Testing Interview Questions & Interview experience in Symphony (contibued)

So if you read First article of Symphony Services Testing Interview this is the continuation article.

1st round of Technical discussion went for more than 20-25 minutes I was able to answer satisfactorily though I could not answer some of the questions related to Quality Metrics, Traceability matrix, Testing Unix processes/daemons

I was asked to wait after the second round & I waited for another 20-25 minutes.

2nd Technical Round
This was a more rigorous round .3 guys together interviewed me in this round - where they asked me to explain each of my projects, tools I used , way I handled my testing effort & things I learned.

Questions were like :
1. Did you write Test plan , Test cases for this project ?

2.How did you create test data & what methods you followed for that ?

3.Explain 5 challenging test cases from ur project tell me how you execute them starting from preparing the test setup for them ?

4.Write test cases to test "Winamp MP3 player" Write test cases to test "Norton Antivirus" Write test cases to test "Network Management Software"?

5.How do you give estimates for your testing efforts. What factors you will list out in the estimation document ?

6. What are these SRS,Func Specs - Explain how you translate Specs to Use cases to Test cases?

7. Which OS does your Software support ? Suppose it is supported in Windows only then you have so many configurations like :
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 20000 Server
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Pro with Service Pack2
Windows 2003 Standard Edition Server
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition Server
Windows Vista Ultimate

So above 8 OS if we consider on Intel & again on AMD processors we have nearly 16 configurations multiply this with Hardware Server differences like "Dell PowerEdge Servers", "Sun microsystems - Opteron V20z Servers" , "IBM eSeries Server" you have 16 X 3 = 48 configurations - support you join a new team where you have to test all these configurations for 100 test cases how will you manage. Do you have a process in your present team to solve such a complexity

8. Explain Entry Criteria & Exit Criteria in your Test plans & How your project Test plan guides your whole testing process ?

9. Explain in detail all the tasks you do in your whole test cycle ? how much time you need for different test cases & what are the kind of issues you might face regularly? How do resolve those issues ? Have you implemented any best practices to resolve these issues in future ?

10. What are the things you have in your Performance plan for this year & how are you improving your self in this present job in terms of Technical expertise & Product knowledge?

There were many many more interview questions which I may send later. This round was the lengthiest & went for nearly 30-40 minutes. Good answers were appreciated & many a times interviewer's answered few things which I could NOT answer. It was a very learning experience for me & refreshing one too.

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