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      QA Automation Engineer Interview

      Oct 12, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Los Angeles, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Silicon Valley Bank (Los Angeles, CA)

      Interview

      The interview was so tough! He asked me so many questions about my recent project, every little detail. He wanted to know how I do reports, who I report to, the format I use, and which parts I’m responsible for. It was all about the way I handle the syntax. Everything was super detailed!

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions from the Interview: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Questions about the project and its architecture: • What part of the project are you responsible for in automation? • What part of the architecture do you work on? • How does your project look in terms of structure? (You mentioned a utilities package, a runner, and a tab definition, but he wanted more detailed information.) 3. UI Automation: • Which part of the automation do you handle? (You mentioned UI) 4. SQL Queries: • How do you use SQL queries? • Why do you need SQL queries in the project? 5. API: • Why do you need an API in your project? • Which part consists of the API? • What exactly does the API do in your project? • What is your role in API testing? 6. Testing Process: • How do you handle manual and automation testing? • What is the percentage split between manual and automation testing? 7. Reporting: • How do you report your work? • In what format do you report your work? (You mentioned Excel, and he asked about JIRA) • Do you use JIRA reports? (You confirmed that you do) 8. Reporting Hierarchy: • To whom do you report? (You mentioned the test lead) • Who does the test lead report to? • To whom does the Scrum Master report? (You said the PO) • How do they get their tasks, and who assigns them? 9. Team Structure: • What does your team look like? • Who are the team members? • Who else is involved in the company besides those people? (You mentioned 11) • Who developed the project? • Do you know the developers, and do you communicate with them? 10. Agile Methodology: • What ceremonies are involved in Agile? • Name the Agile ceremonies. • What is a retrospective? • When was the last retrospective, what did you discuss, how did you make decisions, and what was fixed afterward? 11. UI Testing: • Questions about the more technical aspects of UI testing. 12. Test Cases: • What percentage of test cases do you have in the project? • What is the quantity of the test cases? 13. Regression Testing: • How often do you run regression tests? • For what purpose do you run regression tests? 14. Career Change: • Why did you change your profession from being a lawyer to IT? • Why do you want to work as a tester? • Why did you choose this field? • Since you mentioned being a lawyer in Uzbekistan with education valid there, but not here, why is IT your chosen path? • He kept asking why you changed your profession. 15. Locators: • How do you write locators directly from the code, not from the DOM? 16. Page Factory Pattern: • Explain the use of PageFactory.initElements(driver, this) in your automation framework.
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