How To Prepare For Automation Testing Interview

By Author: Kuldeep Rana
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You are here either you are too determined about learning or you have successfully completed your first step of a written test and are ready for a nerve-racking task than saying i.e. Job interview.

A job interview can be a stressful task even for the most experienced and skilled candidates. You had to be prepared for the worst-case scenario. Be it a position of a software developer or a quality tester, you may get questions asked from the topic of automation testing.
Here are some guiding tips that can help you excel over your competitors. It's good if you keep these things in mind.

Think Like a Developer

Try to put yourself in a sphere of how to think, write, and develop codes like a developer, this will help you to free from thinking of the ways in which you can automate your test cases. This kind of mindset will help you to respond better to the questions asked during the interview.

Understand the Basics of Programming

The interviewers generally ask for the basics of programming and you should be well aware with some basic ...
... understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Algorithm:- It is a step-by-step process containing data sets that are required and can be followed to achieve a solution to the problem. You might be asked to write a program i.e.

Palindrome Challenge
FizzBuzz Challenge
Anagram Challenge

Data Structures:- A data structure is a way of storing and organizing the data so that it can be used effectively and efficiently. In automation testing, the data structure can be used by implementing UI maps using dictionaries.
Some of the data structures that you should be familiar with while preparing for any test automation interview are:

Lists - List can be understood as a container that stores data in a specific way. Lists are mutable in nature. i.e. Items can be added and removed from the lists.

Tuples - Tuples are also the same as lists and are used for storing data in a specific way but differ in nature in that tuples are immutable in nature. i.e. Items can’t be added and removed from the lists.

Dictionaries - Dictionaries help in linking keys to values. These are mutable in nature. But are not used for storing data like Tuples and Lists.

Queues - A Queue is a FIFO (First In First Out) data structure.

Stacks - Stacks are of FILO (First In Last Out) data structures, these are like Lists and can be used to store data. The removal of data from the stack is termed as “Popping” and adding them is called “Pushing”.

Que-1 What does an automation tester do?
Ans - An automation tester is one who automates the process of software testing with different tools and systems thus reducing the efforts of the manual testers. In the process of automation testing, test scripts or test cases are written and executed to get the desired results.

Que-2 Can we achieve 100% automation?
Ans - Automation testing is used to support manual testing. Thus it is impossible to make 100% automation because there are some cases where a user before registering to a website needs to enter a captcha.

Que-3 What is an automation testing framework?
Ans - An automation testing framework is a collection of tools and processes that works together to support the process of automation testing. It combines a set of guidelines with various functions like libraries, test data, and environmental practices.
Test automation framework is helpful when you need to run or execute the same test scripts again and again. Bride this some other important benefits are:
Easy maintenance of test code
Enhancing the speed of testing
Improve test efficiency

Que-4 What are some automation testing tools?
Ans - Some of the famous automation testing tools are:-
Katalon Studio - Katalon is a free license, the cross-browser tool that enables the automation testing for APIs, Web Interface, and Mobile Testing. The tools are based on the automation framework of Selenium and Appium. It supports parallel and sequential execution and can perform remote as well as local testing.

Selenium - Selenium is a popular open-source automation testing framework for web applications. It supports various programming languages like PHP, Ruby, Java, etc. Its often used for regression testing.

UFT - Unified Functional Testing. It is a tool that provides functional testing and automated regression testing. We can test Desktop as well as Web-Based Applications.

Que-5 What are the types of frameworks used in Software automation Testing?
Ans - There are 4 types of frameworks used in Software Automation Testing:
Data-driven automation framework
Modular automation framework
Hybrid automation framework
Keyword Driven automation framework

Que-6 What is CAPTCHA?
Ans- CAPTCHAs are the tool used to differentiate between real users and automated users. CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Human Apart

Que-7 How can you automate Testing of the CAPTCHA?
Ans - It is not possible to automate the testing of CAPTCHA. That is what CAPTCHAs are made for. However, if we need to test an application that uses CAPTCHA then we need to create a backdoor with the help of the development team.

So, this is the end of the article. We have covered some of the important questions that are asked during the software testing interview and the ways in which you can excel yourself before any interview. Thanks for reading.:)

Kuldeep is the founder and lead author of ArtOfTesting. He is skilled in test automation, performance testing, big data, and CI-CD. He brings his decade of experience to his current role where he is dedicated to educating the QA professionals. You can find him on LinkedIn.