Anyone out there looking for some test engineering jobs!

 

The Irish development centre is growing as I explained in many a blog before... but this time I want to highlight a new team called Office Community which is growing!!! Office Live has been building out a lot of new functionality of late and we continue to prepare for our next release of Office itself... these positions are very much involved in both of these worlds and are in a very small start up environment for those of you that enjoy the energy assoicated with start-ups and so called "organised chaos"!!!

 

Here is job spec. If interested in applying for a role please send your CV to Natalia at: v-natsea@microsoft.com

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

We are currently setting up new teams to work on some very new and exciting functionality that we will be building into the next version of Microsoft Office. We are looking for Software Development Engineers in Test (SDET) to work on the “Office Online” and “Product Lifecycle and Engineering Excellence” (PLEX) teams.

 

Responsibilities for the candidate will include participating in product architecture and design decisions, and working closely with the Development and Program Management teams to ensure the feature/product is compliant to design specifications. You will create features that encourage users to buy Office rather than pirate it by providing additional value and enticing new scenarios. You will own defining how these new features work. You will engage marketing and program management, take scenarios and specifications and design high quality features that will benefit the Office system.  You will also take part in creating the strategy, defining the product, building the deployment expertise and knowledge base that this software development organization needs.

You will be responsible for writing and executing test plans and cases, and designing and developing test tools and test automation.  This is not about regression or manual testing it’s about development in test!

 

Responsibilities

 

·         Demonstrates hands-on testing ability, 

·         Highlights inefficiencies within test strategies & provides solutions.

·         Become an expert in all aspects of the functionality of the Office Deployment including all the underlying/dependant products, components, and technologies.

·         Reviewing functional specifications and design specifications to highlight problems with the design at an early stage.

·         Developing a test plan and test suite.

·         Developing test automation.

·         Key contributor on bug resolutions in app triage for all areas – expected to understand impact of bug resolutions on customer.

·         Creative Problem Solver, proven ability to work through complex issues, implementing creative effective test solutions for the business.

Basic Qualifications:

·         2+ years experience in software design, testing, and shipping

·         BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical discipline 

 

Essential Requirements:

·         A minimum of 2 years experience in developing automated testing (unit and UI driven) in C# with 4-5 years experience in software testing. 

·         Experience of Test execution at both the UI (browser) layer, and at the IIS server layer is essential. 

·         In-depth knowledge of software testing methodologies

·         Expert understanding of OS concepts (such as memory and process management, kernel mode/user mode, network technology, client/server communication. etc)

·         Great problem solving traits, cross-group relationships and communication skills with a strong technical aptitude.

For all those architects out there amongst you -  really cool Senior Architect position in Microsoft Denmark is now open and it's a fantastic senior level position that may interest one of you out there, or maybe even someone you know... check out the following link to find out more.

 

Candidates should have 15 years experience in software development and experience with ERP software to apply.

 

 

Randy Henne, recently moved to Ireland from Redmond to set up Microsoft's new Experimental Platform team for Window's Live from its quickly expanding Irish development centre. But, what is experimentation...? This how Randy describes it...

 

"Our mission is to accelerate software innovation through trustworthy experimentation. Controlled Experiments have existed for tens of years, and with the web, we have an unprecedented opportunity to try things quickly and make data-driven decisions. Don't fall into the trap of believing you know what is best for the customer, and don't let the HiPPO (Highest Paid Person's Opinion) guide you. One of the simplest ways to improve click through rates is to change images. It's usually trivial to change images, and when someone is designing an image, they typically have several alternatives. Instead of betting on one, Experimentation allows you to try the top three (and encourage diversity of ideas).

 

At the cutting edge of BI, online experimentation lets companies actively evaluate significantly different designs, algorithms and approaches by analyzing data from millions of users in real time.  Our Experimentation Platform Team is developing the next generation of highly scalable online services, analysis pipeline and experimentation techniques to support this data driven decision approach.  As a strong team, we are looking for exceptionally strong people (not necessarily with experience in experimentation). Come be part of the platform team right at the center of Ray Ozzie’s Software + Services strategy.  Read more about the team, the product and our publications at http://www.exp-platform.com."

 

Experimenation currently has a very interesting Software Development Engineer open reporting directly to Randy. So if you want to check it out go here on the GPD-E micro-site or here on our career's web site. It'a an excellent opportunity, on a small start-up team, working on very new concept technologies.

 

Base salary is highly competitive, you can earn an annual bonus of 0- to 20% per year, annual leave is 25 days per year, there is a comprehensive relocation package involved in moving to Ireland, and also there is excellent other benefits including world-class training, healthe insurance, pension contributon, and much, much more!

