Using collision data from the LHC, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations have extensively tested the Standard Model of particle physics with a wide programme of physics analyses. This document highlights a few recent analyses targeting electroweak and quantum chromodynamics results to give the reader an insight into the different approaches and techniques currently exploited. The highlighted analyses can roughly be classified into four different categories: the measurement of differential cross-sections, the search for rare processes, the measurement of particle properties and the search for new physics interpreted within an effective field theory extension of the Standard Model.