My secret of near 100% interview success in Test Automation Engineer roles

Demonstrating Test Automation and Continuous Testing, live, and related to the company.

This article is one of the “IT Interview” series.

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After leading a very successful agile project in 2010 as the tech lead (with the capability to release to production daily. In a sense, we implemented DevOps, though there was no such term then), I took a number of contracting roles as a test automation engineer to further grow my Test Automation and Continuous Testing skills (testing different apps).

Between 2010 and 2016, I had a number of job interviews (for test automation engineers or consultants). From my memory, my success rate in the interviews was near 100%. The reason I did not say affirmative 100%, is because human beings tend to forget unhappy endings. Anyway, I encourage you to read this article as the interviewer and ask yourself, “would I hire someone who can do these during the interview”?

Moreover, it was like a copy-and-paste process to me, as the interviewers usually did not have much time…