Quality Assurance Automation Engineer - IT
Posted Sep 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you worked with developers to find the cause of a hard-to-reproduce bug.
What they are checking: Whether they collaborate well and dig in, rather than just reporting failures and moving on.
How do you share test results so they lead to action instead of being ignored?
What they are checking: Whether they make results clear and give recommendations, which the posting asks for.
Tell me about a best practice you introduced to a team. How did you get buy-in?
What they are checking: Whether they can influence other engineers, not just follow their own standards.
What would you do
How would you move a set of older TestComplete tests to Playwright, if that were the goal?
What they are checking: Whether they can plan a migration in stages without losing test coverage along the way.
An IT team asks you to automate a test for a feature that changes every sprint. How do you respond?
What they are checking: Whether they can judge when automation is worth it and explain the tradeoff.
About the work
You will work with both TestComplete and Playwright. When would you use each one?
What they are checking: Whether they know the strengths of each tool, since the role spans both.
Walk me through how you would build a Playwright framework in TypeScript for internal web applications.
What they are checking: Whether they can design a clean, reusable structure instead of a pile of scripts.
Tell me about integrating tests into Jenkins, GitLab or Azure DevOps. What did the pipeline look like?
What they are checking: Whether they have real hands-on CI/CD experience with the tools named in the posting.
How do you reduce flaky tests in a large automated suite?
What they are checking: Whether they fix root causes like timing and shared data instead of hiding failures.
How do you decide what belongs in API tests versus UI tests?
What they are checking: Whether they understand that testing at the right layer makes suites faster and more stable.
Write out loud how you would wait for an element to load in Playwright without using a fixed delay.
What they are checking: Whether they understand auto-waiting and locators, which separates reliable tests from fragile ones.
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