Some good open interview questions for QA/Testers.
- What value did you bring to the project / organization as a tester?
- What is your vision for the role of testing?
- Do you know / follow any school of testing?
- What is the recent book / article about testing you read, and can you give a review of it?
- How would you test without requirements?
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[Testing / Test Automation] Proverbs
Keep all your eggs in one basket (Hint: data and configuration mangement)
For one that is missing the whole wedding got spoiled (Hint: synchronization)
Map is not the territory (Hint: devil is in the details)
Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself. (Hint: don’t aim to automate 100% of manual test cases)
A bad beginning makes a bad ending. (Hint: test planning)
A burnt child dreads the fire. (Hint: have retrospection meetings)
A cat in gloves catches no mice. (Hint: too many regulations retrict testing productivity)
A danger foreseen is half avoided. (Hint: no really, need a hint here? :) )
A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. (Hint: no hint. Dangerous to comment)
A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. (Hint: credibility of automation scripts)
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. (Hint: get a real use of automation suite to assess its value)