💼𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲 | 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 (𝟰 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀) | 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝟮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀🔥

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🔹 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 & 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀
• Introduce yourself along with your automation work experience.
• Walk through your recent automation project architecture.
• Explain the STLC process & Defect Life Cycle stages.
• Which test management tools (Jira, Zephyr, TestRail) have you worked with?
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🔹 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 & 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻
• Explain Fluent Wait vs. Explicit Wait with polling intervals.
• How do you troubleshoot ElementNotInteractableException during click actions?
• What are ChromeOptions/Capabilities in Selenium 4?
• What is Page Factory, its advantages, and why use it over standard driver.findElement()?
• Sample syntax to click an element using JavaScriptExecutor.
• Parallel execution setup in TestNG (testng.xml vs. thread counts).
• How to write and call a @DataProvider placed in a separate class?
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🔹 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 & 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀
• ArrayList vs. LinkedList performance differences.
• HashMap vs. TreeMap sorting behaviors.
• Compile-time vs. Runtime Polymorphism examples.
• Static vs. Instance variables memory allocation.
• Java access modifiers scope (private, default, protected, public).
• Implementing custom sorting using Comparator vs. Comparable.
• Reading test data from Excel (Apache POI) or JSON (Jackson/Gson) in Java.
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🔹 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲
• Authentication vs. Authorization definitions.
• Common API authentication types (Bearer Token, OAuth 2.0, Basic Auth).
• What is a JWT token and how do you parse it?
• HTTP 401 Unauthorized vs. 403 Forbidden status codes.
• Writing a POST request using REST Assured syntax.
• JSONPath expression to extract nested JSON values.
• Performing load testing for APIs (JMeter/K6) and key metrics monitored (throughput, latency, error rate).
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🔹 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰𝘀: 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁, 𝗦𝗤𝗟 & 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
• Playwright locators: Locating dynamic options via XPath and CSS selectors.
• Service Virtualization use cases in isolated test environments.
• Database testing validation strategies (JDBC connection & SQL verification).