in laddering and moderation of your team members?
What are the challenges that you have faced during laddering and moderation?
Have you fired anybody? If so why?
What would you do if one of your team members violated company policy?
Were you involved with recruitment?
What is the recruitment process followed in your company?
What are the factors or skills that you consider before hiring?
How do you find out if the candidate has fake experience?

Software Testing Interview Questions

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Software Testing - General Questions

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What is Software Testing?
List minimum of 5 Reasons for why we need to Test Software?
Briefly explain about 829-1998 IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation
What is Quality Control?
What is the difference between Quality Control and Quality Assurance?
What is SDLC(Software Development Life Cycle)?
What is Static and Dynamic Testing?
What is SCM (Software Configuration Management)? Why is it required for testing?
What is Version controlling? What is the importance of it?
What are the different Software development models you are aware of?
Explain different stages of Water Fall Model?
Explain different Stages of V-Model?
What is Verification and Validation?
What are the differences between Water Fall and V-Model?
Explain different stages of Spiral Software Development model?
Explain different stages of Iterative Software Development model?
What is Testing Policy? Who prepares it?
What are the challenges faced during testing of COTS (Commercial off the Shelf) software?

Software Testing - Process

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What is CMM (Capability Maturity Model)?
Briefly explain about different levels of CMM (Capability Maturity Model)
What are the difference between CMM and CMMI?
What is STLC (Software Test Life Cycle)?
What is TMM (Test Maturity Model)? List the levels of TMM
Explain each TMM(Test Maturity Model) in detail.
What is Entry and Exit Criteria?
Explain Entry and Exit Criteria followed for APT (Application Product Test)?
Explain Entry and Exit Criteria followed for IPT (Integration Product Test)?
Define Risk.
What are the Risks associated with Software Testing?
What is Risk Analysis? When, why and by whom it is done?
What is Risk Management? When, why and by whom it is done?
What is Risk based Testing? When it is this testing approach adopted?
What are the Risks associated with testing when New Technology is involved e.g.: - PDAs or Mobile application etc.,
What is Contingency planning?
What are peer reviews?
What are the test deliverables that are peer reviewed?
What are walkthroughs?
What are Inspections?

Software Testing - Types of Testing

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What are the different types of testing that you are aware of?
What is Black / Closed Box Testing?
What is White / Glass Testing?
What is Grey Box Testing? Is it different from Black Box Testing? If so how?
What is Structural Testing?
What is Assembly Testing, when and why it is done and by whom?
What is Unit Testing, when and why it is done and by whom?
What are the different Unit Test Frameworks available?
What is ORT (Operational Readiness Testing), when and why it is done and by whom?
What is UAT (User Acceptance Testing), when and why it is done and by whom?
What is IPT (Integration Product Test), when and why it is done and by whom?
What is Incremental Integration testing, when and why it is done and by whom?
What is Install and Un-Install testing?
What is BVT (Build Verification Test)?
What is Conversion Testing?
What is Regression Testing?
What is System Testing?
What is End to End Testing?
What is Sanity testing?
What is Smoke Testing?
What is Pair testing?
What is Compatibility testing?
What is API (Application Programmers Interface) testing?
What is SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) testing?
What are the different types of compatibility testing?
What is Backward compatibility testing?
What is Forward compatibility testing?
What is Browser compatibility testing?
What is Comparison Testing?
What is Longitivity testing?
What is Recovery testing?
What is Security Testing?
What is Penetration Testing?
What is Mutation Testing?
What is Failover testing?
What is Ad hoc Testing?
What is Exploratory Testing?
What is Retesting?
What is Monkey Testing?
What is Guerrilla Testing?
What is Performance Testing?
What is Load Testing?
What is Stress Testing?
What is Reliability testing?
What is Database Testing?
What is configuration testing?
What is portability testing?
What is Usability Testing?
What is Accessibility testing?
What is Localization Testing?
What is Alpha Testing?
What is Beta Testing?

Software Testing - Differences between different types of testing

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Black Box Testing over white box testing?
What are the differences between BVT (Build Verification Test) and Install / Uninstall Testing?
What are the differences between System Testing and Functional Testing?
Briefly explain the differences between Unit and Assembly testing?
What are the differences between Top down and Bottom up Integration Testing?
What are the differences between Regression testing and Retesting?
What is the difference between Regional Regression and Full Regression?
What are the differences between Load Testing and Performance Testing?
What are the differences between Load and Stress Testing?
What are the differences between Load Testing and Volume Testing?
What are the differences between Failover and Recovery Testing?
What are the differences between Smoke and Sanity Testing?
What are the differences between Ad hoc and Exploratory Testing?
What is the difference between Alpha and Beta Testing?
Is there any difference between Alpha and UAT (User Acceptance Testing)? If yes, then mention the differences?
What are the difference between Monkey and Guerrilla testing?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Ad Hoc Testing?

