Qa Automation Engineer Interview Questions

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Explain your experience with automation tools (like Selenium, JUnit, etc.). Write a simple code to reverse a string in Python. What are locators in Selenium? Explain their types. How would you approach testing a new feature that’s added to a software product?

QA Engineer

Interviewed at PyjamaHR

4.7
Oct 11, 2024

Explain your experience with automation tools (like Selenium, JUnit, etc.). Write a simple code to reverse a string in Python. What are locators in Selenium? Explain their types. How would you approach testing a new feature that’s added to a software product?

1)He asked me what is the difference between :hkey_local_machine vs hkey_current_user 2)He also gave me this quiz (maybe he thought that this company is like Google...): You have a 3 and a 5 litre water container, each container has no markings except for that which gives you it's total volume. You also have a running tap. You must use the containers and the tap in such away as to exactly measure out 4 litter of water. How is this done?

QA & Support Engineer

Interviewed at Secure Islands Technologies

4.5
Oct 18, 2013

1)He asked me what is the difference between :hkey_local_machine vs hkey_current_user 2)He also gave me this quiz (maybe he thought that this company is like Google...): You have a 3 and a 5 litre water container, each container has no markings except for that which gives you it's total volume. You also have a running tap. You must use the containers and the tap in such away as to exactly measure out 4 litter of water. How is this done?

Even though the interview was with HR, there was 1 technical question; specifically “what happens when you put a web address into your browser, and press Enter”, and you had to describe in detail what happens from there.
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Software QA Engineer

Interviewed at Golden Frog

2.3
Aug 2, 2012

Even though the interview was with HR, there was 1 technical question; specifically “what happens when you put a web address into your browser, and press Enter”, and you had to describe in detail what happens from there.

There was a logic question that involved thinking out of the box: Given a bead that would split into two per second, and a room that will get filled within a certain time frame (say, from 7:00 to 9:30pm), how long is it before the room will be 1/4 full of beads?
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Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Interviewed at NetSuite

3.8
May 7, 2014

There was a logic question that involved thinking out of the box: Given a bead that would split into two per second, and a room that will get filled within a certain time frame (say, from 7:00 to 9:30pm), how long is it before the room will be 1/4 full of beads?

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