Microsoft Egypt is hiring! At the moment there is a number of junior and senior roles in its R&D centres that offer candidates the opportunity to work from Cairo in one of the most exciting technological environment in the region. At the moment there are research develop roles of all levels of seniority, development lead and PM roles as well as an Architect role.

 

In this blog entry I am going to highlight the Architect role in the Arabic Language technology team which looks particularly interesting. Here’s the spec! If interested in finding anything else about the roles send an email to Hassan Zulficar at v-hzulf@microsoft.com

 

 

This position is based in the Microsoft Applied Research and Development Center in Cairo, Egypt. The center will be expanding its original applied research focus to include developing/integrating Arabic content services and Arabic language specific technologies for a wide range of Microsoft products. The new Arabic language support will be primary catering to the Arab countries regional and cultural requirements.

 

We are looking for a talented, innovative, highly motivated hands-on principal level architect to lead a team in designing, prototyping and with potential to incubate, innovative new experiences with software and services targeting Arabic speaking users. In a Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technical leadership role as an individual contributor, you will be responsible for guiding the team and become the point person for deep technical NLP architectural decisions and designs

 

This position requires skills in architecture, design and hands on implementation, with strong rapid prototyping experience. An ideal candidate excels and enjoys working on a small team in a dynamic start-up environment, can work independently and cooperatively, demonstrates strong communications skills, and has the flexibility to adapt to changing requirements and roles on any given project, including: creating specifications, and hands on development.

 

Required experience

15 years minimum as an architect and development lead with strong track record of building and delivering Arabic NLP products from inception to ship, with exceptionally strong starter skills, with the ability to lead and build strong teams. Broad understanding of software architecture, engineering principles and development methodologies is required along with knowledge of latest Web technologies. Working within and driving teams in geo-distributed development is a significant plus. This position requires a BA/BS degree in Computer Science or comparable technical discipline and business knowledge, plus 15+ years of industry experience.

 

Denmark is continuing to expand. This week there are 4 very interesting senior jobs on open. Who knows one of which could be of interest to you or someone you know:

 

Software Architect

Test Architect

Product Unit Manager, and,

Development Manager

 

To learn more check out the MS Denmark web site here. And if you haven't checked out their new 4 minute video, please do so.

 

 

 

I'm just back from my holidays and for any of you who have been to the south of France or north west of Italy you'll know what I'm talking about when I talk about sleepy little villages with rolling fields and lofty castles surrounded by artisits and poets with giant crusie ships and casiona wheels close by!

 

Anyway, I'm back and we have loads of brillant opportunities on offer as usual all across Europe:

 

1. The Danish development centre currently has a cool Localisation Project Engineer role open in its Navision division. You can check out it and many more of the jobs on offer here.

 

2. Also the European development centre in Ireland is growing fast and has over 20 roles on offer with much more to come. Check out the GPD-E microsite here to learn more. What's great about the roles on offer in Ireland at the moment is there is a nice mix of senior and junior opportunities for program management, development and test and we even have a new Development Manager role coming on line soon which should be an excellent opportunity for someone.

 

Talk soon.

Check out my Irish canteen tour and watch two grown men getting their legs waxed for charity for St Patrick's day. 

 

Also check out out some of our camera shy chefs! Enjoy :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you get a little giggle out of this one!

 

 

Meet one of the engineers in the Danish development centre talking about our Dynamics product and the use of X++. He interestingly talks also about how the application layer is open source which provides his team with some difficult challenges as well as how they manage code bases.

 

Also, learn about what training is on offer in MS and listen to him telling his manager to stop interrupting him in the middle of this video shoot :)

 

And don't forget Denmark is hiring with a large variety of program manager, developer and test roles. Follow the links on the right hand side to know more or send your CV to Simon at: Ssimmons@microsoft.com

 

 

Watch this very interesting interview with one of our researchers in Microsoft's world class Beijing research team.

 

Learn about what skills and what mentality is neeed to be successful and learn about what daily responsibilities a researcher has.

 

Check out the Chinease link on the right to learn more about the wide variety of jobs open in core-tech in China at the moment and if you want to learn more news as it comes in sign up to the RSS!

 

  

For a bit of fun I thought I'd share with you the very funny video in relation to Bill G's last day in Microsoft!

 

 

Germany is expanding its operations with 15 new core-tech positions in Aachen. And for those of you that don't know anything about lovely Aachen it is a university town boasting cobblestone streets, a pedestrian-friendly lifestyle and is located just minutes from both Belgium and the Netherlands.

 

The European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC) is an incubation and innovation R&D lab working on a diverse range of collaborative research projects in embedded computing, mobile networking, security, SOA and home entertainment. They are working on R&D systems and services targeting embedded systems. They are focusing on requirements such as security, reliability, power efficiency, interoperability, as well as real-time characteristics and the effect of the evolving hardware capabilities. To do this there is a lot of close collaboration with other Microsoft research facilities in Europe, the US and Asia. If you join and work in this team you will work on a number of levels - high level vision, architecture, low level implementation and prototyping. The work is extremely hands on and self directing.

