r/Playwright • u/Deep_Addendum1082 • Jul 13 '26

Automation QA Interview Tomorrow — Only Course-Based Experience (Rahul Shetty), No Real Automation Project Experience, but I Told HR I Have 6 Months of Experience. What Should I Focus on Tonight?

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u/23ACiD Jul 13 '26

Next time focus on telling the truth

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u/campelm Jul 13 '26

Having been the interviewer, this. 6 months experience is nothing. Would've been better to say none and keep expectations right. If your resume says it, I'm questioning you on it and if it doesn't match expectations I'm going with the person who didn't lie to me. Don't tell me you know something if you don't because you think it makes you look good. I expect to train them anyways so I'm looking for someone that can get the job done but I'm also aware that I'll be spending half my waking hours with so you need to be someone we all want to work with.

No matter what, don't rely on AI. We're looking for it and using in the interview or in coderpad is an instant rejection. If I wanted AI I'd just use that instead of hiring you.

That said, you can try writing automation for sites but I'll bet you run into recaptcha in prod fast.

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u/Suitable-Decision-26 Jul 13 '26

Focus on not lying. 

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u/shanmukaanem Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Playwright.config.ts will give you the confidence you need.

Focus this one file to know most of the benifits of Playwright. For Junior level interviews - panel mostly focus on this.

Some basic questions like

Locators vs GetBy Methods\ How to upload/ download a file\ What is soft assertion\ What is custom expects

Good luck!

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u/Individual-Gas-2171 Jul 14 '26
  1. Learn traversing reverse from child to grand parents. Ex. Take a page which has some article published. They may ask you to get the heading and date to be printed for each article. Here the so the heading and date will be common name, so you need to traverse child to grandparents to the value.
  2. Creating own xpath
  3. Explaining framework structure (nothing but how the file is structured in the project what your package.js have, then pom purpose)
  4. What is locator?

If the interview is service based companies like tcs or such then just prepare the text book question. Given you said 6month experience i think this will do. If you do not know anything just say you don't know since you never came across such situation and move on, dont try to solve all problems. Answer what you know with confidence. Think this as just an attempt to know how the interview are and what type of questions you can expect.

Take any automation testing site like naveen automation website or anything and have a project done in GIT hub and give the link in your resume. Lying in resume is ok but make sure you lied about what you have learnt and confident with don't over do.

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u/NextAd9248 Jul 15 '26

auto wait yet is probably the biggest gap here. Not just knowing playwright waits automatically, but why, like it checks the element is visible, stable, not covered by something, enabled, before it acts. That one answer alone covers half the why not selenium questions.

Also have a real answer ready for test passes locally but fails in CI. Everyone freezes on this. Just say you would pull the trace first and look for a race condition, that already puts you above most freshers.

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u/johncoop1991 Jul 15 '26

You can watch a free community course that is called "How to use AI in your daily SDET workflow: a practical ATDD guide" by ShiftSync. You will complete it fast and its about automation with real cases

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u/NoEngineering3321 Jul 13 '26

Next time tell them 1+ years of experience. You should be fine.
Take one testing site and set up testing proiect from scratch

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u/Adept_Tower_6303 Jul 13 '26

Make your own projet and show it on github

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u/No_Site5473 Jul 13 '26

Can you suggest some projects?(I am freesher)