One Simple Test Automation Scenario Interview Question that Most Candidates Failed

Simple, yet every candidate I interviewed failed.

This article is featured in Software Testing Weekly #131 and Coding Jag #95

This article is one of the “Be aware of Fake Test Automation/DevOps Engineers” and the “IT Job Interview” series.

After the four quick and casual screening questions, I usually ask one scenario question during the interview (otherwise, too short, not respecting candidates). Personally, I don’t like long, brain-teasers or tricky questions. So, this only test automation knowledge question must be related to real work.

This question aims to determine whether a candidate is a fake (common in the field of E2E Test Automation), similar to Elon Musk’s approach (see video below), but in a more straightforward manner.

The Question

Describe the steps you would write for a common E2E web automated test case via UI…