SQA Interview/Test Information and Links

SQA is not a new field but a vast field of Computer Science. Many of the Graduates go for Career in this Field and there are some great Software Houses that work on Standardization of Services and Projects they make and attain CMMI or ISO Standardization. Many of the Software Houses in Karachi are CMMI based and they assure Quality Products.

While if we go for giving Test or Interview in this field of SQA, things are not very different from Development aspects and actually it encompasses broader and more concepts then development.

SQA Interviews/Tests contain concepts of..

Process Models(RAD, Prototype,Linear Sequential, Spiral etc)
OOPs(Encapsulation, Inheritance, Abstraction,Polymorphism etc)
Testing Type and stratagies (try to do most as you can)
Algorithms (Searching, Sorting, Scenario based etc and are not much complex)
Life Cycles (SDLC, STLC)
Design (ERD, DFD, UseCase, Class Diagrams)
CMMI Levels
ISO and ISO9001
IQ (Patterns, Shapes, Sequence n Series)
DB Concepts(Keys, Normalization,Joins, Design)
Followinf are the important point related to SQA test.Please cover them properly to get high score in the test.
Test Cases
Effective test case
Test senarios
Automated testing
Testing tools
SQA activites
BTLC(bug tracking life cycle)
Bug reporting
SQL Queries
Cover letter



Going into depth of Topics, the Questions that are asked.........
1)What is SQA?
2)What are SQA activities?
3)Difference b/w QA(Quality Assurance) and QC(Quality Control)?
4)stages in SDLC and STLC(Software Testing Life Cycle)?
5)What SQA activities are performed in each step of SDLC?
6)What are CMMI levels and their names?Process areas of different CMMI levels?
7)Difference b/w WhiteBox, BlackBox and GreyBox Testing techniques? and what is done in each technique?
8)Difference between Alpha and Beta testing?
9)Write a Cover letter?(Strange thing to do but should prepare and with correct format and sequence)
10)What is Normalization and why done and different Normal Forms?
11)Keys of DB(Primary, Foreign, Super, Alternate, Candidate,Composite, Sarrogate )
12)Write Usecase of a form?(form will be given with button,checkbox,dropdown etc)
13)Difference b/w Validation and Verification?
14)Select 2nd or 5th top record without using Top keyword?
15)What are Joins?(Inner, Outer, Cross, Self, Natural,Equi-Join, non-EquiJoin etc)
16)Reslove Many to Many relationship and make dfd or erd or usecase of given scene?
17)What is Configuration Management or Engireeing?



I will add more and more details as i will go through more Experiences......