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Cognizant Automation Test Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 27 Feb 2025

Top Cognizant Automation Test Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

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Cognizant Automation Test Engineer Interview Experiences

23 interviews found

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Result
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Interview experience
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Difficulty level
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Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
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Not Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview:
  • Selenium
  • webdriver

Automation Test Engineer Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies

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Q4. 1) cucumber 2) Defects worked on, tell me about the bugs you foun ... read more
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Q5. 1] Introduction 2] Sanity Vs Smoke testing 3] Waits in selenium a ... read more
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Difficulty level
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Process Duration
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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - up skill your Automation testing skills and have good knowledge with java / python language

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Feb 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well in java, selenium concepts, maven, git , do prepare in java string related programs.

Cognizant interview questions for designations

 Senior Automation Test Engineer

 (3)

 Manual Automation Test Engineer

 (1)

 Automation Test Lead

 (1)

 Sdet Automation Test Engineer

 (3)

 Tosca Automation Test Engineer

 (1)

 Test Engineer

 (17)

 Senior Automation Engineer

 (3)

 QA Automation Engineer

 (2)

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Overall good experience.

Get interview-ready with Top Cognizant Interview Questions

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jan 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - First round will be easy. Second round onwards depends on Project requirements.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Aug 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Explain about your experience projects and currently where u are working?
  • Ans. Just explain about you, and where you are working and working on current and previous projects
  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q2. What challenges you have faced and how did overcome them?
  • Ans. Explain about challenges which you faced from projects technically and the way of overcome them
  • Answered Anonymously
  • Q3. Java questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Just be confident and be an expressive, and don't drag the topics which you don't know much

Interview Questionnaire 

2 Questions

  • Q1. Learn manual testing, Selenium, Java, postman, sql, TestNG, Github Git, Maven, jira.
  • Q2. Should have experience in automation....

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn completely. Confident, gi deep into subject learning do practical....java programs must and should learn.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before May 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - learn Automation Testing basic and Test cycle

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. Difference between implicit and explicit
  • Ans. 

    Implicit and explicit are two types of waits in Selenium.

    • Implicit wait is set globally and applied to all elements, while explicit wait is set for a specific element or condition.

    • Implicit wait waits for a certain amount of time before throwing an exception if the element is not found, while explicit wait waits for a specific condition to occur before proceeding.

    • Implicit wait is set using the 'driver.manage().timeouts()...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Api methods
  • Ans. 

    API methods are functions that allow communication between different software systems.

    • API methods can be used to retrieve data from a server or send data to a server.

    • API methods can be RESTful or SOAP-based.

    • Examples of API methods include GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.

    • API methods can be tested using tools like Postman or SoapUI.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Status code of api
  • Ans. 

    Status code of an API is a numerical code that indicates the success or failure of a request.

    • Status codes range from 100 to 599

    • 2xx codes indicate success

    • 4xx codes indicate client errors

    • 5xx codes indicate server errors

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Answers should be precise and confidence.

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Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview?
Cognizant interview process usually has 1-2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process are Technical, One-on-one Round and HR.
How to prepare for Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are Selenium, Java, Automation Testing, Cucumber and API.
What are the top questions asked in Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview -

  1. 5. Git repository . How to push and pull co...read more
  2. Mention some popular tools used for automation testi...read more
  3. 2. TestNg and it's annotations and order of executi...read more
How long is the Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview process?

The duration of Cognizant Automation Test Engineer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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