Clearance

Question 1

What is your typical day at work? (company XYZ)

Answer 1

My working day begins with a scrum meeting (scrum team is participating in the scrum meeting)
- 15-20 minutes
1 What was done yesterday?
2 What we are planning on doing today?
3 Any blockers (showstopers) we might have?

After the meeting I get to Jira and work on my tasks. My typical tasks are:
- Verify fixed bugs
- Create test cases
- Update test cases
- Executing test cases
- Regression testing
- Build acceptance testing
* Report bugs (no task in Jira for)

Question 2

How do you see yourself in 5 years?

Answer 2

• I am QA career minded, want to be senior level skillful QA professional
  Want to grow in QA as professional

Question 3

What is Regression testing?

Answer 3

• Making sure that nothing got broken as a result of modifications made to the source code
  
  • the second most frequently executed test (after build acceptance test)
  • perfect candidate for automation

Question 4

What is build acceptance testing? (sanity check, smoke test)

Answer 4

• purpose: make sure that the compilation happend without major problems
  
  • if passed - the build is good enough to go to QA
  • HOW IT IS DONE: superficial testing of major functions for catastrophic issues
  • the most frequently executed test - #1 candidate for automation

Question 5

What is usability testing?

Answer 5

Evaluating a software application by testing it with representative users. Participants are asked to complete typical tasks while observers watch, listen and take notes.

Question 6

What is user acceptance testing?

Answer 6

• The very last test done before software is given to THE customer
  
  • it is not done by company QA team - it might be facilitated/organized by QA
  • it is done by SMEs (subject matter experts: managers, business analysts) on behalf of users
• BETA-testing will be done for open market applications