Hexaware Technologies Test Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Product tester verious product tester

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

In this round , I was first asked some basic questions revolving around Software Testing in general and then when I told the interviewer that I was more inclined towards Automation Testing he started asking me asking me questions around that. In the end, the interviewer also asked me some questions related to SQL and DBMS.

Q1. Software Testing Question
Explain STLC.
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STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) is a fundamental part of SDLC which is used to test software and ensure that the
quality standards are met. It generally involves both verification activities and validation activities. In this, different
activities are executed in a specific order throughout the software testing process. There are basically six different
phases in STLC. They are as follows :

1) Requirement Analysis
2) Tes...read more
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Q2. Software Testing Question
What is the importance of agile testing?
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Agile testing is basically a software testing process that uses agile methodologies i.e., follow test-first design
paradigm. It evaluates the software from the customer's point of view. It does not require any development team to
complete coding for starting QA, instead of testing and coding can go hand in hand. Features are tested as they are
developed. Some of its advantages include :

1) Boosts the performance as it allo...read more
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Q3. Automation Testing Question
What’s the difference between manual testing and automated testing?
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1) Manual Testing - A human executes the test cases one by one, without any software assistance.
Automated Testing -Tests are executed by a testing tool or framework, without human assistance.

2) Manual Testing - Useful for non-repeatable tests that involve human ingenuity, participation, and domain experience.
Automated Testing - Useful for repeatable tests where the software feature under test doesn’t change frequently.

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Q4. Automation Testing Question
What are the different parts of a test automation framework?
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A test automation framework makes it easy to perform automation testing for your software. Here are some components of a test automation framework.

1) Test Data Management : 
i) A big problem in automation testing is generating the test data. A good test automation framework makes it easy to build test data for the application under test.


2) Testing Libraries : 
i) Managing and running the automated tests is a cr...read more
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Q5. Automation Testing Question
What are some of the best practices in test automation?
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Here are some of the best practices a software development and the testing team should use to ensure quality software.

1) Decide what to automate : 
i) It’s not possible or practical to automate certain tests, such as usability, accessibility, exploratory testing, or non-repetitive test cases that frequently change. 


2) Assign test cases based on skill and experience : 
i) When dividing test cases, take into...read more
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Q6. SQL Question
What are triggers?
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Triggers in SQL is kind of stored procedures used to create a response to a specific action performed on the table
such as INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. You can invoke triggers explicitly on the table in the database.

Action and Event are two main components of SQL triggers. When certain actions are performed, the event occurs in
response to that action.

Syntax :

CREATE TRIGGER name {BEFORE|AFTER} (event [OR..]}
ON table_name [F...read more
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Q7. SQL Question
Explain the working of SQL Privileges?
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SQL GRANT and REVOKE commands are used to implement privileges in SQL multiple user environments. The administrator of the database can grant or revoke privileges to or from users of database objects by using commands like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ALL, etc.

1) GRANT Command : This command is used to provide database access to users other than the administrator.

Syntax:

GRANT privilege_name
ON object_name
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round had questions revolving around Automation Testing frameworks like Selenium and Cucumber.

Q1. Selenium Question
Why should Selenium be selected as a testing tool for web applications or systems?
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Selenium provides the following advantages, which make it an excellent automated testing framework :

1) It is free and open-source software with a large user base and supports providing community.

2) It has cross-browser compatibility and supports multiple browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Edge, Opera, Safari, etc.

3) It supports multiple operating systems such as Windows, Linux, macOS, etc.

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Q2. Selenium Question
Explain what are the JUnits annotation linked with Selenium?
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The JUnits annotation linked with Selenium are :

1) @Before public void method() – It will perform the method () before each test, this method can prepare the test
2) @Test public void method() – Annotations @Test identifies that this method is a test method environment
3) @After public void method() - To execute a method before this annotation is used, test method must start with
test @Before
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Q3. Selenium Question
What are the different components of Selenium?
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Selenium is not a single tool or a framework. It is a suite of tools that work with each other or in isolation to provide different types of automation testing. Here are the four major components of Selenium.

1) Selenium WebDriver :
i) A collection of open-source APIs and browser-controlling code implementations that provide a concise and straightforward programming interface. 

2) Selenium Grid : 
i) It enables t...read more
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Q4. Cucumber Question
What are annotations in Cucumber?
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An annotation is a type of text that has been pre-defined and has a specified meaning. It tells the compiler/interpreter
what to do when the program runs. The annotations on Cucumber are as follows :

1) Given : It specifies the requirements for running the test.
Example : Given I have an account on Interviewbit.

2) When : It establishes the starting point for any test scenario.
Example : When I log in to Interviewbit.

3) The...read more
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Q5. Cucumber Question
Difference between Selenium and Cucumber.
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Open-source testing tools, Selenium and Cucumber are both used for functional testing. However, there are some
distinctions between them.

Here are some key distinctions between Selenium and Cucumber :

1) Cucumber is a behavior-driven development automation tool that may be used with Selenium. Selenium is a web
browser automation tool for web projects (or Appium).

2) Cucumber is used for acceptance testing, while Selenium is...read more
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Q6. Automation Testing Question
When is Automation testing useful?
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Automation testing is useful in the following scenarios :

a) Regression testing: In case of a bug fix or new module implementation, we have to make sure that the already implemented or unchanged functionality is not affected. In this case, we end up running the regression test case multiple times.

For Example: After each change request or bug fix, after each iteration in case of incremental development approach, etc.


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Q7. Automation Testing Question
How do you automate the testing of CAPTCHA?
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It’s not possible to automate the testing of CAPTCHA. That is the goal behind any good CAPTCHA strategy. By
definition, a computer can’t automate it. If it could, then it’s not a good challenge that you can use in your application.

However, if you need to test an application that uses CAPTCHA, you have to work with the development team to
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Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was a Technical Cum HR round where I was first asked some basic SQL related concepts and then we discussed
about my expectations from the company , learnings and growth in the forthcomig years. I would suggest be honest and
try to communicate your thoughts properly in these type of rounds to maximise your chances of getting selected.