Principal Software QA Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Sunnyvale, CA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.
Ideal candidates will have at least 13+ years of relevant experience in developing and supporting automation test frameworks from ground up.
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; SRX-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

Nice To Haves

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)

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

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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