Field Monitoring Supervisor

This situation would certainly be unique to me. Ever since I can remember, I've had a knack for finding something in everyone that then becomes common ground for a friendship and/or good working relationship. Certainly there are all types of people, some less motivated to work in teams or simply unhappy in their jobs, but we're all people when you strip away titles and such - and it's at that base level in which I find a connection that results in some degree of rapport - even when few others can do so. For example, in my senior year of college, I was placed onto a team that had one member that the rest of the team disliked. This team member was kind of an outcast, but I knew we needed this full commitment to make the project work. Even though I was not the team leader, I took it upon myself to forge a connection - and discovered we had a mutual passion for horses. We did not end best friends or anything, but through our common interest, I was able to build enough rapport to connect and engage him as a key team member. There is always something that bonds us all together - it is just harder to find with some people than with others.

☛ How do you see this QA Supervisor job developing?

☛ What are key tasks for QA Supervisor?

☛ Which of your jobs had the most rapid change?

☛ What were your starting and final levels of compensation?

☛ How open-minded are you to other members ideas?

☛ Describe a team experience you found rewarding.

☛ Examples of strategic thinking in past situations.

Show your qualities that will enable you to be successful in this position. Review the company's mission statement to understand how it addresses its long-term goals and the way it does business.

This is a good time to illustrate how you can contribute to the company if you are successfully recruited.

☛ What interests you about this position?

☛ What are your technical certifications?

☛ What do you do to maintain your technical certifications?

☛ What automated-build tools or processes have you used?

☛ What development tools have you used?

☛ What languages have you programmed in?

☛ What source control tools have you used?

☛ What technical websites do you follow?

☛ Describe a time when you were able to improve upon the design that was originally suggested.

☛ Describe the most innovative change that you have initiated and what you did to implement this change.

☛ Given this problem (problem is based upon job requirements), what solution would you provide. Explain your thought process.

☛ How do you handle multiple deadlines?

☛ How do you keep current on this industry?

☛ How do you troubleshoot IT issues?

☛ Tell me about the most recent project you worked on. What were your responsibilities?

☛ Tell me about the project you are most proud of, and what your contribution was.

☛ Give an example of where you have applied your technical knowledge in a practical way.

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☛ What is the biggest IT challenge you have faced and how did you handle it?

☛ You are working at a client site and the CTO of the client company has asked if she can see you. The CTO wants to know how much it would cost to bring in five more people on your team. She gives you very vague requirements of the job she is looking for you to do. What would you do?

☛ You have been asked to research a new business tool. You have come across two solutions. One is an on-premises solution, the other is cloud-based. Assuming they are functionally equivalent, why would you recommend one over the other?

☛ You have submitted a piece of code that has broken the client's website in production. You have found this bug while you were testing, and nobody else knows about it. What is your next move?

☛ You have learned that a business unit is managing a major component of the business using Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. What risks does this present, and what would you recommend be done to mitigate those risks?

☛ What do you understand about the term of monitoring ? Why monitoring is very important for a development project or program ?

☛ What are real differences between the two term i.e. monitoring and evaluation?

☛ Do you have any perception of developing the monitoring tools and techniques? How can we development the monitoring tools and techniques?

☛ Have you ever see the logical framework or logframe? what are the main elements of a logical framework or logframe?

☛ How can use the monitoring finding for the development?

☛ What do you understand about the meaning of indicators and please write a indication of reduction of child mortality?

☛ What the meaning of the term evaluation? How many types of evaluations can be conducted for the development project?

☛ How the development actor can use the evaluation findings?

☛ Who should conduct the evaluation of a development project and what are formalities you have to be maintained for evaluation of a development project?

☛ How the monitoring can help in sustainable development or ensure the sustainability of the project?

☛ When did you last update your QA Supervisor education?

☛ How do you let subordinates know what you expect of them?

☛ What irritates you about other people?

