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Automation Testing Interview Questions for Analytics Companies

40 questions weighted to the interview style of analytics companies — 6 easy, 33 medium, 1 hard.

How analytics companies interview for Automation Testing

Analytics and data-services firms test practical skill hard: SQL, Excel or Python tasks, statistics, and business cases where you turn data into a recommendation. Many run a take-home or live case round in addition to technical interviews.

This set focuses on Page Object Model (6), API Testing and CI/CD (5), Selenium WebDriver (5), Cucumber and BDD (4).

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01

How do you attach a screenshot to the Cucumber report when a scenario fails?

Cucumber and BDDMedium
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@After public void afterScenario(Scenario scenario) { if (scenario.isFailed()) { byte[] shot = ((TakesScreenshot) driver) .getScreenshotAs(OutputType.BYTES); scenario.attach(shot, "image/png", scenario.getName()); } driver.quit(); }
02

How do you undo a commit that has already been pushed?

Git, Maven and JenkinsMedium
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Use git revert <commit>, which creates a new commit that reverses the changes and keeps history intact, safe for shared branches. git reset moves the branch pointer backwards and is fine for local commits, but resetting and force-pushing a shared branch rewrites history and breaks teammates' clones. If force push is truly needed, use --force-with-lease and tell the team.
03

Write a Dockerfile that runs a Maven and TestNG test suite.

Selenium Grid & DockerMedium
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FROM maven:3.9-eclipse-temurin-21 WORKDIR /app # cache dependencies first for faster rebuilds COPY pom.xml . RUN mvn -q dependency:go-offline COPY src ./src COPY testng.xml . ENV GRID_URL=http://selenium-hub:4444 CMD ["sh", "-c", "mvn test -Dgrid.url=$GRID_URL -Dsurefire.suiteXmlFiles=testng.xml"]
04

What is a quality gate in a CI/CD pipeline?

API Testing and CI/CDMedium
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A quality gate is a rule a build must pass before moving forward, such as all smoke tests passing, code coverage above a threshold, no critical static analysis issues, or no new high-severity vulnerabilities. If the gate fails, the pipeline stops and the change is not deployed. Gates make quality an automatic decision instead of a manual check.
05

How do you handle a web table in Selenium?

Selenium WebDriverMedium
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Locate rows and columns with XPath such as //table//tr and //td, loop through them to read or click cells, or build the XPath dynamically from the row text.
06

During a load test response times rise sharply. Which server-side metrics do you check?

Performance Testing with JMeterMedium
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Check CPU and memory usage of application servers, garbage collection pauses and heap usage for Java services, thread pool and connection pool saturation, database slow queries, locks and connection counts, disk I/O and network bandwidth. Also look at load balancer and cache hit rates and error logs. Correlate the timestamp of the slowdown with these graphs in an APM or monitoring tool to find which resource saturated first.
07

How do you manage test data in a framework?

Page Object ModelMedium
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Use external files or APIs and database setup scripts, generate unique data per run, and clean up afterwards so tests stay independent.
08

How have you handled disagreement with a developer about whether something is a bug?

Core Java for TestersMedium
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Situation: a developer said a rounding difference in invoice totals was expected. Task: resolve it without friction. Action: I checked the requirement, found it specified rounding per line, and brought the document and a test case with expected values to a quick call with the BA. Result: the BA confirmed it was a bug, it was fixed, and we added the rule to the acceptance criteria.
09

Write Appium Java code to perform a vertical swipe using W3C Actions.

