Description :
Job Title: Software Development Engineer in Test
Job Category: Software Development
Product: (Not Product Specific)
Date Posted: 01/03/2008
Job Code: 213661
Location: WA - Redmond
Travel Required:
Are you interested in working with one of the largest and most complex online services in the world?
Are you excited about the online future of gaming, music, and other media?
Do you look forward to the challenges entailed with helping to grow, analyze, and maintain a large data warehouse?
Are you passionate about software quality?
If so, the Live Services Group (Xbox Live/Zune) is looking for an SDET to work on our business intelligence services team.
You will be validating the reports and SQL data used to help monitor our service and make important business decisions.
Responsibilities
Working with data analyst and PMs to drive new features to satisfy our current customers.
Authoring test plans for new reports, components, and architecture changes to support our growing and changing data warehouse.
Working with the team to come up with creative and innovative ways to test data collection and processing against very large datasets.
Developing and running functional, stress, and performance tests for new and existing features.
Candidates should have the following
2 Years of experience with SQL
2 Year of experience with SQL Service Analysis Services, SQL Service Integration Services, and SQL Service Reporting Services
3 Years of software testing experience
C# or C++ experience preferred
Experience working with large databases and knowledge of XML is a plus.
About Microsoft Entertainment & Devices
Microsoft Entertainment & Devices (E&D) is a unique community of smart and passionate people who truly enjoy tackling technology's biggest challenges and driving the innovations that impact how the world lives, works and plays. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining people who want to be part of the E&D story.
Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) mission is to deliver digital lifestyle experiences that are designed for a community of users. We call this Connected Entertainment. Connected Entertainment enables people to experience a broad spectrum of entertainment content across a range of devices - They can interact with that content, personalize it, and share it with their friends and social communities.
Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) story is comprised of our distinct businesses: Music - Zune music device & the Zune Music Marketplace; Gaming - Xbox 360, Xbox Live, as well as, 1st Party Game Publisher, Windows Vista Games; Video - Microsoft TV & eHome featuring Mediaroom, Windows Media Center and HDI; Communications - Windows Mobile Platform & Services for Smartphone's & PDAs' and Specialized Devices & Applications - Mac: Office & Windows Embedded; Surface Computing, PC Hardware (mice, keyboards & webcams), Windows Automotive (the new Sync product).
In addition to our business pillars, Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) is responsible for the entire Microsoft Manufacturing and Supply Chain and provides logistics for the US Retail Channel. The mission of the E&D Manufacturing & Supply Chain group is to deliver World-Class End-to-End Solutions that Maximize Value in each of the businesses that we support, whether it's Xbox® or Zune®; hardware or consumer software; or any other product platform we choose to pursue.
Microsoft offers an excellent benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, vacation, employee stock purchase plan, and 401k, plus some great extras including: our 24-hour nurse line, stay fit program, product discounts, and paid infant care leave. All part of our commitment to our most important asset: our employees.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce.
