Chad Adams Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington

Senior Lead for Custom Engineering (CE) team that manages team of Level 3 engineers that act as critical triage and repair for all teams across WDG CE.Primary point of contact for Directors and engineering management for 5 Windows feature teams.Validate and support lab purchases for custom requests in regards to budget and hardware specifications for assigned teams.Provide project progress to senior Microsoft management in monthly business review.

Redmond, Wa

Point of contact between Custom Engineering and feature team Directors and engineering management.Work with other leads to coordinate test machine area coverage.Manage a team of vendors that deploy, maintain and triage server and client hardware.Oversee lab purchases for assigned customer teams in regards to budget and hardware specifications.Report project progress to Insight Global leadership as well as Microsoft management.

Redmond, Wa

Manage automated testing and environment setup for several areas of Windows.Coordinate and supervise teams of contingent staff.Execute and direct sustained engineering testing for Windows 7, Core Windows 8 and Core Windows 8.1.Work across and in concert with teams to prioritize and align test resources.Drive quality changes for internal test tools and pilot early tools projects.Troubleshoot and implement workarounds for Central Lab systems.Validate test results for test teams before releasing result reports.

Responsible for creating and executing test cases that validate the quality of the Cerner Imaging solution.Maintain Linux backend and client testing environments for multiple hardware combinations.Validate compatibility and integration of third party software and hardware.Collaborate with product group to assess test resource needs for timely releases to clients.Participate in prioritizing defects and developing client workarounds.Act as extended support for both Cerner Imaging Support and clients directly.Own project for automating regression test set with central automation team.

Managed automated testing in one of the largest computer labs in Microsoft for operating systems under development.Triage test failures and provide detailed reports to test team.Document and troubleshoot tool bugs and provide strategic solutions.Oversaw both machine and contractor resources to meet and exceed customer expectations.Increased efficiencies by automating time consuming manual processes.Enable cost reduction by eliminating the dependence on contract employees.Collaborate with product groups to assess test resource requirements needed.As a senior team member I was a subject matter expert for all areas of the lab.

Managed 300 machines in an automated testing lab.Responsible for all automated security patch and new OS testing for Internet Explorer.Wrote and maintained install and automated lab scripts and batch files for testing on multiple legacy platforms.

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