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Manual Testing: What is the difference between verification and validation? Explain the defect lifecycle with an example. How do you write effective test cases? Automation Testing: 4. Which automation tools have you worked with, and why? 5. How do you handle dynamic elements in Selenium? 6. Explain the concept of a test automation framework. API Testing: 7. How do you test APIs using Postman or SoapUI? 8. What are the key differences between SOAP and REST APIs? 9. How do you handle response validation in API testing? Database Testing: 10. Write an SQL query to fetch the second highest salary from an employee table. 11. How do you validate data consistency between front-end and back-end? Scenario-Based: 12. How would you test a login page with multiple user roles? 13. If a high-priority defect is not fixed before the release, what would you do? Behavioral: 14. Describe a challenging testing scenario and how you handled it. 15. How do you prioritize your testing tasks when time is limited?
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Software Lead Engineer

Interviewed at ITC Infotech

4.2
Mar 27, 2025

Manual Testing: What is the difference between verification and validation? Explain the defect lifecycle with an example. How do you write effective test cases? Automation Testing: 4. Which automation tools have you worked with, and why? 5. How do you handle dynamic elements in Selenium? 6. Explain the concept of a test automation framework. API Testing: 7. How do you test APIs using Postman or SoapUI? 8. What are the key differences between SOAP and REST APIs? 9. How do you handle response validation in API testing? Database Testing: 10. Write an SQL query to fetch the second highest salary from an employee table. 11. How do you validate data consistency between front-end and back-end? Scenario-Based: 12. How would you test a login page with multiple user roles? 13. If a high-priority defect is not fixed before the release, what would you do? Behavioral: 14. Describe a challenging testing scenario and how you handled it. 15. How do you prioritize your testing tasks when time is limited?

Basics should be clear Opps concept, SOLID principle, static, MVC and be prepared to answer why. There would be some scenario based question and logical question. I was asked to write linq to fetch students from list whose marks in maths were between 80-40.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Icertis

3.5
Apr 1, 2024

Basics should be clear Opps concept, SOLID principle, static, MVC and be prepared to answer why. There would be some scenario based question and logical question. I was asked to write linq to fetch students from list whose marks in maths were between 80-40.

They asked me that " why you came so late ? " which was the last question. then firstly i thought where was i late i was reached here before the time. I was not expecting that they were asking me that where were you before today ? why not you came earlier to us ?
Jan 4, 2013

They asked me that " why you came so late ? " which was the last question. then firstly i thought where was i late i was reached here before the time. I was not expecting that they were asking me that where were you before today ? why not you came earlier to us ?

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