SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of experience and skills in planning, developing, managing and shipping world - class software. Proven track record in building, managing and growing successful QA teams to meet dynamic business challenges. Engaging with customers to bring innovation into products meeting real-world needs. Documented achievements in engineering excellence, guiding and influencing in various test organizations and partners across Confidential .
• Key leader and driver amongst numerous teams, keeping broad picture in focus while emphasizing timely and high quality results through team work. Strong sense of personal excellence and ownership with dedication to great organizational agility, attention to detail and prioritization skills. Interpersonal and cross-cultural awareness and ability to work with diverse groups of people. - “Brent is absolutely a role model for leaders in the QA organization.” - Principle Group Development Manager
• Business-focused and people-oriented leadership delivering high ROI product releases simultaneously with high scores in the Organizational Health Index of Confidential ’s Annual Poll. Cited for leadership in achieving business objectives by empowering team members to align business needs with their strengths, areas of interest, and career goals for building additional skills. Emphasizing cross-team best practices and managing teams to deliver multiple projects of high quality on time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, MVC, TSQL, Scope, PowerShell, VBA, JSON, XML, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript

Tools: NET Framework, Visual Studio, SQL, VSO/TFS, VS Code, PowerBI, Office Suite

Platforms: Azure, Windows, Mac, Linux, TFS, Git, Cosmos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal SWE Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and drove the new engineering team strategy for customer scenario validations. Created strategic vision document outlining new E&I role and navigating the new team through its identity and responsibilities, rising above the ambiguities. Drove team execution through app-building, scenario workflow generation and scheduling for product sign-offs and releases.
• Directed team data-collection and analysis of customer feedback from various channels, reviewed and prioritized issues with PM to feed back into upcoming product designs and releases. Worked within Frontline customer engagement program to create direct relationships between customer support teams and product development teams.
• Partnered with managers and teams across the company on telemetry efforts. Determined team needs, available metrics, data gaps, and guided engineering implementation across disparate sources. Analyzed complex data to drive business decisions.
• Pioneered Azure Visual Studio and client OS VM images, DSC service to drive Azure adoption through Dev-Test and Dev-Ops models. Drove the engineering and release of the Windows Azure Visual Studio images and Windows Client images, accounting for a direct increase in Windows Azure customer usage and consumption.

Senior SDET Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Anticipated risks/dependencies and made product feature decisions in order to prevent schedule delays without compromising on product value propositions. Diagnosed difficult/ambiguous issues that were often highly contentious and made compelling recommendations for addressing them. Viewed as a leader of all QA leads by the Azure SDK leadership team for technical details, test planning, engineering excellence, execution tracking and risk management.
• Transformed team with low efficiency into vital, streamlined and growing organizations with multiple anchor testers. Worked with direct reports to in corporate new test ideas, tools, and process changes to guarantee higher product quality while lowering overhead. Transitioned the team from an 18-month to 3-month ship-cadence with great adaptability while still maintaining at a high level quality. Drove customer focus into team culture and partnerships around the Azure SDK engineering eco-system.
• Invented, designed and led team to engineer an Azure cost-monitoring/projection service that reduced internal billing costs by over 50%. Also engineered a partner build integration system for 10+ cross divisional teams effectively eliminating down-time.
• Products shipped included Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and 2013, version 1.3 through 2.5 as well as the Azure Mobile services in Visual Studio 2013.

SDET 2 Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with 3 cross-divisional product teams, and managed cross-group conflicts to deliver a cohesive development approach via integration validation test contracts amongst the teams.
• Engineered various risk management processes preventing schedule slips without compromising product quality or value propositions. Developed test matrix utilizing real world telemetry data to achieve maximum effective coverage with lower cost.
• Fostered a team culture where QA members were highly involved in feature design decisions and product testability, and to continue increasing test efficiency and effectiveness. Achieved Work Health Index score of 87% in FY11 annual MS Poll, 10 points above company average.
• Owned VWD (Visual Web Developer) designer integration, WCC (Web Content Controls), VBA-interop, VSTOR runtime setup, deployment bootstrapper, and language packs. Shipped VS Tools for S harePoint 2010 and 2012 .

SDET

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drove international testing requirements as the World Ready owner for teams across 2 products (VSTO & VSTA). Managed QA international subsidiaries in China, Japan, Korea, and Ireland. Developed and provided subsidiary product training. Improved automation debugging performance for all Visual Studio subsidiaries.
• Built an extended test team to utilize off-shore resources and talents. Justified business needs of the approach including the cost and return evaluation. Closely partnered with the vendor company in the recruiting and interview process to ensure hiring quality. Built the team from ground-up and managed it through its full operation.
• Ownership of features in VSTO included Office Actions Pane, Excel ListObject, Office PIA interop, MUI interop. Owned the design and implementation of the end-to-end test scenarios to ensure meeting the feature quality bar.

STE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• QA owner for VSTO View-Control code-gen, Host-Adapter, Pre-Wrapped Office controls, Pre-Wrapped Winform controls, Office Actions Pane, Excel ListObject, Office PIA interop, MUI interop, VSA SDK automation system. Developed and ran test cases, automation, milestone scenarios and ad-hoc unstructured tests.
• Assisted in testing Visual Studio 2003 and.Net languages by designing and developing tools and apps, including multiuser Reversi game and a VS version agnostic project generation automation tool, and a localization/globalization verification tool including BOM header check. Contributed to Visual Studio’s customer community via participation in newsgroups/forums.

STE - Office Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• QA owner for SQL Server Workflow Engine & Visual Designer, Exchange Server Workflow Engine & Visual Designer, Synchronization & Conflict Management, Remote Debugging, Script Editor, Package/Deploy, DataWizard for Webparts.