Prepare well for your introduction

Be crisp & clear while answering interview questions, your hard work & confidence level should be
reflected in your answers

Apart from following list of questions, questions would be asked on Core Java, OOPS.

Prepare on OOPs, Strings, Array, Looping & Conditional Structures, Collections (OCA level-I)

Also get to know basics about SDLC/STLC, Defect Life Cycle, Waterfall, Agile

Understand the objective/purpose of following questions so comprehensive answers could be given

Focus on concepts & prepare suitable example to support

1. What is an API?
2. What is difference between API & web service?
3. Give some example of webservice and one api which is not a webservice
4. What is difference between monolithic and microservice based architecture?
5. What is your understanding of what are RESTful web services?
6. What is difference between SOAP & RESTful web services?
7. What are features of RESTful web services?
8. Can you explain about JSON?
9. What are the components of HTTP request & response?
10. Can you explain about statelessness with respect to Restful web service? Also advantages &
disadvantages.
11. What is Rest Assured?
12. Explain relation between URL, URI & Endpoint
13. What is resource?
14. How API is described in RAML, YAML & Swagger?
15. What is Json Schema? What is the latest standard on Json Schema?
16. What is use of headers in webservice? Can you name few headers you frequently come across
while dealing with web services?
17. What is payload?
18. List & Explain some HTTP methods? What is CRUD?
19. What is difference between PUT & PATCH method?
20. What could be the purpose of OPTIONS & HEAD methods? Are they supported by Rest Assured
library?
21. What is the purpose of HTTP status code?
22. Explain http response categories and give examples about few http response codes you
frequently come across?
23. What is difference between Json & Jsonpath?
24. What is advantage of using postman tool over browser while testing rest api?
25. What is advantage of using Rest Assured for automation over Postman tool?
26. Name & explain few classes & interfaces from rest assured library?
27. How will you write a simple Rest Assured testcase that validates status code and body contents?
28. How will you write a simple Rest Assured testcase that validates sample json response? Hint -
JsonSchemaValidator
29. API returns a simple integer array [1, 2, 3], how to test such a response using Rest Assured?
30. How to pass given parameters and headers to API call?
31. How will you extract custom node from Json response using JsonPath?
32. How to set a JSON body for a POST API call?
33. How to verify cookie, status, headers & content-type in API response?
34. How will you log test case execution – request/response on console using rest assured?
35. What methodology you prefer to write rest assured code? TDD or BDD? And Why?
36. What is difference between junit & testng framework?
37. Explain few annotations from both frameworks
38. Explain on parameterization in testng – parameters & dataprovider
39. Explain on grouping & prioritizing test cases in testng
40. How test cases are executed from testng.xml? Explain its structure & usage
41. How to skip or disable test cases in testng test suite?
42. How do you execute TestNg test case from maven?
43. What are hamcrest assertions? How they are supported in rest assured framework?
44. Compare testng & hamcrest assertions
45. How would you make use of testng in rest assured test cases? How will you use before & after
tags to optimize test execution?
46. What is the use of listeners in testng?
47. What are different ways to produce test reports in testng?
48. How to handle logs using log4j framework?
49. Could you please explain on dependencies used for rest assured test framework from TDD
perspective and BDD perspective?
50. What is cucumber test framework?
51. How test code is organized in cucumber?
52. Explain important keyword used to draft cucumber scenarios
53. Explain runner class from perspective of running specific features/scenarios
54. What is difference in scenario & scenario outline?
55. What is use of background?
56. How to generate & implement step definitions in cucumber?
57. How to configure cucumber reporting options?
58. How many programming languages are supported by cucumber?
59. How many spoken languages supported by gherkin for writing feature file?
60. How would you organize rest assured test case code to make optimum use of cucumber
framework? Give an example
61. How do you execute cucumber test case from maven?
62. How to execute maven test cases from command line?
63. What is maven?
64. Which maven plugins you have worked with?
65. Mention three build lifecycles of maven
66. What are build lifecycle phases?
67. How would you write maven goal to execute test cases in suite?
68. How would run specific test classed in maven? Hint: Surefire
69. What do you understand by POM? What does it contain? What are the minimum requirements
of POM?
70. What is the location where maven dependencies are downloaded?
71. How to exclude a dependency in maven?
72. What is GIT? Why is its importance?
73. What is difference in git & github?
74. What are advantages of git?
75. What do you mean by repository?
76. Can you explain sequence of commands used to import new project from git repository to local
machine, make the required changes in code, committing & updating the changes on remote
repository?
77. Explain commonly used git commands
78. What is difference in git diff & git status
79. What is staging area?
80. How to work with git using git gui, git bash & ide like eclipse?
81. What is the purpose of branching in git? Can you explain any branching strategy?
82. How conflicts can be resolved in git?
83. What is difference between git pull & fetch?
84. What is difference in git remote & git clone?
85. What is function of git config?
86. How to merge a branch to another branch?
87. What is Jenkins? Usage & advantages?
88. What is continuous integration? or CI/CD?
89. How to configure maven & git setting in Jenkins?
90. Mention some important Jenkins plugins
91. How to configure simple project/task/job in Jenkins?
92. How to execute maven project test cases from github repository?
93. What is Jenkins pipeline?
94. What is devOps?
95. What is agile? Advantages of agile methodology?