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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 :)