Organization

Interview Questions

Interview Strategy


1. Interaction: Asking similar questions back.Try to interview the intevier.

a. If possible, do personal inquiry,

b. Inquire about thier job experience,

c. Inquire about your possible position,

d. Confirm yourself as the right candidate.

2. Asking a set of questions in response to

"Do you have any questions for us?"


Good Listening Skills

1. Listen attentively,

2. Reitterate what you heard and understood,

3.



How to handle difficult questions:

1. Ask for clarification of the question,

2.


Tell me about youself:

Too much unrelated informaiton

Why you are applying - not needed here

More on what project with each company

Stress on over how many years of experience

Stress on SDLC responsibilities


Should be busy


Jira and confluence are not test case management tool; Testrail is.


team Structure - Agile/Scrum vs. Waterfall

List of agile team meetings

- Agile

- Scrum

- Sprint

- Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Strint Backlog Grooming, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective


Stress testing, whitebox testing



Smoke vs regression test

smoke -

What SDLC? - good

STLC - need more

Bug - Ticket information...Too long wait

What are some bugs you have encountered or written

tickets for?

Load is not a bug/performance

Otherwise good explanation of issues


What is release?

Devops engineers release application



Automation team?

Not separate/hand in hand


Found a feature issue, what next?

a.Hours later still not working,

b.Review and Merge


What if there is a disconnect with developer on the bug?


How to handle colleage promotion:

"Has happened many times" - Don't say

> Well deserved

> Position doesn't matter

> Still part of the same team

> Delivering quality product is what matters.


What type of testing do you do in your company?

1. Exploratory testing,

2. Smoke/Sanity testing,

3. Ad Hoc testing,

4. Regression Testing,

5. API Testing,&

6. Automation Testing.



Sample Gherkin Test Case:


Testing a Microwave:

When action

Then is validation: SHOUDL


Given the microwave has a plug

And the home has a power outlet

And microwave has a spinnning plate inside

And all the plastic wrap removed

And has a instruction manual

And rated energy effient

And the test food provided

When user plugs the cord into the outlet

Then microwave should light up or beep (Pass/Fail)

When user places food in the microwave

And closes the door

And clicks on 30 sec

And click on STRART button

Then microwave should light up

And plate should start spinning

And mocrowave should stop after 30 sec

When user takes the food out of the micor