Interview Questions: - Jagan Mohan Julooru
Interview Questions: - Jagan Mohan Julooru
Keep your answer to one or two minutes; don't ramble. Stick to what you've
written in your resume summary. To answer this question well, you'll need
to start with a solid and concise resume summary.
Do your homework before the interview! Spend some time online or at the
library researching the company. Find out as much as you can, including
products, size, income, reputation, image, management talent, people,
skills, history and philosophy. Project an informed interest; let the
interviewer tell you about the company.
Don't talk about what you want; first, talk about their needs: You would like
to be part of a specific company project; you would like to solve a company
problem; you can make a definite contribution to specific company goals.
What they really want to know is... What can you do for us that someone
else can't? Relate past experiences that show you've had success in
solving previous employer problem(s) that may be similar to those of the
prospective employer. Make sure you have a strongly worded Employment
History section in your resume, that you can refer to.
5. What about the job offered do you find the most attractive? Least
attractive?
List three or more attractive factors and only one minor unattractive factor.
6. Why should we hire you?
8. Please give me your definition of a.... (the position for which you are
being interviewed).
Warm-Up Questions
Work History
1. What special aspects of your work experience have prepared you for
this job?
2. Can you describe for me one or two of your most important
accomplishments?
3. How much supervision have you typically received in your previous
job?
4. Describe for me one or two of the biggest disappointments in your
work history?
5. Why are you leaving your present job? (or, Why did you leave your
last job?)
6. What is important to you in a company? What things do you look for
in an organization?
Job Peformance
EDUCATION
CAREER- GOALS
SELF-ASSESSMENT
CREATIVITY
1. In your work experience, what have you done that you consider truly
creative?
2. Can you think of a problem you have encountered when the old
solutions didn't work & when you came up with new solutions?
3. Of your creative accomplishments big or small , at work or home,
what gave you the most satisfaction?
4. What kind of problems have people recently called on you to solve?
Tell me what you have devised.
DECISIVENESS
RANGE OF INTERESTS
MOTIVATION
WORK STANDARDS
LEADERSHIP
1. In your present job what approach do you take to get your people
together to establish a common approach to a problem?
2. What approach do you take in getting your people to accept your
ideas or department goals?
3. What specifically do you do to set an example for your employees?
4. How frequently do you meet with your immediate subordinates as a
group?
5. What sort of leader do your people feel you are? Are you satisfied?
6. How do you get people who do not want to work together to
establish a common approach to a problem?
7. If you do not have much time & they hold seriously differing views,
what would be your approach?
8. How would you describe your basic leadership style? Give specific
examples of how you practice this?
9. Do you feel you work more effectively on a one to one basis or in a
group situation?
10. Have you ever led a task force or committee or any group who
doesn't report to you, but from whom you have to get work? How did
you do it? What were the satisfactions & disappointments? How
would you handle the job differently?
1. Have you ever done any public or group speaking? Recently? Why?
How did it go?
2. Have you made any individual presentations recently? How did you
prepare?
FLEXIBILITY
STRESS TOLERANCE
1. Describe your most significant success & failure in the last two
years.
2. What do you like to do best?
3. What do you like to do least?
4. What in your last review did your supervisor suggest needed
improvement?
5. What have you done about it?
1. What has been the most important person or event in your own self
development?
2. How much of your education did you earn?
3. What kind of books & other publications do you read?
4. Have you taken a management development course?
5. How are you helping your subordinates develop themselves?
TESTING GENERAL
1. What is workadround ?
2. What is a show stopper?
3. What is Traceability Matrix? Who prepares this document?
4. What is testlog document in testing process?
5. What is the Entry And Exit Criteria of a test plan? 2.How to Automate
your test plan?
6. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?
7. What is terminologe? Why testing necessary? Fundamental test process
psychology of testing
8. What are the common bugs encountered while testing an application
manually or using test?
9. What are the bug and testing metrics?
10. For a bug with high severity can we give the priority also to be high...If
so why we need both?
