Working at Red Gate

Sample interview questions for Test Engineers

Testers at Red Gate are required to have basic programming skills as well as a natural aptitude for testing. The following example questions provide an indication of the level of knowledge that will be expected of Red Gate candidates when they come for a face-to-face interview.

If you feel confident in answering these, and similar questions during an interview then please apply via the email link on the previous page.

Sample Question 1:

Write a function Occurrences() in a language of your choice that takes in two strings. The first is a search string, and the second is a sentence. For example, running the function:

Running Occurrences ("o", "Red Gate Software - Ingeniously Simple Tools")

will output: Occurrences of 'o': 4

Occurrences ("at", "The cat sat on the mat")

will output: Occurrences of 'at': 3

Sample Question 2:

Below is Notepad's File/Save dialog.

a) If you were asked to test this dialog, how would you go about it?

b) List various inputs you might place into the "File name" text field to test it.