SRIV Testing Consultants Hub Senior Automation Architect 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. Write a program to print how many integer and character from a given string. Input:"nAJh4837sj"
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A program to count the number of integers and characters in a given string.
• Iterate through each character in the string and check if it is an integer or a character.

• Use isdigit() function to check if a character is an integer.

• Keep separate counters for integers and characters.

• Return the counts of integers and characters at the end.
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Q2. Diff btw Final vs finally vs finalize
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Final is a keyword in Java used to restrict inheritance, finally is a block used in exception handling, and finalize is a method used for cleanup.
• Final is a keyword in Java used to restrict inheritance or prevent method overriding.

• Finally is a block used in exception handling to ensure a piece of code is always executed, whether an exception is thrown or not.

• Finalize is a method in Java used for cleanup operations befo
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Q3. Diff btw assertion vs validation/verification
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Assertion is a statement that checks if a condition is true, while validation/verification is the process of confirming that a product meets specified requirements.
• Assertion is used to validate the expected outcome of a test case.

• Validation/verification is the process of checking if the product meets the specified requirements.

• Assertions are typically used within test scripts to verify the expected behavior of the syst...read more
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Q1. OOPS Concepts,Java Coding,Testing
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Q1. Selenium, APIs, Automation
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Q1. Selenium framework, exceptions, how to right click double click,
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Q2. Rest assured, serialization , how to send POST request
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6 questions asked in an interview

Q1. Slider window problem
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The slider window problem involves finding the maximum sum of a subarray of a fixed size k within an array of integers.
• Use a sliding window approach to efficiently find the maximum sum subarray.

• Keep track of the current sum within the window and update it as you slide the window.

• Maintain a variable to store the maximum sum found so far.

• Example: Given array [1, 3, -1, -3, 5, 3, 6, 7] and window size k=3, the maximum sum
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Q2. Stock buy sell problem
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The stock buy sell problem involves finding the maximum profit that can be made by buying and selling a stock at the right times.
• Calculate the difference between each pair of consecutive prices in the array

• Find the maximum subarray sum of the differences using Kadane's algorithm

• The maximum subarray sum is the maximum profit that can be made
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Q1. Frame work related questions
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Q2. Retry logic, Data provider, Annotations,etc
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Q1. Difference between scenario and scenario outline
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Scenario is a single test case while scenario outline is a template for multiple test cases with different inputs.
• Scenario is a single test case with specific inputs and expected outcomes

• Scenario outline is a template for multiple test cases with placeholders for different inputs

• In scenario outline, examples table is used to provide different input values for each test case
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Q2. Explain oops concept
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OOPs (Object-Oriented Programming) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data in the form of fields and code in the form of procedures.
• OOPs focuses on creating objects that interact with each other to solve a problem

• Key concepts include encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction

• Encapsulation: Bundling data and methods that operate on the data into a single unit

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Q1. Roles and responsibilities
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Q2. Skill set and tools
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