Top 10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile QA Manager

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Top 10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile QA Manager

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Ten top questions to ask when hiring a peregrine QA Manager

QA managers ensure that an enterprise ’ s mobile products and service meet a eminent standard. As a mobile app developer or development company, you will need the assistance of a mobile QA manager to oversee that your product meets the mark audience ’ s basic quality expectations regarding performance, usability, and reliability. However, before you hire a mobile QA coach, you need to ask them certain interrogative to determine if the applicant has the knowledge and analytic skills about QA processes to follow in this job. A certified QA manager knows everything there is about and fabric, for example, significant tools like Appium.

Nevertheless, it can be an overwhelming experience to picture out the right questions to ask in this situation. To help you part, we have compiled a listing of 10 crucial query that you must ask before hiring a roving QA handler.

Q1. What do you think are the biggest challenge in a complex mobile testing surround?

The answer to this question could include answers like the following:

  • Understanding the grandness of different mobile networks and user mobility
  • Understanding the importance of fix
  • Determining screen size fragmentation
  • Android twist fragmentation, particularly regarding the operating system and its adaptation, ground on specific differences such as price, local market, and hardware

The purpose of enquire this question is to regulate whether the candidate is well-versed in the real-life scenarios of the complex testing surround.

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Q2. What is the best attack and tactic to successfully and extensively test mobile application?

This question will aid you determine the QA manager ’ s experience with both automate examination and manual testing. Because there is no one best approach, you would want the campaigner to give a nuanced result that ruminate the complexity of different applications having different motivation, different teams having different skills, etc… A qualified QA manager could excuse to you why an integrated testing approach combining both manual and automated testing method, for instance, would be the ideal and most.

Q3. In continuation with the previous question (automated and manual testing), what test cases should be do manually, and which ones should be automated?

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There are various guidelines that help in determining the best approach for trial cases – which one should be automated, and which one should be perform manually. You would await the candidate to talk about the undermentioned points in favour of trial automation:

  • Automating exam cases that run on multiple software and hardware platforms and configurations
  • Automating those test cases that are extremely difficult or slightly impossible to execute manually
  • Automating examination cases that are highly boring and monotonous
  • Automating test cases that are predictable with well verifiable results
  • Automating test cases that are easy to automatize
  • Automating tryout suit that are highly frequent

For manual testing, the favorable result include:

  • If certain parts of the roving application will be modify or modify in the future, then there is no point in writing scripts for these test cases as they will be unuseable quite soon
  • Manual examination is idealistic in position where the trial event is extremely complicated or when it is direct a important amount of time to set up an machine-controlled test case
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Q4 What are the wandering exam automation frameworks that you experience act on and are familiar with? Tell us about their pros and sting.

This is a direct head about machine-driven testing. While QA managers are not required to indite test scripts, having a exhaustive knowledge of the democratic, such as Appium testing, Espresso, Calabash, Robotium, and UI Automation, among others is a must. Most importantly, the prospect must know the advantage and disadvantage of each framework.

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Q5. How to effectively leverage mobile test automation?

There is no predefined answer to this interrogative. The answer depends on the enforced strategy. Nevertheless, the answer should reflect the following aspects:

  • CI consolidation could prove to be valuable in effectively leveraging mobile test automation. It can integrate the test base into the development pipeline, helping the information to flow faster.
  • Test automation helps in delivering information faster, notwithstanding, it doesn ’ t have a great value if the test results don ’ t make a developer.
  • As a QA coach, his/her role will be to assign the right developer for the job, who has the right noesis and information so that they can fix issues.
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Q6. What distinguish a good test case from a bad test case? Give examples.

The QA manager you are looking for should give you a open definition of what a bad and a full test suit is, include instance.

A full test case can be define as a little and clear description of what is anticipate from the mobile covering. On the former hand, a bad examination case is undescriptive.

  • Full test case illustration:
  • Download, install and launch the covering from PlayStore
  • Sign in use& quot; test @ appiumtesting.com & quot;with password& quot; Appium & quot;
  • It should take no more than 5 seconds before you are target to the app interface
  • Bad examination suit representative:
  • Install
  • Launch
  • Login

Q7. How would you decide on OS and OS versions, and roving devices for test?

The result your QA manager campaigner yield should include the fact that the bulk of applications developed these days are global apps. So, it is an intelligent move to use global sources. If your app is not usable worldwide, the local market should be researched before deciding on the mobile devices and OS versions for testing.

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Q8. What are your thoughts on Continuous Integration (CI) in the app growth process?

The answer should include that CI is an integral component of mobile app testing because the development procedure is quite agile. Moreover, ask for their thought and experience with specific CI environments, such as Jenkins.

Q9. What are the first three things you would do after join our company?

This is a tricky question and needs to be reply good. You would want the candidate to ask you questions about how your testing process plant. Basically, you require to ensure that they are going to understand existing operation and work to amend them from a place of noesis.

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Q10. If you end up work on a project that hasn ’ t had test mechanisation done yet, what sort of tests do you aim to set up if you have limited resources?

The candidate should list the almost significant things to be tested and suggest the known matter and test critical features that the app already has. In particular they should report how to librate features against each other in terms of value to the society. Based on their assessment, they should be able to allocate the right resources.

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