Product company
Atlassian
Quality in a continuous-delivery culture with shared ownership.
These are our own practice questions for the kind of QA/SDET role this company hires for. They are not the company's real interview questions. Confirm the current process on the company's official careers page.
What they tend to probe
- Whole-team quality
- Test automation in code
- Feature flags
- Observability
- Pairing
Question 1 · Culture · Medium
Developers own quality here. What is the role of a QA engineer then?
Answer guide
Coach on testing, build shared tooling, review test strategy, explore for what automation misses, and use production data to find risk.
Question 2 · Feature flags · Medium
How do you test a feature behind a flag that rolls out gradually?
Answer guide
Both flag states, targeting rules, rollout percentage behaviour, kill-switch speed, data created while on then switched off, and cleanup of old flags.
Question 3 · Automation · Medium
Which tests belong at unit, integration, and end-to-end level for a comment feature?
Answer guide
Rules and formatting at unit, persistence and permissions at integration, a small number of user journeys end to end. Say what each level would NOT cover.
Question 4 · Observability · Hard
What would you monitor after releasing a change to search?
Answer guide
Latency percentiles, error rate, zero-result rate, click-through, and resource use, with alerts tied to a rollback decision.
Question 5 · Coding · Medium
Write a test helper that retries an assertion until it passes or times out. What are the risks?
Answer guide
Poll with a deadline and interval, rethrow the last error. Risks: hiding real slowness, masking flaky behaviour, and long total runtime.
Question 6 · Exploration · Easy
Run a 30-minute exploratory session on a kanban board. What is your charter?
Answer guide
Mission, areas (drag, limits, concurrency, permissions), notes, bugs, questions, and a debrief. Time-boxed and written down.