Senior Quality Assurance Software Testing Engineer Interview Questions

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While waiting for my telephone interview and sitting here for 23 minutes, I went on GlassDoor.com and researched the company. It turns out the company is notorious for being late on telephone interviews and I have read over some very bad experiences from other candidates.

Assessment Details: Objective: To assess UI automation and coding proficiency Tool & Language: Playwright + JavaScript/TypeScript Task: Choose any website Create at least 10 unique test cases Use a standard test runner (e.g., Jest or Playwright’s built-in) Document how to set up and run the project No use of BDD tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow Evaluation Criteria: Code quality and SOLID principles Test design techniques Adherence to best practices Clarity of setup documentation Submission: GitHub public repo or Google Drive link (no GitLab) Timeline: 4 days I completed the task and submitted it on time, but unfortunately, I was rejected. I wasn’t given specific feedback on what went wrong, so I’m unsure where I fell short.
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Assessment Details: Objective: To assess UI automation and coding proficiency Tool & Language: Playwright + JavaScript/TypeScript Task: Choose any website Create at least 10 unique test cases Use a standard test runner (e.g., Jest or Playwright’s built-in) Document how to set up and run the project No use of BDD tools like Cucumber or SpecFlow Evaluation Criteria: Code quality and SOLID principles Test design techniques Adherence to best practices Clarity of setup documentation Submission: GitHub public repo or Google Drive link (no GitLab) Timeline: 4 days I completed the task and submitted it on time, but unfortunately, I was rejected. I wasn’t given specific feedback on what went wrong, so I’m unsure where I fell short.

1) What does Question Mark symbol (?) and hash Symbol (&) means in URL? 2) What are the different types of web servers? 3)What are the different types of Hosting servers? 4)What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS? 5) HTTP Success Code and Error code? 6) What is Null Pointer exception? 7) HTTP Protocol or HTTP Methods or web GET, POST, PUT, DELETE? 8) Put Vs Post Method? 9) REST Vs SOAP? 10) Client Side and Server Side Validation? 11) Cookies and Session 12) SQL Queries like Join, Aggregate functions, etc
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Server QA : Senior Software Test Engineer

Interviewed at GlobalLogic

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Sep 29, 2016

1) What does Question Mark symbol (?) and hash Symbol (&) means in URL? 2) What are the different types of web servers? 3)What are the different types of Hosting servers? 4)What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS? 5) HTTP Success Code and Error code? 6) What is Null Pointer exception? 7) HTTP Protocol or HTTP Methods or web GET, POST, PUT, DELETE? 8) Put Vs Post Method? 9) REST Vs SOAP? 10) Client Side and Server Side Validation? 11) Cookies and Session 12) SQL Queries like Join, Aggregate functions, etc

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