Appium Mobile AutomationHard
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// Swipe up from 80% to 20% of the screen height Dimension size = driver.manage().window().getSize(); int x = size.width / 2; int startY = (int) (size.height * 0.8); int endY = (int) (size.height * 0.2); PointerInput finger = new PointerInput(PointerInput.Kind.TOUCH, "finger"); Sequence swipe = new Sequence(finger, 1); swipe.addAction(finger.createPointerMove(Duration.ZERO, PointerInput.Origin.viewport(), x, startY)); swipe.addAction(finger.createPointerDown(PointerInput.MouseButton.LEFT.asArg())); swipe.addAction(finger.createPointerMove(Duration.ofMillis(600), PointerInput.Origin.viewport(), x, endY)); swipe.addAction(finger.createPointerUp(PointerInput.MouseButton.LEFT.asArg())); driver.perform(List.of(swipe));
10

Describe a time you convinced developers to fix a problem found by automation.

API Testing and CI/CDMedium
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Situation: an API test kept failing intermittently and developers called it a test issue. Task: prove or disprove it. Action: I collected logs from ten failures, showed the same race condition in the order service with request IDs, and reproduced it with a small parallel script. Result: developers fixed a real concurrency bug before it reached customers, and trust in the suite improved.
11

How do you make WebDriver thread-safe for parallel runs?

Page Object ModelMedium
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Store each driver in a ThreadLocal so every thread gets its own instance and tests do not interfere.
12

How do you test that a method throws an expected exception in TestNG?

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Use @Test(expectedExceptions = IllegalArgumentException.class) and optionally expectedExceptionsMessageRegExp to check the message. The test passes only if that exception is thrown. For more control, use Assert.assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> service.withdraw(-5)), which returns the exception so you can inspect it further. This style is clearer because the check applies to one line, not the whole test.
13

A test fails with TimeoutException waiting for an element that is clearly visible on screen. What do you check?

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Check whether the element is inside an iframe or shadow DOM, the locator matches a different hidden element first, the page opened in a new tab not yet switched to, or the wait condition is wrong, such as presence versus visibility versus clickable. Use findElements to see how many matches the locator has and verify it in browser DevTools.
14

What is method overriding and where is it useful in frameworks?

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A subclass redefines a parent method. Frameworks use it to customise base behaviour, such as overriding a wait or click method in a base page class.
15

Write Java code to start an Android Appium session using UiAutomator2Options.

Appium Mobile AutomationMedium
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UiAutomator2Options options = new UiAutomator2Options() .setPlatformName("Android") .setAutomationName("UiAutomator2") .setDeviceName("Pixel_7_API_34") .setApp(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/apps/shop.apk") .setAutoGrantPermissions(true) .setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(120)); AndroidDriver driver = new AndroidDriver( new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), options); driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Duration.ZERO); // use explicit waits in tests driver.quit();
16

What is OAuth 2.0 in API testing?

API Testing and CI/CDMedium
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An authorisation framework where a client obtains an access token from an auth server and sends it as a Bearer token; tests fetch and reuse the token in setup.
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How do you handle test data cleanup in Cucumber scenarios?

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Create data in Given steps through APIs, record the created IDs in the scenario context, and delete them in an @After hook, which runs even when the scenario fails. Use unique names with a timestamp or UUID to avoid clashes in parallel runs. For shared environments, add a nightly cleanup job for leftover data tagged with a test prefix.
18

What is the difference between git merge and git rebase?

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Merge combines branches by creating a merge commit, keeping the full history exactly as it happened. Rebase replays your commits on top of another branch, producing a straight, linear history without a merge commit. Rebase is good for tidying a local feature branch before a pull request; never rebase commits that others have already pulled, because it rewrites history.
19

What is the difference between Comparable and Comparator in Java?

Core Java for TestersMedium
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Comparable defines the natural order inside the class (compareTo); Comparator defines custom orders externally (compare), useful for sorting test data in several ways.
20

findElement vs findElements?

Selenium WebDriverEasy
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findElement returns the first match and throws NoSuchElementException if nothing is found. findElements returns a List (empty if nothing is found) — handy to check whether an element exists.
21

Your Jenkins test stage marks the build green even though tests failed. Why?

