Scripting and Automation Fundamentals Questions

Practical scripting and basic programming skills used to build and maintain automation across development, testing, operations, and data workflows. Covers core language fundamentals in languages such as Python and shell/bash (variables, control flow, functions, and basic data structures), reading, modifying, and debugging small existing scripts, invoking system commands and working with subprocesses, basic regular expressions and text or log parsing, error handling and troubleshooting approaches, and designing small, repeatable utility scripts that automate repetitive tasks, process output, and support monitoring or reporting. Candidates are expected to write and troubleshoot short scripts and to reason about when automation is worth the investment.