Software Testing - Documents and Deliverables

2009-04-16T11:51:00.002-07:00

What is Test Plan? List all the sections of a Test Plan
Briefly explain about each of the sections in a Test Plan
What is the need for creating a separate Test Plan for different releases?
What is Software Test Matrix?
What is Test Strategy? List all the sections of a Test Strategy
Briefly explain about each of the sections in a Test Strategy
What is Test Approach? List all the sections of a Test Approach
Briefly explain about each of the sections in a Test Approach
What are the differences between Test Strategy and Test Approach?
What are the differences between Test Plan and Test Approach?
What are the documents required for starting Test Planning phase?
What are the documents required for starting Test Construction Phase?
What is Business Requirements document? Which teams are involved in creating this document?
What is Functional Requirements document? Which teams are involved in creating this document?
What is RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix)?
Who prepares RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) and who reviews it?
What are the details captured in a RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix)?
What does baselined document mean? Why is it important to refer to Baselined documents?

Software Testing - Test Design Techniques

2009-04-16T11:51:00.001-07:00

What is BVA (Boundary Value Analysis)? Explain with an Example.
What is EV (Equivalence Partition)? Explain with an Example.
What is Error Guessing? Explain with an Example?
What is Decision Tree?
What is Decision Table?
What are the difference between Decision Table and Decision Tree?
Explain White box testing techniques (Statement, Expression, Branch, Decision and Condition Coverage)

Software Testing - Test Scenarios, Conditions, Cases and Data

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What are Test Conditions and Expected results?
How do you decide on which Test Conditions to write?
Write Test conditions for application Login screen? (make necessary assumptions and state them as well)
What are Test Scenarios?
What are the details written in Test Scenario?
Write Test Scenarios for application logging screen? (make necessary assumptions and state them as well)
What are the inputs you will test with?
What are Test Cases?
What inputs cab be used to test a Text box that expects 10 digit Integer? Provide at least 12 different inputs
What is the difference between Test Scenarios and Test Cases?
What is Test Case Peer Review, who are all involved? What are their roles and responsibilities?
What are Use Cases? How does it help testers to build better test cases?
What is the difference between Test Case and Use Case?
What is Test Data?
What is Test Data Refresh? Explain its significance with respect to Testing?
What is Test Bed?
What is Test Suite?
What is the difference between Test Bed and Test Suite?
What are the Test Data generation tools available in the market?
What is Data Masking? Why is it important?

Software Testing - Test Execution

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What are Test Cycles?
How do you decide on the number of Test Cycles?
What are the problems that can arise if Test Cases are not detailed enough?
What are the problems that can arise if Test Cases are not reviewed?
What is Test Cycle Control Sheet? What information does it contain?
What is Test report? What are the different sections of a Test Report?
What are Test Logs? What does it contain?
Which are the teams that support testing team during Test Execution? Briefly explain their role.
What are Test Stubs?
What are Test Drivers?
When is Testing complete?
What is Test Closure Report? What are the details captured in this report?
How to test an application when you do not have requirements document?

Software Testing - Metrics and Analysis

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What is Metrics? Why is it important for testing phase?
What are the eight Metric categories commonly used?
What is Regression Analysis?
What is Pareto Chart and analysis? How does it help in defect prevention?
What is Cause Effect Diagram? How does it help in analyzing Defect root cause?
What are the different Defect Metrics
What are the different Productivity Metrics
What is Defect Aging Metric? Explain with an example.
What is Defect Fix Backlog Metric? Explain with an example.
What is Defect removal Efficiency metric? Explain the formula

