Quality Engineer Interviews

Quality Engineer Interview Questions

As a quality engineer, you will be expected by your employer to have the critical thinking skills, data analysis skills, and business quality knowledge to develop tools, systems, and processes that ensure product quality from start to finish. In an interview you can expect to be asked about your IT experience, knowledge of enterprise architectures, software engineering background, and understanding of quality improvement techniques. Because quality engineering is based heavily in software development, you can expect to be asked multiple technical programming questions.

Top Quality Engineer Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Can you describe your work process?

How to answer
How to answer: Interviewers want to be sure you can carry out your job efficiently. When describing your work process, explain your leadership skills and ability to investigate production flaws, and talk about your experience with project quality plans.
Question 2

Question #2: Can you talk about your teamwork skills?

How to answer
How to answer: An employer wants to make sure you're a good fit for their current staff. Talk about how you're a team player and how you effectively communicate to complete tasks on the job.
Question 3

Question #3: What would you do if faced with a difficult client?

How to answer
How to answer: The position you're applying for may require you to work directly with customers. If this is the case, answer this question by talking about your customer service experience and how you stay professional when a client is having a problem.

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6. Coding Questions Asked to screenshare in the hangouts, and asked to open the eclipse, gave two problems to solve. 1. Check when multiplying a 6 digit number with 2 gives a number which has all the same numbers. E.g: 142857 x 2 = 285714
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QA Analyst

Interviewed at Thoughtworks

3.1
Feb 24, 2018

6. Coding Questions Asked to screenshare in the hangouts, and asked to open the eclipse, gave two problems to solve. 1. Check when multiplying a 6 digit number with 2 gives a number which has all the same numbers. E.g: 142857 x 2 = 285714

You are outside a room. Inside the room there are two light bulbs. One light bulb is on all the time, the other light bulb only turns on when you open the door. How do you determine which light bulb is on all the time?
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QA Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7
Mar 1, 2011

You are outside a room. Inside the room there are two light bulbs. One light bulb is on all the time, the other light bulb only turns on when you open the door. How do you determine which light bulb is on all the time?

In a corridor with 100 lockers you pass the first time and open each locker. Then you pass the second time and you close each second locker. Subsequently, you pass the third time a toggle the state of each third locker, then you pass again each fourth, and so on... you repeat 100 times. How many lockers are open at the end.
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Quality Analyst

Interviewed at Goldman Sachs

3.7
May 10, 2012

In a corridor with 100 lockers you pass the first time and open each locker. Then you pass the second time and you close each second locker. Subsequently, you pass the third time a toggle the state of each third locker, then you pass again each fourth, and so on... you repeat 100 times. How many lockers are open at the end.

1 of very few questions that were not in STAR format: where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? (This is not a question about your ambition for the future, it's about whether you plan on sticking with this position in GM)
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Quality Engineer

Interviewed at General Motors (GM)

3.5
Dec 19, 2020

1 of very few questions that were not in STAR format: where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? (This is not a question about your ambition for the future, it's about whether you plan on sticking with this position in GM)

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