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-Tell me about yourself -What is your role on the project, give an example -Tell me about last time you learned about technology -Tell me about a time how did you help your team and your project -Tell me about what did you learn something new from your manager or coworker, give an example -When you got a new product, how do you test -What will you do when you miss a deadline for a release
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QA Automation Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Dec 17, 2020

-Tell me about yourself -What is your role on the project, give an example -Tell me about last time you learned about technology -Tell me about a time how did you help your team and your project -Tell me about what did you learn something new from your manager or coworker, give an example -When you got a new product, how do you test -What will you do when you miss a deadline for a release

Questions from the Interview: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Questions about the project and its architecture: • What part of the project are you responsible for in automation? • What part of the architecture do you work on? • How does your project look in terms of structure? (You mentioned a utilities package, a runner, and a tab definition, but he wanted more detailed information.) 3. UI Automation: • Which part of the automation do you handle? (You mentioned UI) 4. SQL Queries: • How do you use SQL queries? • Why do you need SQL queries in the project? 5. API: • Why do you need an API in your project? • Which part consists of the API? • What exactly does the API do in your project? • What is your role in API testing? 6. Testing Process: • How do you handle manual and automation testing? • What is the percentage split between manual and automation testing? 7. Reporting: • How do you report your work? • In what format do you report your work? (You mentioned Excel, and he asked about JIRA) • Do you use JIRA reports? (You confirmed that you do) 8. Reporting Hierarchy: • To whom do you report? (You mentioned the test lead) • Who does the test lead report to? • To whom does the Scrum Master report? (You said the PO) • How do they get their tasks, and who assigns them? 9. Team Structure: • What does your team look like? • Who are the team members? • Who else is involved in the company besides those people? (You mentioned 11) • Who developed the project? • Do you know the developers, and do you communicate with them? 10. Agile Methodology: • What ceremonies are involved in Agile? • Name the Agile ceremonies. • What is a retrospective? • When was the last retrospective, what did you discuss, how did you make decisions, and what was fixed afterward? 11. UI Testing: • Questions about the more technical aspects of UI testing. 12. Test Cases: • What percentage of test cases do you have in the project? • What is the quantity of the test cases? 13. Regression Testing: • How often do you run regression tests? • For what purpose do you run regression tests? 14. Career Change: • Why did you change your profession from being a lawyer to IT? • Why do you want to work as a tester? • Why did you choose this field? • Since you mentioned being a lawyer in Uzbekistan with education valid there, but not here, why is IT your chosen path? • He kept asking why you changed your profession. 15. Locators: • How do you write locators directly from the code, not from the DOM? 16. Page Factory Pattern: • Explain the use of PageFactory.initElements(driver, this) in your automation framework.
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QA Automation Engineer

Interviewed at Silicon Valley Bank

4★
Oct 12, 2024

Questions from the Interview: 1. Tell me about yourself. 2. Questions about the project and its architecture: • What part of the project are you responsible for in automation? • What part of the architecture do you work on? • How does your project look in terms of structure? (You mentioned a utilities package, a runner, and a tab definition, but he wanted more detailed information.) 3. UI Automation: • Which part of the automation do you handle? (You mentioned UI) 4. SQL Queries: • How do you use SQL queries? • Why do you need SQL queries in the project? 5. API: • Why do you need an API in your project? • Which part consists of the API? • What exactly does the API do in your project? • What is your role in API testing? 6. Testing Process: • How do you handle manual and automation testing? • What is the percentage split between manual and automation testing? 7. Reporting: • How do you report your work? • In what format do you report your work? (You mentioned Excel, and he asked about JIRA) • Do you use JIRA reports? (You confirmed that you do) 8. Reporting Hierarchy: • To whom do you report? (You mentioned the test lead) • Who does the test lead report to? • To whom does the Scrum Master report? (You said the PO) • How do they get their tasks, and who assigns them? 9. Team Structure: • What does your team look like? • Who are the team members? • Who else is involved in the company besides those people? (You mentioned 11) • Who developed the project? • Do you know the developers, and do you communicate with them? 10. Agile Methodology: • What ceremonies are involved in Agile? • Name the Agile ceremonies. • What is a retrospective? • When was the last retrospective, what did you discuss, how did you make decisions, and what was fixed afterward? 11. UI Testing: • Questions about the more technical aspects of UI testing. 12. Test Cases: • What percentage of test cases do you have in the project? • What is the quantity of the test cases? 13. Regression Testing: • How often do you run regression tests? • For what purpose do you run regression tests? 14. Career Change: • Why did you change your profession from being a lawyer to IT? • Why do you want to work as a tester? • Why did you choose this field? • Since you mentioned being a lawyer in Uzbekistan with education valid there, but not here, why is IT your chosen path? • He kept asking why you changed your profession. 15. Locators: • How do you write locators directly from the code, not from the DOM? 16. Page Factory Pattern: • Explain the use of PageFactory.initElements(driver, this) in your automation framework.

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