Security Test Lead, Senior - Trustworthy Computing

Job Category: Software Engineering: Test
Location: Redmond, WA, US
Job ID: 847147-120279
Division: Advanced Strategy and Research

Are you fascinated about what's happening in today's world of computing security? Do you ever read the headlines of the latest incident and wonder what it would be like to be on the front lines developing new technologies to combat the latest in security threats? Do you think you've got the skills to build state-of-the-art technologies that will help organizations detect and respond to security challenges?

The NetSec Security Science team is building out a new SDET team, and we're looking for an experienced test lead to help get the team off to a great start. Our organization is looking to the new team to help deliver reliable solutions and technologies to be used on the front lines of today's security landscape. We're looking for smart, driven individuals capable of taking on a new problem space in order to propose, build, and deliver the next big thing to help organizations protect their assets and users. Your work will determine our ability to effectively protect Microsoft's corporate network, our cloud services and users, and enterprise customers. You'll work with a variety of security experts across different teams, from those focused on software exploits against Microsoft products, others focused on malware analysis and identification, to operational analysts focusing on Real Time attack scenarios.

Today's world presents an unprecedented array of challenges to those tasked with the security of enterprises and organizations, from the ability to quickly collect artifacts from compromised hosts to reveal the behavior and intent of an attacker, to the ability to make use of the ever increasing flood of log data to effectively detect intrusions. You'll have the opportunity in this role to help build solutions and products to these problems that don't yet exist.

Our organization will look to you to lead and build out our test capability from scratch. We'll look to you to help provide critical feedback at design time, to produce test plans that allow you to cover our most important scenarios, to create test automation support wherever practical, to provide end-to-end validation, and to own quality across the entire product lifecycle.

Core Qualifications:
- Prior experience in computing security.
- 6+ years testing experience.
- 3+ years of lead experience.
- Proficiency in C/C++ or C#, demonstrated competencies in areas related to data structures and algorithms.
- Passionate about software quality.
- Experience working with MapReduce, and other NoSQL based big data oriented platforms.
- Familiarity with machine learning based approaches to implementing automated data analysis systems.
- Familiarity with formal software design principles, for example, OOP and related design principles.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills; experienced using Windbg for live debugging and crash-dump analysis; comfortable in native and managed environments.
- Experience building test suites in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), or comparable test frameworks.
- Experienced in the following areas of development: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), RESTful web services, web development (ASP.NET, AJAX, HTML, etc.), T-SQL or comparable RDBMS platform languages.
- BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent background.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity or experience working in low-level fields subject matters, for example, any work relating to OS internals, or file system forensics.
- Familiarity with common security operations systems, for example, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Security Incident Event Management systems (SIEM), anti-virus log collection systems, etc.
- Knowledgeable about attacker behaviors, trends, and patterns.

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