Microsoft Principal Device Validation Engineering Manager 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

476105165

seeking a talentedPrincipal Device Validation Engineering Managerwith exposure to end-to-end product lifecycle. You will lead a team of engineers responsible for defining, implementing, and evolving scalable engineering solutions and strategies for the validation of quality on personal computing devices.

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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 15+ years technical engineering experienceincludingcoding in languages includingC, C++, C#, PowerShell, Python, Visual Basic,Javascript, or similar languages
  • 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.

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Provide technical leadership and build talent to ensure the overall health of the team by developing and mentoring team members while helping them grow both technically and professionally.
• Experience in driving and partnering with vendor teams.
• Experience developing, debugging, and/orvalidatingone or more of the following on Windows operating system:  kernelmode device drivers, firmware, UEFI, Power, Performance, Stability etc.
• Experience with sustaining or servicing products after launch.
• Experience leading or managing external partner orservicescompanies.
• Experience with debugging kernel mode drivers or firmware.
• Experience in gathering and analyzing telemetry data to improve software reliability or performance.

Managing a team of high-caliber device validation engineers, ensuring project and development excellence and technical leadership.

• Deliver high quality results with full ownership.
• Own career development of team through active coaching.
• Create a strong culture of engineering excellence, customer passion, collaboration,diversityand inclusion.
• Hire and develop the best talent.
• Must be self-driven, curious to learn, proactive andresult-oriented