Michael Graden

Senior Quality Lead at Microsoft

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

I love the creativity and challenges that comes from designing, planning and implementing software applications. Being able to look at a problem, and not finding the fastest answer, but the best solution for the problem. This is where my passion lies. Colleagues regard me as a full stack software engineer that combines the powers of ASP.NET (C#, MVC), jQuery, AngularJS and MySQL technologies to forge innovative and powerful solutions for any project. I continuously strive to use SOLID and DRY principles when developing software. Every application in any form should be easy to use for both the users and the software developers. An application's elegance and beauty should be apparent in both the charming and structured front end, as well as the back end architecture. Front end, back end, or full stack, wherever I code, I intend to use my passion to compose and construct insightful and meaningful software.

Experience

  • Microsoft (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Quality Assurance Lead
      Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • Quality Engineer II
      Jun 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Test Automation Engineer at Philips
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Milliman ()
    • QA Manager
      Aug 2018 - Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • SDET
      Oct 2017 - Aug 2018 · 11 mos

  • Software Development Engineer in Test at Microsoft
    May 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Create and update automated tests on the Microsoft Edge Team

  • QA Project Manager at King
    Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr

    - Managed multiple teams and multiple projects simultaneously - Worked with engineers to develop automation testing for QA - Mentored and coached junior QA testers on team to help them develop their skills (QA and non-QA) - Developed test and release strategies and procedures for new platforms company deployed games to - Created metrics and reporting tools that provided stakeholders visibility into health of projects