170+ Essential QA Automation Interview Questions & Tips 2024 (Be Prepared to Attend any QA Automation Interview)

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170+ Essential QA Automation Interview Questions & Tips 2024 Table of Contents:

1. Introduction and How Interview Questions are Designed (03:30)
2. What interview questions will be covered in this session? (04:53)
3. Explain Differences Between XPath and CSS Selector. (01:45)
4. How can alerts be managed in Selenium WebDriver? (01:26)
5. How do we utilize the CSS selector through the nth element? (01:29)
6. How to Execute Tests in Chrome's Headless Mode? (01:20)
7. How to manage alerts and popups originating from Windows in Selenium? (02:44)
8. How to Overcome StaleElementReferenceException in Selenium? (01:44)
9. What are Listeners in Selenium? (01:27)
10. What are the Challenges with Selenium Automation? (02:35)
11. What are the Different Types of Frameworks? (02:15)
12. What benefits does Selenium bring to the field of automation testing? (02:20)
13. What is a Framework? (01:36)
14. What is soft and hard assertion in Selenium? (01:56)
15. What is the difference between WebDriver.findElement vs WebElement.findElement? (01:35)
16. What is the differences between Page Object Model and Page Factory? (02:12)
17. What types of exceptions have you encountered while using Selenium WebDriver? (02:25)
18. When to Use Hard and Soft Assertions? (00:44)
19. When to Use Selenium Grid? (01:39)
20. Which locators does Selenium support? (01:46)
21. How do you validate if an element is visible or hidden on a web page? (01:53)
22. What are the methods to handle Java Alerts in Selenium? (01:38)
23. What is the difference between relative and absolute XPath? (01:07)
24. Can you provide a sample XPath syntax to handle a parent from a child object? (00:37)
25. How can we verify if we have successfully navigated to a child window? (02:23)
26. How can you determine if a checkbox is selected in Selenium using Java? (02:29)
27. How can you enter text in caps lock? (01:54)
28. How can you get the count of links on a web page using Selenium? (01:38)
29. How can you get the count of similar objects listed on a web page? (02:00)
30. How do you perform a mouseover on a web element? (02:02)
31. Write the syntax for XPath and CSS if ID and tag are given. (02:10)
32. How do you use Contains regular expression in XPath? (01:18)
33. How do you use regular expressions in CSS? (01:35)
34. How to handle child windows? (01:58)
35. How to handle HTTPS certification in Chrome? (01:59)
36. In how many ways can we handle frames in the application using WebDriver methods? (01:58)
37. What are the different types of locators present in WebDriver? (02:28)
38. What are the key factors to consider when selecting a locator for elements? (01:09)
39. What is implicit wait? (01:44)
40. What is the class available in Selenium to handle dropdowns? (03:04)
41. What is the difference between implicit and explicit wait? (03:34)
42. What is the difference between the get and navigate methods in Selenium? (01:17)
43. What is the difference between the quit and close methods in WebDriver? (01:00)
44. What is the significance of the desired capabilities mechanism in Selenium? (00:36)
45. Which driver is required to run tests in Chrome? (02:41)
46. Which driver is required to run tests in Firefox? (00:40)
47. Which two functions are commonly used to implement explicit waits in Selenium WebDriver? (01:20)
48. Write the syntax for XPath and CSS if ID and tag are given. (02:10)
49. How do you take screenshots with Selenium WebDriver? Just explain with the code. (01:30)
50. How can multiple data parameterizations be managed within an Automation Framework? (02:35)
51. How do you handle single data characterization in TestNG? (02:06)
52. What is TestNG? (01:58)
53. What are the main file components of an Automation framework built for Selenium? (02:02)
54. How to selectively execute test cases within a test suite? (02:26)
55. What are the advantages of using TestNG over JUnit? (02:48)
56. How to include and exclude test methods from your test suite execution? (02:19)
57. How to set priority for execution in Automation Framework in TestNG? (01:28)
58. How does TestNG generate reports? (03:01)
59. What are the annotations in TestNG? Name some of the annotation. (02:27)
60. What is Invocation Count in TestNG? (00:33)
61. How do you integrate TestNG with Selenium WebDriver? (01:00)
62. What are the different strategies for organizing locators in an automation? (01:21)
63. How to achieve parallel execution in TestNG? (03:52)
64. What is timeOut in TestNG? (01:30)
65. How can you execute specific tests from a set of test cases in Automation? (02:37)
66. Can you explain how you would execute preconditions for a specific scenario with TestNG? (01:54)
67. What purpose does the "glue" serve in the Cucumber Options tag? (01:18)
68. What is Scenario Outline in Cucumber? (02:52)
69. Illustrate the benefits of Cucumber. (02:18)
70. What is BDD in software testing? (01:43)
71. Can you explain how you would execute preconditions? (02:18)
72. How can I integrate TestNG with Cucumber to capture screenshots of failed tests? (01:12)
73. How to set priority for execution in Cucumber Automation Framework? (01:20)
74. How to include and exclude test methods from your test suite execution using Cucumber? (01:31)
75. How to execute test cases within a test suite in Cucumber? (02:57)
76. How does a Cucumber-based Automation Framework handle multiple data parameterizations? (02:06)
77. How do you handle single data parameterization in Cucumber? (05:34)
78. Is it permissible to employ a POST request in lieu of put for resource creation? (01:06)
79. Is it possible to utilize a get request rather than put for resource creation? (01:12)
80. What is the Protocol Used by RESTful Web Services? (00:59)
81. What are are the differences between API testing and UI testing? (03:12)
82. What exactly needs to verify in API testing? (02:26)
83. What is a Rest API? (01:49)
84. What makes API testing the most suitable form for automation testing? (02:16)
85. Could you list several authentication techniques utilized in APIs? (01:54)
86. Which HTTP Methods are typically used? (01:03)
87. How do PUT and POST methods differ from each other? (03:00)

Who is this course for?

1. Software Testers
2. Technical Quality Manager
3. Software Engineers
4. Quality Analyst (QA Analyst)
5. Quality Assurance Tester (QA Tester)
6. Quality Assurance Engineer (QA Engineer)
7. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
8. Software Quality Assurance Analyst
9. Automation Tester
10. Manual Tester
11. Testing Analyst

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