Blackrock QA Tester Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Briefing about yourself
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Q2. Explain Defect life cycle
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Defect life cycle is the process of identifying, reporting, fixing, retesting, and closing defects in software development.
• Defect identification: Defects are identified through testing or user feedback.

• Defect reporting: Defects are reported in a defect tracking tool with details like steps to reproduce, severity, and priority.

• Defect fixing: Developers fix the reported defects based on the information provided.

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Q3. Difference between black box and white box testing
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Black box testing focuses on functionality without knowledge of internal code, while white box testing examines internal code structure.
• Black box testing tests the functionality of a system without knowledge of its internal code

• White box testing tests the internal code structure and logic of a system

• Black box testing is more focused on end-user perspective

• White box testing is more focused on developer perspective

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Q4. Difference between hard assert and soft assert
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Hard assert stops the execution of the test case if it fails, while soft assert continues the execution and logs the failure.
• Hard assert is used when the failure of a particular step makes the further steps irrelevant.

• Soft assert is used when you want to continue with the test case execution even if some steps fail.

• Hard assert is implemented using 'assert' keyword in testing frameworks like TestNG or JUnit.

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Q5. What are the various annotations in selenium webdriver
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Annotations in Selenium WebDriver are used to provide additional information about the test methods.
• Annotations help in organizing and managing test cases

• Some common annotations in Selenium WebDriver are @Test, @BeforeTest, @AfterTest, @BeforeClass, @AfterClass, @BeforeMethod, @AfterMethod

• Annotations are used to define the sequence of execution of test methods
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Q6. There are n no. Of links having the text selenium. Write the syntax to count the text selenium from all the links
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Use XPath to count the number of links with the text 'selenium'
• Use XPath to locate all the links containing the text 'selenium'

• Count the number of links found using the XPath expression
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Q7. There is a table of students having column status with either pass or fail. Write the syntax to show the output as some 60 pass and 40 fail.
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Use SQL query to display 60 pass and 40 fail from a table of students.
• Use SELECT statement with COUNT function to count the number of pass and fail statuses.

• Use WHERE clause to filter out pass and fail statuses.

• Use GROUP BY clause to group the statuses together.

• Use CASE statement to display the count of pass and fail statuses.
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Q1. Project and techstack related dscussion and questions.
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Q2. Remove duplicates and print the string using java. To be written on paper
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Q3. Character count in string. To be written on paper
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Count the number of characters in a given string.
• Iterate through each character in the string and increment a counter for each character.

• Return the final count of characters in the string.
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Q4. General Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber BDD questions.
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Q5. API Testing Questions like status codes, parameters we pass in postman.
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Q6. Write Basic RestAssured code on paper.
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Basic RestAssured code for API testing
• Import necessary RestAssured libraries

• Set base URI for the API

• Send a GET request to the API endpoint

• Validate response status code and body
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Q7. Switch values in two variables without third variable.
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Use bitwise XOR operation to switch values in two variables without a third variable.
• Use bitwise XOR operation to switch values in two variables without a third variable.

• Example: a = 5, b = 7. After switching, a = 7, b = 5.

• a = a XOR b

• b = a XOR b

• a = a XOR b
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Automation coding in java basic level questions

Q1. Writing xpath of elements
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Q2. Different frameworks
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Q1. All basic questions related to manual testing. Ex- regression testing,restesting,smoke testing,sanity testing, Sdlc , stlc . And more basic questions
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Q2. Manager round - they will ask you again basic questions and last company roles and responsibilities.
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Q1. Testing methodologies
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Q2. What modules are used
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Q3. Integration testing
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Q4. Regression Testing
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Q5. Functional and non Functional
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Q1. Difference between sdlc and stlc
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SDLC is Software Development Life Cycle which focuses on development of software, while STLC is Software Testing Life Cycle which focuses on testing of software.
• SDLC is the process of developing software from planning to deployment, while STLC is the process of testing software from test planning to test closure.

• SDLC includes phases like requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and deployment, while STLC includ...read more
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Q2. Bug life cycle? Defect triage
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Q1. Basics of sql queries
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