COMPANY PACK · TRANSPARENCY
✓ VERIFIED · 6 PUBLIC SOURCES
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Amazon
SDET / QAE · SDET-1 to SDET-2 · One curated set a day, tuned to this loop
Updated 2026Q2
Focus areas ranked by how strongly they show up across independent public sources. Tags shift by role & level — refreshed quarterly, never a guarantee.
MOST-TESTED FOCUS AREAS
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Bar-raiser
HIGH · 6 sourcesDedicated Bar Raiser round (veto power) + 14 Leadership Principles woven through every round · STAR ownership & trade-off stories · ~8-10 behavioral Qs across the loop
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Hands-on Coding
HIGH · 6 sourcesOnline assessment + ~2 live DSA rounds · arrays/strings, linked lists, trees, hashmaps; DP at SDET-2 · also scripting + writing your own test cases
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Test Architecture
HIGH · 5 sourcesDedicated HLD round: design a test automation framework / test service · POM, data-driven vs hybrid · parallel execution, reporting, CI hooks, scalability trade-offs
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Scenario-based
HIGH · 5 sourcesTest-case design (vending machine, ATM, payment flow) · positive/negative, BVA & equivalence partitioning · debugging buggy snippets · flaky-test mitigation
ALSO TESTED, LIGHTER — BELOW THE TOP 4
⇄API & ContractReal but REST-only and lighter; GraphQL / formal contract-testing not Amazon-attested. Ranks 5th of 8 — below the top-4 cap.∞CI/CD & PipelinesSurfaces inside the framework/strategy discussion, not a standalone graded round in any candidate account found.⚡Performance & ChaosPerf is an occasional question; chaos engineering not attested for this loop.✦Agentic AIEmerging only — at most an opinion/behavioral touch, not a graded technical round.
High 5+ · Medium 3–4 · Emerging ≤2 sources
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