.Net / Silverlight - Microsoft Corporation hyderabad

Company : Microsoft  Corporation

Location :Hyderabad

Key Responsibilities in the role:

·               Proactive involvement in planning, designing and execution across the Sales & Marketing group following MSIT’s SDLC process.

·               Initiate and promote engineering best practices within the team.

·               Design, debug, re-factoring and maintaining automation.

·               Deliver high quality applications using our latest and up-and-coming products.

·               Driving key quality initiatives though the engineering team.

·               Perform root cause analysis and work with product teams for resolution.

·               Apply continuous improvement across the Dev organization as well as overall product delivery.

·               Mentor and grow team members.

·               Define and drive improvements in the overall quality of Sales product delivery, including automation, code coverage and inspection processes.

·               Collaborate within Sales and with other engineering teams or operations teams as required.

·               Partner with other discipline groups to review specifications, proactively identify issues, insure timely resolution of issues, ensure thorough unit-testing and understand support issues.

·               Active participation in design\build cycle of the software development lifecycle (requirements gathering, prototyping, architecture, detailed design, and development).

Qualifications:

·               This position requires excellent oral/written communication skills, and the ability to weed though ambiguity and formulate recommendations clearly. Technical horsepower and critical thinking are required.

·               6+ years of software development experience with C#, Silverlight, .Net programming, WCF Web services , SQL and VSTF 2008\2010.

·               Experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to final product delivery.

·               Strong customer focus and passion for doing the right thing for the customer.

·               Strong cross-group collaboration and influencing skills.

·               Self-driven and ability to work with minimal direction and in a team to research innovative solutions to challenging business/technical problems.

·               Demonstrated ability to work at the tactical and strategic levels of IT initiatives.

·               Team player and driven towards self-improvement, development, and achievement.

·               Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating, and decision making skills.