Software Quality Engineer: Intern Opportunities for University Students, Redmond

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of University interns from every corner of the world. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential—and excitement for the journey ahead.   

As a Software Quality Engineering Intern, under supervision, you will help lead debugging of software products using systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products. You will help manage team processes to drive software quality engineering according to test plans, with a customer-obsession resulting in greater customer experiences. You will develop, modify and execute software test plans, automated scripts and programs for testing. You will help automate processes and procedures to decrease repetitions in testing, tooling and procedures and analyze and write test plans, standards and procedures. You will conduct data analyses and visualize data for insights on software product quality. You will maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software and analyze test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action.

At Microsoft, Interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You’ll be empowered to build community, explore your passions and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Please note this application is only for internships based in our Redmond, Washington office. For internships in other offices in the United States, please see our . 

Required Qualifications

• Currently pursuing Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Must have at least 1 semester/term remaining following the completion of the internship. 

The base pay range for this internship is USD $5,460 - $10,680 per month. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $7,040 - $11,640 per month.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for these roles until January 12, 2025. 

• Works with guidance to identify the scope of testing to create a quality plan for one or more feature areas.
• In partnership with stakeholders, creates commitments for test plans in a feature to estimate the scope of work and agrees on requirements under close guidance from others.
• Works with development partners to ensure that products meet policies and requirements and helps to manage partnerships with feature area team members to identify and leverage where telemetry, tooling, and data collection points should be integrated in early development and throughout the development phase, shifting left in the process.
• Reviews test plans created by other team members, and schedules review meetings to troubleshoot, identify, and apply improvements to be a voice for quality, and/or defend the testing plan with leads by clarifying requirements and ensuring accuracy of commitments.
• Reports test performance feedback or issues across one or more feature areas to internal and external vendors who will be directly responsible individuals (DRIs) for test plan execution.
• Helps monitor, summarize, and prepare findings from testing teams to be shared with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., development teams) across feature areas.
• Contributes to efforts to build custom dashboards and visualizations through the use of systems (e.g., Power BI) for assuring testing coverage of the product and effective case management.