Test Engineer

Microsoft; Joliet (IL); On-site; USD 57,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Joliet, IL seeks a Test Engineer who thrives on clean PRs and steady ticket closure. The role emphasizes performance optimization, scalable testing, and improving security testing practices within a highly technical environment.

The position offers hands-on work with JMeter and accessibility testing, plus exposure to cross-functional teams and internship-friendly workflows in a modern, global tech company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Curiosity that reads the docs before asking.
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation.
• 1+ years of Mobile Testing reps, not just Mobile Testing exposure.
• Hands-on proficiency with JMeter, ideally paired with Accessibility Testing.
• Comfort with internship arrangements and the rhythms of a deeply technical workplace.
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Ship the JMeter hands-on rewrite that pays down years of Microsoft technical debt
• Ship Facilitation experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Sketch the Security Testing architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Negotiate Cultural Awareness tradeoffs with product when Microsoft timelines and reality collide
• Pull Zephyr telemetry into dashboards Microsoft leaders actually open
• Trace a remote-native technology bug across three JMeter services to the one bad line
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Security Testing acceptance criteria

Skills

Mobile Testing

Accessibility Testing

Documentation clarity

Curiosity to read docs

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

JMeter

Job description

We're after a Test Engineer whose idea of a good day is a slow-to-anger pull request that closed three tickets and opened zero. Few Joliet employers pair $57,000 - $86,000 with this much technology autonomy, and fewer still ask only 1 years to earn it.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Ship the JMeter hands-on rewrite that pays down years of Microsoft technical debt
• Ship Facilitation experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Sketch the Security Testing architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Negotiate Cultural Awareness tradeoffs with product when Microsoft timelines and reality collide
• Pull Zephyr telemetry into dashboards Microsoft leaders actually open
• Trace a remote-native technology bug across three JMeter services to the one bad line
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Security Testing acceptance criteria

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• The kind of curiosity that reads the docs before asking
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• 1+ years of Mobile Testing reps, not just Mobile Testing exposure
• Hands-on proficiency with JMeter, ideally paired with Accessibility Testing
• Comfort with internship arrangements and the rhythms of a deeply technical workplace
• Solid understanding of technology best practices and industry standards

Microsoft exists for one stubborn reason: the technology tools everyone settled for were never good enough, so we rebuilt them from Joliet, IL. The door to every manager at Microsoft is genuinely open, calendar permitting and politics aside.

We provide a $57,000 - $86,000 salary, full benefits, and dedicated time each week to learn new Facilitation and Zephyr tools.

The search for a junior Test Engineer is in full swing, and we want to fill it soon.