Testing Consultant

Job Description

We are committed to reinvent business processes and productivity, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. These three goals are interconnected; allowing us to attract, develop and retain the best talent to be more innovative in the products and services we develop, in the way we solve problems, and in the way, we serve the needs of an increasingly global and diverse customer and partner base.The Consultant RoleThe Consultant functions in:

• Technical Delivery
  • Participates and leads gathering of customer requirements and constraints.
  • Participates in project planning and contributes to risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
  • Communicates the business value of planned technology uses and deployments.
  • Contributes to, and delivers against, a Work Breakdown Structure.
• Intellectual Property and Readiness
  • Makes use of, and maintains, Microsoft s Intellectual Property; creates new materials when needed.
  • Learns and make us of modern technologies, services or approaches based on business demands and industry trends.
  • Participates and contributes to internal/external community events.
  • Engages in mentor/mentee relationships to enhance Microsoft s professional/technical capabilities.

Responsibilities Consultants should be able to:

• Engage with the Customer and the Account/Bid Team in a professional manner.
  • Use their test knowledge and experience to position best practice use of Microsoft s offerings.

• Pre-Sales Support
  • Participates in the pre-sale process as needed. Helps scope the project by sharing customer or technical knowledge in their specialty domain by leveraging their expertise as a subject matter expert.

• Technical Delivery
  • Follows capacity process outlined by Global Capacity Management team. Maintains tools with up-to-date skills and availability.
  • Participates in and/or may lead meetings with customers/partners to understand their business needs and/or scenario they are trying to solve. Uses business, technology, and industry strategies to define customer/partner requirements and constraints. Engages others appropriately to understand and define customer requirements.
  • Supports project planning and the development of project documents by defining the risks and dependencies. Communicates the business value of planned solutions to customers/ partners with direction/guidance. Implements mitigations on technical and business risks. Manages their schedule and communicates to project leads. Delivers against Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
  • Implements technical solutions by completing assigned project tasks with defined quality standards and following Microsoft Services processes. May oversee aspects of implementation.
  • Proactively identifies issues and risks and engages with customers/partners or internal stakeholders (e.g., Project Managers) as appropriate to address and resolve issues.
  • Proactively manages relationships with customers/partners/stakeholders to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve experience

• Intellectual Property Management
  • Acts as an ambassador in consumption of intellectual property (IP) and leverages IP in projects. Proactively assists in the creation of intellection property content and seeks areas that are available for more IP. Communicates areas that need refreshing or gaps in intellectual property. Provides feedback for continuous improvement.

• Business Development
  • Identifies opportunities to expand or accelerate the adoption and consumption of the cloud and Microsoft technologies.

• Readiness
  • Learns new technologies or services based on business demands and industry trends. Obtains relevant accreditations and certification(s) as advised by domain leadership team. Shares experiences, best practices, and product news within the team. Participates in relevant technical communities at Microsoft.

• Operational Excellence
  • Completes operational tasks and readiness, and ensures timeliness and accuracy. Follows Microsoft policies, compliance, and procedures (e.g., Enterprise Services Authorization Policy, Standards of Business Conduct, labor logging, expenses, travel guidelines).

• Other

Embody our culture and values, Required skills

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills
• Experienced Testing/Performance testing Using Stress Stimulus, JMeter and Blaze Meter & Analysis using instrumentation tools.
• Experience in Test solutioning, defining Test/Performance test Strategies, Approaches, Test /Performance test Plans and Workload Modeling for various types of Web Applications, Portals, Mobile Apps, Web Services, Microservices and SOAP & REST APIs
• Experience in monitoring & capturing browser side performance metrics using Browser DevTools, Application Insights, User Experience Management tools and good knowledge on PageSpeed, sitespeed.io, webpagetest for evaluating client - side performance from real browsers
• Interact with customer and application teams to discuss Testing scope, NFRs and SLAs.
• Should have good analytical skills and hands on experience on development of test /Performance test scripts using above testing /Performance test tool including Web, Web services
• OOPS concept, collection, IO streams, Serialization, Multithread, Garbage algorithm etc
• Knowledge of competing products and industry standard implementation methodologies
• Must be well organized and self-motivated and be able to work with minimal supervision

Keyskills :
quality standardsweb servicestest scriptsanalytical skillsroot causeproperty managementproject planningweb applicationsmicrosoft productsuser experiencecustomer focusmicrosoft dynamicscommercial models