Symphony Services Interview Questions on Software Testing Engineer Job description

Symphony Services hires lots of Testing Engineer's frequently.One of the blog reader attended its interview last week & find below his QA job interview experience.

Rounds : 5
1. HR Interview
2. Technical Brief
3.Technical Detailed
4.Manager Discussion
5.HR Discussion including salary & joining date/notice period

HR Interview
This initial HR round was mainly to filter out NOT-So-Good candidates. They asked asked
1.Company details : Website,Contact No.s & References (May be for further background verification - not sure)
2.Organization structure & company employee strength
3.My experience details of all previous companies
4.My roles & responsibilities , Skillset/Expertise

This was about 10 to 15 minutes & the person wrote down many details in another sheet & took for records.

I had to wait another 20 minutes to go for next round ( I was glad to know they were interested to take me to next round - which I considered as the actual starting of the interview process)

1st Technical Round
The tech lead who took my interview was very serious & looked like tired of taking many interviews. Still i appreciate his patience of asking quality interview questions like
1.Explain the tasks you are responsible for in this Testing project

2.How do you manage growing features & how you keep track that testcases are also increasing to have proper coverage

3.Explain your test scenarios & what bugs you found in which scenarios

4.How were you involved in Integration testing & how were your testing efforts contributing interms of improving the quality of the product under test.

5.Explain some of the component areas you have worked till now in this company/project. Which one was most challenging & why?

6.What is regression testing? How is Regression testing done in your team ? Tell me some what is a regression bug & name 3 regression bugs you filed & what was their priority

7. When you file a bug what happens till it gets fixed? Explain all the phases & people involved in this bug detection till resolution process

8. Apart from Testing an application or Product what else you did in your whole experience ?

9. Do you know about Performance Testing can you explain how would you approach it if you had to start doing it even though you may not have much prior experience ?

10. What is End 2 End testing ? What are these FCS,RTM,GA,RC ?

[Next rounds of interview with all the questions will be posted within next 1 hour - plz keep reading for the update] If you want the answers for these email roger.smithson@gmail.com