TCS interview process for testers

The process as publicly reported

For graduate (fresher) hiring, public sources describe roughly this sequence:

1. Registration through TCS's NextStep portal.
2. The TCS NQT written test. One prep site describes it as an elimination round with two parts and 83 questions in 190 minutes in total:
   • A foundation section: numerical ability (20 questions, 25 minutes), verbal ability (25 questions, 25 minutes) and reasoning ability (20 questions, 25 minutes). It is described as mandatory for those aiming at the Ninja profile.
   • An advanced section: advanced quantitative and reasoning questions, plus an advanced coding section of 3 questions in 90 minutes. It is described as mandatory for those aiming at the Digital profile.
3. Interviews. The same prep site describes interviews of about 25 to 40 minutes with a technical panel, a managerial panel and an HR panel.

The profile you are offered (Ninja, Digital, Prime) is reported to depend on your test score and interview performance.

Where public sources disagree

• Managerial round. The PlacementPreparation page lists a managerial panel. A DesignGurus write-up, as summarised in our search, describes the Ninja interview as Technical plus HR, and we found no source describing a separate managerial round for every track.
• Dates. Several of the pages we found do not show a date, or refer to different years (2019, 2024, 2025, 2026). The test pattern has changed over the years.
• Pay figures vary between sites, so we do not repeat them here.

What this means for a tester

TCS hires graduates into roles, and testing is one of the possible assignments, so the written test is common to every applicant. That part of the preparation is general: aptitude, verbal ability, reasoning and basic programming.

Our own suggestions for the interview (these are advice, not reports of what is asked):

• Be able to explain the basics in manual testing with an example each.
• Know the bug life cycle, severity versus priority and how you would test a common feature, such as a login page.
• Revise one programming language to the level of strings, loops and collections (Java for testers) and basic SQL.
• Be ready to talk about a project, even a practice one.

Help us fill this in

If you have interviewed at TCS for a testing role, tell us the year, the rounds and what you were asked, without sharing anything confidential, through the contact page. Approved experiences will be added here with the year and marked as candidate reports.