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ATC Team Job Descriptionfor SDET Lead

Position: Lead Software SDE/T for ATC CS Consumer Solutions Team

Organization:MSR Asia Advanced TechnologyCenter

Location:Beijing

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and take pride in solving real customer issues and enabling our partners to ship new products every few months? The Solutions Team is trying to set up an engineering center through ATC,being responsible for delivering complete CSF-based solutions to the operators all over the world in the field of communications. The solutions we provide will enable consumers to use Microsoft products with great ease on their mobile phones or through their home broad band Internet connections. You’ll have an exciting opportunity to build a world-class test team that will help Microsoft provide “software as services”.

Responsibilities for this position include:

  1. Help the Redmond-based development manager to build your test team, acquiring and sustain top talented Software Design Engineers in Test and Software Test Engineers.
  2. Manage the projects assigned to the test team, work with the development team to deliver high quality solutions.
  3. Drive a team of SDE/Ts through planning, estimation, scheduling, execution and assessment of our server side components.
  4. Driving the test team to design, implement, debug and automate test cases and test plans on multiple projects.
  5. Measure, analyze and communicate quality metrics and test status to the Redmond management team.
  6. Collaborate with development, program management and test teams, both within the Solutions Team and other product teams in Redmond.
  7. Help improve CS engineering efficacy.

Qualifications for this position include:

  1. At least 5 years of software test experience working on commercial software, including experience of managing through one complete Microsoft product or application cycle.
  2. At least 1 year of people management experience including recruiting, goal setting, mentoring and career development.
  3. A deep understanding of software development process, demonstrated proficiency in designing test plans, and ability to work effectively both within a team and cross-group to create designs and to identify and manage dependencies, and drive to resolve issues and ship under tight deadlines.
  4. Ability to work closely with program managers, developers and testers in multiple locations, on multiple projects.
  5. Excellent organizational, communication, and motivational skills; a “lead by example” attitude.
  6. Strong Windows, Win32, .NET applications test cases design and testing skills.
  7. Previous experience in Web Services, XML and SQL are pluses, as well as working experience in communications field.
  8. Excellent English and Chinese communications skills, both spoken and written, required.
  9. BA or BS in Computer Science or related field.