I applied in-person. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cognizant (Pune) in Jun 2025
Interview
1 st technical round Interviewer was very nice she is giving time to think about what she has asked . there interview scheduling process is very nice and smooth. they have scheduled the interview with in 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is this and super keyword. program on overloading using interface, java program to count the character in the string, explain all the oops concept and where you have applied in your framework , write program to throw and exception, difference between protected and private, difference between list and set , difference between arraylist and hashmap, how do you run your testcases using maven. explain your framework design.
I received the interview schedule via naukri for QA AUTOMATION ENGINEER role. It's a virtual interview. Interview experience is average. Not Easy. Questions will be increased and asked based on the response.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
Basic questions on java, oops concepts and their implementation in the project.
two rounds of technical interview, basic questions were asked on Java, testng, maven, api testing, some manual testing questions, both round one program was asked on basic java string manipulation
Automation Test Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Automation Test Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Cognizant overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Cognizant as a Automation Test Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Group panel interview: 13%
Background check: 13%
Phone interview: 13%
Skills test: 13%
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