软件测试是员工吗,软件测试开发人员（SDET）到底是什么职位？

The Software Development Engineer in Test

Position

The SDET position is one of the three core engineering positions at

Microsoft, along with program manager and software development

engineer. All three positions leverage strong computer science

engineering skills, with SDETs leveraging their technical and

analytical skills as the primary drivers of quality—no small

task! Good SDET candidates help shape our products

by:

·Participating

in design and code inspections.

·Writing

infrastructure tools and code to exercise our products.

·Understanding

in exquisite detail how customers will use the product.

Not everyone is cut out to be an SDET; you need to be structured

enough to make sure nothing is missed, creative enough to think

like millions of customers, technical enough to write code and

design algorithmically beautiful solutions, and articulate enough

to let people know what you think!

In most SDETpositions,

you start by learning about your product and your customers—how

else will you know how the product should

work? From the beginning, you’ll be an integral

part of the team that designs and writes the code, providing

feedback on its design and anticipating everything that could go

wrong. To prevent those possible disasters, you’ll be writing code

that automatically verifies that if anything does go wrong, you’re

code will tell us. That means that you potentially write more code

than the developers. You might also write code for tools to help

find new problems or prevent bugs from happening in the first

place. You might have the opportunity to work with “beta” customers

before the release to make sure that any issues they have are

addressed. As we near our ship date, all eyes will turn to you to

make sure that the release of the product that your team created is

ready for customers around the world to use! Whether it’s an established product that the world relies on or a

new technology that could change the face of software, your work

will ensure that Microsoft delivers a quality product.

Longer term, an SDET career can lead you down a management path or

deep into technical engineering (or both!). Microsoft has a road

map for success in both arenas, whether it’s leading the teams that

create products, managing a project and all the parts of it, or

understanding patterns in the problems we encounter and engineering

solutions that prevent them from happening again. We even have test

architects, who help drive the testing vision of Microsoft across

products; for example, implementing the standards we set. At

Microsoft, we understand the value of a true testing discipline

with a solid career path—something that many companies don’t

have.