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QA Automation Engineer Interview Questions

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posted on 29 Apr 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Mar 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

Recursion, cyclic sort, string

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I applied via Naukri.com

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Before interview search for Frequently asked programming Questions.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed in Apr 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Video Call Round (8 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round started with some basic questions from Software Testing and then the interviewer started asking some questions from Automation Testing.

  • Q1. Software Testing Question

    Explain STLC.

  • Q2. Software Testing Question

    Write the difference between Test Stub and Test Driver.

  • Q3. Software Testing Question

    What do you mean by Data flow testing?

  • Q4. Software Testing Question

    What is boundary value analysis?

  • Q5. Automation Testing Question

    What are the different parts of a test automation framework?

  • Q6. Automation Testing Question

    What are some of the best practices in test automation?

  • Q7. Automation Testing Question

    How do you automate the testing of CAPTCHA?

  • Q8. Automation Testing Question

    What is Protractor?

2

Video Call Round (8 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This round had questions majorly from Selenium and Cucumber.

  • Q1. Selenium Question

    What are the different components of Selenium?

  • Q2. Selenium Question

    Why should Selenium be selected as a testing tool for web applications or systems?

  • Q3. Selenium Question

    What is meant by XPath in Selenium. Explain XPath Absolute and XPath Relative.

  • Q4. Selenium Question

    Difference between Selenium and Cucumber.

  • Q5. Selenium Question

    Explain what are the JUnits annotation linked with Selenium?

  • Q6. Cucumber Question

    How can you run a selected test from a group of tests in Cucumber?

  • Q7. Cucumber Question

    What is grouping in the context of Cucumber?

  • Q8. BDD Question

    Explain briefly how Behavioral Driven Development(BDD) works?

3

HR Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This is a cultural fitment testing round. HR was very frank and asked standard questions. Then we discussed about my
role.

  • Q1. Basic HR Question

    Why should we hire you ?

  • Q2. Basic HR Question

    Tell me something not there in your resume.

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 1 years of experienceErnst & Young (EY) interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Software Testing , Selenium , Cucumber , API Testing , Automation TestingTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Dec 2020.

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. In Manual Testing . Types of Testing Definations Like Functional Smoke sanity Regression. Bug life cycle . Agile methodology. Add Answer
  • Q2. Focus on STLC model and Scenario based questions. Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare with job description topics .
Communication skills.

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Jul 2019.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Multiple questions on pl/sql, python basics and sql Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - have a good knowledge in python for ETL testing as well SQL, PL/SQL to clear the interview
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 -

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (7 Questions)

  • Q1. Briefing about yourself
  • Q2. Explain Defect life cycle
  • Q3. Difference between black box and white box testing
  • Q4. Difference between hard assert and soft assert
  • Q5. What are the various annotations in selenium webdriver
  • Q6. There are n no. Of links having the text selenium. Write the syntax to count the text selenium from all the links
  • 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.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Write a java code to print sum of 100 numbers
  • Q2. Write a count of K char in your name
  • Q3. How to move to another tabs in selenium

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Follow the JD most of the questions were from JD

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Most of questions asked on selenium and WJP for duplicates in a string
2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Automate a test case for Makemytrip website

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

Find a middle element and largest element from an array using hashmap.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on java concept.
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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2

Technical Round (10 Questions)

  • Q1. Locatord in selenium
  • Q2. ID,linktexr,lass name,xpath,css selector
  • Q3. Action class in selenium
  • Q4. Used for mouse and keyboard actions
  • Q5. Select class in selenium
  • Q6. Used to handle dropdowns
  • Q7. Waits in selenium
  • Q8. Explicit,implicit,fluent waits def
  • Q9. What kind of reports
  • Q10. Testng reports have been used

Skills evaluated in this interview

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