Role-specific SQA Engineer Interview Questions & Answers:

1. What are the elements of a QC plan?

The answer to this question depends on industry, company and/or project. In our software company, the closest thing to a Quality Control plan are our Test Standards and Test Plans.

The elements of our Test Plans are:

1) Introduction
- Purpose
- Product description
- System architecture
2) Scope
- Test coverage
- Features to be tested (in scope)
- Features not to be tested (out of scope)
- Compatibility matrix
3) Test strategy
- Test objectives
- Test approach
- Test environment
- System dependencies
- Test tools
- Assumptions
- Risks
4) Process
- Test process and guidelines
- Priority and Severity defined
- Pass/fail criteria
- Test entry/exit criteria
- Test resources
- Deliverables required for testing
- Roles and responsibilities
- Approvals and sign off

2. Can you please explain the difference between I.S.O and C.M.M levels?

The CMM is a way to communicate capabilities.
The ISO is a way to communicate the process.

3. How yuo can track bug and report through Quality Control dept?

According to me i track bug by defect tracking tool and i report it through defect life cycle. i i was wrong please correct me.

4. What are Noice Variables?

Noise variable factors either cannot be controlled or are difficult and or expensive to control during the design or actual production stage.

5. What is meant by risk? how you can avoid the risks?

Risk can be anything that leads to failure / defect / error in the apllication or process.

We can avoid risk by applying proper risk matrix in the process.Risk Matrix shows the controls within application systems used to reduce the identified risk, and in what segment of the application those risks exist.

Consider,Team members are leaving from the organization in the middle of the project is the risk for the Manager.For that he can take the preventive action by ask for the bond from the employee or can have the countable backups in the project.

6. When do we use a c-chart?

Control charts are suitable for tracking items such as:
Production failures
Defects by life cycle phase
Complaint/failures by application/software
Response time to change request
Cycle times/delivery times
Mean time to failure

7. What are the activities that are involved in Software Quality Control?

The activities that are involved in Software Quality Control are Reviews and Testing.

Reviews:

a. Review of requirement.
b. Review of design.
c. Review of code.
d. Review of deployment plan .
e. Review of test plan.
f. Review of test cases.

Testing:

a. Unit Testing
b. Integration Testing
c. System Testing
d. Acceptance Testing

8. Described Software Quality Control Testing?

a. Unit Testing
b. Integration Testing
c. System Testing
d. Acceptance Testing

9. Described Software Quality Control Reviews?

Review of requirement.
b. Review of design.
c. Review of code.
d. Review of deployment plan .
e. Review of test plan.
f. Review of test cases

10. What are the Project Control Activities?

The following are the activities of project control:

- Verify the integrity of the database files.
- Check the transcription errors while inputting and referencing the data.
- Verify the data consistency.
- Perform the internal review of documents.
- Perform the completeness check.
- Compare the existing results with previous results.