Interview Questions - Test Lead Flashcards
What tasks you do at the beginning of the project
a) Review and analyze the requirements
b) Plan and organize the knowledge transfer
c) To have the kick-off meeting
Can you walk through the test planning process
a) Scope the required tests (functional, performance, regression, etc.)
b) Test Strategy (unique for every project) - most efficient way to achieve testing objective. There could be constraints like team size, resource availability, skills, requirements to be tested, timelines. How can achieve my testing objective in an efficient and effective way
c) Identify the test tools available to manage the testing
d) Estimation (coming up with optimized effort needed to achieve the testing objective)
f) Create the test schedule (task breakdown and resource allocation)
g) Test environment requirement (hardware, software, production replica?)
h) identify test metrics will be produced
i) identify risk and mitigation plan
j) Reports and communication plan
j) Produce the software test plan document
What’s test lead’s responsibility
Plan the testing work and making sure that work is done with efficiency and high quality
How would you keep the team informed of the progress?
a) Communicate with the team members
b) Track the assigned tasks with respect to the schedule
c) Report to the stakeholders
d) Get information on the latest builds/updates and communicate to the team accordingly
e) co-ordinate between Dev team, QA and BA teams as necessary
How can you as a test lead contribute to the automation
a) Test lead can create the test automation framework
b) Identify the scenarios that need to be automated
c) Work with the team and perform any automation feasibility study as necessary
d) Work with the team to understand the constraints, come with the list of task, efforts and schedule
e) Co-ordinate as necessary between the automation team and the project team
f) Report the results and metrics to the stakeholders
Daily routine as a test lead?
Mainly involved in reviews and making sure that the test enviornment is working as expected.
Review the test cases and generally track the schedule to make sure that things are on track and if off track, take action as necessary
Track the new/updated requirements in the project and modify testing artifacts accordingly in the test cases, test data
Important responsibility is to make sure that test environment is up and running and is working correctly
If any new patches applied, communicate that to the team member
Administer the QC or ALM in terms of what type of access the team member needs to have or any member needs to be added to the project, etc.
As per the schedule, the tasks are assigned to the tester and track the progress of the tasks and reassign and redistribute tasks as necessary
“Review the test activities, track the new requirements, control the test environment and co-ordinate, communicate and report as necessary”
How will you ensure that tester’s log high quality defects
i produce a process to report defects by clearly categorizing the definition of the defects, what are the mandatory fields that need to be updated, and the importance of adding/capturing comments whenever the defect is updated with a new status.
This is one of the things as a test lead i will have a good control on
how do you motivate your team?
Test lead should be available and approachable and make sure that the team is able to “freely communicate with the test leads.”
Organize team meetings to discuss the “team issues”, to share progress and “share any best practices” that can be implemented in the team.
What “trainings” needed for the testers
Review the status report of the testers
Do you do anything to improve your own skills
Always learning with the focus on improving the techniques, efficiency and effectiveness of the testing
General awareness of the upcoming projects in the organization
Manage time well in order to contribute more
Over all Test Lead responsibility
Plan the testing and executing the strategy with high quality and high efficiency
Requirements, Planning, Kick off
Tasks you do at the beginning of the project
Scope, Test Strategy, Estimation, Task Breakdown, Schedule, Risk/Issues and Mitigation Plan, Reporting/Communicating Process, Test Plan document
Test Planning Process
Create/Contribute to framework, feasibility study, scenarios to be automated, automation metrics, manage the schedule, co-ordinate/communicate and review the execution, report the results
Test Automation Contribution
Tracks and review work as per schedule, control and maintain test environment and resolve issues
Daily routine
Be approachable, team meetings to discuss issues, progress, organize training to upskill the team
Motivating the team
