eQ Technologic इक्ˈस्पिअरिअन्स् On Campus 2023 QA Engineer
"Jai Shree Radha Krishna!
Let's begin! Excited? Hope so, heheheh.
So, EQ Technologic visited our college (AIT-PUNE) for the placement drive 2023-24. They came up with two roles: the first one is Software Role (COMP/IT eligible), while the second one is Quality Assurance Engineer (COMP/IT/ENTC).
Eligibility Criteria:
Students should have scored 60% and above in all the previous semesters.
Students should not have had any backlogs in any semester.
99 students are eligible from our college.
Round 1 Aptitude (Online):
The aptitude round consisted of 14 aptitude questions and 2 coding questions. Test was conducted on SHL Platform ( AMCAT )
Round 2 Technical Interview (Online MS Team , 1 hour):
In the evening, I received a call from the interviewer that I cleared the first round, and he would schedule my interview for tomorrow (1 hour). The interview started with the interviewer saying, "You are looking so handsome." Me: "Hahahhahahaa." Basic introduction lasted for 3-4 minutes.
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Why C++?
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Explain OOPS?
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What are the four pillars of OOPS?
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Explain polymorphism with a real-world example?
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Explain types of inheritance?
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What is an access modifier?
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Explain the difference between protected and private access modifiers?
He asked 1-2 questions which I had never heard of in OOPS, so I simply said, "Sorry, I didn't hear about these concepts," something like "What is diamond inheritance," not sure.
- Explain abstract and interface.
Then he asked me to share my screen and gave me one coding question, which was to reverse a paragraph. e.g.,
Input: "your name is Vishal"
Output: "Vishal is name your."
He shared two puzzle questions with me in the chatbox.
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Write down an SQL query to update the address of a particular employee.
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Asked me to open Chrome in incognito mode and search for Gmail. Then the first page of Gmail loaded, which was "Sign-in." Then, the interviewer asked me to take 10 minutes and write down all the test cases that I could think of. Once done, let me know, and we will discuss them one by one. So, I took my time, wrote down all the test cases, and explained them to him.
He shared one URL with me, http://vishal.com/books/book?categories=novel, and asked me to explain this URL.
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He asked, "What is HTTP?" I told him the difference between HTTP and HTTPS, and he said, "Just tell me what HTTP is."
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He asked me if u hit any url and blank page loaded they what can be possible reason behind it.
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Open developer tools and explain the first five terms which were showing there: Elements, Console, Network, Performance, Application. Asked questions based on them.
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What is smoke testing?
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What is Regression Testing?
Yeah, that's all. Then he gave me a chance to ask any questions if I had any. At the end, he was looking so impressed by me and said, "You have a very deep knowledge of everything."
In the evening, I received another email for Round 3.
Round 3 Technical Interview (Online Ms Team, 1 hour):
He started with an introduction, then he asked about my experience so far, what questions were asked during the first round, who was my previous interviewer, and what questions I had discussed previously.
He asked some questions based on my resume. - Which programming languages do you know, and which one is your favorite?
- Explain AWS API Gateway.
He gave me a coding question to solve in JavaScript: Print this Pattern:
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I needed to write down 10 test cases, and he explained the problem. The question was about having a landline phone with no display, no calling button, just digits from 0-9. I wrote down 10 test cases, in which one of the test cases was very unique; even the interviewer got shocked when I told him. He was impressed by me at that point.
One more question on testing, pretty simple: I have 5 input text fields; just need to write down 10 test cases and explain them.
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Name
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Date of Birth
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Date of Journey
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Document upload
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Document No verification
Explain the Defect Life Cycle.
The next day, at 4:26 pm, I received an email for the HR interview, which was scheduled at 5 pm on the same day.
Round 4 HR Interview (online MS Team , 30 min):
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Tell me about yourself; brief introduction about your family.
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When did you start reading novels, since childhood or later on?
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Why did you select QA and not a Software role?
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Explain GrowGram, which was my project mentioned in my resume.
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What are your strengths?
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What are your weaknesses?
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Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
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Tell me, what excited you to join EQ during the PPT introduction? (Attend Seriously).
-Share any moment from the last 6 months.
-You belong to ENTC, so why did you do an internship in the software field?
- Why didn't You mention any project from your field ?
At the end, I asked three questions to him and ended with "Nice to meet you, Vishal."
Received an email after 2 days.
Verdict: Selected.
Note: Three students were selected from our college."

