Quality Engineer

Discuss not only quality control, QA tests, and monitoring of various kinds (materials, products, electrical systems), but also other related tasks that a QA engineer might be responsible for: improvement processes, quality-oriented staff training, and quality-related customer services.

Quality engineers can serve as the link between customers and suppliers. When a customer complains about product quality, the engineer must then solve the problem between the customer, the company, and its affiliates, including material and parts suppliers. Briefly describe some interesting problems that you have successfully tackled.

Quality Engineers interact with employees at all levels, from minor suppliers to organization management. Describe a specific assignment where you had to use your communication skills, participate in a group endeavor or manage/lead a team. Discuss your routine communication with all levels of management, quality managers and inspectors, development engineering divisions, operations and QA testing staff.

Quality Assurance refers to the planned and systematic way of monitoring the quality of process which is followed to produce a quality product. QA tracks the outcomes and adjusts the process to meet the expectation.

Quality Control concern with the quality of the product. QC finds the defects and suggests improvements. The process set by QA is implemented by QC. The QC is the responsibility of the tester.

Software Testing is the process of ensuring that product which is developed by the developer meets the user requirement. The motive to perform testing is to find the bugs and make sure that they get fixed.

Good time to start the QA is from the beginning of the project startup. This will lead to plan the process which will make sure that product coming out meets the customer quality expectation. QA also plays a major role in the communication between teams. It gives time to step up the testing environment. The testing phase starts after the test plans are written, reviewed and approved.

Training and instruction of staff regarding quality issues is necessary as part of quality control. If you have any experience in this field, describe the specific reason and subject of training. Underscore, without arrogance, your accomplishments with the group.

Basic procedure in quality engineering is Continuous Improvement. Describe involvement, method of data collection from observation and monitoring of production processes. Problem-solving skills are the key to success here and you will do well to mention your unique abilities in this area: Problems you solved, corrections you facilitated and improvements you initiated.

★ Verification is Static Testing where as Validations is Dynamic Testing.

★ Verification takes place before validation.

★ Verification evaluates plans, documents, requirements and specifications, where as Validation evaluates product.

★ Verification inputs are checklist, issues list, walk-through and inspection, where as in Validation testing of actual product.

★ Verification output is set of documents, plans, specifications and requirement documents where as in Validation actual product is output.

Destructive testing includes methods where material is broken down to evaluate the mechanical properties, such as strength, toughness and hardness.

For example, finding the quality of a weld is good enough to withstand extreme pressure and also to verify the properties of a material.

★ Verifies properties of a material

★ Ensures compliance with regulations

★ Determines quality of welds

★ Helps you to reduce failures, accidents and costs

★ The subset of software which helps in performing the testing of application.

★ Testware are required to plan, design, and execute tests. It contains documents, scripts, inputs, expected results, set-up and additional software or utilities used in testing.

★ Testware is term given to combination of all utilities and application software that required for testing a software package.

Testware is special because it has:

1) Different purpose

2) Different metrics for quality and

3) Different users

High Priority and Low Severity:

★ Company logo is not properly displayed on their website.

High Priority and High Severity:

★ Suppose you are doing online shopping and filled payment information, but after submitting the form, you get a message like "Order has been cancelled."

Low Priority and High Severity:

★ If we have a typical scenario in which the application get crashed, but that scenario exists rarely.

Low Priority and Low Severity:

★ There is a mistake like "You have registered success" instead of successfully, success is written.

1) Purchasing the license of tool (QTP, selenium, QC, LR)

2) Lack of skilled Tester to run the tool

3) Expectation that automated tests will find a lot of new defects

4) Maintenance of automated tests

5) Technical problems of tools

★ QA team is responsible for monitoring the process to be carried out for development.

★ Responsibilities of QA team are planning testing execution process.

★ QA Lead creates the time tables and agrees on a Quality Assurance plan for the product.

★ QA team communicated QA process to the team members.

★ QA team ensures traceability of test cases to requirements.

Verification is a process of evaluating steps which is followed up to development phase to determine whether they meet the specified requirements for that stage.