About Testing Mentor
HI, I'm
Bj Rollison. I am a Principal SDET Lead on the Windows Phone team. I
lead a team of highly skilled SDETs responsible for testing the APIs
that integrate social networking features such as Windows Live,
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn on the Windows Phone.
I have been at Microsoft since 1994, and my previous roles in the company included a stint as a test lead on the setup team for international versions of Windows 95, test manager in the Internet Client Division where I managed several teams shipping IE 4.0, Outlook Express, Outlook 98, and managed IE 3.0 sustained engineering efforts. My team also pioneered work on pseudo-localization technologies. From 1999 until 2002 I was the Director of Test Training in Microsoft's Technical Education group. From 2002 to Feb 2011 I was a Test Architect in the Engineering Excellence group at Microsoft.Prior to Microsoft I worked for a small OEM company in Japan building custom computer solutions for small and medium sized businesses.
I also teach software testing and test automation courses at the University of Washington's Educational Outreach Program, and I am a member of the advisory board for software testing programs for the:
I have the best career in the world! I don't teach testing: I simply help really bright and talented testers unleash their full potential!
I decided to put this site together to centralize some of my papers, and as a way to provide some resources I developed such as job aids and testing tools to professional testers around the world.
Some Personal Stuff...
I am a water-baby. If there is any activity that has anything to do with water in virtually any state, then I probably do it!
I am an avid sailor and cruise Puget Sound much of the year aboard my 42' Cooper pilothouse sloop named S/V Discovery. Between a stint in the U.s. Air Force and my career in the computer industry I spent about a year sailing around the Ryukyu Islands on a San Juan 24, and working as an underwater tour guide in the Kerama Islands for Japanese tourists.
I was the first foreign member of the Japanese Boardsailing Association and raced windsurfers for the Moon Beach fleet on Okinawa, Japan where I lived for 13 years.
I
am also a PADI certified Master Scuba Diver Trainer and taught scuba
diving for more than 20 years in the Philippines, Japan, and the
United States.
A
long time passion has been ice hockey (frozen water). From the time
I played pond hockey growing up to now I have been a fan of the
game. Currently, I play in the
Greater Seattle
Hockey League on the
Monarch's
franchise. If you are interested click
here for my game stats.
I also enjoy snow skiing in the winter (both downhill and cross-country. And, I am also an avid fly-fisherman (and yes, I tie my own flies).
When I am not doing any of the above I am a lifetime member of the Pacific International Trapshooting Association (PITA) and shoot competition trap, I have been known to play an occasional round of golf, and also enjoy tennis and racquetball for court sports.
Everything else...well...is personal.