Testing and Automation Tools Questions

Comprehensive knowledge of testing tools, automation frameworks, and platforms used to ensure software quality and reliability. Candidates should understand and be able to describe industry standard tools for browser automation such as Selenium, mobile testing frameworks such as Appium, and unit and integration testing frameworks such as TestNG and JUnit. This topic also covers test management platforms such as TestRail and Zephyr and bug tracking systems such as Jira. Candidates should be able to explain test automation strategies including the test pyramid, selection and prioritization of tests to automate, organization of test suites, parameterization, fixtures, mocking and stubbing, and test data management. It includes how automation integrates into continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, including running tests in build pipelines, parallelization, environment provisioning, test orchestration, and use of cloud device farms or grids for parallel execution. Interviewers may probe debugging and failure analysis approaches, reporting and dashboards, mitigating flaky tests, maintenance and scalability of automation, and trade offs made when selecting tools and designing frameworks.