Hands-on Generative AI / AI coding assistant experience for QA – test design, code generation, maintenance, test data, defect triage, and quality insights.
Ability to evaluate AI outputs and establish human validation, secure data handling, traceability, maintainability, and responsible-use practices.
Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile, BDD, risk-based testing, continuous testing, and quality metrics.
Proven technical leadership across complex automation initiatives and multiple applications/teams.
Experience with code reviews, pairing, technical workshops, mentoring, and cross-team enablement.
Ability to assess automation needs, select fit-for-purpose tools, and create adoption roadmaps.
Experience working with onshore, offshore, and co-sourced teams.
Strong communication skills to report progress, risks, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Good-to-Have Skills
Performance, Accessibility, Visual, Mobile, or Contract Testing.
Selenium Grid or other distributed execution approaches.
Experience establishing an Automation CoE / Community of Practice.
Experience with AI prompting, AI-driven QA solutions/test agents, and emerging AI capabilities.
Experience translating emerging automation and AI capabilities into engineering standards.
Experience partnering with QA leadership on capability priorities, investment, staffing, governance, and success metrics.
This guide is for Indian job seekers preparing for Java backend roles, from freshers facing campus and first-job interviews to experienced developers moving into senior positions at product companies and IT services firms. It covers what interviewers ask most in 2025 and 2026 on Java 17 and 21 and Spring Boot 3: OOP, collections, equals and hashCode, streams, exceptions, concurrency and JVM memory, then dependency injection, auto-configuration, REST controllers, validation, JPA and Hibernate, security, microservices and testing. Questions are grouped as easy, medium and hard. Read each answer, compile the code yourself and practise explaining it aloud.
Questions you may be asked
What are the four pillars of OOP, with a Java example of each?
What is the difference between an abstract class and an interface in Java?
What is the difference between method overloading and method overriding?
What is the difference between == and equals() in Java?
