Lead Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft Corporation
Greater Seattle Area
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- Lead Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft Corporation
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- Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft Corporation
- Software Test Engineer at Microsoft
- Program Manager Intern at Microsoft
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- University of Waterloo
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Andrew J Ma’s Summary
Positions held at Microsoft:
2000: STE Intern - Mobile Information Server
2001: PM Intern - Visual Studio
2002-2004: STE - Office Infopath
2004-2006: SDET - MSN Shopping
2006-2008: SDET - Windows Live Search
2008: SDET Lead - Windows Live Search
2008: SDET Lead - Xbox - XNA Community
Andrew J Ma’s Specialties:
Web
Andrew J Ma’s Experience
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Lead Software Design Engineer in Test
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
- Responsible for a 4-person team that tests the data ingestion pipeline for Core Search.
- Console test lead for XNA Community Games -
Software Design Engineer in Test
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — October 2007 (3 years)
Software Design Engineer/Test - Windows Live Search (2006-2007)
- Part of a 4-person SCRUM team to develop a Product Search vertical for Windows Live.
- Responsible for multiple aspects of the Product Search service including test, sustain engineering, and some development work as well as some program management tasks.
- Tech lead for the Quality Scorecard initiative across the entire Windows Live Search organization.
Software Design Engineer/Test - MSN Shopping (2004-2006)
- Area Owner for backend components for a system designed to handle 50+ million products.
- Lead the automation effort for Shopping which involved writing a test harness plus designing and implementing an infrastructure.
- Wrote numerous tools which were adopted by the eTools team and used through MSN.
- Created a comprehensive set of tools to monitor the live site. The tool was also adopted and modified by an Office Live group. -
Software Test Engineer
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 6 months)
- Working on Microsoft Office Infopath 2003
- Currently working on the Managed Object Model for V2.
- Area Owner for Custom Control support (ActiveX) in SP1.
- Area Owner Text Formatting, HTML Images, xImages, Undo/Redo, Asian Typography, Horizontal Line, Ink Picture for V1 release.
- Created internal tools which helped the test group measure progress and productivity -
Program Manager Intern
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — September 2001 (6 months)
- Owner of the Visual Studio Guide Framework.
- Authored the functional specification for the Guide Framework.
- Oversaw development and usability tests.
- Created an internal SDK for the Guide Framework.
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Software Test Engineer Intern
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
August 2000 — December 2000 (5 months)
- Microsoft Mobile Information Server 2002 (codename: Airstream) Software Test Engineer working primarily on the Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) portion.
- Server Administrator for( Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Exchange 2000, Mobile Information Server 2001).
- Script writing and small web apps for the MIBU group.
- Support Contact Person for Airstream Test Servers.
(This was an internship as part of the University of Waterloo co-op system) -
Lead Programmer
Navantis
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — April 2000 (4 months)
- Designed and developed a web site content management system for ATI Technologies (www.ati.com) using MS IIS4, SQL Server 7, ASP 3.0, Interdev 6, and VB6 (design-time control for Interdev).
- Coded the MER Calculator for Opus2Direct (www.opus2direct.com).
- Performed hardware and software network configuration.
- Exchange Administrator, Domain Administrator.
(This was an internship as part of the University of Waterloo co-op system) -
Database Analyst
Bayer
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
May 1999 — August 1999 (4 months)
- Creating reports for business departments using the Bayer data warehouse.
- Maintained the sales data stored in an Oracle database.
- Developed the BayerCare Application which gathers information from clients.
(This was an internship as part of the University of Waterloo co-op system)
Andrew J Ma’s Education
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University of Waterloo
B Math , Computer Science , 1997 — 2002
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Cornerstone Christian Fellowship, Seattle Chinese Alliance Church, North York Chinese Baptist Church
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