🎯 Banking & fintech
Barclays interview
QA Automation Engineer / SDET
Interview rounds
- 1Recruiter screen
- 2HackerRank assessment (testing MCQs + automation tasks)
- 3Technical rounds with managers and seniors (live coding)
What they focus on
- String programs (reverse keeping spaces, character counts)
- Selenium, TestNG, listeners, reporting
- SQL, Jenkins, Git, Linux
- API testing
💡 Tip: Live coding is common. Practice string manipulation problems without an IDE.
Practice on a similar app
Apps on this site from the same business domain — write your automation against them before the interview.
Practice questions for Barclays
Filter by your experience, and pick a language, automation tool or database for theory and coding. Topics reported for Barclays come first; the “asked in most interviews” lists are general questions worth preparing for any company. Full question bank →
Reported for Barclays: Selenium, Framework & CI, SQL. Other topics are here too — what you get asked depends on the team, so check the job description.
Theory
15 questions
Asked in most interviews · 28
28 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 34
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Barclays. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
34 questions
Coding
21 questions
Asked in most interviews · 12
12 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 9
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Barclays. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
9 questions
Behavioural & situational
2 questions
Asked in most interviews · 25
25 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 7
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Barclays. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
7 questions
Sources
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