Software Testing Interview Questions & Salary details of Accenture

Accenture pays the best & hires the best . That was clear to me when I gave the interview in that company for the position of "Software Testing Engineer" [Manual Testing in Unix environment for a Telecom domain project].

Some of the easiest & very basic questions i am listing out here.

1. How is the testing process start in your company? what are the deliverables you as a Testing team got from the development/product engineering team based on which the test planning was done ?

2. How do you work on giving estimates for the test efforts so as to help the lead or manager come up with a Testing Schedule ? Do you have any experience working on effort estimation?

3. If you are a Test lead & you want to hire Testing Engineers to work in your team what are the factors you will look in them so as to hire the quality guys who contribute largely to the project success ?

4. Explain all types of testing you know & go in depth on the testing types you have worked rigorously in your project? Explain in detail how you have been involved in Functionality Testing,Regression Testing & System Testing in your previous company?

5. What are the processes you would like to improve in your current "Software Testing Project" what value addition your recommendations do for the team & the project ?

6. How is your Testing process ? What are the Test methodologies & Models you use?

7. Explain 5 challening test scenarios you worked in your project ? Tell me how you setup the test environment to test these scenarios & how many of them gave you real product bugs.

8. If you have to Test on different versions or releases or trains at the same time how would you manage the complexity since the different versions of the product behaves very differently though the test cases may be same for them? Have you worked in a similar situation in your previous testing experience ?

9. Who is the best contributor in your team , it may be your team mate/peer, your lead , your manager or a developer who supports your testing team a lot - why do you feel he is the best contributor for the success of the whole testing projects?

10. If you are made the lead or manager of this project how would you approach the whole project so that you improve the quality of the product heavily?

[If you blog reader has noticed these are not "One line answer" kind of questions which you will see in hundreds of other websites. These are simple yet powerful questions which forces the interviewee/candidate to answer in length explain lot of dependencies & brings out the managerial aspects of any individual Testing Professional.
Only people with real experience can answer these questions satisfactorily.
Keep reading this blog as I will update with new Interview questions every hour. You will also find some "Software Testing Tutorial" coming on this blog within a day.

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