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Software Quality Engineer - Azure Storage
Location not specified · Experience not specified
Experience- Experience not specified
Salary- Not disclosed
Location- Location not specified
- Work mode
- Not specified
- Job type
- Full-time
Apply by- Closing date not listed
- Posted
- 14 Jul 9
About this role
Have you ever imagined a world with an infinite amount of storage available and accessible to everyone? A place where everyone in the world can easily access their books/music/photos/video/any data from anywhere at any time via any means (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, PCs, smart devices, etc.). Did you ever desire a universally accessible storage system to record all the knowledge known to mankind or to store all the data collected from all the scientists in the world for them to collaborate upon? Do you want to be part of a team that strives to bring these to reality?If so, the Microsoft Azure Storage team is what you are looking for. We are building Microsoft’s cloud storage solution - Microsoft Azure Storage, which is a massively scalable, highly distributed, ubiquitously accessible storage system, designed to scale out and serve the entire world. We continue to have tremendous hockey stick growth, we have many Exabyte’s of data stored, and are designing and building systems for Zettabyte scale to support demand growth for the coming years.
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Storage team, you will build, improve and support highly scalable, performant services that deliver highly reliable, secure and available access to storage for our customers. You will face challenges of monitoring, analyzing, and designing for ever-growing data needs of our customers and for ensuring data privacy, protection and compliance. This opportunity will allow you to develop your technical skills in cloud services and storage, accelerate career growth, and provide an opportunity to work in a highly dynamic, flexible, and globally distributed team.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance (QA) engineer whose responsibilities will include:
- Design E2E Scenarios and test plans.
- Design and develop test automation tools.
- Design, develop and execute automation scripts.
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify system requirements.
- Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
- Develop or specify standards, methods, or procedures to determine product quality or release readiness.
- Drive a fault injection model and integrating into our release pipeline to get strong validation as part of SDL.
- A strong focus on teamwork, quality, and building things for long term success.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related technical discipline.
- 4+ years of software development experience including software design, and distributed systems knowledge.
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
- Experience in coding in C++, C# or Python with strong debugging skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
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