Mariah Graesser
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarMariah Graesser is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building and hardening configuration and automation tooling for Windows server ecosystems. She contributes to PowerShell DSC projects, notably refining Always On Availability Group resources in the widely used SqlServerDsc module and improving test automation and reliability across core DscResources and WebAdministrationDsc repos. Her work blends database administration expertise with QA/test automation discipline, resulting in more robust deployment, backup, and integration test practices. Based in Seattle, she combines hands-on coding in PowerShell with pragmatic system-level thinking to make infrastructure as code both dependable and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
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test-automation10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/WebAdministrationDsc
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
This module contains DSC resources for deploying and configuring web servers and related components.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:196 commits, 65 PRs, 154 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mariah primarily contributed to improving the test suite for the xWebAdministration DSC resource. Their commits focused on updating tests, fixing PSSA errors, and getting rid of git dependencies in the tests, to ensure the tests would function correctly. Additional contributions involved addressing bugs within the integration tests to ensure proper execution and adding additional unit tests. These changes improved the overall quality and reliability of the project's testing process.
webserverdsc-resourcesdsciisiis-configuration
PowerShell/DscResources
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Central repository for PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:36 commits, 15 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mariah's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and updating test templates within the repository. These changes include updates to unit and integration test templates, incorporating dependencies on Git, and replacing global variables with script variables. They also address styling issues and add new test templates, indicative of a focus on improving the testing framework and its structure. The impact of these changes is to improve the usability and maintainability of the tests.
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