MANUAL Testing Interview Questions:

1. What is software testing and why we do it?2. Explain Phases SDLC?3. What are the different types of SDLC?4. Explain Waterfall model?5. Advantages and Disadvantages of Waterfall model?6. Explain V-model?7. Advantages and Disadvantages of V-model?8. Explain about Agile Methodology?9. Advantages and Disadvantages of Agile Methodology?10. What are the types of testing?11. What are different testing levels?12. What are the approaches of integration testing?13. What are the types of integration testing? Explain them?14. What is Stub?15. What is driver?16. What is User Acceptance Testing?17. What are the types of User Acceptance Testing?18. What is Verification & Validation?19. What is Quality Assurance & Quality Control?20. What is retesting & regression testing?21. What is Severity & Priority?22. What is load & stress?23. What is Smoke Testing & Sanity Testing?24. What is Static & Dynamic Testing?25. What is risk based testing?26. What is recovery testing?27. What is Black box testing?28. What is White box testing?29. What are black box testing methodologies?30. What are white box testing methodologies?31. What is Error guessing?32. What is Mutation testing? 33. What is Fault Masking & Latent Masking?34. Explain STLC life cycle?35. Have you created Test Plan document?36. Who creates Test Plan document?37. What is Entry & Exit Criteria?38. How do u track you have covered all the requirements?39. What is reviews?40. What are the types of reviews?41. Explain about Walkthrough?42. Explain about Inspection?43. Explain the stages of formal review process?

44. Explain about your project?45. Explain the architecture of the project?46. How many modules you had worked till now?47. How many defects you had created till now?48. Explain about any critical defect you had found.49. Do you face any difficulty while working with development team?

If yes? Then explain what you had faced?50. Difference between Manual Testing and Automation testing?51. What are the attributes of test case?52. What are the attributes of Defects?53. Explain about bug\defect life cycle?54. What is Test case?55. What is difference between use case and test case?56. What is the difference between BRS, SRS, and TRS?57. What is difference between Error, Fault, Bug, Failure, and Defect?58. What is the difference between Web based application and client server application?59. Provide some example for the below

a. High Severity & Low Priorityb. Low Severity & High Priorityc. High Severity & High Priorityd. Low Severity & Low priority

60. Explain about your daily activities as a Test Engineer?61. What is the difference between Projects based testing and Product based testing?62. Difference between 1 Tier & 2 Tier Applications?63. Explain various states of defect?64. What is Test Strategy document and who creates it?65. What is Cyclomatic Complexity?66. What are the tools used for bug tracking?67. What are the Test Management tools you have used?68. Explain different types of testing metrics?69. What is Test Scenario? And explain difference between Test Scenario and Test Case?70. What is Boundary Value Analysis and explain with example?71. What is Equivalence Partitioning, explain with example?72. Difference between GUI testing Usability testing?73. What is end to end testing?74. What is Functional testing?75. Main challenges faced in testing?76. What is invalid status of a defect and when this status will come into picture, after or before

reopening the defect?77. How to find the length and breadth of a button?78. What is Hybrid Testing?79. If you have 1000 test cases, on what basis or how you will execute it?80. Difference between System testing and end to end testing?

81. If we click a button 15 times on an application then site gets crash. What will be the severity and priority? Will it be from below:-High Priority Low Severity, Low Priority High Severity. Explain?

Below are the set of questions asked in an interview, some questions might be duplicate ones as above so please ignore.

To Start with in Round 1(Technical)

1. Kindly brief me through your profile explaining your graduation year place of graduation, University and what roles and responsibilities you have undertaken so far.Answer: Try to explain it in brief covering all major areas of your work in a concise way in 3-4 mins.

Basic Questions

1. What is Requirement traceability matrix(RTM)2. Explain the difference between Smoke test and Sanity Test3. Explain the difference between Severity and priorityAnswer: Severity-Impact of defect on applicationPriority-How soon the defect needs to be fixed4. Explain the difference between Waterfall and agile methodology5. How is Agile more beneficial than waterfall6. What are the disadvantages of Automation testing7. What is Equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis8. Explain the defect Lifecycle9. How do you trace the requirement coverage in testing?10. What are the different ways of logging a defect in HP QCAnswer: Two ways to log a defect.

