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Test Automation Engineer
Interview rounds
- 1Phone screen (automation basics, manual testing approach)
- 2Technical rounds: networking, programming, Linux
What they focus on
- API and Selenium UI automation
- Java or Python
- Linux
- Networking fundamentals
- JIRA / Rally
💡 Tip: Revise networking basics even for software test roles — they come up often.
Practice on a similar app
Apps on this site from the same business domain — write your automation against them before the interview.
Practice questions for Cisco
Filter by your experience, and pick a language, automation tool or database for theory and coding. Topics reported for Cisco come first; the “asked in most interviews” lists are general questions worth preparing for any company. Full question bank →
Reported for Cisco: Java, Python, Selenium. Other topics are here too — what you get asked depends on the team, so check the job description.
Theory
4 questions
Asked in most interviews · 30
30 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 34
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Cisco. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
34 questions
Coding
2 questions
Asked in most interviews · 14
14 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 9
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Cisco. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
9 questions
Behavioural & situational
No behavioural & situational questions were reported specifically for Cisco — prepare the common ones below.
Asked in most interviews · 26
26 questions
🤖 Emerging — increasingly asked (AI & LLM) · 7
AI-testing topics are showing up in more QA interviews, but weren't specifically reported for Cisco. Worth preparing if the role mentions AI.
7 questions
Sources
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