PWC India Interview Questions

PWC Telephone Interview Questions

Company Name: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
Company Location: Kolkata, India

Questions asked:

• Tell something about yourself
• What strategies did you follow while building a Selenium framework from scratch?
• How can we scroll to the end of a page in a dynamically loading page?
• Related to the above question, if I ask you to find one element while scrolling and then stop when found, how would you handle it?
• As a Team Lead, how you will evaluate your team’s performance
• What’s the difference between Test Plan and Test Strategy
• If there are 3 test cases with method names as “banana”, “cat” & “apple” in respective order, which test call will execute first and why?

PWC Java Selenium Questions [Updated: 06.09.2019]

• Explain agile methodology
• The negative scenario for pen
• Explain framework detailed
• TestNG annotation explains
• Some questions on GRC domain
• Reverse a string using StringBuffer
• Use of POM design pattern

PWC Selenium Interview Questions

• Explain your current project framework
• How much do you rate yourself in java out of 5 and selenium out of 5
• WAP to swap two numbers without using a temp variable
• WAP to find whether the number is prime or not
• With an example explain method overloading and overriding and how you used this concept in your framework
• How do you take a screenshot in selenium
• Tell me some annotations in TestNG
• Do you know exceptions? Tell some exceptions in selenium
• Different types of XPath – she was expecting following sibling and preceding sibling
• Which is preferred… absolute or relative XPath – what is / and //
• Different ways of selecting an object from Dropdown
• What are limitations/drawbacks of selenium – she was expecting inability to detect captcha

PWC Selenium Automation Interview Questions

• What is a collection in java?
• Play with any of the collections.
• Search a letter in the string?
• Reverse a number?
• Are you sorting an array?
• What is the page object model?
• Between CSS and XPath, which one is faster?
• What is exception.tell some exception?
• Tell some exceptions you get while writing code.
• How to handle an exception?
• Is it a good approach to throw an exception?
• How to generate a report?
• How many test cases you have automated.
• How many test cases you run in a batch execution?
• What is the minimum time to run a batch execution?
• Tell me the complex scenario of your application?
• Challenges you faced in automation.
• How to upload files other than Autoit?
• Negative test case for a pen?
• How to run a test 3times if the test fails?

PWC Testing Interview Questions

Round 1:

• Tell me about your previous project that you have worked on?
• Your role in the project?
• What process did you follow in your project?
• Because I said I had done BE testing and validations we have done using logs they asked about

On Linux:

• What is the command you use in Linux to run the process in the background?
• How to do you connect to a remote machine?
• How do you set the environment variable?

On SQL:

• Question on joints?
• Command to get the date?
• What was the automation tool you used in your previous project, and how much you rate yourself?
• What was the build type you were getting for testing?
• What is the difference between. .WAR file and.EAR file?
• You had auto-deployment, Or you were manually doing the deployment?
• How you handled defects in the project? What tool did you use?
• What are the points you logs when you find a defect?