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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)

Seven Questions For The Software Tester Candidate

From time to time I get to interview a software tester candidate. It’s an experience I’ve been tasked to perform by default as a result of me being the only software tester in the company when I was hired. It’s also something that I’m not accustomed to doing but it’s a worthwhile privilege — it means that the company trusts my gut in selecting other responsible would-be software testers.

I’m still testing the interview process, hoping to learn how to effectively see (in such a short span of time) a person’s value in the software testing work by asking questions. Here’s a list of seven things I usually ask the candidates:

  • how their normal day at work looks like
  • what was the most challenging work they did
  • why they choose to do software testing work
  • what they want to change in the work process
  • what they want to learn in the field
  • what their goals are for the next five years
  • what questions have they prepared for me to answer

I’m still in the hunt for the great questions I can ask future software testers as well as for the impressive answers they’ll give.