The questions for QA were collected by Alex Samourin.

1. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?
2. What did you include in a test plan?

The readers are welcome to submit the answers or links with appropriate answers.

1. Why did you ever become involved in QA/testing?
2. Wha is the difference between QA and testing?

QA Engineer questions were collected and published by Alex Samourin. Please visit his Xtreme testing page for much more.

An Indian outfit, specializing in Web application testing, uses this set of questions for incoming testers.

1. Define load, performance and stress testing?
2. What are the goals of a performance testing of a web application?
3. State a generalized process for load test? Or explain how you did it previously.
4. How do you determine user soad for a perf test of a Web application?
5. What do you understand by the terms ‘Response Time’, ‘Pages Per Second’, ‘Transactions Per Secpnd’?
6. How would you determine the performance of a web application by looking at the values of ‘Response Time’ and ‘Pages Per Second’?
7. What will be your approach if a particular script in Load Test fails?
8. Talk about the terms: Soak Perf Test, Resilience Perf Test, Regression Perf Test.
9. Which Server Stats are essentially monitored during a Perf test of a Web Application?
10. What are the major components of Perf Test Report?

1. Describe the process of planning a test in WinRunner?
2. How do you record a new script? Can you e-mail a WinRunner script? How can a person run a previously saved WinRunner script?
3. How can you synchronize WinRunner scripts?
4. What is a GUI map? How does it work?
5. How can you verify application behavior?
6. Explain in detail how WinRunner checkpoints work. What are standard checkpoints?
7. What is a data-driven test? What are the benefits of a data-driven test?
8. How do you modify logical names on GUI map?
9. Why would you use batch testing under WinRunner? Explain advantages and disadvantages. Give an example of one project where you used batch testing.
10. How do you pass parameter values between the tests?
11. Have you used WinRunner Recovery Manager?
12. What is an exception handler? Wny would you define one in WinRunner?
13. We’re testing an application that returns a graphical object (i.e., a map) as a result of the user query. Explain how you’d teach WinRunner to recognize and analyze the returned object.
14. What is a TSL? Write a simple script in TSL.