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Do you want to work on the most exciting, fastest moving team at Microsoft? Do you want to define and deliver a product that tens of millions of people interact with every day? Do you want to redefine what it means to find information on the internet? To work at the cutting edge of computer science? To get your hands dirty with machine learning, natural language processing, and search engine relevance? If you said "yes" to any of these, the Domain Relevance team in Bing is for you.

Here at Bing we are innovating in new user experiences by providing them the means to access more relevant information faster. The Domain Relevance team delivers relevant content to the Search Results page (instant answers, related searched, web result snippets etc). The challenges facing the test team include innovating on verification metrics and methodology that accurately reflect all dimensions of user satisfaction and service operation.

Working across teams and partners to deliver relevant content on the page is critical to the success of the team. You will won a key piece of this effort.

Your focus will be to build a test strategy that tackles the above. You will work closely with your peer team in dev & PM and other teams in Bing to vet and finalize the strategy. You and your team will deliver on the test strategy and collaborate with other test teams in Bing to ensure complete end to end user experience.

A successful candidate in this position will be someone who is passionate about winning in Search. Ability to work on a fast moving team and delivering in the short term side by side with investing for the long term are critical.

Qualifications:

• BS in CS/CE or related technical discipline required; MS/PhD desired
• 3+ years of test leadership/management experience at Microsoft
• Experience planning, designing, costing and scheduling testing for an area
• Outstanding leadership skills and good strategic thinking
• Strong communication skills; verbal and written
• Great problem solving skills and high intellectual horsepower
• Ability to perform system-wide root cause analyses and drive improvements
• Ability to perform detailed product risk analysis and drive mitigations and test strategy as a result
• Ability to drive improvements in stress, reliability, and performance in distributed systems
• Ability to influence and drive quality across teams, across disciplines, and across organizations
• Ability to perform system-wide root cause analyses and drive improvements
• Ability to collaborate with dev & PM teams effectively to deliver quality

• Knowledgeable in areas of Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, and/or Data Mining
• Well versed in Information Retrieval concepts and methodologies

This position is located in Redmond, Washington.

_Contact_:
In order to be considered for this position, you must apply online via our career site

If you have questions about this position, please contact: eugenial@microsoft.com. Resumes received via email cannot be considered until you formally apply online.