Microsoft It Apex Program-Fresh College Graduates @ Microsoft India

Are you a recent college graduate? Do you constantly seek out new and challenging projects? Are you passionate about working in IT. If you answered yes to the questions about then the Microsoft IT APEX Program may be the program for you.
The Microsoft IT APEX Program is a two year rotational program for new college hires with 0-3 years of experience. Each candidate will participate in four, six month APEX rotation assignments. In addition to the APEX assignments, all candidates will participate in a series of educational courses geared towards enhancing both their leadership and business skills. APEX candidates will have the opportunity to have rotated into the following positions: program manger/analyst, developer, and software test engineer.

Required:
Soft / Behavioral Skills
Good analytical and problem solving skills
Good verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work independently and within a team environment
Project experience
Problem Solving skills
Customer focus

Technical Skills:
May require specialized knowledge in multiple technical areas.
Must have a strong understanding of MS products, software lifecycle methodology and information systems development.
Strong analysis and customer service skills required.
Sound problem resolution, judgment and decision-making skills required.
Technical drive and passion and managing systems and processes.

Experience: 0-3 years

Responsibilities 

Program Manager Rotation:
Write documentation necessary to facilitate the design process and communicate the solution for new business requirements, including Functional Specifications. Work with the business or Pdm or PM in Redmond to understand the requirement.
Work with dev and test lead to carry out project schedule with balanced resource assignment. Report on progress of project deliverables
Identify proactively any issues related to understanding of the application and get the resolved. Act as a conduit for communication with PM, Pdm.

Developer Rotation:
Design and develop the solution based on the gathered analysis. Release beta versions or prototypes as necessary for user acceptance testing (UAT).
Analyzes moderately complex customer requirements & current technologies in use to propose solution designs. Provide proof of concept to validate proposed designs if necessary. Provide rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates related to application development tasks.

Software Test Engineer Rotation:
Participates and provides input during requirements and specification walkthroughs; contributes to the development of the test plans; to the development of project and release Master Test Strategy documents; and assists in the preparation of test estimates and project schedules
Involved in Functionality, Integration, System, Regression, Performance, and Stress Testing
Defines, develops, and maintains test scripts. Independently executes test plans and test scripts based on planned project schedules
Records and tracks defects uncovered during the execution of tests and actively participate in resolution; proposes and designs retest cases/scripts/data to retest defects.

Source: Microsoft Careers India