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I'll focus on the technical part of the interview only. This consisted of creating an automated test solution within 5-7 days, The AUT is the production app itself. This is a bit tricky, because there are measures in place to detect fraud and automated scripts, which are usually bypassed in test environments. As I understood it this part will somewhat change in the future, because it's not 100% fair. Afterwards there was a technical discussion, which was a bit easy, but on point. There was no nonsense like reciting documentation from memory, that you encounter in other lame interviews at other companies.
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Senior Test Automation Engineer

Interviewed at MailerLite

4.4
Apr 19, 2025

I'll focus on the technical part of the interview only. This consisted of creating an automated test solution within 5-7 days, The AUT is the production app itself. This is a bit tricky, because there are measures in place to detect fraud and automated scripts, which are usually bypassed in test environments. As I understood it this part will somewhat change in the future, because it's not 100% fair. Afterwards there was a technical discussion, which was a bit easy, but on point. There was no nonsense like reciting documentation from memory, that you encounter in other lame interviews at other companies.

Finastra Interview Questions- 1st round - CCAT exam ( Shapes related questions, Apti, verbal) 2nd round- Technical Interview Questions- - Brief me about your projects which you have worked on so far? - Have you worked in manual & automation both? - Explain some Oops concepts which you have used? - What is abstraction? - Can we achieve Multilevel Inheritance? - Can we achieve multiple inheritance? - what is the way to achieve multiple inheritance? - Can we create object of abstract classes? - Which all collections you have used? - What is the difference between Set & Map? - Can we store null values & null keys inside set? - How many null values are allowed in set? -Write a program to read input from a string? - Explain the program to read the value from Excel? - Write a Java program to print pattern ***** **** *** ** * - Write a Java Program to find the palindrome of a string ., Execution using online compiler. -What is exceptional handling? - which all exceptions you have encountered in Selenium? - What is StaleElementException? - How to overcome/resolve staleelement exception. - Have you used testNG? - What is the order of sequence of annotations in testNG? - What is groups in testNG? - What annotation is used to group the test cases? - What is git fetch , git pull & git push commands? - How do you resolve conflicts in GitHub? - Have you worked on Api automation? - how do you pass the data for api automation? - What is the exact process you follow in your team ? - Feedback of the Interview.
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Senior QA Automation Engineer

Interviewed at Finastra

3.7
Dec 14, 2021

Finastra Interview Questions- 1st round - CCAT exam ( Shapes related questions, Apti, verbal) 2nd round- Technical Interview Questions- - Brief me about your projects which you have worked on so far? - Have you worked in manual & automation both? - Explain some Oops concepts which you have used? - What is abstraction? - Can we achieve Multilevel Inheritance? - Can we achieve multiple inheritance? - what is the way to achieve multiple inheritance? - Can we create object of abstract classes? - Which all collections you have used? - What is the difference between Set & Map? - Can we store null values & null keys inside set? - How many null values are allowed in set? -Write a program to read input from a string? - Explain the program to read the value from Excel? - Write a Java program to print pattern ***** **** *** ** * - Write a Java Program to find the palindrome of a string ., Execution using online compiler. -What is exceptional handling? - which all exceptions you have encountered in Selenium? - What is StaleElementException? - How to overcome/resolve staleelement exception. - Have you used testNG? - What is the order of sequence of annotations in testNG? - What is groups in testNG? - What annotation is used to group the test cases? - What is git fetch , git pull & git push commands? - How do you resolve conflicts in GitHub? - Have you worked on Api automation? - how do you pass the data for api automation? - What is the exact process you follow in your team ? - Feedback of the Interview.

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