Microsoft Device Validation Engineer II 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

968249917

a talented and experiencedDevice Validation Engineer II

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 field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including,C, C++, C#, PowerShell, Python, Visual Basic,Javascript, or similar languages.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+years experienceas a Software Development Engineer, or Test or Validation Engineer, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing and/or testing products across multiple release cycles in related fields.
• 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

• 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