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Accenture
Consulting-style QA: strategy, risk, and tooling choices.
These are our own practice questions for the kind of QA/SDET role this company hires for. They are not the company's real interview questions. Confirm the current process on the company's official careers page.
What they tend to probe
- Test strategy
- Risk-based testing
- Automation tooling
- Cloud testing
- Stakeholder communication
Question 1 · Strategy · Medium
A client wants 100% automation. How do you respond?
Answer guide
Reframe to the outcome: fast, trusted feedback. Show a pyramid, what is cheap to automate, what is not worth it, and a coverage-by-risk target. Offer a pilot with measurable results.
Question 2 · Risk · Medium
Build a quick risk matrix for a new payments feature.
Answer guide
Likelihood x impact by area: money movement, auth, reconciliation, third-party outage, regulatory. Map each to depth of testing and automation level. Keep it a living page.
Question 3 · Tooling · Medium
How would you choose between Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium for a new project?
Answer guide
Team skills, browsers needed, app type, parallel and CI needs, ecosystem and support, and cost of change. Decide by a short proof of concept on the hardest screen.
Question 4 · Cloud · Hard
How do you test a microservice deployed behind a gateway with a message queue?
Answer guide
Contract tests per service, component tests with stubs, a few end-to-end flows, queue behaviours (duplicate, delay, poison message), observability to trace a request across services.
Question 5 · Communication · Easy
Explain to a non-technical sponsor why a release should slip.
Answer guide
Lead with user and business impact, the evidence, the options with cost, and your recommendation. No jargon, no blame.
Question 6 · Data · Medium
How do you manage test data for an environment refreshed monthly?
Answer guide
Seed scripts, API-based setup, synthetic and masked data, data owned per test, and a check that runs after refresh to catch broken assumptions.