SQA Interview Questions...

1. What is software quality assurance?
2. What is a process?
3. What are the two views of Quality?
4. What is CoQ, and what are the types of Cost of Quality?
5. What is the difference between COQ and COPQ?
6. What is the difference between Verification and Validation?
7. What is Baselining?
8. How is a Walkthrough different from Review
9. Differentiate between a Bug and a Defect.
10. Define the terms - Code Coverage, Code Inspection, Code Walkthroughs.
11. How is White box testing different from Black box testing?
12. What is Regression testing?
13. What is a metric?
14. Define: Quality Circle, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Quality Policy
15. Differentiate Static Testing from Dynamic Testing.
16. Differentiate between QA and Testing.
17. What are the common problems in developing software?
18. What is the role of a Quality Assurance professional in an organization?
19. What is Configuration Management?
20. What are the two types of configuration audits? How is functional config audit different from physical config audit?
21. What do you understand by Acceptable Quality Level?
22. What is Benchmarking?
23. What do you understand by Earned Value Management / Return on Investment?
24. How is a procedure different from a process?
25. What is Risk Exposure?
26. Differentiate between a Risk and an Issue.
27. How is small q different from Big Q.
28. How do you differentiate these one from the other - Quality Model, Process Model, Lifecycle Model?
29. What is DAR? Give a few instances of DAR you have implemented in your projects.
30. What is CAR? Give a few instances of CAR you have implemented in your projects.
31. Tell us about a few risks in your projects. How was risk prioritization done?
32. What is the difference between Contingency and Mitigation?
33. What metrics do you collect for your projects? How are they aligned with your project goals, engagement goals, and organizational goals?
34. How did you analyze the metrics you collected?
35. What is Process Compliance Index? How is PCI derived?
36. What do you mean by PCB? How do you derive PCBs for your company?
37. What software lifecycle models does your company use?
38. What are the various size estimation techniques you know and which ones were u involved in? / How is the size of a project estimated?
39. How is a Generic Goal different from Specific Goal wrt CMMI?
40. How is CMMI for Development different from CMMI V1.1
41. In what ways is Level 3 different from Level 2; Level 2 from the levels below it; and Level 3 from Level 4 and Level 4 from Level 5.
42. What do you understand by Bi-directional Traceability Matrix? What is foreward traceability, and what is backward traceability?
43. What is Horizontal Traceability, and what is Vertical Traceability? What are their significance?
44. Why should a process be tailored / what is process tailoring? / How is process tailoring done?
45. How do you facilitate process understanding within your organization?
46. Right from project initiation thru project closure, give a sequence of activities you carry out as SQA for your project.