11. How would you differentiaite between Bug, Defect, Failure, Error.
12. What is the difference between Client Server Testing and Web Testing?
13. What is backward compatibility testing ?
14. What certifications are available in testing?
15. What is release candidate?
16. What do you think the role of test-group manager should be?
17. What is a test data? Give examples
18. What is the difference between QA, QC and testing?
19. What is seviarity & priority? What is test format? Test procedure?
20. What are the different is manual database checking types?
WEB TESTING
1. What are the table contents in test plans and test cases?
2. What are the tables in test plans and test cases?
WIRELESS TESTING
1. What is Wireless Testing? How do we do it? What are the concepts a test
engineer should have knowledge of? How do you classify testing of
wireless products?
TEST CASES
TESTING-SCENARIOS
1. How to find out the length of the edit box through WinRunner?
2. Is it compulsary that a tester should study a Design Document for writing
integration and system test casses
3. What is Testing Scenario? What is scenario based testing? Can you
explain with an example?
4. Lets say we have an GUI map and scripts, and we got some 5 new pages
included in an application, How do we do that?
5. How do you complete the testing when you have a time constraint?
6. Given an yahoo application how many test cases u can write?
7. GUI contains 2 fields. Field 1 to accept the value of x and Field 2 displays
the result of the formula a+b/c-d where a=0.4*x, b=1.5*a, c=x, d=2.5*b; How
many system test cases would you write
8. How do you know that all the scenarios for testing are covered?
TEST AUTOMATION
1. If the actual result doesn't match with expected result in this situation
what should we do?
2. What is the importance of requirements traceability in a product testing?
3. When is the best time for system testing?
4. What is use case? What is the diffrence between test cases and use
cases?
5. What is the difference between the test case and a test script
6. Describe to the basic elements you put in a defect report?
7. How do you test if you have minimal or no documentation about the
product?
8. How do you decide when you have tested enough?
9. How do you determine what to test?
10. In general, how do you see automation fitting into the overall process of
testing?
11. How do you deal with environments that are hostile to quality change
efforts?
12. Describe to me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would
define it?
13. Describe to me when you would consider employing a failure mode and
defect analysis?
14. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?
15. How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?
16. How can you test the white page
17. What is the role of QA in a project developement?
18. How you used whitebox and block box technologies in your
application?
19. 1) What are the demerits of winrunner?2) We write the test data after
what are the principles to do testing an application?
20. What is the job of Quality Assurance Engineer? Difference between the
Testing & Quality Assurance job.
1.. How to recognise the objects during runtime in new build version (test
suite) comparing with old guimap?
2. wait(20) - What is the minimum and maximum time the above mentioned
synchronization statements will wait given that the global default timeout is
set to 15 seconds.
3. Where in the user-defined function library should a new error code be
defined?
4. In a modular test tree, each test will receive the values for the parameters
passed from the main test. These parameters are defined in the Test
properties dialog box of each test.Refering to the above, in which one of
the following files are changes made in the test properties dialog saved?
5. What is the scripting process in Winrunner?
6. How many scripts can we generate for one project?
7. What is the command in Winrunner to invoke IE Browser? And once I
open the IE browser is there a unique way to identify that browser?
8. How do you load default comments into your new script like IDE's?
9. What is the new feature add in QTP 8.0 compare in QTP 6.0
10. When will you go to automation?
11. How to test the stored procedure?
12. How to recognise the objects during runtime in new build version (test
suite) comparing with old guimap
13. what is use of GUI files in winrunner.
14. Without using the datadriven test, how can we test the application with
different set of inputs?
15. How do you load compiled module inside a comiled module?
16. Can you tell me the bug life cycle
17. How to find the length of the edit box through WinRunner?
18. What is file type of WinRunner test files, its extension?
19. What is candidate release?
20. What type of variables can be used with in the TSL function?
RATIONAL ROBOT
QTP
LOADRUNNER
1. What is load testing? Can we test J2ME application with load runner ?
What is Performance testing?
2. Which protocol has to be selected for record/playback Oracle 9i
application?
