Programming Fundamentals for Quality Assurance Questions

Focuses on programming knowledge most relevant to test automation and quality engineering. Core language concepts include variables and data types, control flow statements, functions and procedures, object oriented principles such as classes inheritance and polymorphism, common collection types like lists sets and maps, exception handling strategies, and file input and output. Emphasize writing readable maintainable and testable code, debugging techniques and diagnostic logging, using language specific testing frameworks and libraries, and understanding strengths and trade offs of Java or Python for automation. Candidates should choose the language most relevant to the role and demonstrate practical automation scripting and integration with test frameworks and continuous integration pipelines.