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What are the Selenium suite components? Mention the advantages of using Selenium as an automation tool. What is test automation or automation testing? What are the advantages of automation testing? What are the limitations of Selenium testing?
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Test Automation Engineer

Interviewed at Infosys

3.6
Jun 15, 2025

What are the Selenium suite components? Mention the advantages of using Selenium as an automation tool. What is test automation or automation testing? What are the advantages of automation testing? What are the limitations of Selenium testing?

1.About myself? 2. API complete knowledge although interview was for API mainly, I was asked to know ETL testing 3.CICD pipeline- answered java- answered sql-I was unaware and said the same.. I guess that was not considered upon asking question regarding same I was told to know it as it might be client requirement
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Automation API Tester

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.2
Jun 17, 2025

1.About myself? 2. API complete knowledge although interview was for API mainly, I was asked to know ETL testing 3.CICD pipeline- answered java- answered sql-I was unaware and said the same.. I guess that was not considered upon asking question regarding same I was told to know it as it might be client requirement

Round 2--coding + Oops concepts+ selenium concepts 1. Code to sort array without using sorting method(iterative method you have to use) 2. Code to find 2nd largest element in array 3. Difference between POM and page factory 4. Explain String lass in java 5. Difference between throws and throw 6. Static and non static fields in java. How they are called from subclasses? 7. Concept of final, finally 8. Constructor overloading and method overriding 9. When to use super and this keywords Scenario based questions: 1. Can we instantiate webdriver driver() = new chromedriver() as chromedriver driver() = new chromedriver()??? 2. What will happen if we write return type for constructor? 3. Can we write two methods in same class with same names and signature
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Selenium Automation Tester

Interviewed at Capgemini

4.2
Feb 2, 2020

Round 2--coding + Oops concepts+ selenium concepts 1. Code to sort array without using sorting method(iterative method you have to use) 2. Code to find 2nd largest element in array 3. Difference between POM and page factory 4. Explain String lass in java 5. Difference between throws and throw 6. Static and non static fields in java. How they are called from subclasses? 7. Concept of final, finally 8. Constructor overloading and method overriding 9. When to use super and this keywords Scenario based questions: 1. Can we instantiate webdriver driver() = new chromedriver() as chromedriver driver() = new chromedriver()??? 2. What will happen if we write return type for constructor? 3. Can we write two methods in same class with same names and signature

Different automation frameworks available in Selenium. Framework used in the project. Questions from Java collections and OOPS concepts. Few Webdriver methods and commands. API response codes and its meaning. Difference between Agile & Waterfall.
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Automation Test Analyst

Interviewed at Infosys

3.6
Nov 30, 2022

Different automation frameworks available in Selenium. Framework used in the project. Questions from Java collections and OOPS concepts. Few Webdriver methods and commands. API response codes and its meaning. Difference between Agile & Waterfall.

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