3. What are the enhancements which have been included in loadrunner 8.0
when compared to loadrunner 6.2?
4. Can we use Load Runner for testing desktop applications or non web
based applications and how do we use it.?
5. How to call winrunner script in Loadrunner?
6. What arr the types of parameterisation in load runner? List the step to do
strees testing?
7. What are the steps for doing load and performance testing using Load
Runner?
8. What is concurrent load and corollation? What is the process of load
runner?
9. What is planning for the test?
10. What enables the controller and the host to communicate with each
other in Load Runner?
11. Where is Load testing usually done?
12. What are the only means of measuring performance?
13. Testing requirement and design are not part of what?
14. According to Market analysis 70% of performance problem lies with
what?
15. What is the level of system loading expected to occur during specific
business scenario?
16. What is run-time-setting.
17. When load runner is used .
18. What protocols does LoadRunner support?
19. What do you mean by creating vuser script.?
20. What is rendezvous point?
LOAD TESTING
1. What are the uses of load testing ? What is defered graphs? What are the
different components in loadrunner?
2. How you analyze graphics in loadrunner? How do you work bug log?
3. How can data caching have a negative effect on load testing results?
4. What criteria would you use to select Web transactions for load testing?
5. For what purpose are virtual users created?
6. What is the difference between Load testing and Performace Testing?
7. Why do you need to parameterize fields in your virtual user script?
8. What are the reasons why parameterization is necessary when load
testing the Web server and the database server?
9. Why it is recommended to add verification checks to your all your
scenarios?
10. Load Testing - What should be analyzed.
11. In what situation would you want to parameterize a text verification
check?
12. What usually indicates that your virtual user script has dynamic data
that is dependent on you parameterized fields?
13. What are the benefits of creating multiple actions within any virtual user
script?
DATABASE TESTING
COMMON QUESTIONS
BUG TRACKING
1. How do you rename all of the jobs to support your new File-naming
conventions?
2. Does the selection of 'Clear the table and Insert rows' in the ODBC stage
send a Truncate statement to the DB or does it do some kind of Delete
logic.
3. Tell me one situation from your last project, where you had faced
problem and How did u solve it?
4. The above might rise another question: Why do we have to load the
dimensional tables first, then fact tables:
5. How will you determine the sequence of jobs to load into data
warehouse?
6. What are the command line functions that import and export the DS
jobs?
7. What is the utility you use to schedule the jobs on a UNIX server other
than using Ascential Director?
8. How would call an external Java function which are not supported by
DataStage?
9. What will you in a situation where somebody wants to send you a file
and use that file as an input or reference and then run job.
10. Read the String functions in DS
11. How did u connect with DB2 in your last project?
12. What are Sequencers?
13. How did you handle an 'Aborted' sequencer?
14. What are other Performance tunings you have done in your last project
to increase the performance of slowly running jobs?
15. How did you handle reject data?
16. If worked with DS6.0 and latest versions what are Link-Partitioner and
Link-Collector used for?
17. What are Routines and where/how are they written and have you
written any routines before?
18. What are OConv () and Iconv () functions and where are they used?
19. How did u connect to DB2 in your last project?
20. Do u know about METASTAGE?
21. Do you know about INTEGRITY/QUALITY stage?
22. Explain the differences between Oracle8i/9i?
23. How good are you with your PL/SQL?
24. Did you work in UNIX environment?
25. What other ETL's you have worked with?
26. What versions of DS you worked with?
27. What is DS Designer used for - did u use it?
28. What is DS Administrator used for - did u use it?
29. What is DS Director used for - did u use it?
30. What is DS Manager used for - did u use it?
31. What are Static Hash files and Dynamic Hash files?
32. What is Hash file stage and what is it used for?
33. Have you ever involved in updating the DS versions like DS 5.X, if so
tell us some the steps you have taken in doing so?
34. Did you Parameterize the job or hard-coded the values in the jobs?
35. How do you merge two files in DS?
JAVA:-
1) What is static variable.
2) What is transient variable?
3) What is final variable.
4) What is final method.
