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Hi there!

Welcome to the Tester's Family channel.

This is the channel of two QA engineers who help in shape the world of quality.

In this video, we will cover a series of updated questions for quality engineers during the interview.

It will be shaped by AI, by new trends, so make sure you watch till the end

because some of the questions only related to the year of 2026 and even future year of 2027.

The quality engineering market is very different right now.

Even from the last year, even from the beginning of the 2026, it's totally different.

So make sure you align with new expectations from this role and we'll begin.

For those of you who do not know me, my name is Christina and I've been in quality assurance for over 10 years.

I have master's uh of business administration in information technology

and i also run my career agency so i'm a career coach

and i'm coaching people how to go through the interview process how to

pass the interview and get a job offer

so make sure to listen to my advice

because i've coached hundreds of people on how to pass an interview

and to be precise about my credentials i have a lot

and to be precise about my credentials i don't want to read it from the screen

but you guys see that i definitely have credibility to be here today with you

and talk about this topic i've interviewed myself over 100 different candidates for quality engineering roles

and i've been on career coaching

when i shaped around maybe 500 resumes towards the um you know job market for engineering

so I have a huge background I've seen a lot

so make sure you subscribe

and let's begin with our interview questions for this series I came up with 20 questions

and let's begin the most obvious one tell me about yourself answering this question changed a little bit

but still I follow the same trend we're making it down to three minutes only

but let's see how we divide those three minutes within your reply one minute you dedicate to your education

and experience background second minute you dedicate for your tax tech projects

you need to describe what technology you've been working on not everything for the past 10 years

but most important one for the role

and last minute you're talking about your interest in strengths where

do you see your skills will be most valuable what are your area of expertise you want to share

so be precise if you know some automation for your words

that you're like a guru

and you are definitely gonna help where you think organization wouldn't benefit from it make sure to mention

it another important thing you need to get

it straight to the point get straight to the point

you don't need any long essays about your not relevant experience

to the role just be precise on what is important

and let people choose what area they want to discover

and then please please no reading you can't imagine how stupid it looks

when you're reading because we people from the other side of the interviewing process we see

when you read we understand when you read especially especially

if English is not your first language

because it all shows the difference in your speed in your talking

so when you're reading you might be reading faster you have less emotions but

when you're speaking about your true experience you're more energized

you make more now you make more pauses in between sentences you think

but when you read it's a hundred percent visible especially

when today you guys use an AI for your answers please do not use any AI we can see

that we know when you reply with AI and it's

because it's more generic answer not specific to your experience not specific to your project even

if you configure you're like AI helper correctly still one question

and you're off

because people who suspect you're using AI

they're not gonna ask you questions technical questions

they will go deep into the specific of the projects into the specific of the issues

they will be you know diving

and digging deep inside to get those small small details

and they will start confusing AI that's what I do I'm asking very very very long questions

because when you ask AI five questions in the same in the same timeline it gets confused

and it might answer only first or last

or just not answer it at all so I know how to confuse AI

when I see the candidate using AI it's all possible

so just please be honest the best you can do for preparation

if you need to use your note

you have like piece of paper somewhere on your desk just have your notes

there sometimes periodically look them that's totally fine everyone does it

but please no reading okay and the last one create a map and guide through it what does it mean

when you're talking about yourself

when you're explaining your experience your text tag

you need to create a visual map for your interviewer to

walk through to navigate through it might look like this

so you're giving them an opportunity to explore any area of expertise

you want them to show basically your tell me your tell

me about yourself story should look like this you are in the center

and different directions like you did this you did

that you have experience in this technology you have experience in

that technology but overall you're giving them a menu to choose from

so they can explore different paths and that's how it looks and then after this interview

You will pick one of those paths that you presented and will go from there.

So you're going to give them a freedom, but a control freedom.

So you control what question they ask next based on what you have answered in tell me about yourself question.

Okay, let's go to the second one.

Describe your automation experience.

