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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

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