QA Role Questions

Some of those questions are vague on purpose and their interpretation is up to you.

The format of how you provide the answers will also be taken into account.

  1. Please describe what were the most common bugs you have found in web applications you were working with (desktop only)

  2. Please describe what were the most common bugs you have found in mobile applications you were working with (native mobile apps)

  3. What is your usual process of reporting bugs to developers ?

  4. How did your day look like in your recent QA related role ?

  5. What problems have you experienced during your collaboration with developers ?

  6. What are the top 3 types of bugs which are the most annoying / problematic ?

  7. What was the most critical bug that you have found ?

  8. How do you prefer to receive feedback from the development team ?

  9. Which technical areas are you interested in ?

  10. Which tools / apps do you use when testing apps (you can list anything that makes your life easier)

  11. How do you deal with regression testing ? (this question is vague on purpose)

  12. Assuming that you were the head of a 4 people QA team, how would you organise everything ?

  13. How would you optimise QA processes in your previous roles ?

  14. How do you deal with maintenance issues in a QA team ? (this question is ambiguous on purpose)

  15. If you were to give me an advice about how to approach QA in general , what would it be ?

  16. Why did you chose a QA Engineer role ?

  17. What are the biggest problems / challenges that you see in a role of a QA Engineer ?

  18. How would you solve the problems / challenges from the previous question ?

  19. Assuming that you suddenly need to decide between 5 major features / project in terms of what should be a priority for QA and there is no one to ask for a priority list, how would you chose a single feature / project to test over the next few days and based on what ? (describe your logic behind it)

  20. What else would you like to tell me ? :)