 

There are two profiles the team is hiring for. The first is a software development research engineer with embedded systems development experience. This candidate should have a minimum of 5 years relevant work experience with expertise in operating systems, project management and cross country collaboration communications. Managerial experience or collaborative research experience is are a plus.

 

The second profile on offer is a software development research engineer working on our formal verification of systems level technologies. This involves a collaboration  with the programming languages and methods group of Microsoft Research (the home of spec#) and academic partners to prove correctness of Microsoft code.

 

The use of formal methods to verify systems-level C code to the size and complexity of this code is a unique effort for both Microsoft and the software industry. It requires the development of new methodologies and tools, and an intimate understanding of the implementation and its underlying x64 multi-processor architecture.

We ar looking for researchers and experienced developers interested in applied research with excellent programming skills and a proven ability to generate and realize new ideas. As a successful candidate, you will have an advanced degree or PhD in computer science or a related field with significant industry experience and a track record in systems programming with C/C++ or formal methods. Additional experience in compiler technologies and tool building is a plus.

 

There are 15 roles on offer so we are looking for a wide range of senior experiences for the roles. Excellent written and spoken English is a requirement. German language skills would be a plus but or not a requirement.

 

To learn more please go to the following site: http://www.microsoft.com/emic/joboffers.mspx 

 

If you think you have the skills and are interested in applying for the role please fill in the following online form, here.

Jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs from around the world!

 

Straight off the press. Over the last couple of weeks the European Development Centre in Ireland has created a new group that will be building some exciting new video functionality into our future releases of Office. At present there are 3 jobs on offer but this is planned to grow quickly. We currently have a Program Manager, a Software Developer Engineer and a Software Developer Engineer in Test role open but there will be much much more.

 

So if you have 3+ years experience in either C++, C# or Java and have some web development experience this could a team you may want to apply for to join. Microsoft Ireland has over 400 employees working on a variety of Office realted projects but especially localisation. This will be the first time we set up a team of between 10+ people that will do core-tech product development in the Office organisation. Experience in client/server and or experience with web services will be a big advantage as well as experience working with sharepoint, video, mobile and SilverLight technologies. If intersted, please send your CV to Natalia at: v-natsea@microsoft.com

 

Also, did you know we have a development centre in Vancouver, Canada? If interested check out the video below:

 

 

I'll do this in my best bell boy newspaper selling voice.....extra, extra, extra,.. read all about it....development, development, development, test, test, test, design, design design...extra, extra, extra.... read all about it... architecture, architecture, architecture, c++, c++, c++, c#,c#,c#.. jobs, jobs, jobs.... going once, going twice, going three times....

 

Ok, I was never to good at sales so I guess that's maybe why I ended up in recruitment!

 

This month there is a lot of jobs on offer in Microsoft's International development centres, here's a flavour:

 

Denmark is on a hiring spree at the moment where they need to hire 15 software development engineers in test and 15 software development engineers. If you would like to work on some of ERP systems like Dynamics in Denmark send your CV to Scott Simons  at Ssimmons@microsoft.com.  

 

Ireland continues its growth and the Global Products Development team in Dublin are now working on a variety of cool projects in search, visualisation, mobile and now also experimental platforms and edge computing. If you want know more you should check out their excellent web site that I've already blogged about in the past at www.joinmicrosofteurope.com. It's brilliantly designed using SilverLight and gives a really good feel for who the team are and the variety of senior and mid level roles on offer. Off the press at the moment is this team is currently searching for an experienced Test Manager and Lead Developer so if you consider yourself one of the best in one of the above fields and have strong coding ability check out the site.

 

The UK team are currently looking for two Software Development Engineers in Test in one of their mobile groups. Check out the link on the right to learn more.

 

The Egyptian, Cairo innovation centre is growing very quickly and this month the open requisition count is at 5: with 2 researchers, 1 research developer lead and 2 developer engineers. This group is a very small, talented group that are working on a lot of prototyping projects. If you think Cairo is somewhere you would like to apply your trade and some of the roles sound interesting check out the link on the right and send your application to Astrid at v-astcon@microsoft.com

 

The Zurich team concentrating on telecommunication technologies currently has one priority position to fill: a software development engineer. They are looking for a candidate who wants to help drive industry leadership and vision for the enterprise telephony, instant messaging, presence and conferencing. The ideal candidate will need at least 3 years experience in c#. Expertise in SIP, other communication protocols, and SharePoint are a plus. To apply contact Sarah at v-sarahj@microsoft.com