I would say that today automation is a number one priority i don't think there are few

or a lot manual positions there are definitely no manual position like clear manual positions uh

there may be some some positions

which does not involve automation in the standard way like we all used to think about

but it still involves some kind of of additional technical responsibilities like um something beyond regular testing

and you need to understand that today's 2026 ai already automated everything automating everything

so please think about your your future you

if you are in quality assurance if you are qa tester you have to

automate you have to know at least one automation framework it's a must

so let's talk about this question specifically

when you describe in your automation experience what's important to mention

important to mention total years of experience with automation automation framework changes

long time ago selenium was super nice and important and fancy then cyprus then playwright

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so many different things and many different frameworks but it's important to mention

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that you've been in this for a while because

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if they have framework that you don't know

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or you don't have experience with it's totally fine

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if you have like six years of experience in automation

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so most likely you will be able to catch up no matter what it is

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so they will give you a chance

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and most likely that's going to be fine but

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if you have only one year of experience of one specific framework

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they might think it's going to be a challenge for you to switch to a new framework

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So always mention to your best abilities as much years as you can prove.

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Then briefly describe the all stack and focus on the latest.

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So when you describe in your automation experience, of course, you want to tailor to the role.

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So if you're interviewing for the playwright role, you describe your playwright experience.

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But mention that you also work with other frameworks.

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If you're interviewing for Cypress position, describe your Cypress experience

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if you have if not pick the one um framework

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which will be closest to cyprus maybe like playwright

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because selenium is different so include all related layers of testing

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that you perform with automation what i mean by

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that most of the people who come to interviews like oh yes we did automation

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and then we ask what kind of automation like what layers

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did you test with automation automation in general is a very powerful tool

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you can automate everything today what exactly you've automated and sometimes interviewers they want to see that your step

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you made some additional steps beyond only ui level layers

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so you automated api you if you was able

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and had ability you also could automated performance testing accessibility testing there are

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so many different things how you can be involved with automation especially with new technologies

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so include all layers that you've touched

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and make sure you describe them how it helped organization

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and of course align your answer with the role you're being interviewing it's important

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because they don't need to know about stuff

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that it's not relevant for them but

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if you have it prove it show it to them they most likely accept you

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if you have exactly what they need and and

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if you already done exactly what they want to do question number three how do you leverage ai

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of course in this series we have a question about ai why not it's number three every interview today

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people are being asked about ai whether how they use

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it for their own benefit within the organization for their projects you can avoid them today ai is something

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that have stuck with us for a while and it's not going anywhere

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because organizations invest too much money in this

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and you have to bulletproof this idea for their stakeholders

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and customers so i'm giving you some ideas of how potentially you can use

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and leverage ai for your quality engineering role

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and how you can talk about this on your interview it's a test case creation it's natural language to scripts

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and that's automation scenario discovery so by this uh we're not even started automation

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so you're just using regular chat gpt and clod

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or copilot what is available for you even

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if you never worked with ai within the organization like your

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company never purchased never migrated to ai never had copilot it's fine you just talk about your experience

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and what you can potentially use

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and how you potentially be used like test case creation is easy you can provide like you can chat gpt

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or cloud with a very good prompting experience you can achieve very good result

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and like and also gap analysis so

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when you're discovering your application what steps i've missed what are could be negative scenarios where this application might crash

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so like some ai models when they can simply identify those um those areas then um natural language to scripts

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Basically, this is your test cases that you wrote by yourself or with use of AI, you are migrating them into automation.

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So basically, AI will write the tests for your scripts, for your automated scripts for you.

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Then automated scenario discovery.

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By this, I mean

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that we're giving an AI agent an opportunity to go look at the page

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and see what test cases we've missed and what other test cases we need to automate.