1) Click on Defect tab and create a new defect2) Go to the Test Case in Test Lab and then click on Link defects. Select

create a new defect icon.

11. What is difference between sanity testing and regression testing12. What is Exploratory testing?Answer: Exploratory testing is a hands-on approach in which testers are involved in minimum planning and maximum test execution. The planning involves the creation of a test charter, a short declaration of the scope of a short (1 to 2 hour) time-boxed test effort, the objectives and possible approaches to be used.

13. What is monkey testing?Answer: Monkey testing is a software testing technique in which the testing is performed on the system under test randomly. The Input data that is used to test also generated randomly and keyed into the system.14. Write test cases for security testing (Eg : Gmail application)14. Difference between Stress testing/Load testing,Volume testing and performance testing

Volume Testing = Large amounts of dataLoad Testing = Large amount of users, testing normal, expected load (you know the system will be used by up to 100 users at a time), this is load testing.Stress Testing = Too many users, too much data, too little time and too little room, when you want to determine how the system behaves under extreme load and when it breaks

15. What is the difference between system integration testing and product testing?16. What is Beta Testing.Answer: Done on live environment by end users

17. What are the different ceremonies of Agile.Answer: 5 Ceremonies:- Backlog Grooming or Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand up, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective Meeting

18. What is shared steps and how is it used in MTM (Optional only if used MTM)19. What are the different types of Reviews.20 Difference between Verification and validation.Answer: Verification Static, Validation DynamicVerification building product right, Validation building right product

Questions related to SQL

1. Difference between DELETE, TRUNCATE and DROPAnswer: DELETE: Use to delete rows from a table based on Where condition, If Where condition is omitted it deletes all rows. Slower than Truncate.TRUNCATE: Delete all the rows from a table but table structure remains. Faster than delete.DROP: Deletes rows as well as table structure.

2. Suppose I have more the 1000 records of students results in my table How will I extract and display the top 10 rankers records in Asc order3. Given 2 tables with primary key constraints between them as Table 1 contains students name seat no etc table 2 contains student seat no and marks against them.   Join both the tables and write a query to obtain average of marks of all students.4. Explain Difference between Right Join, Left Join, Inner Join and Full outer Join5. Study Aggregate functions commands as well like Max(),Min()6. Find out third maximum\minimum salary of an employee.

Questions related to UNIX if you have worked

Study Basic commands of UNIX

Logical Situational Questions (Round 2 - Technical)

1. Give 3 Real time application examples of

a. High priority, High severity defect—Main Page crashingb. High priority, Low severity defect--- Company Name\logo issue in main pagec. Low priority, High Severity defect--- Rarely used feature is crashing

2. Questions relating to given a real time application and asking to tell what should be the priority and severity of the defectEg : For a Live cricket score site if it has launched a ticker(Popup) during world cup for Livescore and it breaks what should be the severity and priority of the Defect.How will the priority and severity of that defect will change once the worldcup is over.

3. Suppose you lock a defect and the Developer rejects the defect saying its not reproducible in Dev Environment, What will you do?

4. Suppose today is last day of release signoff and with all formalities complete by EOD for release your local manager throws a party at 7pm and all your colleagues (Dev and testers) have left the office for party and at last moment you identify that 2-3 test cases are pending for execution and while executing then you found a high severity defect, What will you do?

5. How will you identify test cases for the regression pack, what are the criteria’s of identification?

6. Suppose if you have 2 big buckets and 1 is full with water and another 1 is empty. I have 2 jars measuring 3L and another is of 4L. Using these jars how can I pour exact 6L of water in empty bucket taking water from full bucket. It is ok if the water gets wasted.

7. How you will find out the number of street lights in your city\area?