Git, Maven and JenkinsMedium
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Possibly testFailureIgnore is set to true in Surefire, the shell step uses || true, or the script swallows Maven's exit code. Sometimes tests catch exceptions and never fail. Check the console log for Maven's BUILD result and Surefire summary. Fix the configuration so failures produce a non-zero exit, or use junit publishing to mark the build unstable when tests fail.
22

How do you assert on an array in a JSON response using Hamcrest?

REST AssuredMedium
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Use collection matchers inside body(). For example body("data.id", hasItems(1, 2)), body("data", hasSize(6)), body("data.email", everyItem(containsString("@"))) and body("data.find { it.id == 3 }.name", equalTo("Neha")). These check the whole collection in one line. For complex rules, extract a List with jsonPath().getList() and assert with Java or AssertJ.
23

What is dryRun in Cucumber and when do you use it?

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dryRun=true makes Cucumber parse all feature files and check every step has a matching definition without actually executing anything. It is fast and is useful after writing new features, during refactoring, or as a quick CI gate to catch undefined or ambiguous steps. It also prints snippets for missing step definitions that you can paste and implement.
24

Your API tests started failing with SSL handshake errors on a new test server. What do you do?

REST AssuredMedium
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First confirm the server uses a self-signed or internal certificate. The proper fix is to import the company CA certificate into a truststore and configure REST Assured with trustStore(path, password). As a temporary measure in a test environment only, relaxedHTTPSValidation() skips checks. Never use relaxed validation against production, and raise the certificate issue with the infra team.
25

What is an API and what are common HTTP methods?

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An interface for systems to talk to each other. GET reads, POST creates, PUT replaces, PATCH updates partially and DELETE removes.
26

What is the difference between SOAP and REST?

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SOAP is a strict XML protocol with WSDL and WS-Security; REST is a lighter architectural style using HTTP and usually JSON.
27

What is the Hybrid framework?

Page Object ModelMedium
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A framework combining data-driven, keyword-driven and POM approaches with reporting and utilities, giving flexibility and reuse.
28

How do you handle waits inside page objects?

Page Object ModelMedium
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Put explicit waits in page methods or BasePage helpers, not in tests. For example click() waits for elementToBeClickable before clicking, and a page's isLoaded() waits for a key element. Avoid Thread.sleep and avoid mixing implicit and explicit waits. Keep the timeout configurable so CI can use a slightly longer value than local runs.
29

What does SE_NODE_MAX_SESSIONS control in the Docker Selenium images?

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It sets how many browser sessions a node container can run at once. The default is one, which gives the best isolation and stability. Increasing it lets one container run several browsers in parallel, but you must also set SE_NODE_OVERRIDE_MAX_SESSIONS to true and give the container enough CPU, memory and shared memory. Many teams keep one session per container and scale the number of containers instead.
30

An assertion on element text fails even though the text looks identical on screen. What could be the reason?

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The text may contain extra whitespace, a line break or a non-breaking space that looks normal visually. getText() also returns only visible text and applies CSS text-transform, so uppercase styling changes the value. Print the string with its length or character codes to spot hidden characters. Fix it by trimming and normalising whitespace before comparing, or compare with the expected case-insensitively when the UI uses text-transform.
31

How do you pass the WebDriver to page objects in a parallel framework?

Page Object ModelMedium
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Use a DriverManager with a ThreadLocal<WebDriver>, created in @BeforeMethod and removed in @AfterMethod. Page objects receive the driver through the constructor or get it from DriverManager.getDriver(). Constructor injection is cleaner and easier to test. Never store the driver in a static field shared by all threads, or parallel tests will control each other's browsers.
32

What is the difference between throw and throws?

Core Java for TestersMedium
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throw actually raises an exception object inside a method; throws declares in the method signature that it may pass an exception to the caller.
33

What is the difference between average, median and 95th percentile response time?

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Average is the sum divided by count, so a few very slow requests can distort it. Median is the middle value, meaning half the requests were faster. The 95th percentile means 95 percent of requests were faster than that value, which reflects what most users experience including slow cases. SLAs are usually written on 90th, 95th or 99th percentiles because averages hide long tails that frustrate real users.
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How do you record videos of tests running on a Docker Selenium Grid?