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self -healing tests that's especially critical for flaky tests

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i also talk about this flaky test it's a very big topic asked on every interview

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and make sure you know how to handle flaky test automation

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so then when we come specifically to automation how ai can help you with automation there are

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so many things like

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if you have copilot ai agent might be integrated in ide

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you might have github copilot to review your prs uh to provide your suggestions uh

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copilot github copilot also

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and some um another ai agent might be part of ci cd pipeline cli to verify your flow

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and that like uh software development life cycle is happening very nice

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and smooth and with necessary tests running and with necessary uh checks

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and pr reviews then code reviews very good for code reviews

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and day -to -day repetitive tasks so that's anything anything

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that you spend time on and you don't want to

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and you can delegate to ai describe that so there's

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so many things that you can describe how exactly you can leverage ai for testing

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but don't say we never did it

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or in my organization we never used ai no there's

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so many opportunities how you can potentially use ai

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so talk about this even if you've never done it you have you can get free

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license of cloud of chat gpt practice by yourself practice create test cases practice to create automated tests

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you can do it but just never say you never did it

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because that's gonna be a red flag in 2026

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and 2027 question number four imagine being the only qa engineer where would you start

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so that's my favorite question

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and what's important like what why i ask this question why this question is generally

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so good because it can evaluate a real experience because

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when you're just out of school or you completed them courses boot camp you don't have a lot of experience

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you will have a little bit struggle answering this question

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because this is the way how we think about our past experience

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and past failures and our general work

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so depending on the background

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they give you they may give you some additional background to this question i highlighted important aspects

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that you need to cover

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while you're answering this question first of all define the point of contact

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so you don't want to annoy your manager with any questions

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and you don't want to ask for help every time you want something but there should be some peer colleague

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like developer or business owner

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or whoever who can who can be your point of contact to help you request any access

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if you need in the future

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and just be your you know colleague who can ask you any question

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because you don't want to annoy your boss

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because you want to be independent and self -sufficient

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and you want to make sure

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that you can handle the task by yourself with a little

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assistance just where we need next environment setup for environment setup important

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that you know that there should be maybe some certificates or licensing

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or approvals anything software hardware be installed on your machine for your project work

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it depending what the project you have so there are some prerequisites for

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that work and then for automation whether like

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if there is the only qa most likely there are no automation in organization

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but maybe developers started some automation that's also the case

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so check your point of contact ask around

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if there's no automation

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you need to confirm by the by somebody my manager most likely what the um technology what the technology stack

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we will be using for automation and

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if everyone is agree on the technology stack

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that you choose then you go ahead

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and you let's simply write your style you install your node .js your style install your vs code

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so you prepare for everything you need

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then requirement analysis of course you step in on the project you discover what the work they are doing

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because there's nobody there from quality side it's important

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that you cannot step in and show them that right now they have quality so right now things will start

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be different perform your testing of course you are a quality engineer

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there should be some testing besides all the fancy stuff like automation

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and like project work and everything there should be actual testing

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and that's like majority of your work but not with automation

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so once you're fully in once you understand the application

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and automation and the process then your testing going to take less time

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and your automation initiatives will gonna take more time then documentation

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so since you're the only one it's important that whatever you do you're documenting

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think about that tomorrow they will hire another qa like

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and now they're going to be two of you in a team

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and they will drop everything on you to teach this person but

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if you already have some documentation prepare about your test case analysis requirement analysis about automation

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you can just hand this over to another qa and it's going to be perfect you will have a nice

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qb that i said here qb is knowledge base knowledge base

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that you can share without spending much time

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and plus it's always good to build knowledge base for organization

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because it gives visibility

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and uh you can always like it's a very very good thing for organization in general

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and take initiative to improve see your came to organization where's the only one qa they need to mention

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that most likely developers are not testing completely

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or they do not believe in testing

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or they're closing tasks without properly validating all end points

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so you can improve something in this we're going improve the process you can make new standard

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and since right now you're the only one who basically providing the quality you're the boss on quality side

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and nothing should ever slip through you so you come

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and you take all right now i'm handling the quality i will be providing final sign off for this feature

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if there's defects right now we consider them as a blockers

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and we do not move on so you create better quality environment

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and you enforce others to follow it it's not it might be not easy

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when you knew but you need to be confident enough to talk about your expertise

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and make sure and make sure people listen to you as an expert in quality assurance

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so you are the one who is owning the quality that's important that's the general ideas what you can touch

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so i'm not giving you an answer i'm giving

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you a bullet point of what you can about what you can talk on this interview

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because everyone experience in different some of you might find something

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only like two out of this uh six bullet points

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that you can talk about

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but i'm giving you more ideas what you can also share

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like the was the last one about initiative nobody talks about this nobody no never ever somebody tell me this

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but it's important to know and i'm encouraging you to to say it

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because that's really how it is when you're an experienced

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and talented qa engineer and you come to the team

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when there is no qa engineers at all and some

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and it means there's no quality standards at all

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and you're going to be the one who will establish this is very powerful role, very, very important and rewarding as well.

