Red Hat Senior Software Quality Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

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Q1. Traverse all child nodes in tree
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Traverse all child nodes in a tree data structure
• Use depth-first or breadth-first traversal algorithms

• Recursively visit each child node starting from the root node

• Consider using a stack or queue data structure for traversal

• Example: Traverse all nodes in a binary tree
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Q1. Question related to cloud and oops
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Q1. Question related to my background and how web site work
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Although it was quite challenging.

Complete it without significant difficulty.

Q1. Can you describe the projects you have worked on?
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Q2. What is the code for printing prime numbers?
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Q1. What motivates you to want to join Ion?
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Q2. What makes you a suitable candidate for this position?
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Normal online code / frontend test

Q1. How would you build book my show
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Designing and building a platform similar to BookMyShow involves creating a user-friendly interface for booking tickets for various events.
• Develop a user-friendly website and mobile app for users to browse and book tickets for movies, concerts, plays, etc.

• Implement a secure payment gateway for users to make online transactions.

• Integrate a database to store information about events, venues, tickets, and user bookings.

• In...read more
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Q1. Solid principals, awareness of patterns
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Q1. How would you build tinyurl like service, systems designs
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To build a tinyurl-like service, design a system with a URL shortening algorithm, a database to store mappings, and a redirect service.
• Use a hashing algorithm to generate short URLs from long URLs (e.g. MD5, SHA-256).

• Store the mappings of short URLs to long URLs in a database (e.g. MySQL, Redis).

• Implement a redirect service that takes a short URL, looks up the corresponding long URL in the database, and redirects the u...read more
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Q1. Non-technical questions
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Mainly 4 Questions
1-2 MCQ
3: Create a class deriving from IReptile and return an object of HatchEgg which has Hatch Method. Hatch Method should return same IReptile object.
4) Sorting IDs in dictionary

Q1. The Interviewer was Very Rude and he doesn't care about the Requirements of Hiring a candidate. he was constantly asking about Other Companies Architectures and The things you did in them. instead of havin...read more
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Q2. SOLID, Interfaces , Boxing/Unboxing
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Q1. Find longest palindromic substring in a given string.
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Use dynamic programming to find the longest palindromic substring in a given string.
• Iterate through the string and expand around each character to find palindromes.

• Store the length of the longest palindrome found so far.

• Return the substring based on the start and end indices of the longest palindrome.
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Q2. How to serialize and deserialise a tree
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To serialize and deserialize a tree, use a recursive approach to traverse the tree and store the data in a suitable format.
• Use pre-order traversal to serialize the tree by storing the node values in a list or string.

• For deserialization, reconstruct the tree by recursively building nodes from the serialized data.

• Consider using JSON or XML format for serialization to easily store and retrieve tree structure.
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Q3. Find if a given regex (containing ., * and lower case english chars) matches a given string.
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Use regex library to match given regex with string.
• Use a regex library like re in Python to match the given regex with the string.

• Check if the regex matches the string using the library functions.

• Handle cases where the regex contains special characters like . and * appropriately.
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Q4. Explain about throttling and implement throttle function.
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Throttling is a technique used to control the rate of requests sent to a server.
• Throttling helps prevent server overload by limiting the number of requests processed at a time.

• Implementing a throttle function involves setting a maximum request rate and delaying excess requests.

• Example: Implementing a throttle function in a web application to limit the number of API calls made to a third-party service.

• Example: Throttlin...read more
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Q1. Find squares of elements in a sorted array and return the sorted response.
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Sort the squares of elements in a sorted array and return the sorted response.
• Iterate through the array and square each element.

• Store the squared values in a new array.

• Sort the new array and return it.
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Q2. Write a short promise example and implement your own promise
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A promise is a commitment to do something in the future, typically used for asynchronous operations in JavaScript.
• Promises are used to handle asynchronous operations in JavaScript.

• They represent a value that may be available now, in the future, or never.

• Promises have three states: pending, fulfilled, or rejected.

• Example: new Promise((resolve, reject) => { setTimeout(() => resolve('Done!'), 1000); });
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Q3. Explain event loop, what are different types of queues in event loop
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Event loop is a mechanism that allows for asynchronous execution of code by managing the order of events in a single thread.
• Event loop continuously checks the call stack for any functions that need to be executed, and processes them in a non-blocking manner.

• Different types of queues in event loop include microtask queue (Promise callbacks), macrotask queue (setTimeout, setInterval callbacks), and animation frame queue
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Q4. What is virtual DOM and why its faster
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Virtual DOM is a lightweight copy of the actual DOM, used to improve performance by minimizing direct manipulation of the real DOM.
• Virtual DOM is a concept used in frameworks like React to optimize rendering performance.

• Changes are first made to the virtual DOM, which is then compared to the real DOM to identify the minimal updates needed.

• This approach reduces the number of actual DOM manipulations, resulting in faster...read more
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1st round is aptitude and pesudocode

Q1. Mostly python questions
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Q2. List questions and basic to mediumprogram
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Q1. Basic java fundamentals
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Q2. Spring boot,sql
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Q1. Some technical questions from manager
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Q2. Some challenges or scenario based questions
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Q1. Salary discussion mostly
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Q2. Benifts that they offer with TR
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Q1. What is the inheritance?
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Inheritance is a mechanism in object-oriented programming where a class inherits properties and behaviors from another class.
• Allows a class to inherit attributes and methods from another class

• Promotes code reusability and reduces redundancy

• Creates a parent-child relationship between classes

• Derived class can override or extend the functionality of the base class
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Q2. What are the types of joins in mysql
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Types of joins in MySQL include inner join, left join, right join, and full join.
• Inner join: Returns rows when there is a match in both tables.

• Left join: Returns all rows from the left table and the matched rows from the right table.

• Right join: Returns all rows from the right table and the matched rows from the left table.

• Full join: Returns rows when there is a match in one of the tables.
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Q1. How to handle multiple api's
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Use a centralized API gateway to manage and route requests to multiple APIs efficiently.
• Implement a centralized API gateway to handle incoming requests and route them to the appropriate API based on the endpoint.

• Utilize API management tools like Apigee, Kong, or AWS API Gateway to manage and monitor multiple APIs.

• Consider implementing a caching layer to improve performance and reduce the number of requests to external
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Q2. What does strstr function do?
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strstr function searches for a substring within a string and returns a pointer to the first occurrence of the substring.
• Used in C programming language

• Syntax: char *strstr(const char *haystack, const char *needle)

• Example: char *str = strstr("hello world", "world")
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