I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Upgrade (California City, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
4 rounds. round 1 with recruiting manager. Very professional, clear with communications and responsive to questions. Round 2 with Principal engineer - technical+ scenario based QA for 1 hour. Round 3 with design team - complete focus on UI and non UI automation skills along with matching exercises for 1 hour. Round 4 with VP of engineering. Technical discussion, past projects explanation, coding exercise. (1 hour). All rounds and all interviewers very professional, humble and non pushy. they allow you to think and answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
explained in detail in the Interview process section.
I applied online. I interviewed at Upgrade in Aug 2023
Interview
Very structural. There are 3 rounds after call with HR. And every round I would say pretty complicated. But interviewers are very professional and you don't have a feeling that they try to brake you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First round was about background .Also there was a small assignment with try and catch. Second round was completely technical. -What Java exceptions do you know? -What is the difference between abstract class and interface -Authentication vs authorization -tokens in api -waits in selenium Then you will be asked to find locators At the end you will need to solve sql and java on duplicates in the array.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Upgrade (Ottawa, ON)
Interview
First 30 min call with HR regarding your experience, background etc with 1(try catch block) technical question to answer.
1 hour technical interview with one of the QA member, it was pretty engaging session with questions on everything you worked, Java, Selenium, RestAPI, Jenkins, testing process etc. The interviewer was very professional.
I was not selected for further rounds though. Entire process was clean and proper communicated. Looking forward for another opportunity with Upgrade.