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So everyone will see the changes just because of your actions.

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So take this initiative.

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And let's go to number five.

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Give an example of an end -to -end test case.

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Very, very interesting question because there are several components in this

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and several ideas what are we generally considering end -to -end

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tests um some people think about just the complete workflow um like from start to finish like person registered

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and then go step step step step step

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final transaction all done and um end -to -end flow

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but on reality it's much more deeper than just the usual

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visual representation of the flow very important to mention in this question is the integrated subsystem

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that this flow touches and what part of this we are validating i mentioned here front end

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so front end that's normally what people describe

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when user you register we see these buttons goes to different pages click different buttons

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and then we submit some kind of transaction

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and then we validate the result or we validate the confirmation number

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so that's front end but then we need back -end services we need to make sure that throughout this flow

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specific api calls are made and values are returned

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so not only going through page by page on ui layer

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you also need to go on a back -end layer to validate those api responses again database

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When transaction is submitted, you want to make sure the records are also visible in database.

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Like it's very important that we touch that layer also.

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If there's any external APIs, any third party vendors that take part in all this flow, everything should be validated.

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So think about this when you are explaining an example of end -to -end flow it's so complex

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that it's really hard to say it you like you visualize

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it in your head like for me like how i visualize it it's a one straight line

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and then like there are some dots some knots on this line

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and from every knot they're like lying down

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and then lying to another side so there's like a web

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which comes from one single line because there's

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so many connections interconnections coming from that one flow

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and you want to mention that on every step

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that you're making different actions are happening and you're validating them

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if you click in the button services are running API calls are retrieving information

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or sending information what's happening

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when once you click a button it's not only UI it's more it's API it's database

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so make sure you validate it properly and then talk about meaningful validations absolutely give an example

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not just describe me a flow any flow like not just describe me what it is

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but give me a real example

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from the best example will be from your real experience where you know exactly every single call

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that your application made so you can talk about this

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when you get down to details

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it actually make a lot of value from your for your interviewers to understand

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it come on this guy is not lying he's not lying

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he definitely working you can't imagine how many people lie on interview about their experience

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so if you get down to details then you have more chances of nailing this interview you

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and on this slide I'm giving you a real word example a e -commerce checkout

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so here you see on the front end user login

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and searches for a product super simple

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and easy what happened on a back end

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and database the item is added to the card inventory data is updated

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and the discount code is verified

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so this is all is being stored in a database

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and you can verify it using some calls then third -party services

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so this tribe is integrated as a payment system payment gateway so

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we need to verify that the stripe process transaction correctly

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and then completion we have database register the order

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and confirmation email is triggered to the user

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so see we're not only validating the ui layer

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that goes as a part of this specific flow we have front -end ui back -end database third party

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and even like email notification so there's like

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so many things are happening i can't even explain

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you the level of importance on all of these details myself

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i think i failed one interview in the past just

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because i was not able to explain exactly what is end -to -end flow i knew what it was

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but i was not able to articulate it on this detailed level

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and then feedback i got from from the hiring manager that they were not sure that i can do it

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Of course, I could do it, but I was just not able to tell them about this.

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So make sure now you do.

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Learn from my mistakes.

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Question number six.

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Describe your automation framework.

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So this question where we get to details about your automation framework.

