
Senior SDET Lead at Microsoft
China

Senior SDET Lead at Microsoft
China
Multi-talent background, including: R&D, customer service, pre-sales, training, etc.; 8 years industry experience; 5+ years experience of shipping commercial software; 3+ years management experience.
Career Goal: architect; functional leader; general management.
SDLC of Software as a Service;
Software Testing;
Architecture design;
Commerce, Payment, Transaction and Billing;
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2008 — Present (1 year )
Acting test manager for CSAT China testing (team size: 30+, which consists of 20+ FTE plus 10+ contractors). Leading the testing of the transaction platform system which proceses 2 billion dollar transaction per year and has 40 million user accounts for XBox Live, AdCenter, Office Live, MSN, etc.. Other responsibilities include: define testing strategy; coach junior first line managers; define staffing strategy; driving engineering excellence initiatives; define product roadmap and architecture design; etc..
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — December 2008 (2 years 2 months)
Leading test team of the Commerce Search Ads and Transaction Platform China group. Managing 10 regular employees and a handful contractors.
We support many types of payment method types, like: Credit Card, Direct Debit (Pay-In and Pay-Out), Premium SMS, Bank Transfer, Prepaid Card, etc. We cover all the key markets in the world.
I work with the other disciplines to take ownership for the payment processing infrastructure part from end to end: planning, design, implementation, testing, integration, roll-out and post-release quick fix.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — October 2006 (3 years 10 months)
2005.8-2006.10,
MSN Technologies (China), Member Platform Group, in Shanghai
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Working on 6.0 relase of SCS (Subsciption and Commerce Service) from the first milestone.
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2004.9-2005.7
Microsoft Research Asia, Advanced Technology Center, in Beijing
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Do software testing in product cycles. Focuses include:
- Test automation
- Threaten modelling
- Code coverage
- Performance and stress test
- Review specs
- Write test plan and test case
- Lead vendor testers
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Products:
- WebBoards (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn), MS-COM team
- iDSS (Integrated Decision Support System), MSN Paid Search project team.
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2003.1-2003.7,
Microsoft GCR-GTSC, in Shanghai
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Lead the testing effort of the Global MVP Platform project, in which there were up to 7 testers. Also be responsible for writing test plans, review test cases, monitoring bugs and report product quality status.
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(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — September 2004 (7 months)
In Microsoft GCR-GTSC, in Shanghai. The standard job title was "Partner Technical Service Coordinator".
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Deliver comprehensive technical consulting services to about 10 Tier1 ISV partners in the North China region and all Golden Certified Partners in PRC and HK SAR. Responsiblities include:
- involving projects at initial stage,
- bidding assistance,
- consulting on partner's tech roadmap,
- deliver trainings on Microsoft products and technologies,
- incidence by incidence support,
- proactive information delivery.
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Cover most products and technologies, such as:
- Sharepoint Portal Server 2003,
- Project Server 2003,
- SQL Server 2000,
- BizTalk Server 2004,
- Office System,
- dot NET architecture and design
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(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 4 months)
In Microsoft GCR-GTSC, in Shanghai
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Trainer of the Microsoft Development Management Training, which is focused on how Microsoft develops, tests, and ships great products. Audiences are mainly middle management of major software companies in the mainland China.
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My courses include:
- Microsoft Development Process Overview
- Microsoft Software Testing
- Performance Test
- Source Control and Daily Build
- Design Patterns
- Windows Scripting
- MSF (Microsoft Solution Framework)
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(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2002 — January 2003 (1 year )
In Microsoft GCR-GTSC, in Shanghai
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Developer of BMS XP, a bug management product built in .NET technology. It offers rich issue tracking and reporting features but is much cheaper and easier to configure and use than Rational ClearQuest. It sells well on China's market.
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Author of the search engine for the microsoft.public.cn.* and microsoft.public.kr.* newsgroups, including front-end and an NNTP newsgroup crawler in back-end. This is the first time Microsoft support searching East Asian Language contents in the public newsgroup. This has been adopted as a formal world-wide "Best Practice" in Microsoft internal.
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Author of some other internal tools, such as "IamStrong", a gadget for facilitating removing junk posts from the microsoft.public.* newsgroups.
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Meanwhile, I was also acting as Asia Community Specialist.
Master , Computer Science , September 1999 — January 2002
Bachelor , Electronic Engineering , September 1996 — June 1999