Many testers cannot handle their jobs successfully due to deadline pressures, miscommunication with developers, being too disorganized and time management issues. However, a tester is always needed for software testing. Thus, it’s crucial to find the right candidates that help to build a strong software testing team.

To find suitable candidates for software testing positions, employers must determine with essential software testing questions. Here are 20 best software testing interview questions with answers that reveal your candidate’s strengths, weaknesses, preferences, and aspirations–and if they will mesh well with your team.

20 best software testing interview questions and answers.

The 20 Best Software Testing Interview Questions:

1) How well do you handle ambiguity?

Test cases are not always straight-forward and QA Engineers will need to act on their personal judgement. They need to feel comfortable with ambiguity.

2) What is your mentality toward automating tests that are currently being done manually?

Automating test cases bring numerous benefits. Automation saves time and reduces human error. QA engineers should recognize the value of automation.

3) Explain how you differentiate a symptom vs. a cause when testing.

Often within the QA process, test cases fail. But why are they failing? This can be tricky. A great QA engineer is able to provide exact reasons to the developer, rather than simply saying a test case “failed”.

4) Are you willing to stand up to developers who disagree with your results?

Stand up for testing result disagreement.

In some situations, reporting failures can be a delicate process. Perhaps a developer spent a lot of time on some code which does not exactly meet specifications. QA engineers need to be able to stand up for what they know is right. Read more: Who is QA engineer

5) Are you willing to cut corners to save time?

The correct answer is NO. All test cases need to be run, and making assumptions frequently leads to issues down the road.

6) Can you explain the SDLC and Agile methodology?

QA engineers must understand their role and where it fits into the ecosystem.

7) Explain your attitude toward documentation. Do you believe more is better? Why or why not?

This is a tricky question because more documentation is not always better. In fact, it can be detrimental. Documentation needs to be thorough, but still efficient as possible. If there is too much documentation, important details can be missed.

8) What do you think of learning a new product?

This is perhaps the biggest challenge of being a QA engineer. They need to be comfortable and patient with learning complex software. They should be prepared to ask a lot of questions. Read more: Benefits of Outsourcing QA

9) How well do you work with colleagues?

Many QA teams have team members who are from all corners of the world. QA engineers must be comfortable communicating with people of all backgrounds and all levels of language proficiency.

10) Do you think software tester is a perfectionist?

Great QA engineers are perfectionists. Their job is to ensure that all of the software they test meets or exceeds quality standards, and sloppy work is only going to lead to trouble further down the line.

11) How well do you work under pressure situations with deadlines?

How do you solve your deadline pressure in software testing process?

Testing usually comes at the end of the SDLC and testing can be viewed as a bottleneck, so being able to perform under tight deadlines and pressure is important.

12) Tell me what is your experience with developing corner cases?

This question will help you figure out if your tester is willing to dig for different test case scenarios that might not be as intuitive or clear up front.

13) Do you usually catch up with current technology trends? Why?

Staying up to date on industry news and trends is important in order for you team to keep up with evolving technology and best practices changes. It also shows how much you like your job!

14) Tell me what motivates you most?

There are several potential answers to this question. Company culture will play a large part in differentiating a good from bad answer. For instance, if teamwork is important within the product team, a candidate who is driven by internal competition might not be the best fit.

15) What are your ultimate career aspirations?

It is important to learn what your candidate hopes to be in the next year, or three years. If the candidate desires a career path you can’t provide, you might be interviewing again sooner than you’d like.

16) One sentence describes you most. What is it?

Sometimes this question pulls out unique personality qualities that you might not discover from traditional work focused questions.

17) What brought you to this testing position?

Figuring out how your job candidate achieved their current career status can uncover a lot around their ambitions and aspirations.

18) Which fields do you think our company could do better?

This interview question helps you to uncover how much research the candidate did before meeting with you, and it demonstrates their ability to think on the spot.

19) Tell me the reason why do you want to work for us?

The best way to learn if your candidate is excited and passionate about this job opportunity.

20) What testing methods are you familiar with? Do you have a favorite? And why?

It is important to hire a well-rounded Test Engineer who is familiar with several different types of testing or find one who is willing to learn.

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