5) What is native method.
6) What is abstract method
7) what is innerclass.
8) What is static class?
9) What is final class.
10) What is anonymous class?
JDBC:
1) What is a transaction. (*)
2) What is the purpose of setAutoCommit(). (*)
3) What are the three statements in JDBC & differences between them. (*)
4) What is stored procedure. How do you create stored procedure? (*)
5) What are batch updates.
JSP:
1)What is JSP. (*)
2)What are advantages of JSP.
3)What is the difference between include directive & jsp:include action. (*)
4)What are Custom tags. Why do you need Custom tags. How do you
create Custom tag. (*)
5)What are the implicit objects in JSP & differences between them. (*)
Servlets:
1)What are Servlets.
2)What are the advantages of Servlet.
3)What is the Life cycle of Servlet. (*)
4)What is the difference between Servlet and JSP. (*)
XML:-
1)What is the difference between SAX parser and DOM parser. (*)
2)What is the difference between Schema and DTD. (*)
3)How do you parse/validate the XML document. (*)
4)What is XML Namespace.
5)What is Xpath.
DATABASE QUESTIONS
ABAP EDITOR:
1.Fixed point arithmetic – what is the use? How to set this?
2.Have you used client dependent ABAP programs?
DATABASE COMMANDS:
1.Select statement to read data into internal tables. Types of Select
statements
2.What happens “Update” command is used without where clause ?
3.Difference between “Insert”, “Update” and “Modify”
4.Explain “Commit” and “Roll back”
5.“Catch” Command
6.What is “Group by” in Select statement?
TEST AUTOMATION:
1.What automating testing tools are you familiar with?
2.How did you use automating testing tools in your job?
3.Describe some problem that you had with automating testing tool.
4.How do you plan test automation?
5.Can test automation improve test effectiveness?
6.What is data - driven automation?
7.What are the main attributes of test automation?
8.Does automation replace manual testing?
9.How will you choose a tool for test automation?
10.How you will evaluate the tool for test automation?
LOAD TESTING:
1.What criteria would you use to select Web transactions for load testing?
2.For what purpose are virtual users created?
3.Why it is recommended to add verification checks to your all your
scenarios?
4.In what situation would you want to parameterize a text verification
check?
5.Why do you need to parameterize fields in your virtual user script?
GENERAL QUESTIONS:
1.What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and Testing?
2.What did you include in a test plan?
3.Describe any bug you remember.
4.What is the purpose of the testing?
5.What do you like (not like) in this job?
6.What is quality assurance?
7.What is the difference between QA and testing?
8.How do you scope, organize, and execute a test project?
9.What is the role of QA in a development project?
10.What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?
C C PLUS PLUS INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
SQL Server
1.What are primary keys and foreign keys?
2.What is the difference between clustered and non-clustered indices?
...and why do you use a clustered index?
3.What is an outer join?
4.What are Cartesian joins?
5.How is referential integrity enforced in a SQL Server database?
6.What are the inserted and deleted tables and what are they used for?
7.What is the name of the SQL language used in SQL Server stored
procedures?
8.What is the purpose of having stored procedures in a database?
9.Why might you create a stored procedure with the 'with recompile'
option?
10.What is a cursor? Within a cursor, how would you update fields on the
row just fetched?
GENERAL :
1. What is a data-warehouse?
2. What are Data Marts?
4. What is ER Diagram?
5. What is a Star Schema?
6. What is Dimensional Modelling?
7. What is Snow Flake Schema?
ETL QUESTIONS:
1. What is a staging area? Do we need it? What is the purpose of a staging
area?
2. What is a three tier data warehouse?
3. What are the various methods of getting incremental records or delta
records from the source systems?
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE:
1. What is Business Intelligence?
2. What is OLAP?
3. What is OLAP, MOLAP, ROLAP, DOLAP, HOLAP? Examples?
ABINITIO:
1.What is the function you would use to transfer a string into a decimal?
2.How many parallelisms are in Abinitio? Please give a definition of each.
3.What is the difference between a DB config and a CFG file?