Software Quality Engineer

Overview

Imagine a globally accessible storage platform with unlimited capacity, enabling seamless access to data from any device—mobile phones, tablets, PCs, or smart devices. Envision a universal storage solution facilitating collaboration among scientists worldwide by digitizing mankind's entire knowledge. The Microsoft Azure Storage team is developing this vision through a massively scalable, highly distributed cloud storage system designed to meet global demand with exabytes of data and plans for zettabyte scale growth.

As a Software Quality Engineer II on this team, you will design, enhance, and maintain scalable and high-performance cloud storage services that ensure exceptional reliability, security, and availability for customers. This role involves analyzing and monitoring growing data requirements while safeguarding data privacy, protection, and compliance. It offers significant opportunities to deepen cloud service expertise, drive career advancement, and contribute within a dynamic, flexible, and globally dispersed team.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every individual and organization to accomplish more by fostering a culture rooted in respect, integrity, accountability, inclusion, and continual innovation.

Responsibilities

• Define testing scope by forming comprehensive quality plans covering multiple product features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contributing to and reviewing test plans with requirement writers and design architects to establish robust testing strategies.
• Utilize data analytics to pinpoint areas requiring additional exploratory testing or development, including creation of advanced custom visualizations to verify testing coverage.
• Implement and enhance automated testing frameworks using scripting languages such as C# and Python to support automated regression testing.
• Maintain and promote the use of automation tools, encouraging their adoption to reduce manual testing efforts and repetitive work across features.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline with a minimum of 2 years professional software experience; or Bachelor’s degree with at least 4 years experience; or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience in systems testing, ideally involving networking, storage, or virtualization products, with proficiency in coding languages like C, C++, C#, or Python.
• Ability to satisfy Microsoft and regulatory security screening requirements, including successfully passing Microsoft Cloud Background Checks at hire and biannually thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years software industry experience; or Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years experience; or equivalent expertise.
• Demonstrated competence in system testing for networking, storage, or virtualization products, and coding skill in C, C++, C#, or Python.

Additional Information

The position accepts applications continuously until filled, with a minimum open period of 5 days. Microsoft is committed to equal opportunity employment and will consider all qualified candidates without discrimination based on diverse protected characteristics. Accommodation requests for religious practices or disabilities are supported during the recruitment process.