☛ How do you show an interest in what another person is saying?

☛ Do you think that your school prepared for practical working tasks in a real company?

☛ How do you react if you find that someone you work with does not like you?

☛ What have you done to improve your verbal communication skills?

The response to this question usually reveals if the candidate has personal or professional goals. Knowing about the company is crucial to know how to answer these QA Supervisor interview questions properly.

You should try to identify three areas of interest, one of which includes this company and job.

☛ Describe the skills you have that qualify you for this job.

☛ Do you prefer to manage people or ideas?

☛ Describe your production deployment process.

☛ From the description of this position, what do you think you will be doing on a day-to-day basis?

☛ Have you worked with software vendors? How do you handle vendor relations?

☛ How important is it to work directly with your business users?

☛ How would you rate your key competencies for this job?

☛ If hired, is there anything you would change about this IT team?

☛ What challenges do you think you might expect in this job if you were hired?

☛ What companies do you see as the biggest competitors to this company?

☛ How do you see this QA Supervisor job developing?

☛ Tell me about your QA Supervisor work experience? How has it prepared you for a career?

☛ When you worked on multiple projects how did you prioritize?

☛ Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?

☛ What would be your ideal working environment?

☛ How do you stimulate the sharing of further information?

☛ Situation in which you had to arrive at a compromise.

You should try to identify three areas of interest, one of which includes this company and job. Consider opportunity and responsibility as components of success.

Focus on yourself and your talents, not other people's flaws.

☛ Compare and contrast REST and SOAP web services.

☛ Define authentication and authorization and the tools that are used to support them in enterprise deployments.

☛ Describe the difference between optimistic and pessimistic locking.

☛ Describe the elements of an in tier architecture and their appropriate use.

☛ Have you used Eclipse?

☛ Have you used Visual Studio?

☛ How did you manage source control?

☛ How much (what percentage) of your time do you spend unit testing?

☛ How much reuse do you get out of the code that you develop, and how?

☛ How would you describe the ideal working environment?

☛ If you know you aren't going to make a project deadline what will you tell your manager and/or the client?

☛ In databases, what is the difference between a delete statement and a truncate statement?

☛ In network security, what is a honey pot, and why is it used?

☛ What are the most important database performance metrics, and how do you monitor them?

☛ What are transaction logs, and how are they used?

☛ What did you do to ensure quality in your deliverables?

☛ What do you consider documentation and why is it important?

☛ What do you do to ensure you provide accurate project estimates?

☛ What do you expect in the solution documents you are provided?

☛ What elements are necessary for a successful team and why?

☛ What have you done to ensure consistency across unit, quality, and production environments?

☛ What is a cross site scripting attack, and how do you defend against it?

☛ What is a SAN, and how is it used?

☛ What is clustering, and describe its use.

☛ What is ETL and when should it be used?

☛ What is most important - quality or quantity?

☛ What is structure?

☛ What is the difference between OLAP and OLTP? When is each used?

☛ What is the role of continuous integration systems in the automated-build process?

☛ What is the role of SMNP?

☛ What is the role of the DMZ in network architecture? How do you enforce relational integrity in database design?

☛ When is it appropriate to denormalize database design?

☛ When is the last time you downloaded a utility from the internet to make your work more productive, and what was it?

☛ Which do you prefer; service oriented or batch oriented solutions?

☛ What are the key values of a QA Supervisor? How do you demonstrate these values?

☛ On taking this QA Supervisor job, what would be your major contribution?

☛ How do you handle failures? Provide examples.

☛ Describe some ideas that were implemented.

☛ What assignment was too difficult for you?

☛ Has anything ever irritated you about people you've worked with?

☛ Situation in which you had to arrive at a compromise.

Prior to any interview, you should have a list mentally prepared of your greatest strengths. When answering these typical QA Supervisor interview questions stay focussed on career goals and aspirations. The interviewer wants to find out if you are focused and set goals for yourself.