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Not only talking around technologies and what's the best for automation, but actually this question is testing your real experience,

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hands -on experience working within IDE environment using your fingers to code actual tests

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and when you're describing your automation framework what you need to do you need to describe the text tag behind

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so whatever technologies you use whatever libraries you integrate it

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and why you choose this sometimes you come to the project

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and your organization already using why specifically

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this technology why playwright why selenium why cypress why webdriver io why there should be a reason why

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and if you don't know the reason you just can tell

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that okay well a general organization they were already using

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this for very long time they have all the legacy applications automated this way

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so i was just contributing easy but if you know why the organization

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or you pick this specific technology talk about benefits talk about simplicity talk about outcomes that you're getting

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then describe the best practices every automation tool has its own pros and cons

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and every automation tool has best practices like playwright is very different from selenium

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and if we're talking about locators there is a specific type of locator

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which you need to use on when you're using playwright

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so you don't use ids and you don't use expasses on playwright

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which for selenium this is primary locators on selenium

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you are encouraged to use expass you are encouraged to use ids

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but not for playwright

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because for playwright it's a different best practices playwright locator should be user interface locator

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and for selenium there is no such requirement

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but for playwright it's considered to be the best you the best practices

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so read about this

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if you don't know best practices of your framework read about this that's very important then the structure

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so the structure you need to walk them through about your

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classes see what is your page object class your test class your config class utility class whatever

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you have described it's important

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and then what do you cover in your automation framework basically

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what it does does it only validates UI does it validates API any other layers does it have a reporting

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this car this discuss reporting how it's what results

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it's posting where it's posting any additional third -party reports are using does it running on pipeline CI city anything

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you can talk about your framework do it it's very nice

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it's very good conversation it can lead you to any it can lead you to very good automation questions forward

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but if you can also talk about flackiness love this topic very hard to answer correctly

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but read about this make sure you read about this number seven

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Do you have experience testing accessibility?

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I love this topic.

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Honestly, today if you never tested accessibility, please start.

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Accessibility is very important topic for all the United States,

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it's Canada, Australia, Europe, and some part of Asia.

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Not all, but some part.

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So it's only not...

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popular in Africa, Asia, some part

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Latin America but the majority of the world already following accessibility guidelines to make application digitally accessible for people with disabilities,

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for people for those who has limited physical abilities, for people who have different you know like vision impairments so that's very very good topic,

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very advanced topic and so far not many QA engineers really know how to test accessibility

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so if you start today you

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and advance yourself in this you will be very competitive on the market

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so right now accessibility is a must learn please learn about this there are

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so many ways how you can test accessibility

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you can test ability manually on your using your keyboard

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you can test ability using your mobile phone

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you can test accessibility with the help of different automated scanners with the help of browser extensions there are

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so many comment down below

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if you think you don't know any chrome browser extension i can give you a url to view

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that i've used personally and then learn about this generally how to learn about this

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if you google section 508 or ada there is so much information

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but honestly those regulations are reading there are

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so long they're like thousands of thousands of pages there you can talk with ai

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and ask ai to train you on accessibility come on like you can do it

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but please start because these questions i see more

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and more on quality engineering interviews

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and make sure you at least know the basics at least you know what accessibility

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because i know so many people some people they don't even know what it is

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so please get up to speed with the market number eight what is shift left approach

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so shift left approach means that we're moving tasks to the left it means all activities

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that we used to do after development we are starting doing this prior development

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or in the same time as development testing security quality assurance some validations accessibility performance

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we now do not wait for code to be there written

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and stable for us in order to do all those things

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we do them right now we do them up front

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and that's shift left what it means it means

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you need to start testing prior developers submit the code it means you need to start writing test cases

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and finding data prior developers submit the code.

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You need to start automation prior developers submit the code.

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It's a very important topic, but see, when finally developers submit the code, you just need to run your script,

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update several locators and run your script.

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Your automation will be 80 % complete.

