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Which Job is Best for Me?

Which of these statements best reflects your experience with the Software Design Process?

Question 1 of 5

Designing scalable and secure feature areas that enable new scenarios, needing no revisions and exceeding requirements.
Designing test cases that are used as models by other teams, resulting in very few redundant test cases and test cycles that can be completed ahead of schedule.
Act as a champion of high-quality design ideas and provide insightful user experience mentoring to others.
Ensure that operational, supportability, and manageability requirements are included in the design phase of solutions.

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How can you best contribute to the Software Development Cycle?

Question 2 of 5

Provide a deep understanding of how customers/partners derive value from your product.
Designing services with an awareness of enterprise-wide architecture principles and best practices.
Create code for a feature area that is considered exemplary and a best practice for the product.
Contributing to a service or system continuity architecture and creating plans for a product group or service.

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What impacts you the most?

Question 3 of 5

Providing critical feedback that improves specifications and technical designs.
Understanding customer and/or partner needs to create specifications, designs, or plans for feature areas or projects.
Design and architecture tradeoffs: Making appropriate design trade-offs for a feature area.
Applying your understanding of risk for a solution to create or contribute to a service or system continuity architecture and plans for a product group or service.

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What kind of leadership role do you like to play?

Question 4 of 5

Lead Advocate for critical code fixes for your feature area during triage meetings.
Engage with technical communities to help educate on how Microsoft uses its own technology to enable state-of-the-art IT solutions.
Work to achieve consensus on complex issues across multiple feature teams without escalation.
Lead development of a feature area from inception to design through.

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What tasks most suit your skills?

Question 5 of 5

Identifying opportunities to increase project efficiencies that reduced bottlenecks and enabled better feature integration across teams.
Writing unit tests for your feature area that effectively exercise the code, identify bugs or design issues.
Tracking problems by using management tools and processes contributing to problem diagnosis, solution definition, and creating a plan for change.
Designing test cases focusing on specific components for the feature area, which result in test cycles that meet requirements for the number of core functionality bugs found.

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Which Job is
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Which Job is Best for Me?

Which of these statements best reflects your experience with the Software Design Process?

Question 1 of 5

Which Job is Best for Me?

How can you best contribute to the Software Development Cycle?

Question 2 of 5

Which Job is Best for Me?

What impacts you the most?

Question 3 of 5

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What kind of leadership role do you like to play?

Question 4 of 5

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What tasks most suit your skills?

Question 5 of 5

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