Here are carefully curated HR and Technical Round (TR) questions for the Manual Tester - Fresher role, tailored specifically to Tech Mahindra’s standards and expectations:
✅ TECHNICAL ROUND (TR) – Manual Testing (Fresher)
🔹 Core Manual Testing Concepts
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What is the difference between Verification and Validation?
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Explain the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in detail.
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What is a Test Case? Can you explain how you design one?
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What is a Bug Life Cycle or Defect Life Cycle?
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What is the difference between Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing?
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Can you explain the types of testing you’ve performed in your academic/project work?
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What is Regression Testing? Why is it important?
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What are Severity and Priority in bug tracking? Give examples.
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Explain a situation where you found a critical bug. What did you do?
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How do you report a bug? Which tools have you used?
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How is Agile Testing different from Waterfall Testing?
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What is boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning?
🔹 Project/Tool-Based Questions
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Walk me through your E-commerce testing project. What challenges did you face?
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Why did you choose Bugzilla/JIRA? How do you use it for reporting?
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What is the difference between Test Plan and Test Strategy?
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Do you have any experience writing SQL queries during DB Testing?
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Have you used Excel to maintain any testing records? How?
🔹 Scenario-Based / Practical
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Suppose a client finds a bug that you missed. How would you handle it?
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What would you do if a developer says, “This is not a bug”?
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Can you write a sample test case for a login page?
✅ HR ROUND – Behavioral & Company Fit
🔹 General HR Questions
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Tell me about yourself.
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Why do you want to join Tech Mahindra?
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What do you know about Tech Mahindra’s work culture and values?
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What is your long-term career goal?
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Why did you choose Software Testing as a career path?
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Are you willing to relocate to any city? (e.g., Ahmedabad)
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What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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How do you handle feedback or criticism?
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Are you open to working in rotational shifts?
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Have you ever faced failure? How did you overcome it?
🔹 Freshers-Specific
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You are from an ECE background. Why not go for a core electronics job?
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What did you learn during your testing certification from QSpiders?
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What makes you different from other freshers applying for the same role?
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How do you keep yourself updated with the latest in testing?
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If we don’t select you today, what would be your next step?
