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SWE in Test / SETI · L3–L5 · 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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Hands-on Coding

HIGH · 4 sources

2–3 live DSA rounds — arrays/strings, trees, graphs, DP · write test code + edge cases under time · SQL and CS fundamentals

100%difficulty

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Test Architecture

MEDIUM · 3 sources

Design a test framework / strategy at scale · parallelization, CI hooks, flaky-test trade-offs

78%difficulty

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Scenario-based

MEDIUM · 3 sources

'How would you test X' · test-case design, debugging buggy snippets, BVA / equivalence partitioning

60%difficulty

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API & Contract

MEDIUM · 2 sources

Service/API testing across microservices · mocking, contract validation

42%difficulty

ALSO TESTED, LIGHTER — BELOW THE TOP 4

⚖Bar-raiser'Googleyness' behavioral is present but not a veto round like Amazon's Bar Raiser.⚡Performance & ChaosScale is implicit in architecture answers, not a standalone graded round in SDET debriefs found.

High 5+ · Medium 3–4 · Emerging ≤2 sources

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