Senthil Kumar Ramamoorthy Blogs: Test Lead Responsibilities and Interview Questions

Test Lead Questions:

Just Sharing the some sample Interview Questions found in the web.

When do you stop testing?
How will you prepare your team for session based testing?
When will you prepare a test plan if requirements are in progress?
What is stratergy you follow to decide whether the product can be tested manually or automatically?
How will you maintain sprint log for test execution in agile?
What is mean by defect leverage ratio how it will be used?
How will you calculate field fault density?
When will you classify and work on a defect with status as high severity and low priority, low severity and high priority?
What are the steps do you take to get oraganisation context to bring testing into the development process.
Which is the artifact you feel contributed most during testing and which is the least, why?
In an application currently in production, one module of code is being modified. Is it necessary to re-test the whole application or is it enough to just test functionality associated with that module?
What is the most challenging situation you had during testing?
What are you going to do if there is no Functional Spec or any documents related to the system and developer who wrote the code does not work in the company anymore, but you have system and need to test?

Responsibilities of Test Lead in an organisation:

Software test planning
Software test life cycle
Design and authoring of test cases
Review (of requirements, test cases, test results, defect reports etc.)
Types of testing performed (scripted/ exploratory, manual/ automated, functional/ performance/ security etc.)
Work planning, assignment, tracking and problem resolution
Test environments
Tools used (test management/ automation/ defect reporting)
Client coordination
Methodology followed
Team handled (team size/ competencies of team members/ examples of team work)
Methodology followed (structured/ agile)

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