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Your accessibility testing will be 80 % complete everything will be almost done

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and once developer drops the code it will take you a couple hours to get it complete

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but it's going to be completed right now on a spot plus it's a validation of accessibility

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and performance so we are moving everything to the earlier stage so we have more

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we have better quality on the final product

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and that's important what else are important here it's in sprint automation in spring animation happening as like

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while developer is coding i already mentioned

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that then tester testing is a joint effort

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so this is the new way of treating quality on the teams

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so now everyone testing developers are testing as well dpos are testing as well

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and testers are testing as well but it's all more like a combined responsibility

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quality is no longer responsibility of the quality assurance team it's now a joint responsibility

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and then what it means generally to do shift left

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it means we're gonna do a strong start it will take little longer than the regular approach

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but on as a result we will get easy release

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and we will get high quality gates

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which what we expect number nine give us an example of a flaky test

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and how to handle this honestly very difficult question

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because many people fail to answer maybe people even fail to know what flaky means

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so let's talk about this flaky test is the test which

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doesn't pass

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or fail regularly it kind of do both it means

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this test case is very unstable it doesn't prove the health of the application

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because it might fail right now

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but it might pass in five minutes even though there's like

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zero changes down to the application for the flaky test there are many many many reasons

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and one of those is the uh performance

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so like the page is loading slower at some period of times

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so for this you need to make sure you use proper weights

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or conditions or like you're preparing your automation to be stable no matter how long page is loading

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or component is loading on a page another thing

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that can be also here is sometimes we have flaky test on a pipeline

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because when we're automating them locally everything looks good

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but once we're meaning them on pipeline they're running on a cloud

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and on a cloud it's a different environment and on

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that environment like it's going to be happening differently

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so there may be different setup

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it might be might be a different browser running even though like playwright may be headless

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but still there's like some other things that might be impacting

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so we need to make sure whether it's instinct

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and it's the same with what we have currently running on local also sometimes there's problem with dynamic elements.

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So your task how to tackle flaky tasks is to first identify those tests which are failing but should not fail.

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And there's rerun, after try, there's so many other things you can implement.

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They're just a temporary solution but ideally you need to find and try to make those test cases more stable.

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Sometimes it's a locator problem, sometimes it's a performance problem sometimes it's like pipeline problem

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and environment configuration problem so there is many many options

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that the reasons what can go wrong in those flag tests

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and while you like in your answer you can describe it all will show you

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that you have this experience you definitely understand

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and you will be able to identify those tests and improve them

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because the goal is not only to find them

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but also try to make them stable all right

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and number 10 how do you see your career growth considering future iet trends

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and this is very important question because it's not only testing

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your desire to improve yourself

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but also curiosity how do you tackle today's challenges in it

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was ai with it like what do you do do you adapt

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or you give up do you complain or you improve

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so like it's your general internal culture

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that they want to test by asking this question

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so your ideal answer will include keep up with current

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and new solutions so whatever is on the market you just you don't necessarily need to learn it

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but you need to explore it to understand what they're offering

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and is there any benefit that it might provide then everyday automation everyday automation doesn't mean

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that you have to automate every day it means everyday tasks

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that we are doing repetitive routine if it can be automated try to automate it

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so like eventually i hope every aspect of our life

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which is like boring

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and doesn't require our attention will be automated i hope one day my um cleaning

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and cooking will be automated in home i'm really hoping so

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because see right now dish washing is kind of automated

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you can press it up your dishwasher to run on schedule

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you can have your room by vacuum run on schedule many things like even cat litters already automatic

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and clean and clean kitty poop on schedule there's

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so many things already in this world and i think where when we're moving towards the future

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everyday automation will be happening more and more and more in our life

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and it's important i think it's important we don't resist this

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but that's my personal opinion but it's definitely organizations will definitely using it

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because if they can save money or something they will save money

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and it's important whether you helping it or you restrain it

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so i would suggest you will be helping it

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and be the one who will be on the same boat than the one who will be left out just

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because you don't understand the future trends just think about this it's not necessarily true that's my personal opinion

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but that's my channel it's our channel so can say whatever i want here

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but hopefully this makes sense for you but maybe some thoughts

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that will configure in your mind for future reflection um strong expertise in the niche zones

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so by this i'm talking about don't try to learn everything find your niche find the zone

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that you want to be expert for example i love accessibility like i feel myself expert in accessibility testing i

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am not strong in performance absolutely not but

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if we're talking accessibility i can talk about accessibility forever

