Senior Test Automation Engineer Interview Questions

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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

4.3
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.

Round 1 - Brief about yourself and explain current role Explain latest framework Write all possible test cases for scenario - "Changes visible on UI once user has submitted an order on Amazon/Flipkart" How to handle alert pop-ups in Selenium? Which test case management tool have you used and explain how you handle stories and defects on it. How to handle New Window and Frames in Selenium? Write functional testcases to validate API for scenario - "Order placement and payment gateway transaction" =================================================== Round 2 - Find the longest common substring among 2 strings - String str1 = "testingisaprocess"; String str2 = "testprocessistesting"; 1) find the longest substring from string 1 2) find the longest substring from string 2 3) Comparing both substrings - lower case 4) Comparing both substrings - upper case 5) if there words that are having the same length in both s1 & s2 - report those words Write all possible testcases you can think about for given scenario - "Multiple users are concurrently working on the same google sheet. They are viewing, editing, manually saving their work. Also there is an autosave option inbuilt into google sheets."
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Senior Automation Test Engineer

Interviewed at Manuh Technologies

3.7
May 21, 2024

Round 1 - Brief about yourself and explain current role Explain latest framework Write all possible test cases for scenario - "Changes visible on UI once user has submitted an order on Amazon/Flipkart" How to handle alert pop-ups in Selenium? Which test case management tool have you used and explain how you handle stories and defects on it. How to handle New Window and Frames in Selenium? Write functional testcases to validate API for scenario - "Order placement and payment gateway transaction" =================================================== Round 2 - Find the longest common substring among 2 strings - String str1 = "testingisaprocess"; String str2 = "testprocessistesting"; 1) find the longest substring from string 1 2) find the longest substring from string 2 3) Comparing both substrings - lower case 4) Comparing both substrings - upper case 5) if there words that are having the same length in both s1 & s2 - report those words Write all possible testcases you can think about for given scenario - "Multiple users are concurrently working on the same google sheet. They are viewing, editing, manually saving their work. Also there is an autosave option inbuilt into google sheets."

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