Principal Test Manager Resume
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Redmond, WA
OBJECTIVE
Software test development management: Leading a team that develops high - quality software to analyze correctness, measure performance, and effectively communicate deliverable status - resulting in on-time, low-defect, and performant products
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Principal Test Manager
Confidential, Redmond, WA
Responsibilities:
- Test Manager for the Power Query Formula Language Team (grew from senior position listed below)
- Lead and grew and large team with multiple levels of management responsible for incubation, quality product development, and release into both cloud (live on-line weekly release cadence) and packaged downloadable software
- Test Manager for the OData Team (concurrent with the above)
- Lead a small 5-person QA team to deliver multiple releases of the OData REST (REpresentational State Transfer) API for web services
- SDET on the SQL Engineering Tools team responsible for improving quality and performance of code development using Visual Studio TFS
- Leader on team that implemented a feature-rich rapid source-code pre-checkin quality development system used by thousands of Confidential engineers in the SQL organization
Senior Test Lead
Confidential, Redmond, WA
Responsibilities:
- Lead and grew team (4 to 12 people) responsible for the quality and performance of generated and executed SQL queries using the Power Query (informally known as ‘M’) Formula Language
- Shipped the Confidential Office 2007 Calendar Print Assistant
- Lead small team (4 people) responsible for testing the core and data layers
- Dramatically reduced public API surface of the Calendar Print Assistant for Outlook 2007 through detailed analysis and usage of code coverage data
- Gained experience interviewing both experienced and college-age candidates at Confidential and through traveling to many US and International sites
Software Development Engineer in Test
Confidential, Redmond, WA
Responsibilities:
- Software Development Engineer in Test for several internal / experimental software projects in the Office division - ultimately leading to shipping as part of Office 2007
- Implemented multiple risk reduction strategies as an individual contributor involving code coverage metrics, bug/defect to area assignment, reduction in risky (and experimental research) dependencies, and public surface (API) analysis
Software Test Engineer
Confidential, Redmond, WA
Responsibilities:
- Shipped Confidential Office InfoPath 2003
- Consistently #1 bug finder on the feature team
- Developed j-script-based automation beyond position responsibilities for multiple people to assist with timely defect isolation