Microsoft SENIOR DEVICE VALIDATION ENGINEER 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

517962256

aSenior Device Validation Engineer

As part of the Surface Post Launch Engineering Design Validation Engineering team, you willbe responsible forcharacterizing and quantifying the quality of one or more Surface product families through multiple release cycles.  You will need to become strongly familiar with multiple engineering systems and validation methodologies used across a breadth of technology areas such as firmware, power, performance, and kernel mode drivers.  You willbe requiredand service partnersin order to

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or related field

• years experienceas a Software Development Engineer, or Test or Validation Engineer, or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience developing and/or testing products across multiple release cycles in related fields

• 7+ years of experience programming orvalidatingusing applications or tools developed in C, C++, C#, PowerShell, Python, Visual Basic,Javascript, or similar languages

• Professional experience in the development and/or validation of personal computing devices, tables, mobile phones, or other mobile computer devices or accessories, gaming systems, or servers

• Experience with developing and executing software testing methodologies, strategies, procedures,toolsand metrics

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing, debugging, and/orvalidatingone or more of the following on Windows operating system:  kernel mode device drivers, firmware, UEFI

• Experience with sustaining or servicing products after launch

• Experience leading or managing external partner or services companies

• Experience with debugging kernel mode drivers or firmware
• Experience in gathering andanalyzingtelemetry data to improve software reliability or performance

• Develop andmodifyquality validation plans, procedures, and software tools and programs used to quantify quality metrics
• Lead and define the scope of engineering validation coverage and key quality metrics for device driver and firmware releases
• Collaborate with PM, Developer, and Quality teams to plan, schedule, and sign-off on engineering releases by assessing risks and making data-driven decisions
• Leverage, direct, and evolve external service partners to execute and deliver testing and quality characterizations of device and system driver and firmware updates
• Drive the resolution of engineering release blockers byidentifyingand debugging them