Accenture Test Automation Engineer Interview Questions

Top Accenture QA Automation Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Below are some questions asked for QA Automation Engineer

1. Can you explain the difference between manual testing and automated testing?

Manual testing involves testers executing test cases manually without the use of automation tools. This is time consuming and error prone. On the other hand, automated testing uses scripts and tools to perform automated testing, which increases efficiency, accuracy, and coverage. Automated tests are reusable and are ideal for regression testing.

2. What are the commonly used tools for automated testing? Following are some of the commonly used tools for automated testing:

1. Selenium:
A popular open source tool for web application testing.
2. QTP/UFT:
A commercial tool by Micro Focus for functional and regression testing.
3. JUnit/TestNG:
A framework for unit testing in Java.
4. Appium:
An open source tool for testing mobile applications.
5. Cucumber:
A tool that supports behavior-driven development (BDD).

3. How do you decide which test cases to automate? Test cases suitable for automation typically have the following characteristics:

1. Highly repetitive:
Tests need to be run frequently.
2. High risk:
Tests are critical to the functionality of the application.
3. Stable: 4,444 tests and unlikely to change frequently. 4,444 4. Time consuming: 4,444 tests take a long time to run manually. 4,444 5. Data driven: 4,444 tests require multiple datasets.

4. What is a test automation framework and why is it important?

A test automation framework is a set of guidelines, standards, and tools that provide a structured approach to automated testing. It is important because it:

1. Improves testing efficiency and performance.
2. Promotes reusability of test scripts.
3. Provides better test coverage.
4. Facilitates maintainability and extensibility of test scripts.                                                                          5. Ensure consistency and standardization throughout the testing process.

5. Can you describe a challenging bug you found during automation testing and how you resolved it?

One of the most difficult bugs I encountered was an intermittent error in the connection test. Sometimes the test passed and sometimes it failed, making it difficult to pinpoint the problem. After further investigation, I discovered that this was due to a race condition where the login button was clicked before the page had fully loaded. To solve this, I implemented an explicit wait to ensure that page elements were fully loaded before interacting with them. This stabilized the test and eliminated intermittent errors.

6. Nosuchelementexception and elementnotfound exception what is the difference between that?

The NotFoundException is a super class which consists of the subclass NoSuchElementException.

The known direct subclasses of NotFoundException are:

• NoAlertPresentException,
• NoSuchContextException,
• NoSuchElementException,
• NoSuchFrameException and
• NoSuchWindowException.

So if I wanted a catch statement to catch all five exceptions and handle them the same way, I could handle NotFoundException. But if I wanted to handle one of those five exceptions differently, I could catch the most specific subclass.

The NoSuchElementException is thrown when the element you are trying to find is not in the DOM. This can happen for three reasons.

– The first is that the element does not exist and never will. To fix this error, correct findElement.

– Second, you have to do something on the page to make the element appear.

7. Who writes the feature files in your project and who writes it according to your understanding?

A feature file is a file of steps written in a standard English format, ideally in the form Given when ..then

Ideally, a Business Analyst should write this feature file

8. Can we have multiple captures after one test?

Yes. They will be executed in the specific order of the credits.

9. Where have you used collections in your framework?

You can mention below –

Reading data from Excel

Reading data from database

Reading dynamic table

10. How to iterate array-list ?

Method 1 : Using for loop :

import java.util.*; 
class GFG { 
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    { 
  
        // initializing ArrayList 
        List<Integer> numbers = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 
                                       4, 5, 6, 7, 8); 
  
        // For Loop for iterating ArrayList 
        for (int i = 0; i < numbers.size(); i++)  
            System.out.print(numbers.get(i) + " ");         
    } 
} 

Method 2 : Using Iterator

// Java program to iterate over an arraylist 
// using Iterator 
import java.util.*; 
class GFG { 
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    { 
        // initializing ArrayList 
        List<Integer> numbers = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3,  
                                       4, 5, 6, 7, 8); 
  
        // Looping ArrayList using Iterator 
        Iterator it = numbers.iterator(); 
        while (it.hasNext()) 
            System.out.print(it.next() + " "); 
    } 
} 

11.What is hashmap and how it works ?

HashMap works on the principle of hashing, we have put(key, value) and get(key) methods to store and retrieve objects from HashMap. When we pass Key and Value objects to put() method on Java HashMap, HashMap implementation calls hashCode method on Key object and applies the returned hash code in its own hash function to find the location of bucket to store Entry object, important point to mention is HashMap in Java stores both key object and value object as Map.Entry in one bucket, this is essential to understand the retrieving logic.

12. What version control tool do you use?

I used gitbash

13. What and all commands u used it git?

Command                     Description

git push origin –delete [branchName]     Delete a remote branch

git checkout -b [branch name]         Create a new branch and switch to it

git checkout -b [branch name] origin/[branch name] Clone a remote branch and switch to it

git checkout [branch name]           Switch to a branch

That’s it for this article. If you have any question with selenium, Cucumber, Appium framework development. I am more than happy to help. Feel free to put in the comment section.

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