Description
Automation Testing Interview Basic to Advanced, Real-time scenario based and Coding Based
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Purpose and audience — Aimed at experienced candidates (3–20 years), the document prepares interviewees for technical and behavioral questions across manual, automation, and leadership topics. Foundations — Covers testing fundamentals: SDLC/STLC, test case design, defect lifecycle, and test planning. Manual testing skills — Emphasizes requirement analysis, exploratory testing, test reporting, and scenario-based questioning. Automation basics — Explains automation strategy, ROI, test pyramid, tool selection, and when to automate. Scripting and frameworks — Details Selenium, Playwright, WebDriverIO, POM, data-driven and keyword-driven frameworks, and best practices for maintainable code. API and service testing — Includes REST/GraphQL testing, Postman, REST-assured, contract testing, and mocking approaches. CI CD and pipelines — Describes integrating tests with Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab, pipeline design, and test orchestration. Performance and security — Introduces JMeter/Gatling/k6 for load testing and OWASP concepts plus basic SAST/DAST checks. Test data and environments — Discusses synthetic data, service virtualization, containerized test environments, and infra-as-code. Reliability and observability — Advises on flaky test mitigation, logging, telemetry, and test stability metrics. Advanced and leadership topics — Covers test strategy at scale, governance, mentoring, metrics-driven quality, and emerging trends like AI in testing. Interview prep tips — Suggests sample questions, answer frameworks, hands-on exercises, and role-specific focus areas for SDET, automation engineer, and test lead roles.
