I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at UNKNOWN (Newark, NJ) in May 2025
Interview
Interview with recruiter, then zoom Interview with company. Lots of questions. Interviewer was very professional and informative. Describe the company as very busy and needed someone to handle multiple projects. She/he was very pleasant.
Interview process had 3 rounds for QA role.
Round 1 was a technical discussion with 30+ questions covering manual testing, API testing, Agile, SQL, bug reporting, testing concepts, and scenario-based questions.
Round 2 was a detailed F2F discussion of around 1 hour where interviewer went deep into my project experience. I was asked to explain the complete application flow, draw dashboard structure, explain UI elements, discuss modules, and identify possible loopholes in the application.
Initially I was informed that the F2F would be the final round, but later an additional round was scheduled with a Senior Architect. This round was more focused on reasoning and justification behind decisions rather than technical concepts. There were repeated cross-questions around topics like why I chose Playwright over Selenium, why I wanted to move toward a lead role, career direction, etc.
I was also asked how I got the interview opportunity and whether I was referred by someone, even though I had applied online directly.
The complete process took almost a month and final feedback was shared after about a week from the last round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions asked during interview process:
Round 1 – Technical Round
Tell me about yourself
Explain your current project
Difference between functional and non-functional testing
Smoke vs sanity testing
Regression testing
Severity vs priority
Static testing
Verification vs validation
White box testing
Agile process in your organization
Role of QA in sprint planning
RTM
Bug leakage vs bug release
Key elements of bug report
API testing in Postman
SQL queries (duplicate email, 2nd highest salary)
How do you know testing is complete?
Scenario-based testing questions
Excel upload testing scenarios
How would you handle developer disagreement?
Production issue handling
Round 2 – F2F Technical Discussion
Explain complete project flow
Draw your dashboard UI
Draw profile/menu flow
Explain modules in detail
Find possible loopholes in your application
Real-time testing scenarios
Explain defects found in project
Agile workflow in project
Questions around product understanding and business flow
Round 3 – Senior Architect Round
Why did you mention bug/test case numbers in resume?
Why do you want to become QA lead?
What will you do to become lead in next 5 years?
Why are you learning Playwright instead of Selenium?
Selenium is also improving, then why Playwright?
Are you learning Playwright just because people are using it?
Why do you want to work with international teams?
What do you do in free time to improve technically?
Where do you see yourself in next 5 years?
Why this QA path and not something else?
I applied through university. I interviewed at UNKNOWN (Bengaluru) in Jan 2026
Interview
2 case study rounds along with presentations as a group . Case study and situations were given.
Final round - one on one interview where your are tested based on resume and they expected students specialised in Finance ( MBA)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given 2 projects , both the clients have a strict deadline , clients wants to speed up which would compromise quality and they ask for a last minute change how would proceed with this.