1. Generic Questions:
1. Tell us about your most recent assignment or current job position?
Ans:
My last project was CCMS (court case management sys) for California courts where I
used to deal with FMI (team) case category team, where the functionality deals with
starting from receiving the appl, initiation of case to closing of the case, it is like the case
gets initiated, letters are generated and sended to defendant and all other parties in the
case, events like hearings and trails are scheduled, (events like) minutes of events are
stored and used For future use. Once all things on the case are over the case gets
closed.
I have 7 yrs of good exp in quality center and QA methodologies, I also have good exp in
analysis, testing and implementation both manual and automation based on web based
and client server applications.
I also have very good exp in developing test plans, test cases, test scripts, test execution
using quality center for Functional, System, Performance, UAT and Regression testing.
Once BRD and FRD docs sign off from business team I developed test plan to cover all
the possible test scenarios. Once the doc reviewed and signed off from buss team I am
going to write the detailed test cases. We have peer review sessions where we can
check the cases write as the standard format. Once the doc reviewed and signed off
from buss team I am going to start my test execution.
My role as an automation tester was to identify the test to be run after every build of the
application and tests that use multiple data for same actions that is data driven test what
we do is we record all the input what needs to be keyed in an excel and this excel as
input data for the test script.
And also some end to end business scenarios are to automated,
Some system tests are automated to help the effort of regression test after each new
build.
And also one of my imp roles as an automation tester was to make sure whether all the
automation scripts are up to date and running and keep tract of all the defects found are
logged and fixed in corresponding new builds. Also I was responsible for generating
reports of each automation test (Regression) and sending status to higher management
I have good exp in logging the defects using defect tracking tool as Quality Center 10.0
(Jira/Bug zilla works same as Quality Center) and keep tracking the defect status
weather its fixed. While logging the defect I provided very detailed information to the
developers like which environment, Test data, detailed steps to reproduce and
Snapshot.
Participated in defect review meetings with team members. I was working with multiple
teams. Also I have helped with Client where we are at UAT Level, while executing the
scripts if clients get any issues or road blocks I will help them to solve.
I am fast and self learner of new and required technology. Also I have gud exp in
Insurance background.

2. a. What was most challenging about that position?
Ans:
1) Requirement where not properly documented - Writing test cases/ test
scenarios was difficult to achieve,
How did you solve this....Using Data Flow Diagrams From Developers- Studied
them properly and Wrote End to End Test cases...
2) Test Data being used by multiple Testers to do testing ...... changing
the data with out any notice to me....My test cases failed because of this,
How did u resolve this issue?
We coordinated meetings with other testers, to solve this, giving them what
scenario data we were using.
b. Is the assignment complete? If not, when will it be complete?
c. Why are you wanting to leave it or wanting a different job?
Ans : My Project which was a contract, ended.
2. Tell us about your working style.
a. Project Teams –how large are the teams you worked on?
Ans : I was working in a project where we were 12 members in total…….in which we
were 4 testers including the lead.
b. Do you prefer working on teams or working independently? Why?
Ans:
I prefer to work in a team as we get many more new ideas for testing, and like if I am
struck somewhere I can take help of others and the same way I can help others, but if I
have to work independently then also I can manage to do that.
3. Work Environment
a. Are you okay with working in a project room with other People? Privacy is limited
and there can be distractions. Are you able to work in that kind of environment?
Ans: Actually in my previous project, complete team use to sit in a room that helped us a
lot in like if I found an error, then n there I use to ask my developer and find out if that’s
an valid defect or no, instead of raising a defect which is invalid and takes a lot of time to
come back again to me.
b. Are you planning to relocate here or are you going to commute?
Ans : Yes. I am ready to relocate to Madison.
5. Do you have any Mentoring experience?
Yes. I do. Whenever my lead went out he asked me to get the status from my team other
test members. I took status from team and assign the work where ever needed and send
the report to my lead.
6. Familiar with Iterative and/or Agile Methodology?

