Software Development Engineer in Test (Lead)

Do you love photos and videos? Want to help people connect and share memories? Then help us build the next generation solution for sharing photos and videos. The Windows Live Digital Memories team (DMX) is looking for Software Development Engineers in Test to drive quality in our products, processes and tools.  Think of all the digital photos and videos that you have taken recently, and those that you receive from your family and friends through the year. These photos and videos are no doubt precious and important to you. We all value these moments and we want to easily relive these memories and to easily share them, all through a 21st-century user-interface that is elegant and polished. Don’t you want to be on the team chartered with bringing a world-class experience to collecting, organizing, creating, and sharing these memories? We need a talented, creative SDET Lead who is passionate about the future of digital photography and video usage and who has a special interest in verifying consumer-focused elegant UI. The team is looking for a leader who is ready to improve the Photo Gallery’s ability to collect media, organize and arrange the media, and share that media a variety of ways, including up in the cloud. Think of all the places where photos appear and how easy it should be for our customers to get their photos out there and to bring in photos they find interesting. Looking at our road ahead, we have abundant opportunities for testers seeking challenges and need a lead to help them grow their careers within this space. Are you an ideal match? You should have four or more years of professional test lead experience which includes building a team and enabling members to achieve career goals. You also have excellent communication skills and know how to plan test activities through-out the entire release of a product. Product experience includes testing both APIs and User-interfaces for Win32 applications and to some extent Web Services and Web User-interfaces. Your hands-on approach has enabled to you keep your technical skills current so in a pinch you could easily find bugs, write test code and contribute to code reviews. Finally, you’re passionate about the end-user, the customer and have been instrumental as a quality champion. The Digital Memories Experience team (DMX) is helping people make deeper connections with those they care about. We want to give you the ability to effortlessly share your memories, be that a simple slideshow of photos and videos (e.g. evolution of the Vista Slideshow or of Photo Story), a carefully authored experienced (evolution of Movie Maker), or a fully interactive cinematic multimedia experience (a narrated 3D path through a Photosynth that you can control). And we want to make it easy and fun to enjoy your photos and videos, whether that is on the PC in your office, the Media Center in your living room, the XBox in your entertainment center, or on your mobile device when you are out and about. DMX is a part of the Windows Live Experience division (WLX/LEX), which also includes Mail, Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive, Spaces, Writer, Calendar, and Family Safety. To achieve our vision for digital memories we work with many other teams including: Core User Experience, Find & Organize, Graphics (Windows Imaging Codecs – WIC – and DirectX) in WEX, MCE, Expression, and Xbox.  Microsoft offers an excellent benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, vacation, employee stock purchase plan, and 401k, plus some great extras including: our 24-hour nurse line, stay fit program, product discounts, and paid infant care leave. All part of our commitment to our most important asset: our employees. For more information about life at Microsoft, please visit our careers website. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce. Key Words: digital photography,developer,test,UI,win32,api ;