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Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Zillow Product Engineering Team- Collaborating closely with each product team on all things performance related.- Targeting performance improvements, engineering performance strategies and tools, and driving performance enabling opportunities to better serve customers.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Microsoft Windows Engineering System and Compatibility
• Developed and executed test plans and strategy to replace the existing Windows Build Orchestration and Release System with a more robust and scalable event driven solution.
• Aggregated build system performance metrics and statistics then compiled a scorecard to surface reliability and resource utilization issues. Identified over 40% of existing build machines remained idle during peak.
• Tested and supported through release a cloud commodity based build solution that was intended to optimize resource utilization and expedite delivery of build requests. My data analysis of job and worker states in the.

Redmond, Washington, US

• MSN Publishing Platform
• Led 12 FTEs and contingent staff in all aspects of Test for multiple Dev Teams developing Rendering Framework, Frontend Services, Application Services, and custom non-platform Backend Components of the platformGuided.
• Managed 4 different summer interns and participated as an Intern Social Coordinator
• Coordinated Test efforts for pioneering and delivering a Bedrock MVC SDK enabling MSN and AppEx a unified application development strategy on the Publishing Platform
• Server side performance Test SME across all of MSN, leading and managing development of test tools, Test harness & scheduler, and lab environments for server side performance testing
• Led Autopilot adoption for new features and migration of existing applications enabling simultaneous deployment to over 13 production datacenters globally during peak traffic hours

Redmond, Washington, US

• ‘MSN News Analysis & Local’ & ‘MSN Cross Network Experience’
• Responsible for a team of 11 SDETs and overseeing all backend server specific testing and capacity planning for MSN Money portal
• Managed to same quality bar with less individuals after product ownership increased with MSN Autos, Entertainment, and Weather consolidating with MSN Money
• Defined a working team process for adopting Scrum and Agile Product Development while participating in MSN Test’s Engineering Excellence Committee
• Identified new implementation of site with MVC and XML was to cost over three times the amount of assets in production to support the same volume of traffic. Great lengths were made to improve object model caching and.
• Participated in all Triage and Steering meetings as well as Championed Security and Privacy in Test

Redmond, Washington, US

• MSN Money & Microsoft Money ‘Financial Products Group’
• Tested User Data Encryption system to encrypt users’ financial institution account numbers and login information
• Tested user data services, stock quote services, and numerous other application services which support front end server applications and local client controls such as Portfolio Managers, Stock screener, Quotes.
• Built server test results reporting site to record and reference specific test results per release and feature
• Built and executed stress tests to simulate production load by playing back production IIS logs, SQL Profile traces, and incorporating custom tests with projected load against vNext features to improve performance.

Redmond, Washington, US

MSN Money, Microsoft Money & MSN Explorer Client ‘Financial Products Group’ Third summer in the Financial Products Group. Tested user data sync, help, conducted final Disk QA prior to handing "Golden Disks' to manufacturing and identified numerous high severity bugs saving millions for the company. Was recognized with patent as co-inventor of “Defining the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Second summer as SDET intern in MSN Money testing user data sync between Microsoft Money, MSN Money, and MSN Explorer Client.

Redmond, Washington, US

Sophomore intern hired to test help and user data sync in Microsoft Money.