Organization: Ad Platform China (APC), Audience Intelligence Group
Location: Beijing

Are you interested in technical challenges in a major technology space that will reshape how business is conducted in the future?  Come join Microsoft and its bold vision in the Online Advertising space!  The Ad Platform China (APC) team, based in Beijing, is focused on building services and platforms to increase user targeting, data analysis, reporting and ultimately enable Microsoft to realize billions in revenue in the highly growing and competitive ad market.  Qualified SDETs will be developers on our various QA teams, responsible for working with program management and development in the design and building of web services and platforms to support our ad delivery.  APC works in feature teams so SDETs will be placed on small teams who own a piece of the architecture and will have hands on experience in developing and testing shipping code.

Responsibilities include:

1. Developing feature test plan and test cases; and driving overall quality of your features.
2. Designing, automating and executing test cases to ensure complete test coverage; analyzing bugs and issues; generating reports for test results and quality assessment.
3. Collaboration with other team members; highly engaged and enthusiastic people will do well here!
4. Participation in plan, design, code reviews and day to day contributions to the product.

Qualifications:

1. Strong written and oral communication skills in English (both in office and when working with team members in the United States).
2. Possess strong design and coding skills in C/C++/C#, and experienced in debugging applications. Ability to ramp up on new technologies, as well as design and develop testing tools. 
3. Passionate about understanding how things work and making software quality better for the customer, and a keen ability to identify, zero-in, and flush out problems and defects in complex software systems is highly preferred. 
4. Flexibility in working on fast changing project environment that may have changing requirements over time.
5. Knowledge and experience in test automation and test design are a strong plus, but not required.
6. Knowledge in web technologies such as web crawlers, HTTP, Ajax/Ruby is a plus but not required.