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TCS

TCS

Senior Appian Developer
SeniorTechnical
Difficulty Level
Hard
Job Type
Hybrid
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Admin
58 viewsPosted Nov 16, 2025

Questions Asked

  1. Introduce yourself, explain your current project, and highlight the major challenges you faced.
  2. Which SDLC model are you following in your project?
  3. What is Agile methodology?
  4. How do you perform story pointing?
  5. Have you had direct client interaction? If yes, what types of meetings did you manage (e.g., sprint planning, demos, refinements)?
  6. Scenario: Sprint planning is completed and commitments are shared with the client. You are assigned an 8-point story, and other team members are also working on high-priority stories. One team member working on an 8-point story becomes unavailable after two days due to health issues. How would you ensure sprint commitments are still met?
  7. How would you handle a situation where a team member’s productivity is decreasing day by day? How would you motivate and improve their performance?
  8. Scenario: You initially committed 5 story points for a Jira story, but later realize it needs to be updated to 8 points. How would you communicate this change to your manager and client?
  9. Have you managed a team or mentored junior developers?
  10. Which domain(s) have you worked in?
  11. From an Appian perspective, what differences do you observe when working across different domains or industries?
  12. Have you supported production issues? How did you handle critical production incidents?
  13. Explain the deployment process you followed.
  14. Was your application cloud-based or on-premise?
  15. What is the purpose of Web APIs and Integrations in Appian? What are the differences?
  16. What authentication methods are available in Appian? Explain Service Accounts (SVC accounts).
  17. What features from the latest Appian releases impressed you the most?
  18. What are the key features introduced in Appian 24.4?
  19. Explain Appian AI Skills. Describe each AI Skill type and the LLM models used.
  20. What is Generative AI, and how is it integrated into Appian?
  21. Scenario: A business receives receipts and invoices via email and creates cases from them. Design the end-to-end Appian solution step by step (process-node level). Also consider handling multiple invoices within a single email.
  22. How would you display a custom error message in the UI instead of Appian’s default pink error when a runtime error occurs?
  23. What are Record Types, and what are their advantages?
  24. Scenario: Another system is consuming an Appian Web API. If the underlying process fails, how would you return a custom error message to the requester?
  25. How would you return a success message after a request is completed?
  26. If a response is already sent but the process continues to run for a longer duration, how would you handle and communicate success or completion status?
  27. What HTTP methods are supported in Appian Web APIs?
  28. What are the different ways to start a process? Explain the difference between Start Process and SPL (Start Process Link).
  29. Explain database rating in Appian.
  30. How do record sync filters work internally?
  31. Stored Procedure vs View – how do you optimize a View?
  32. Explain MNI (Multiple Node Instance) with a real-world scenario.
  33. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?
  34. What is your reason for job change?
  35. When did you complete your L2 certification? Do you plan for L3? How would you prepare for L3, and which topics would you focus on?
  36. If you have data in both Record Types and CDTs, will it cause an error if you write record type data using the Write to Data Store Entity smart service? Explain.
  37. You mentioned type casting—what are the different casting methods in Appian? Can we cast non-primitive data types? If yes, how?


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