Senior Software Test Engineer Interview Questions

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Phone Screening: 1. Brief about yourself - The current team and the daily task you carry about. 2. Automation Framework - API - Data Driven Framework - Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Org.simple.JSON; UI - Data Driven Framework - Java, Selenium Webdriver, POM Design Principle, TestNG. 3. How would you disable one JSON key-value pair in your framework - By not setting the value of the JSON key-value pair in my automation framework 4. Which has better performance - Where clause or Having clause? 5. Difference between Inner Join, Outer Join, and Full Join 6. Difference between POST and PUT 7. When a log file is updating what command you would use to check the logs - tail -10f command 8. What is ps -ef | grep java (process name) is exactly doing? 9. How would you kill a process - kill -9 PID 10. What is internationalization and how did you perform your automation? 11. What all the CRUD operations you performed in your automation? 12. How will you connect from your local machine to server - Key authentication 13. Difference between hard assert and soft assert
May 1, 2018

Phone Screening: 1. Brief about yourself - The current team and the daily task you carry about. 2. Automation Framework - API - Data Driven Framework - Java, Rest Assured, TestNG, Org.simple.JSON; UI - Data Driven Framework - Java, Selenium Webdriver, POM Design Principle, TestNG. 3. How would you disable one JSON key-value pair in your framework - By not setting the value of the JSON key-value pair in my automation framework 4. Which has better performance - Where clause or Having clause? 5. Difference between Inner Join, Outer Join, and Full Join 6. Difference between POST and PUT 7. When a log file is updating what command you would use to check the logs - tail -10f command 8. What is ps -ef | grep java (process name) is exactly doing? 9. How would you kill a process - kill -9 PID 10. What is internationalization and how did you perform your automation? 11. What all the CRUD operations you performed in your automation? 12. How will you connect from your local machine to server - Key authentication 13. Difference between hard assert and soft assert

Given a list of lists, iterate over them and detect if a certain pattern exists. I froze, and bombed. After the call I solved it in 3 minutes (naive n^2) ... sigh. I'm pretty sure if I got it right they would changed the pattern such that it required a BFS solution.
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Senior Software Test Engineer

Interviewed at Indeed

3.8
Feb 5, 2021

Given a list of lists, iterate over them and detect if a certain pattern exists. I froze, and bombed. After the call I solved it in 3 minutes (naive n^2) ... sigh. I'm pretty sure if I got it right they would changed the pattern such that it required a BFS solution.

Round 2: - What is the difference between - String, StringBuilder, StringBuffer? - What is the difference between - Abstract Class vs Inheritance? - When will you go for Abstract Class and When will you go for Interfaces? - Given arr1 = {1, 12, 15, extra space1, extra space 2, ... ,extra space N}, arr2 = {2, 4, 35}. Merge these two sorted arrays in arr1 without the help of a third array. Makes sure that arr1 is also sorted. Give an O(1) solution. - Balance the given parentheses. - Given an array - Find the sum pairs which satisfies the condition a+b = c+d in the array
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Senior Software Test Engineer

Interviewed at Myntra

3.7
Jul 1, 2018

Round 2: - What is the difference between - String, StringBuilder, StringBuffer? - What is the difference between - Abstract Class vs Inheritance? - When will you go for Abstract Class and When will you go for Interfaces? - Given arr1 = {1, 12, 15, extra space1, extra space 2, ... ,extra space N}, arr2 = {2, 4, 35}. Merge these two sorted arrays in arr1 without the help of a third array. Makes sure that arr1 is also sorted. Give an O(1) solution. - Balance the given parentheses. - Given an array - Find the sum pairs which satisfies the condition a+b = c+d in the array

Problem Statement: There's a queue which has N producers at one end and N consumers at the other end. The Producers get their input from an SDK. The queue actions can be controlled by APIs. Now When there are 1000+ orders placed in a minute in Myntra portal, come up with a solution in the framework on how you will validate the packets sent and received are the same in the Queue? Note: Here there are N producers and N consumers. Any consumer can receive a packet from any producer. There can also be scenarios that Queue is blocked and not flushed at for a very long time. Due to high traffic, the queue may not drain all the packets at the regular period of interval. Keep all the negative scenarios in mind while designing this framework.
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Senior Software Test Engineer

Interviewed at Myntra

3.7
Jul 1, 2018

Problem Statement: There's a queue which has N producers at one end and N consumers at the other end. The Producers get their input from an SDK. The queue actions can be controlled by APIs. Now When there are 1000+ orders placed in a minute in Myntra portal, come up with a solution in the framework on how you will validate the packets sent and received are the same in the Queue? Note: Here there are N producers and N consumers. Any consumer can receive a packet from any producer. There can also be scenarios that Queue is blocked and not flushed at for a very long time. Due to high traffic, the queue may not drain all the packets at the regular period of interval. Keep all the negative scenarios in mind while designing this framework.

General Manual Testing questions. Bug life cycle, sdlc, stlc, agile, puzzles. it was very good and fast. Pure manual testing questions asked. First round, normal previous employers and projects,second round, it was technichal and asked so many manual testing questions
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Senior Software Test Engineer

Interviewed at GlobalLogic

3.8
Apr 19, 2019

General Manual Testing questions. Bug life cycle, sdlc, stlc, agile, puzzles. it was very good and fast. Pure manual testing questions asked. First round, normal previous employers and projects,second round, it was technichal and asked so many manual testing questions

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