Bj Rollison is a Principal Test Lead at Microsoft responsible for integrating social networking features on the Windows Phone. Bj started his professional career building custom solutions for small and medium sized businesses for an OEM company in Japan in 1991. In 1994 he joined Microsoft’s Windows 95 international team. In 1996 he became a test manager in the Internet division responsible for shipping Internet Explorer 3.0 and 4.0 and several web-client products. He moved to Microsoft’s technical training group in 1999 as the Director of Testing responsible for planning and organizing training for more than 6000 Microsoft testers.

In 2003 Bj decided his passion was teaching and mentoring testers and became a Test Architect in the company’s Engineering Excellence group where he developed technical training curriculum, and taught testers and developers at Microsoft. Bj also teaches software testing courses at the University of Washington. Bj is a frequent speaker at international software testing conferences, and co-author of How We Test Software At Microsoft.