EPAM Interview Experience For Senior Software Automation Engineer

First Round: Pre-Screening: 45 minutes

• Basic Object Oriented Programming: code-based questions on Concepts like polymorphism, data encapsulation, data hiding, abstraction, and interfaces.
• Basic scenario-based question on testing: Eg: If you have found a bug in PRODUCTION, what measures will you take?

Suggestion: I would suggest doing quizzes from GeeksforGeeks to get in touch with all concepts of C# and Selenium subjects.

Second Round: Technical: 2 hours

OOPs related:

He asked me for definitions of below terms with example:

• What are collections?
• Types of collections?
• Difference between Array and ArrayList?
• Difference between non-generic and generic collections?
• Difference between ref and out.
• Difference between read-only and cons.
• Abstract vs Interface
• Extension methods, how to create one?
• User-defined exception, how to create one?
• Static keyword, final keyword, Virtual and new keyword in a method
• Properties, how to assign value?
• Deserialization/Serialization
• Lazy class: How to use it in the Automation framework?
• Singleton pattern and Factory pattern with implementation

Testing/Automation/Selenium:

• What are the different types of IWebdriver methods?
• Window handle/ IFrame: syntax
• Actions vs Action class: Difference between build and publish.
• Automation framework – architecture – components – version: What is the structure?
• Interfaces in Selenium Webdriver
• BDD – Specflow
• Pass table/example in Specflow
• Data-driven testing
• API Testing – Steps with Rest Assured – status code – Endpoint- authentication- access token – path parameter/query parameters