Selenium Grid & DockerMedium
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Add the selenium/video image as a sidecar container next to each node, sharing the node's display through DISPLAY_CONTAINER_NAME, and mount a folder for the mp4 files. Newer Grid versions also support recording per session by setting the se:recordVideo capability with Dynamic Grid. Name videos with se:name so they match test names. Keep videos only for failed tests or for a few days, because they use a lot of disk space.
35

How do you rerun only failed Cucumber scenarios?

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Add the rerun plugin, for example rerun:target/failed.txt, to the main runner. It writes the location of each failed scenario. Create a second runner whose features point to @target/failed.txt and run it after the main run in Maven or Jenkins. Use reruns to separate real failures from flaky ones, but track flaky scenarios and fix them instead of hiding them.
36

What is the Maven Failsafe plugin and how is it different from Surefire?

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Surefire runs unit tests in the test phase and stops the build as soon as tests fail. Failsafe runs integration tests in the integration-test phase and checks results later in the verify phase, so post-integration-test steps, like stopping a server or Docker containers, still run after failures. By default Failsafe picks classes named *IT. Many teams run UI and API suites through Failsafe with mvn verify for that reason.
37

Write Java code to create a RemoteWebDriver for a Selenium Grid using ChromeOptions.

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String gridUrl = System.getProperty("grid.url", "http://localhost:4444"); ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions(); options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080"); options.setCapability("se:name", "Login smoke test"); WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(gridUrl), options); try { driver.get("https://app.test/login"); } finally { driver.quit(); }
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How do you handle alerts and pop-ups?

Selenium WebDriverMedium
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driver.switchTo().alert() lets you accept, dismiss, read text or send keys. Browser windows are handled with window handles.
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What is method chaining in Page Object Model?

Page Object ModelMedium
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Method chaining means page methods return a page object, either this or the next page, so calls can be linked: loginPage.enterUser("asha").enterPassword("x").submit().openOrders(). Returning the next page models navigation and makes tests read like a user journey. Be careful when an action can lead to different pages; return the correct type or provide separate methods for success and failure.
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How do you upload a file with REST Assured?

REST AssuredMedium
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Use multipart: given().multiPart("file", new File("src/test/resources/report.pdf"), "application/pdf").formParam("type", "invoice").when().post("/upload").then().statusCode(200). REST Assured sets the multipart/form-data content type automatically. Verify both the status and the response, such as the returned file id or size, and test edge cases like empty, oversized and wrong-type files.

Analytics companies (11)

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EXL

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  • 40 questions
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Noida, Gurugram, Bengaluru +1

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Mu Sigma

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  • 40 questions
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Bengaluru

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Fractal Analytics

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  • 40 questions
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Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurugram +1

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LatentView Analytics

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Chennai, Bengaluru

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Tiger Analytics

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Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad

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Tredence

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  • 40 questions
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Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurugram

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Sigmoid

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Bengaluru, Pune

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Quantiphi

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  • 40 questions
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Mumbai, Bengaluru

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Affine

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Bengaluru

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NielsenIQ

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  • 40 questions
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Vadodara, Chennai, Pune

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Course5 Intelligence

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Frequently asked questions

How are Automation Testing interviews at analytics companies different?

Analytics and data-services firms test practical skill hard: SQL, Excel or Python tasks, statistics, and business cases where you turn data into a recommendation. Many run a take-home or live case round in addition to technical interviews.

Which analytics companies are covered?

This page links to 11 analytics companies, including EXL, Mu Sigma, Fractal Analytics, LatentView Analytics, Tiger Analytics, Tredence, Sigmoid, Quantiphi. Each has its own page with rounds and a separate practice set.

What rounds should I expect?

Common rounds at these companies include: HR round; Technical interview; Case or guesstimate round; Technical round 1; Technical round 2 or case round. The exact process varies by company and role.

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