INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. What is software? 2. What kind of application you tested as a part of PROJECT? 3. What is a difference between system software and application software? 4. Can you name some software applications which you use in your day to day life? 5. What is a difference between software product and software project? 6. What do you mean by SDLC? Explain. 7. What are different SDLC models? 8. Have you recently used any software application? What kind of issues you faced? 9. Why defects are there in the application? 10. What type of defects you found during your project? Describe couple of them. 11. Can you define software testing? 12. Draw and explain 'V model'. 13. What are advantages and limitations of 'V Model'? 14. What is a difference between Verification and Validation? 15. As a tester, what verification activity you can perform? What is its advantage? 16. What do you mean by integration testing? Why it is done? Give some examples. 17. Why system testing needs to be done? 18. Have you done unit testing? If yes, what you tested? If no, why? 19. Why acceptance / UAT / Customer testing is required? 20. Explain STLC. 21. What is test plan? What it contains? 22. What can be the risks in testing project? 23. What are different methods of testing? Can you differentiate between them? Which method you used?

24. How you will come up with test cases when you get some requirements? 25. Tell us high level test cases for <some example> 26. Write some test cases for <some example> 27. What is ECP and BVA and why they are used? 28. What is smoke / sanity testing? What you will do in the same? 29. What is a need of regression testing? Which test cases are executed in regression testing? 30. When will you stop testing? 31. What do you mean by test environment? 32. What is defect? Examples? 33. Explain defect life cycle. 34. What is difference between severity and priority? 35. What is difference between white box testing and black box testing? 36. Difference between UI and Usability testing? 37. Difference between configuration and compatibility testing? 38. What are different types of testing conducted for web based application? 39. What is performance testing? Why it is conducted? 40. Difference between QA and QC? 41. What do you mean by quality? 42. How a tester can contribute to quality? 43. What challenges one can face in testing? 44. Name some best practices in testing 45. Why you want to be a tester? 46. What are the skills needed to be tester? 47. How can you enhance your knowledge in testing?