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Interview Questions Template

How does your day-to-day work look like?
What do you know about software testing? How about being a scrum master?

What is your most favorite part of the work? Your least favorite?
Have you taken part in a project that you’re really proud of?

What made you decide to apply for this position?
Why not apply for a programmer job?

What three skills do you think matters most to a tester? To a scrum master?
How do you rate yourself in those skills?
What skill would you say you’ve actively pursued recently?

Are you familiar with the following?

  • Risk
  • Exploratory testing
  • Automation
  • Test-driven development
  • Behavior-driven development
  • Agile
  • Pairing
  • Retrospective

Do you have hobbies that are important enough to waste time on?
What is one of your favorite movies? A favorite book? A favorite TV series?

Do you have specific goals in mind that you want to achieve when you get this role?
In what ways do you think we can help you achieve those goals?

Do you have questions for me or for your employer?

 

(Because I’ve been scheduled to interview a number of applicants in the coming week and I often forget to ask some of the important questions when I go at it head-on, I thought I needed some sort of template I can always grab and bring)

Five People and Their Thoughts (Part 7)

Today, here’s a new batch of compelling videos I’d like to share, for the curious:

  • What is Shift Left Testing? (by Alan Richardson, about shifting left and its meaning, consultancy speak, testing at all points of the software development process, and finding ways to improve our testing without resorting to consultancy speak)
  • How We Work #4: Known and Unknowns (by Basecamp, on creative work, known and unknown tasks and why it’s more important to track them rather than estimates, and using the hill chart)
  • A Better Technical Interview: 2018 (by Josh Greenwood, representing Test Double, about the binary hiring process existing in most industries, setting job and interview expectations, thinking about making the life of candidates better including the ones we don’t end up hiring, saying ‘Not Yet’ and providing constructive feedback, and the Bridge Agent)
  • How Open Source has Made Me and the Stuff I Make Better (by Kent Dodds, on open source software, remote work, improving technical and interpersonal skills, documentation, and asking better questions and learning from other people)
  • Office Politics for the Thin-Skinned Developer (by Justin Searls, about politics in the workplace, crazy organizational growth, building awareness, targeted empathy, being in the same page, how to make a difference, and allowing others to fail)

Questions For The Software Tester Applicant

  • What is software testing to you?
  • What are your favorite testing tools?
  • How do you test?
  • Does the words agile and scrum master have meaning to you? What do they signify?
  • Can you write code?
  • Do you keep yourself up-to-date with the software testing industry? How?
  • When was the last time you learned a new skill?
  • Who are your customers? What sort of meaning do you want to create for them?
  • What software testing best practices do you know?
  • Why are you moving to us? How do you say that our company will enable your professional growth?
  • What problems do you think you can solve for us? Do you have an idea of how to pursue those solutions?
  • Do you have questions for us, questions which will let you know whether we are fit for you or not?
  • How can we help empower you?