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Weekly QA Challenges

Practical testing scenarios from real projects. Write how you would approach it, then read how other testers solved the same problem.

Interactive practice challenges

Short, free exercises with instant feedback and explanations. Try any as a guest; sign in to save your progress.

Weekly QA Challenge #03

Open

How would you test a password reset flow?

List the key scenarios for a forgot-password feature.

  • Test scenario
  • Functional
  • Beginner
  • 0 submissions
  • Closes Nov 5, 2026

Weekly QA Challenge #02

Closed

A login test fails once every ten runs — how do you investigate?

Track down an intermittent automation failure without guessing.

  • Bug investigation
  • Debugging & flake
  • Beginner
  • 1 submission
  • Closed Oct 5, 2026

Weekly QA Challenge #01

Closed

How would you test an e-commerce checkout API?

Design a practical test approach for a checkout API handling carts, payments and stock.

  • API testing scenario
  • API Testing
  • Intermediate
  • 1 submission
  • Closed Sep 28, 2026

How weekly QA challenges work

  1. Read the scenario. Each challenge describes a situation testers meet at work, such as a flaky login test or a checkout API that has to handle carts, payments and stock.
  2. Write your approach. Explain what you would check first, which test cases you would design, what data you need and how you would report the result. There is no single right answer; the reasoning is what matters.
  3. Compare with other testers. Once a challenge closes, read how other members approached the same problem and note the cases you missed.

What makes a strong answer

  • It starts with the risk: what could go wrong for a real user or the business.
  • It covers positive, negative and boundary cases, not only the happy path.
  • It says how you would confirm a fix, for example by re-running a test many times for an intermittent failure.
  • It stays short enough that a teammate could follow it in a few minutes.

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