How did you troubleshoot failures in automated tests in your previous position?

To address failures in automated tests, I employed several approaches:

• Analyzing logs and error messages to identify the cause of the failure.
• Checking the stability of the test environment: ensuring that the environment and test data do not change unpredictably.
• Using explicit waits instead of fixed pauses to avoid issues with asynchrony.
• Refactoring tests to improve their reliability and reduce dependence on external factors.
• Implementing retries for temporary failures.

For example, if a test failed because an element did not load in time, I replaced Thread.sleep with WebDriverWait with a condition to wait for the element.