Microsoft Device Validation Engineer II 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

601330355

The Microsoft Windows & Devices (W+D) team is on a journey to deliver iconic end-to-end products across hardware, software, and services that people love and use every day. A fundamental part of the W+D strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want. The Windows Silicon & System Integration (WSSI) team within W+D is hiring aDesign ValidationEngineer who willbenchmark breakthroughical aspectsacross theWindows ecosystem for

Device Validation Engineer IIwill be involved in multipleof silicon development, validation, and support. Including prototypingnew designs,validating, debugging new hardware features, SOC bring up, debugging device drivers, performance analysis, and developing automated regression test suites.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or related field
• 4+years experienceas a Software Development Engineer, or Test or Validation Engineer, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience developing and/or testing products across multiple release cycles in related fields.
• 4+ years of experience programming orvalidatingusing applications or tools developed in C, C++, C#, PowerShell, Python, Visual Basic,Javascript, or similar languages.
• Professional experience in debugging and validating device drivers on Windows.

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

• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in collaborating with internal and external partners to understand their requirements and translating them into solutions.
• Understanding schematics, OS primitives: memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading and ACPI is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of test automation and SOLID design principles.
• Experience with Source Control and Azure DevOps is highly desirable.
• Ability to quickly ramp-up on complex and unfamiliar code.

• rototypingnew designs,validating, debugging new hardware features

• SOC bring up, debugging device drivers, performance analysis

• eveloping automated regression test suites.

• Develop andmodifyquality validation plans, procedures, and software tools and programs used to quantify quality metrics.

• internal groupsandquality 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.