Software Testing Interview Questions

As a QA person, I have written Test Plans, Test Cases, attended walkthrough meetings with the Business Analysts, Project Managers, Business Managers and QA Leads. Attended requirement review meetings and provided feedback to the Business Analysts. I have worked in different databases like Oracle and DB2, wrote SQL queries to retrieve data from the database.

As far as different types of testing is concerned, I have performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Backend Testing, BlackBox Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing and UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Testing. I have participated in Load Testing and Stress Testing.

I have written defects as they are found using ClearQuest and TestDirector. Once the defects were fixed, retested them and if the passed, closed them. If the defects were not fixed, then reopened them. I have also attended the defect assessment meetings as necessary.

In the meantime, a continuous interaction with developers was necessary.

This is pretty much what I have been doing as a QA person.

Besides these, I wrote defects using ClearQuest. Once the defects were fixed, retested them and if the passed, closed them. If the defects were not fixed, then reopened them.

A Test Plan is a document describing the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of intended testing activities. It identifies test items, the features to be tested, the testing tasks and who will do each task (roles and responsibilities) and any risks and its solutions.

What does it include? A Test Plan includes Heading, Revision History, Table of Contents, Introduction, Scope, Approach, Overview, different types of testing that will be carried out, what software and hardware will be required, issues, risks, assumptions and sign off section.

Yes.

What is a Test Case? What does it include?

A Test Case is a document that describes step by step process how to test the application. A Test Case includes Test Case ID, Steps Description, Expected Output, Actual Output, Pass/Fail, Remarks.

 The purpose of exit criteria is to define when a test level is completed.

Yes. I have been to that kind of scenarios several times. There were companies where they had no documents at all. In that case, I had to discuss the application scenario and functionalities with the Business Analysts or developer. I kind of prepared a document in consultation with Business Analysts and Developers and then started writing Test Cases.

The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a conceptual model used in project management that describes the stages involved in an information system development project, from an initial feasibility study through maintenance of the completed application.

It includes the following different stages:

1.  Requirement Gathering
2.  Designing
3.  Coding
4.  Testing
5.  Release
6.  Maintenance

 Level of risk determine by the severity of the defect or event and how much it is impacting our system. if even or defect is not able to processed and impacting other features or behaviors to blocker then it is high risk. Even or Defect is not blocking other issues but the current flow only then it count as low or medium risk.

Software Testing is having it’s own life cycle and it can vary depend on project to project. Please find example as given below –

• Requirement Analysis
• Test Planning – Plan the test execution Date and phases and categories test based on priority
• Writing Test Cases
• Review the Test Cases
• Executing the Test Cases
• Bug logging and tracking
• Close or Reopen bugs

 Development code in a specified package and ready for deployment is called Build. in software development process a team provide a lot of Build to tester so they can test parallel.

Infrastructure team used to deploy new build into the server and tester will test the smoke and regression test before starting executing test cases for new or updated functionality.

There are many type of software testing available, it is up to project requirement to accept whch type of testing they want to execute. please find some common testing type below –

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Functional Testing
• System Testing
• Stress Testing
• Performance Testing
• Usability Testing
• Acceptance Testing
• Regression Testing
• Beta Testing

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard computer language for accessing and manipulating database systems. SQL statements are used to retrieve and update data in a database. SQL works with database programs like MS Access, DB2, Informix, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, etc.

Unfortunately, there are many different versions of the SQL language, but to be in compliance with the ANSI standard, they must support the same major keywords in a similar manner (such as SEWhat is a Primary Key?LECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT, WHERE, and others).

 In a database table, the Primary Key is a column which has a unique value for each of the row within that column. It can’t have NULL value.