Software Testing - Defects

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What are Defects?
What are the details captured in a defect report?
What is the difference between Defect reporting and Defect Tracking?
What are the common mistakes done during defect report?
What multiple defects should not be combined in a single Defect report?
Why should a tester provide Test Data, Snapshot and Application error log with defect report?
What should be done when a tester comes across a non reproducible defect?
How a test a software to be defect free? Is it possible? Provide Explanation.
What is Race condition? How to reproduce defects arising due to race conditions?
What is Defect life cycle?
Explain Defect life cycle in detail and mention stake holder associated with each defect status?
What should be done to ensure Critical and Important defects are reported first?
What are Deferred Defects?
When defects are deferred, Who will decides to defer and who are the approvers?
What is the difference between defect status New and Open?
What are duplicate defects? How they get created even after trying to avoid them?
How to avoid logging duplicate defects?
How to search for duplicate defects in QC (Quality Center)?
How to search for duplicate defects in CQTM?
what is the significance of Severity, who sets it, who reviews it and when?
What are the different Severity levels and explain which one should be selected and when?
What is the significance of Priority, who sets it, who reviews it and when?
Give an example of a defect that you have logged which had Highest Severity but low Priority?
Give an example of a defect that you have logged that had Low Severity but Highest Priority?
What is a blocker Defect?
What is a Showstopper Defects?
What is the difference between blocker and a showstopper defect?
What is the difference between Defect Severity and Priority?
What is the difference between Defect, Bug and Error?
Which Defect Tracking Software were you using in your earlier Projects?
What are the well known Defect tracking software available in the market?
What is defect triaging? Who are involved in this?
What are the common reason for which defects are rejected by developers?
What is defect prevention?
How will defect root Cause analysis results help testing team?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of rewarding testers based on number of defects reported?
What would you gain by going through the Defect reports created by you peers?
What is Defect Leakage?
What are Latent defects?
What are warranty defects?

Software Testing - Test Estimation

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Mention different test estimation techniques?
What are the common mistakes done during test estimation?
What are the factors to be considered during Test Estimation?
What is Top down Test Estimation technique?
What is Bottom up Test Estimation technique?
How to decide when to use Top down and Bottom up Test Estimation Technique?
What is FP (Function Point) analysis, how does it help during Test Estimation?

Software Testing - Test Automation

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When and what tests should be automated?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of automated testing?
What are the common challenges faced during automation?
How to decide which test cases to be automated first?
When do you decide to start with automation?
Can all the test cases be automated, if not why?
How do you decide which test cases to be automated and which to be done manually?
What is Data driven automation approach?
What is Keyword driven automation approach?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Data driven approach?
What is automation framework?
How to perform ROI (Return On Investment) for Automation?
What are the scripting languages that will help tester during automation?

Software Testing - Build and deployment

2009-04-16T11:45:00.000-07:00

What is a Build?
How is Build number useful for Testing and Defect reporting?
What are code drops?
What is Build interval Period?
Which teams are involved during a Build deployment in test environment?
Why is BVT (Build Verification Test) important?
What is the criteria for testing team to reject a Test Build?
What is release candidate build?
What are Build notes? What it contains and why it is required for testing team?
What is Build Manifest file? What information does it contain?
What is the difference between Build note and Build Manifest file?
What is release notes? What it contains?
What is the difference between build notes and release notes?
What are the common mistakes that can happen during Build installation?
What are the best practices to be followed during Build Installation?
What is the difference between build number and version number?

Software Testing - Roles and Responsibilities

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What are the responsibilities of a Software Test Engineer?
What are the qualities and skills of a Good Software Test Engineer?
Why is communication very important for testers?
What are the responsibilities of a Test Lead?
What are the qualities and skills of a Good Test Lead?
Why is people management skills very important for Test Leads?
As a Test Lead, how will you develop compatibility and Motivation among your team members?
What are the responsibilities of a Test Architect?
What are the qualities and skills of a Good Test Architect?
What are the responsibilities of a Test Data Coordinator?
What are the responsibilities of a Defect Coordinator?
What are the responsibilities of a Project Manager?
What are the responsibilities of a Test Data Coordinator?
What are the responsibilities of a Defect Coordinator?
What are the advantages of getting certified?
What are the Project Management Certifications available?
Which Business domain knowledge will help testers to find more jobs? (e.g.: Banking, Insurance, Telecom etc.,)
Why developers cannot be good Testers?

Software Testing - Certifications

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What are the Test Certifications available?
What are the benefits of getting certified?
What are the benefits of employing certified candidates?
What is the eligibility criteria for CSTE (Certified Software Test Engineer)?
What is the eligibility criteria for ASTE (Advanced Software Test Engineer)?
What is the eligibility criteria for MSTE (Master Software Quaility Analyst)?
What is the eligibility criteria for CSPM (Certified Project Manager)?

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