Virtusa Consulting Services Software Testing Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

In this round, the interviewer first started asking me questions around basics of Software Testing. Then he switched to Agile Testing and at the end asked some more questions related to SQL.

Q1. Can you explain the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)?
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Q2. What is the difference between a Test Stub and a Test Driver?
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Q3. What is the importance of agile testing?
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Q4. What are Spike and Zero Sprint in Agile?
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Q5. What is the difference between Agile and Scrum?
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Q6. How many aggregate functions are available in SQL?
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Q7. What are triggers in SQL?
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round had questions revolving around Automation Testing , Selenium and Cucumber.

Q1. How do you automate the testing of CAPTCHA?
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Q2. What is Protractor?
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Q3. Why should Selenium be selected as a testing tool for web applications or systems?
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Q4. Can you explain the JUnit annotations that are linked with Selenium?
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Q5. What are annotations in Cucumber?
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Q6. Can you explain briefly how Behavioral Driven Development works?
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Q7. What is the difference between Selenium and Cucumber?
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a Technical Cum HR round where I was first asked some basic Java related concepts and then we discussed
about my expectations from the company , learnings and growth in the forthcomig years. I would suggest be honest and
try to communicate your thoughts properly in these type of rounds to maximise your chances of getting selected.

Q1. Why should we hire you?
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Q2. Why are you looking for a job change?
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Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Q2. Why are you looking for a change?
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Q3. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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Q4. Tell me about yourself.
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Q1. Explain about yourself
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Q2. What is exploratory testing and adhoc testing and how you used these in your project?
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Exploratory testing is a simultaneous learning, test design, and test execution approach. Adhoc testing is an informal testing approach without any predefined test cases.
• Exploratory testing involves exploring the software, learning about it, and designing and executing tests on the fly.

• Adhoc testing is unplanned and unstructured testing where testers randomly test the application without any specific test cases.

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Q3. Roles and responsibilities in your previous projects
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Q4. Difference between mobile and web testing?
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Mobile testing focuses on apps for smartphones and tablets, while web testing focuses on websites accessed through browsers.
• Mobile testing involves testing apps on different devices and operating systems.

• Web testing involves testing websites on different browsers and screen sizes.

• Mobile testing includes testing for touch gestures and device-specific features.

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Q5. Challenges faced in your last project?
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Q1. Smoke vs sanity
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Smoke testing is a quick test to check if the basic functionalities of the software are working, while sanity testing is a more thorough test to ensure that the software is ready for further testing.
• Smoke testing is done to check if the critical functionalities of the software are working properly.

• Sanity testing is done to ensure that the software is stable and ready for further testing.

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Q2. Scrum and agile
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Q1. Why atos? Coding skills required
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Atos is a leading global IT services company with a strong focus on automation and coding skills.
• Atos is a well-established global IT services company known for its expertise in automation and coding.

• They have a strong reputation for delivering innovative solutions to clients using cutting-edge technologies.

• Working at Atos will provide opportunities to enhance coding skills and work on challenging automation projects.

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Q1. General Programming Questions
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Q1. Business related questions were asked
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Q1. Salary Discussion
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Q1. Related to automation and database concepts
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