170+ Essential QA Automation Interview Questions & Tips 2024

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction and How Interview Questions Are Designed

Lecture 2: Your Honest Feedback is Our Fuel for Success!

Chapter 2: Selenium Core and Java Interview Questions

Lecture 1: What interview questions will be covered in this session?

Lecture 2: Explain Differences Between XPath and CSS Selector.

Lecture 3: How can alerts be managed in Selenium WebDriver?

Lecture 4: How do we utilize the CSS selector through the nth element?

Lecture 5: How to Execute Tests in Chrome's Headless Mode?

Lecture 6: How to manage alerts and popups originating from Windows in Selenium?

Lecture 7: How to Overcome StaleElementReferenceException in Selenium?

Lecture 8: What are Listeners in Selenium?

Lecture 9: What are the Challenges with Selenium Automation?

Lecture 10: What are the Different Types of Frameworks?

Lecture 11: What benefits does Selenium bring to the field of automation testing?

Lecture 12: What is a Framework?

Lecture 13: What is soft and hard assertion in selenium?

Lecture 14: What is the difference between WebDriver.findElement vs WebElement.findElement?

Lecture 15: What is the differences between Page Object Model and Page Factory?

Lecture 16: What types of exceptions have you encountered while using Selenium WebDriver?

Lecture 17: When to Use Hard and Soft Assertions?

Lecture 18: When to Use Selenium Grid?

Lecture 19: Which locators does Selenium support?

Chapter 3: Advanced Selenium WebDriver API Interview Questions

Lecture 1: How do you validate if an element is visible or hidden on a web page

Lecture 2: What are the methods to handle Java Alerts in Selenium

Lecture 3: What is the difference between relative and absolute XPath

Lecture 4: Can you provide a sample XPath syntax to handle a parent from a child object

Lecture 5: How can we verify if we have successfully navigated to a child window

Lecture 6: How can you determine if a checkbox is selected in Selenium using Java

Lecture 7: How can you enter text in caps lock

Lecture 8: How can you get the count of links on a web page using Selenium

Lecture 9: How can you get the count of similar objects listed on a web page

Lecture 10: How do you perform a mouseover on a web element

Lecture 11: Write the syntax for XPath and CSS if ID and tag are given.

Lecture 12: How do you use Contains regular expression in XPath

Lecture 13: How do you use regular expressions in CSS

Lecture 14: How to handle child windows

Lecture 15: How to handle HTTPS certification in Chromes

Lecture 16: In how many ways can we handle frames in the application using WebDriver methods

Lecture 17: What are the different types of locators present in WebDriver

Lecture 18: What are the key factors to consider when selecting a locator for elements

Lecture 19: What is implicit wait

Lecture 20: What is the class available in Selenium to handle dropdowns

Lecture 21: What is the difference between implicit and explicit wait

Lecture 22: What is the difference between the get and navigate methods in Selenium

Lecture 23: What is the difference between the quit and close methods in WebDriver?

Lecture 24: What is the significance of the desired capabilities mechanism in Selenium

Lecture 25: Which driver is required to run tests in Chrome

Lecture 26: Which driver is required to run tests in Firefox

Lecture 27: Which two functions are commonly used to implement explicit waits in Selenium We

Lecture 28: Write the syntax for XPath and CSS if ID and tag are given.

Lecture 29: How do you take screenshots with Selenium WebDriver. Just explain with the code.

Chapter 4: Automation Framework and TestNG Interview Questions

Lecture 1: How can multiple data parameterizations be managed within an Automation Framewor

Lecture 2: How do you handle single data characterization in TestNG?

Lecture 3: What is TestNG.mov

Lecture 4: What are the main file components of an Automation framework built for Selenium?

Lecture 5: How to selectively execute test cases within a test suite?

Lecture 6: What are the advantages of using TestNG over JUnit

Lecture 7: How to include and exclude test methods from your test suite execution?

Lecture 8: How to set priority for execution in Automation Framework in TestNG?

Lecture 9: How does TestNG generate reports

Lecture 10: What are the annotations in TestNG. Name some of the annotation.?

Lecture 11: What is Invocation Count in TestNG?

Lecture 12: How do you integrate TestNG with Selenium WebDriver

Lecture 13: What are the different strategies for organizing locators in an automation?

Lecture 14: How to achieve parallel execution in TestNG?

Lecture 15: What is timeOut in TestNG?

Lecture 16: How can you execute specific tests from a set of test cases in Automation?

Lecture 17: Can you explain how you would execute preconditions for a specific scenario with

Chapter 5: Cucumber/BDD Interview Questions

Lecture 1: What purpose does the "glue" serve in the Cucumber Options tag?

Lecture 2: What is Scenario Outline in Cucumber?

Lecture 3: Illustrate the benefits of Cucumber.

Lecture 4: What is BDD in software testing?

Lecture 5: Can you explain how you would execute preconditions?

Lecture 6: How can I integrate TestNG with Cucumber to capture screenshots of failed tests?

Lecture 7: How to set priority for execution in Cucumber Automation Framework?

Lecture 8: How to include and exclude test methods from your test suite execution using Cuc

Lecture 9: How to execute test cases within a test suite in Cucumber?

Lecture 10: How does a Cucumber-based Automation Framework handle multiple data parameteriza

Lecture 11: How do you handle single data parameterization in Cucumber

Lecture 12: What are the main file components of an Automation framework built for Selenium?

Chapter 6: API Testing /Web Service Interview Questions

Lecture 1: Is it permissible to employ a POST request in lieu of put for resource creation?

Lecture 2: Is it possible to utilize a get request rather than put for resource creation

Lecture 3: What is the Protocol Used by RESTful Web Services?

Lecture 4: What are are the differences between API testing and UI testing?

Lecture 5: What are the differences between API testing and UI testing?

Lecture 6: What are the essential elements of an HTTP message sent by a client??

Lecture 7: What is Query Parameters?

Lecture 8: What is Path Parameters?

Lecture 9: What exactly needs to verify in API testing?

Lecture 10: What is a Rest API?

Lecture 11: What makes API testing the most suitable form for automation testing?

Lecture 12: Could you list of several authentication techniques utilized in APIs?

Lecture 13: Which HTTP Methods are typically used?

Lecture 14: How do PUT and POST methods differ from each other?

Lecture 15: What is a post method?