3. Yes.
7. Any work experience with Compuware testing tools like QALoad, Test Partner, or
LISA?
Ans : Lisa.
8. Please rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 on your technical ability with the tool.
Test Partner
QA Load
LISA
Ans : 8
We will start asking questions about specific tool depending on the above rating. For
example, if a candidate rates himself/herself high on Test Partner, we will ask him
questions on Test Partner.
9. Tell us about a project where you have done Automation using Test Partner and
how did you go about it?
Ans: I used QTP to create bunch of different case categories test data. And also
Record/Playback, add checks, parameterize, add custom logic if needed
10. Have you used data driven automation? Tell us about that experience.
Ans: Yes. I used Data-driven testing for identical automated tests that consist of the
same operations but differ in input and expected values; I can use data-driven testing by
hard-coded values in my automated tests with variables. This way, I can create re-
usable automated tests.
11. What testing activities you may want to automate?
Ans: Functional and Regression.
Any test cases were the functionality is stable and the screens are relatively stable, that
are high priority are automated.
12. What are the advantages of automated testing?
Ans:
Reliable: Tests perform precisely the same operations each time they are run, and
never forget to record detailed results.
Repeatable: You can test how the software reacts under repeated execution of the
same operations.
Reusable: You can reuse tests on different versions of an application, even if the user
interfaces changes.

4. Better Quality Software: Because you can run more tests in less time with fewer
resources
Fast: Automated Tools run tests significantly faster than human users.
Cost Reduction: As the number of resources for regression test are reduced.
The following areas must be automated first
1. Highly redundant tasks or scenarios
2. Repetitive tasks that are boring or tend to cause human error
3. Well-developed and well-understood use cases or scenarios first
4. Relatively stable areas of the application over volatile ones must be automated.
13. What are the challenges you faced while developing automated test scripts? How
did you handle them?
Ans: Data Driven Testing for Complex functionality. Debugged scripts which were not
working, (ex: whenever new build comes most of our automation scripts getting failed
because addition of new fields in the pages and changes to existing pages. Its challenge
to automation team to identified and updates the new scripts.)
14. Do you want to say anything else which we haven’t covered?
Ans: Yes. Looks like u covered everything as for as my qa experience.
1. What kind of role?
2. What kind of methodology
16. Availability –
a. When are you available to start?
Immediate.
LISA Interview Questions:
1. Which version of LISA do you have experience with?
Ans : Lisa 5.0.22
2. How have you used LISA?

5. Ans:
Yes. I have exp using Lisa for functional testing.
I used to Create scripts in Lisa Workstation.
For web application I used to record the scripts using HTTP Proxy Recorder and DOM
Events Recorder.
I added data sets if required and do parameterization.
And added filters to output values
And Assertions to check conditions.
I used ITR (Interactive Test Run) mode to Playback the recorded/created script.
I used to develop Test Suites by group of 2 or more test cases and run parallely by
running suite.
I have gud exp in writing VB Script & Java Script.
HTML was designed to display data, with focus on how data looks. HTML is
about displaying information, while XML is about carrying information. (for ur
knowledge)
XML Validation: Steps to do: (XML means: Extensible Markup Language and
XML is designed to transport and store data)
I used to open xml in xml spy
I used to ask xsd to assign schema
If there are no errors it will compile and can be saved and deployed into ftp server.
If there are errors. I manually created mandatory data in to the xml tags and do the
compilation for this I validated the xml.
3. Do you have experience with the coordinator, test manger and simulators on
servers?
a. Looking for answer around setting up a test environment outside of their local pc
(NO).
4. Do you have any experience with LISA VSE?
Ans: I don’t have any exp with Lisa VSE. In our office other team who will use. I have
high-level overview understanding of what virtualization does.

6. Ans:
Yes. I have exp using Lisa for functional testing.
I used to Create scripts in Lisa Workstation.
For web application I used to record the scripts using HTTP Proxy Recorder and DOM
Events Recorder.
I added data sets if required and do parameterization.
And added filters to output values
And Assertions to check conditions.
I used ITR (Interactive Test Run) mode to Playback the recorded/created script.
I used to develop Test Suites by group of 2 or more test cases and run parallely by
running suite.
I have gud exp in writing VB Script & Java Script.
HTML was designed to display data, with focus on how data looks. HTML is
about displaying information, while XML is about carrying information. (for ur
knowledge)
XML Validation: Steps to do: (XML means: Extensible Markup Language and
XML is designed to transport and store data)
I used to open xml in xml spy
I used to ask xsd to assign schema
If there are no errors it will compile and can be saved and deployed into ftp server.
If there are errors. I manually created mandatory data in to the xml tags and do the
compilation for this I validated the xml.
3. Do you have experience with the coordinator, test manger and simulators on
servers?
a. Looking for answer around setting up a test environment outside of their local pc
(NO).
4. Do you have any experience with LISA VSE?
Ans: I don’t have any exp with Lisa VSE. In our office other team who will use. I have
high-level overview understanding of what virtualization does.