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I'll focus on the technical part of the interview only. This consisted of creating an automated test solution within 5-7 days, The AUT is the production app itself. This is a bit tricky, because there are measures in place to detect fraud and automated scripts, which are usually bypassed in test environments. As I understood it this part will somewhat change in the future, because it's not 100% fair. Afterwards there was a technical discussion, which was a bit easy, but on point. There was no nonsense like reciting documentation from memory, that you encounter in other lame interviews at other companies.
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Senior Test Automation Engineer

Interviewed at MailerLite

4.4
Apr 19, 2025

I'll focus on the technical part of the interview only. This consisted of creating an automated test solution within 5-7 days, The AUT is the production app itself. This is a bit tricky, because there are measures in place to detect fraud and automated scripts, which are usually bypassed in test environments. As I understood it this part will somewhat change in the future, because it's not 100% fair. Afterwards there was a technical discussion, which was a bit easy, but on point. There was no nonsense like reciting documentation from memory, that you encounter in other lame interviews at other companies.

1. Tell me about yourself 2.what all oops concepts used in your framework 3.write code to find broken links 4.what is git fetch and git stash 5. How to run testng set of testcases 6. Write code to connect to SQL DB 7. Write code to read data from excel 8. Write code to save console log to a file 9. Exception hierarchy 10.Difference between hashmaps and hashtables 11. Write code to find numbers of ids in the below response json { "Status": 200, "ORG": { "EMPLOYEES": [{ "id": 1, "name": XYZ, "role": "ADMIN" }, { "id": 2, "name": ABC, "role": "USER" }, { "id": 3, "name": AAA, "role": "USER" }] } }//baseURLtocal 12. Write program to give count of alphabets , numbers , special characters in a given string 13. Difference between abstract class and interface 14. Write code to take screenshot in selenium 15. Write fluent wait
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Senior QA Automation Engineer

Interviewed at Wipro

3.6
Nov 4, 2023

1. Tell me about yourself 2.what all oops concepts used in your framework 3.write code to find broken links 4.what is git fetch and git stash 5. How to run testng set of testcases 6. Write code to connect to SQL DB 7. Write code to read data from excel 8. Write code to save console log to a file 9. Exception hierarchy 10.Difference between hashmaps and hashtables 11. Write code to find numbers of ids in the below response json { "Status": 200, "ORG": { "EMPLOYEES": [{ "id": 1, "name": XYZ, "role": "ADMIN" }, { "id": 2, "name": ABC, "role": "USER" }, { "id": 3, "name": AAA, "role": "USER" }] } }//baseURLtocal 12. Write program to give count of alphabets , numbers , special characters in a given string 13. Difference between abstract class and interface 14. Write code to take screenshot in selenium 15. Write fluent wait

What is encapsulation? what is a difference between Linked List and Array list Collection concept. When you did parallel test execution? how ? Jdbc connection how , and why we do that? what are the automation tools and framework used. Write a java program and find the smallest and largest string{"an and find onsession"} Write a java program to find the unique which are not repeting char out of string {"Automation"} // u,m,i,n write a xpath to fild the list of elements
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Senior Automation Test Engineer

Interviewed at Publicis Sapient

3.4
Jan 20, 2024

What is encapsulation? what is a difference between Linked List and Array list Collection concept. When you did parallel test execution? how ? Jdbc connection how , and why we do that? what are the automation tools and framework used. Write a java program and find the smallest and largest string{"an and find onsession"} Write a java program to find the unique which are not repeting char out of string {"Automation"} // u,m,i,n write a xpath to fild the list of elements

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