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Accenture practice pack

IT services. 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.

Skills this role is usually tested on

  • Test strategy
  • Risk-based testing
  • Automation tooling
  • Cloud testing
  • Stakeholder communication

Business areas used for scenarios

  • technology consulting
  • BFSI
  • health
  • public service

6 questions

Answer out loud first, then open the guide. Most people read the guide too early.

  1. 1

    A client wants 100% automation. How do you respond?

    mediumStrategy

    A strong answer covers

    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.

  2. 2

    Build a quick risk matrix for a new payments feature.

    mediumRisk

    A strong answer covers

    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.

  3. 3

    How would you choose between Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium for a new project?

    mediumTooling

    A strong answer covers

    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.

  4. 4

    How do you test a microservice deployed behind a gateway with a message queue?

    hardCloud

    A strong answer covers

    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.

  5. 5

    Explain to a non-technical sponsor why a release should slip.

    easyCommunication

    A strong answer covers

    Lead with user and business impact, the evidence, the options with cost, and your recommendation. No jargon, no blame.

  6. 6

    How do you manage test data for an environment refreshed monthly?

    mediumData

    A strong answer covers

    Seed scripts, API-based setup, synthetic and masked data, data owned per test, and a check that runs after refresh to catch broken assumptions.

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