Interview questions for the manual testing position

1, Personal information - relating question:

- Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? (name, educational background, purpose/ passion)

- Now we're gonna dig deeper in each section of your CV.

(- During your student life, did you have any big achievements that you are proud of?
- Do you have any certificates?
- What are your skills?
- Tell me about your work experience? What did you learn from those jobs that you think can
apply in your next position as a tester?
- Do you have any hobbies?
- Did you participate in any extra curricular activities?)

2. Strengths and weaknesses

- What are your strengths?
- What are your weaknesses? (Mention ways to improve your weaknesses)

3. Career goals:
What are your short term and long term goals? How are you going to prepare for them?

4. Technical questions/ Question relating to your desire:

(Các kiến thức nghề tester)
- How do you understand the field of IT?
- What brought you to the field of IT and the job of manual testing?)
(Why not other jobs?)
- Why do you want to become a tester? And a manual tester? It seems like there are other
attractive jobs out there for a person who major in BE like teaching/ importing/exporting
interpreting (The reason

Testing:
- How important is testing to a project?
- How do you define testing? What is manual testing? In what way is it different from automaton
testing? What are the responsibilities of a manual tester in a project?
- What is sdlc, stlc (software testing life cycle)
- What are the different types of manual testing?
- In your opinion, what is a bug?
- What is agile/ scrum model? (Do you know anything about agile and scrum model?)
- What is the bug life cycle?

Characteristics/ traits/ qualities of a manual tester:

- What do you think are the traits/characteristics of a manual tester? (What traits do you think a
manual tester need to have?) (what do you think a good manual tester is?)
- Can you tell me a little bit about your work experience? What have you learned from your past
jobs? What are the things you learned from your past jobs that you think are useful to become a
tester?

Difficulties of being a manual tester:

- What do you think are the difficulties of being a manual tester and how will you prepare
yourself for them/ overcome/ handle/ deal with/ face those challenges (drawbacks/ obstacles/
hurdles/ impedements?

Whether a good match or not

- Why do you think you are suitable to be a manual tester?
- Why should we choose you as a candidate? (What can you offer us?)
- Can you work under pressure and work in a team well?
Pressure: motivate us; have some tips to release stress (mental, physical); prioritize task...

Ques about the company:

- What do you know about our company? Why do you choose us? Why do you wanna work
here?

- Do you have any questions for me?

- How long do you plan on staying with this company?