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i can go to forums to i can go to different conferences about accessibility testing i love this topic

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and that's my expertise and i'm expert in this

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so that's my niche i think it's important niche then explore more beyond regular ui api testing

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because right now quality engineering role is being redesigned it's being rethought

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it's transforming as you can see nobody really wants

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you to test only test right now they want you to automate

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they want you to create documentation they want you to do this

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and do that and many organizations are trying to combine quality overall into one big piece

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which means there's like government compliance analytics like including google analytics

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page optimization like a lot of stuff will be happening

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which will be quality

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because before quality it means perfect flow no defects no blockers nice now quality means

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that people can find

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you there is a ui ux people can enjoy the ease of use people can uh

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you know reach out to you accessibility people with uh some uh visual problems can see the contrast the zooming

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there's like so much more right now than just scrolling the page

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and clicking buttons technology is evolving and you should do the same with your skills

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and expertise and that's why self -education is important take time schedule two hours a week for self -education

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which will just build up your skills to catch up with current technologies

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and take initiative please take initiative in general

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so I give you a lot of different advice here in this question

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but basically when you see this question what you should do you should talk about

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that you will be keeping up with the current solutions

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you will try to automate in your workload as much as

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you can to you know to release yourselves from routine tasks you will try to become strong

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and expert in one specific niche

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that one say the one you like then you're gonna then you're gonna step up

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and you're gonna take more responsibility on different areas of testing

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including the ownership of the app not only the ui level

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but all overall the governance compliance accessibility performance you can do

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that that's not that's not difficult but it requires a lot of effort

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and learning and then you're going to be self -educating yourself taking courses

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and of course taking initiative to grow to take more challenges to take more challenging projects

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and generally pushing yourself up to a new standard every opportunity you can

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so that's how you're basically can stage in your um answer for this amazing question

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we covered 10 questions today i know in the beginning i told you 20

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but it's already a very long video

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so i will be releasing another video where i will cover

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other 10 questions related to the new technologies in quality assurance

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and how to answer those interview questions

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so subscribe for our channel make sure you subscribe for our instagram

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and tick tock it's everywhere it says the testers family i don't even think

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that this name is relevant anymore

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because we are not testers anymore we're more like engineers leads

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and architects but i like the simplicity of us being the testers family

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and that's a very long um photo very old photo maybe like four years ago

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but that's fine i think still young

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and beautiful thank you for watching thank you for coming to this channel and exploring the world of technologies,

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immersion and quality assurance transforming into new shape and see you in next videos.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “QA Engineer Interview Questions and Answers (UPDATED 2026) AI, Accessibility, Automation”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: automation, test, quality, experience. This video has 560 sentences and 6722 words to shadow. The speech runs for 44:50. The speaker talks at a natural 150 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
automation noun	/ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/	The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls.
accessibility noun	/əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/	The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
framework noun	/ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/	A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
developer noun	/dɪˈvɛləpɚ/	A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
topic noun	/ˈtɑpɪk/	A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
layer noun	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
database noun	/ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/	A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
assurance noun	/əˈʃʊɹəns/	The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
initiative noun	/ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/	A beginning; a first move.
script noun	/skɹɪpt/	A writing; a written document.
submit verb	/səbˈmɪt/	To yield or give way to another.
expertise noun	/ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/	Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
pipeline noun	/ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/	A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
niche noun	/nɪt͡ʃ/	A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
stable noun	/ˈsteɪ.bəl/	A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
get down to verb	To start focusing on doing something serious
go through verb	To travel from one end of something to the other.
keep up with verb	To manage to remain beside or just behind someone or something that is moving away from one.
ask around verb	To enquire of different people about something.
build up verb	To erect; to construct.
catch up verb	To pick up suddenly.
come up with verb	To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
get up to verb	To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to think · used to do
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've been · i've coached · i've interviewed
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	will be shaped · can be involved · being asked
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who suspect · people who come · one who basically

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 126 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, don't, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, assurance /əˈʃʊɹəns/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, transaction /tɹænˈzækʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, accessibility /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, initiative /ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like automation, accessibility, framework.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?