Quality Assurance Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Cognizant with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 82% positive. To compare, the company-average is 69.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Quality Assurance Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 17 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 Quality Assurance Engineer according to 17 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Background check: 21%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
Phone interview: 12%
Skills test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Group panel interview: 3%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 3%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Cognizant in Oct 2017
Interview
There were three interviews that were back-to-back-to-back. First one was behavioral, the next two were more technical. Overall it was pretty easy and none of the interviews took more than thirty minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Various questions about testing and the work I've done in college. Nothing too hard, just be prepared to talk about your work and coursework experience if you are being interviewed fresh out of college.
I applied online. I interviewed at Cognizant (Chennai) in Jul 2025
Interview
L1 technical interview
It was good they asked me python basics and asked to write a logic for anagram and api concepts testing framework libraries so it was good more about project framework and agile
It was 45 mins interview. Playwright, javascript questions were asked. Manual testing questions asked. Interviewer was poilte. Learn about javascript and playwright before giving the interview. I was not selected but it was a good experience.
Online interview process , moderate level interview , first round resume shortlist, second round technical ,HR round All testing related ,Selenium automation related questions , API and manual testing questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Introduce yourself,testing related questions , moderate level