Software Quality Engineering IC1

Microsoft • Il, IL

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About The Position

Microsoft's Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the Microsoft Fabric platform team builds and maintains the operating system and provides customers a unified data stack to run an entire data estate. The platform provides a unified experience, unified governance, enables a unified business model and a unified architecture. Our sub-team within the Fabric Platform pillar is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of a highly integrated, end-to-end analytics ecosystem that spans data ingestion, transformation, governance, and user-facing experiences. What makes this team unique is the need to validate complex cross-workload scenarios across multiple interconnected services (e.g., data engineering, data warehousing, real-time analytics, and governance), where issues often emerge only at scale or through subtle integration points. Unlike traditional testing roles, the team operates as embedded quality engineers, driving a shift-left approach by building intelligent automation, leveraging telemetry and production signals, and validating real-world customer workflows in a cloud-native environment. The team is hiring a Software Test Engineer who will play a critical role in developing scalable test frameworks, ensuring seamless interoperability across Fabric workloads, and proactively identifying systemic quality risks—directly contributing to a trusted, unified data platform experience for customers. We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Design and implement scalable test strategies and automation that validate end-to-end scenarios across the Fabric Platform, with emphasis on cross-workload integration and real-world usage patterns.
• Partner closely with engineering, PM, and SRE teams to embed quality early in the development lifecycle and ensure reliable, production-ready releases.
• Build and evolve intelligent test infrastructure that leverages telemetry, synthetic data, and production signals to detect issues before they impact customers.
• Identify systemic quality risks across services and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and resilience at cloud scale.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous quality by improving test coverage, reducing gaps, and enabling faster, more confident delivery.
• Investigate complex issues in distributed systems, using data-driven approaches to isolate root causes and validate fixes effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable test strategies and automation that validate end-to-end scenarios across the Fabric Platform, with emphasis on cross-workload integration and real-world usage patterns.
• Partner closely with engineering, PM, and SRE teams to embed quality early in the development lifecycle and ensure reliable, production-ready releases.
• Build and evolve intelligent test infrastructure that leverages telemetry, synthetic data, and production signals to detect issues before they impact customers.
• Identify systemic quality risks across services and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and resilience at cloud scale.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous quality by improving test coverage, reducing gaps, and enabling faster, more confident delivery.
• Investigate complex issues in distributed systems, using data-driven approaches to isolate root causes and validate fixes effectively.

Benefits

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed