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IBM interview
Test Automation Engineer
Interview rounds
- 1L1 technical round
- 2L2 technical round
- 3HR round
What they focus on
- Automation with Python or Java
- Containers and Kubernetes basics (deployments, replica sets)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Framework and project discussion
💡 Tip: Some teams test infrastructure knowledge too. Know how your tests run inside containers and pipelines.
Practice questions for IBM
Filter by your experience, and pick a language, automation tool or database for theory and coding. Topics reported for IBM come first; the “asked in most interviews” lists are general questions worth preparing for any company. Full question bank →
Reported for IBM: Java, Python, Framework & CI. Other topics are here too — what you get asked depends on the team, so check the job description.
Theory
11 questions
Asked in most interviews · 30
30 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 34
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for IBM. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
34 questions
Coding
6 questions
Asked in most interviews · 15
15 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 9
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for IBM. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
9 questions
Behavioural & situational
No behavioural & situational questions were reported specifically for IBM — prepare the common ones below.
Asked in most interviews · 26
26 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 7
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for IBM. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
7 questions
Sources
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