Manual QA Practice Exam

About Manual QA
QA includes activities that ensure the implementation of processes, procedures and standards in context to verification of developed software and intended requirements. It includes activities that ensure the identification of bugs/error/defects in software.

Manual Testing is a type of software testing in which test cases are executed manually by a tester without using any automated tools. The purpose of Manual Testing is to identify the bugs, issues, and defects in the software application. Manual software testing is the most primitive technique of all testing types and it helps to find critical bugs in the software application.

The QA is required to analyze the performance of the web or mobile application from an end user’s perspective. QAs verify the actual behavior of software against expected behavior, and any difference is reported as a bug.

Why is Manual QA important?
Manual QA provides following benefits
•    Typically more cost-effective than using automation testing in small batches
•    Provides manual testing of User Interfaces (UIs)/User Experience (UX) (which cannot be accomplished with automation testing)
•    Better in the infancy stages of your project when changes are constant, versus having to update an automation script each time a feature is added, removed, or reassigned
•    Offers much more flexibility than automation testing; you are able to quickly test results against one another versus having to test the entire process
•    Manual testers are easier to locate than automation testers, and are easier to train

Who should take the Manual QA Exam?
•    Software testing or QA professionals
•    Innovators
•    Anyone who wants to assess their QA skills
•    Software quality managers and senior executives
•    Software QA consultants
•    Anyone interested in manual QA

Knowledge and Skills required for the Manual QA Practice Exam

Critical thinking and communication skills helps candidate to gain success in manual QA career.

Manual QA Practice Exam Objective

Manual QA exam focuses on assessing your quality assurance skills and knowledge for software by assessing on V&V, metrics, analysis techniques and QA planning and implementation.

Manual QA Practice Exam Pre-requisite

Awareness of quality concepts and software testing is prerequisite for the Manual QA exam.

Manual QA Certification Course Outline

1. SQA Overview
1.1 Software Quality Challenges
1.2 Software Quality Expectations
1.3 SQA Components
1.4 Software Testing
1.5 Software Development Methodology
1.6 SQA Issues

2. Planning and Framework
2.1 SQA Planning
2.2 SQA Plan
2.3 SQA Management Plans
2.4 Output and Principles
2.5 SQA Planning Standards
2.6 Organizational Maturity
2.7 Develop and implement framework
2.8 Best practices

3. Integrating SQA
3.1 SQA Process Integration
3.2 Project Initiation and SQA
3.3 Project Planning and SQA
3.4 Analysis and SQA
3.5 Design and SQA
3.6 Coding and SQA
3.7 Testing and SQA
3.8 Implementing and SQA
3.9 Project Closing and SQA

4. Software Configuration Management (SCM)
4.1 Need and Objective
4.2 SCM Tasks
4.3 SCM Plan and Tools
4.4 Software Configuration Management
4.5 Base lining
4.6 Software Configuration Control
4.7 Software Configuration Auditing


5. Verification and Validation
5.1 V&V Basics
5.2 Audits, Reviews, and Inspection
5.3 Static Analytic Techniques
5.4 Dynamic Techniques
5.5 Integrating V&V
5.6 Test coverage

6. Analysis Techniques
6.1 Analysis Basics
6.2 Quality Tools
6.3 Balance Scorecard
6.4 Quality Function Deployment (QFD)

7. Metrics
7.1 Metrics Concepts
7.2 Metric Requirement
7.3 Metric Types
7.4 Factors Affecting Metrics
7.5 Metric Relevance


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Manual QA Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199