SDET interview kit
Use this page as a checklist before interviews. Pair it with student interview questions, interview prep, and live job listings to stay grounded in what employers are actually hiring for.
Strategy & ownership
- How do you prioritize what to automate vs. leave manual?
- Describe how you would reduce a flaky suite in a CI pipeline.
- How do you report quality to engineering leadership with metrics that resist gaming?
API & contract testing
- Design tests for a paginated REST API—happy path, validation errors, auth.
- How do you mock upstream dependencies without hiding real integration bugs?
UI automation
- Playwright vs Selenium trade-offs in your last team (stability, parallelization, debugging).
- How do you choose selectors that survive UI refactors?
Sample answer frame
Use Situation → Task → Action → Result for behavioral prompts. For technical deep-dives, state assumptions, propose a minimal solution, then iterate (scale, failure modes, observability).
This kit is original editorial guidance. It is not affiliated with any single employer.