interview-prep

Prepare for QA automation interviews

Choose the role you are applying for. Answer practice questions and read the explanation for each option. Then try writing tests in the editor.

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By framework

Choose questions or interview coding practice at your level. The coding tasks ask you to write tests.

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Cypress

Cypress interview prep by level: technical questions and pair-coding sessions on the command queue, selectors, retry-ability, waiting, test independence and flaky tests.

questions and test coding · 3 levels · 60 questions

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Playwright

Playwright interview prep by level: technical questions and pair-coding sessions on auto-waiting, locators, web-first assertions and fixtures.

questions and test coding · 3 levels · 60 questions

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Selenium

Selenium interview prep by level: technical questions and pair-coding sessions on waits, locator strategies, findElement vs findElements and stale elements.

questions and test coding · 3 levels · 60 questions

Questions and answers by topic

Read 120 questions with the answers shown. Use the explanations to review topics before an interview.

Cypress: How Cypress runs Cypress: Selecting elements Cypress: Assertions and retry-ability Cypress: Waiting and the network Playwright: Fundamentals and waiting Playwright: Locators and assertions Playwright: Waiting, network and fixtures Selenium: Fundamentals and waiting Selenium: Locators and assertions Selenium: Waits, stale elements and structure

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By role

Choose practice questions for a specific job title.

Role🛠️

SDET

Prepare for SDET interviews: practice questions on test strategy, CI/CD, framework design and flaky tests, plus hands-on coding challenges with solutions.

30 questions · 2 coding challenges

Role🤖

QA Automation Engineer

Practice QA automation engineer interview questions: waits, locator strategy, test independence and what to automate, with explanations and coding tasks.

24 questions · 2 coding challenges

Role🔌

API Testing

API testing interview questions: HTTP methods, status codes, 401 vs 403, what to assert in responses and authentication, with clear explanations.

26 questions · 2 coding challenges

Role📋

Manual QA

Manual QA interview questions: bug reports, severity vs priority, test design techniques, exploratory testing, risk and prioritisation, with clear explanations.

28 questions · 3 coding challenges

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