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Role: Automation Test Engineer

College: Not Specified

Interview Date: November 02, 2023 (Based on video upload date for common questions for this role)

Interview Type: Full-Time

Result: Not Specified

Difficulty: Medium

Rounds: Not Specified (Implied multiple technical and behavioral discussions)

Topics Asked: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, API Testing, Frameworks, Exception Handling, Data Handling (Excel, JSON, Properties, XML, Database), HTTP Methods (GET, POST), Complex API Response Handling

Experience:

For an Automation Test Engineer role with 2 to 8 years of experience, the interview typically covers a range of technical and behavioral topics.

Common Questions/Topics:

• Tell me about yourself: Focus on skill set, experience, current project, and technologies.
• Frameworks: How to take external data from the framework (e.g., Excel, JSON, Properties, XML, Database) and how to implement this in a framework.
• Java Concepts: Exception handling in Java.
• Selenium: What version of Selenium are you using?
• API Testing: Have you worked on API testing? If yes, what tools (e.g., Postman, Rest Assured) have you used?
• HTTP Methods: What are POST and GET methods? Explain CRUD operations in API testing.
• Complex API Response Handling: How do you handle complex response data in API testing (e.g., Pojo class, JSON path, Hamcrest)?

The interviewer expects candidates to be proficient in Java, Selenium, Cucumber, and API testing as these are considered mandatory skills.