Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about yourself and the products you have tested?
- What drew you to quality assurance work?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- How do you design test cases for a new feature? Walk us through your method.
- Which automation frameworks have you used, and how do you keep suites stable and fast?
- How do you decide what to automate and what to keep manual?
- Describe how you test an API beyond the happy path.
- What makes a bug report excellent? Show us with an example.
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a critical bug you caught late. How was it missed, and what changed?
- Describe a disagreement with a developer about a bug's severity. How did you resolve it?
- How do you advocate for quality when the team is under release pressure?
Problem-solving / case
- You have one day to test a release that normally takes a week. How do you prioritize?
- A flaky test fails randomly in CI and the team wants to delete it. What do you do?
- Users report a bug you cannot reproduce in any environment. Walk us through your approach.
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