Round 1 – Selenium / Playwright / Automation
1. Difference between XPath and CSS Selector
2. Explicit Wait vs Fluent Wait
3. How do you handle stale element exception?
4. How do you handle multiple windows in Selenium?
5. Explain Page Object Model
6. Selenium vs Playwright
7. How does Playwright auto-waiting work?
8. How do you perform parallel execution?
9. How do you handle dynamic locators?
10. How do you reduce flaky UI tests?
Round 2 – API Testing & Framework
1. Difference between PUT and PATCH
2. How do you validate API responses?
3. How do you perform schema validation?
4. How do you handle authentication tokens?
5. Explain API chaining
6. How do you manage test data?
7. Explain your framework architecture
8. How do you generate reports?
9. How do you perform database validation?
10. How do you integrate automation in Jenkins/GitLab CI?
Round 3 – Advanced SDET / CI-CD / Real-Time Scenarios
1. What should be automated and what should not?
2. How do you optimize regression execution time?
3. Explain your CI/CD pipeline flow
4. How do you trigger automation in pipeline?
5. Docker usage in test automation
6. How do you handle unstable environments?
7. How do you debug failed pipeline executions?
8. How do you measure automation ROI?
9. Explain a critical production bug you caught
10. Biggest challenge faced in automation framework design
