Basic Concepts What is the difference between verification and validation? Explain the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). What are the different levels of testing? Test Design Techniques Explain boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning with examples. What is decision table testing? Defects and Bug Life Cycle How do you report a bug in a defect-tracking tool? What are the different statuses of a defect? Testing Types What is smoke testing vs. sanity testing? What is the difference between functional and non-functional testing? Automation Testing Selenium How do you handle dynamic elements in Selenium? How would you use XPath to locate an element? What are the different types of waits in Selenium? Playwright How do you configure Playwright for multiple browsers? How do you handle authentication in Playwright tests? Frameworks What are the key components of an automation framework? How do you implement reporting in your framework?

The interview was good but the weird part was when they invited me to the HR interview and they really mention that in their email invitation but in the interview, the two HRs asked the technical questions instead which I believe is not fair.