Pearson·QA Engineer

Pearson QA Engineer interview experience

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Colombo, WesternPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey was built around four rounds and a pretty mix of screening plus technical work.

I started with a screening call, then moved into a technical interview. After that came a manager interview, followed by an additional round with the head of department and an HR component that included a general IQ test.

The technical portion leaned into hands-on engineering topics. It included Java coding and SQL, and I also had to complete the IQ test as part of that step. When it was time for the manager conversation, I didn’t get a purely technical grilling; instead, the focus shifted to how I would use approaches to solve problems in real-world situations. The manager asked questions

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