Principal Software QA Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise-posted 5 days ago
Full-time • Principal
Onsite • Sunnyvale, CA
5,001-10,000 employees
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As a Principal QA Engineer at HPE, you will be the quality champion for customer-facing networking solutions, ensuring that every feature—from telemetry to routing protocols—delivers exceptional reliability, performance, and user experience. Your work directly impacts how customers monitor, manage, and scale their networks with confidence. The Principal QA Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a technical leader in quality assurance, responsible for driving test strategy, automation, and validation for networking platforms. This role focuses on telemetry systems, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS), and platform-level testing to ensure reliability, scalability, and security across HPE’s Juniper networking solutions.

  • Lead the test automation strategy; evaluate and integrate new tools to improve efficiency and coverage
  • Collaborate closely with product, development, support, and platform engineering teams to ensure full lifecycle quality coverage
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA engineers and partners across teams
  • Contribute to design reviews with a QA lens to ensure testability and risk mitigation
  • 16+ years of hands-on Networking and QA experience, including:
  • Designing and building test automation frameworks from scratch
  • Non-functional testing (scale, reliability, performance, security)
  • Strong coding skills in Python ; experience with Pytest
  • Deep understanding of: Microservices, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Linux/VM environments, Storage, Compute, Networking
  • REST APIs, JSON, SQL/NoSQL
  • Experience with virtualization technologies like KVM or VMware
  • Familiarity with performance and load testing tools
  • Exposure to cloud-native testing challenges in private cloud environments
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Proven experience mentoring junior team members and driving cross-functional collaboration
  • Knowledge of complete SDLC and experience in software testing methodology, tools, developing test strategy, test planning and test execution.
  • Strong automation background to be able to own automation strategy and tools required to build a test framework.
  • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
  • Self-motivated with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Proficiency in programming in Python & Golang.
  • Experience in the following areas/technologies: IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, LDP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, LLDP, STP, ACL, QoS, Policer, Multicast, Security; S RX-4600 and JunSOS Space Test Automation using Pytest Python , Spirent and IXIA Test/Traffic generator equipment Detailing of Network Designs and Implementation
  • Docker, , Containerization, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins
  • LINUX /VM environments
  • Networking background
  • KVM
  • JNCIE preferred
  • Cloud Architectures
  • Cross Domain Knowledge
  • Design Thinking
  • Development Fundamentals
  • DevOps
  • Distributed Computing
  • Microservices Fluency
  • Full Stack Development
  • Security-First Mindset
  • Solutions Design
  • Testing & Automation
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
  • Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
  • Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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