Responsibilities

• Manage, lead, and grow an inclusive team of diverse people through coaching, mentoring, and teaching.

• Build, measure, and iterate on innovative quality strategies and plans that evolve with the needs of the game in an agile development environment.

• Coordinate priorities across manual testing, data, and engineering to increase the impacts of shared deliverables while making proactive investments for the future.

• Monitor, summarize, and effectively communicate the quality of the product and status of the quality efforts through conversations, reports, and formal presentations.

• Identify risks and dependencies, effectively managing and mitigating them. Continually seek process improvements.

• Cultivate and maintain a healthy team culture and foster a quality mindset across your team, and with your partners.

Qualifications

• You've led and developed people on a test or a quality team through one or more product cycles, advocating for your customers throughout. 

• You use your experience to find, create, or leverage creative and innovative approaches to doing business, and regularly review the efficacy and viability of existing methodologies.

• You are proficient at developing and directing test strategies that use multiple methods including manual testing, data, telemetry, and automation.  You understand when and how to balance each approach based on business needs and priorities.

• You're a collaborator, a partner, and a coach who builds trusted relationships and broad networks with curiosity-based influence strategies.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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