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ChatGPT said: "OOP principles enhance Python automation." "Pytest simplifies test case management." "Selenium automates UI interactions efficiently." "API testing ensures backend reliability." "UI and API tests complement."
Mar 25, 2025

ChatGPT said: "OOP principles enhance Python automation." "Pytest simplifies test case management." "Selenium automates UI interactions efficiently." "API testing ensures backend reliability." "UI and API tests complement."

Round 1: SDET Director It wend pretty well. Interviewer was knowledgeable and asked the questions around past projects and managerial skill Round 2: SDE Director Focus was on algorithmic questions. 1. Print tree in zigzag manner 2. in 2D-array if elements are in increasing order in Row and column then find the particular element Interviewer was calm and cool. I couldn't give the answer for questions as I was not prepared well I was happy with the interview experience till this point Round 3 : Sr SDET Manager Was asked mainly around the processes followed in my company and couple of random questions. In this round interviewer was talking more than me. Round 4 : Sr SDET Manager Interviewer had some questions and was expecting the same answers which he had in mind. I was expecting maturity level for person with such designation And as usual no feedback from HR team.
Nov 4, 2017

Round 1: SDET Director It wend pretty well. Interviewer was knowledgeable and asked the questions around past projects and managerial skill Round 2: SDE Director Focus was on algorithmic questions. 1. Print tree in zigzag manner 2. in 2D-array if elements are in increasing order in Row and column then find the particular element Interviewer was calm and cool. I couldn't give the answer for questions as I was not prepared well I was happy with the interview experience till this point Round 3 : Sr SDET Manager Was asked mainly around the processes followed in my company and couple of random questions. In this round interviewer was talking more than me. Round 4 : Sr SDET Manager Interviewer had some questions and was expecting the same answers which he had in mind. I was expecting maturity level for person with such designation And as usual no feedback from HR team.

basic oops concepts,discussion on types of testing done in the previous projects,reverse string using stack and linkedlist. What I did not liked was she asked me for a particular project that I had worked on,why this manual testing was done and not automation.
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Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)

Interviewed at Expedia Group

3.7
Mar 28, 2014

basic oops concepts,discussion on types of testing done in the previous projects,reverse string using stack and linkedlist. What I did not liked was she asked me for a particular project that I had worked on,why this manual testing was done and not automation.

Round2 : Question 1: You have a website & you want to know the number of hits made in last 5 seconds. Even a user refreshes the page, it will be considered a new hit. Provide the approach for this. Question 2: web service - cache - yes ---> return (timeout is 1 second) else go to api call - yes ---> return (timeout 5 seconds) else go to database - yes ---> return (timeout 10 seconds) default error You have to implement above kind of system where each module is used if it is Up, else check with next module. What design pattern you will follow. Question 3: Difference between SOAP & REST Question 4: Have you used Micoservices? Question 5: Which framework did you use in REST? He was suggesting like Jersey webserver, Spring.
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Senior Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Expedia Group

3.7
Feb 27, 2020

Round2 : Question 1: You have a website & you want to know the number of hits made in last 5 seconds. Even a user refreshes the page, it will be considered a new hit. Provide the approach for this. Question 2: web service - cache - yes ---> return (timeout is 1 second) else go to api call - yes ---> return (timeout 5 seconds) else go to database - yes ---> return (timeout 10 seconds) default error You have to implement above kind of system where each module is used if it is Up, else check with next module. What design pattern you will follow. Question 3: Difference between SOAP & REST Question 4: Have you used Micoservices? Question 5: Which framework did you use in REST? He was suggesting like Jersey webserver, Spring.

2. Write python code to count the no. of occurrences of list elements. 3. Linux command to transfer a file from one server to another server. 4. Linux command to check for no. of ports connected 5. Linux command to list down all the files and folders recursively 6. Linux command to list down the files and directories sizewise 7. Inheritance question - Class A, B, C, D , all have test(), B and C are inheriting A, D is inheriting B and C, then which test() will be called. 8. What is the difference between an instance method and a class method? 9. Difference between list and set. 10. Difference between list and tuple. 11. Types of inheritance. 12. Types of testing, Difference between System and Integration testing 13. Components of an E-commerce grocery site. 14. Write down test cases for Login functionality.
Apr 29, 2020

2. Write python code to count the no. of occurrences of list elements. 3. Linux command to transfer a file from one server to another server. 4. Linux command to check for no. of ports connected 5. Linux command to list down all the files and folders recursively 6. Linux command to list down the files and directories sizewise 7. Inheritance question - Class A, B, C, D , all have test(), B and C are inheriting A, D is inheriting B and C, then which test() will be called. 8. What is the difference between an instance method and a class method? 9. Difference between list and set. 10. Difference between list and tuple. 11. Types of inheritance. 12. Types of testing, Difference between System and Integration testing 13. Components of an E-commerce grocery site. 14. Write down test cases for Login functionality.

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