Quality Architect

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Westford, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. They help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, to turn insights into outcomes. The culture thrives on finding new ways to accelerate what's next, valuing varied backgrounds and offering flexibility. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Quality Architect to drive the quality strategy for their Session Smart Router (SSR) networking platform. This role involves designing scalable validation strategies, expanding automation capabilities, and ensuring testing reflects real-world customer deployments. It is critical for ensuring SSR delivers reliable performance at scale in customer networks. The Quality Architect collaborates with development architects, product management, and testing teams to integrate quality from design through release, playing a key part in validating system performance, scalability, and interoperability across diverse network environments. This position guides the evolution of testing infrastructure and methodologies for performance, longevity, solutions, and large-scale network deployments.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in networking software development, testing, or system validation and with the below technologies unless otherwise noted.
• Experience owning or leading test strategy for a product or major feature area, including defining coverage, methodologies, and release criteria
• Experience designing and executing performance, scale, or longevity testing for large or distributed systems, including identifying bottlenecks and validating system behavior under load
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, WAN architectures), demonstrated through hands-on development, testing, or troubleshooting of networked systems
• 4+ years of Hands-on experience developing and maintaining test automation frameworks or scripts using Python, Tcl/Expect, or similar
• Familiarity with traffic generation tools and system-level validation approaches (e.g., Spirent, Ixia, or similar)
• Experience working with distributed systems across virtualized and/or physical environments, including multi-node or large-scale deployments
• Experience using CI/CD systems and test automation tools (Jenkins, GIT, or similar) to build, execute, and maintain automated test pipelines
• Ability to collaborate across development, test, and product teams
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• 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

• Define and evolve the overall quality architecture and validation strategy for the SSR networking platform.
• Ensure testing approaches reflect real-world customer deployments, traffic patterns, and scale scenarios.
• Identify gaps in test coverage and guide teams in developing improved validation methodologies.
• Architect and improve automated testing frameworks and test harnesses.
• Expand automated testing coverage across performance, scale, longevity, and interoperability testing.
• Design automation approaches that simulate long-running environments and production workloads.
• Lead initiatives to validate system scalability, throughput, and reliability across hardware and virtualized environments.
• Define methodologies for performance benchmarking and longevity testing.
• Evaluate product behavior under realistic traffic loads and deployment scenarios.
• Drive validation readiness and quality criteria for major releases.
• Serve as the technical quality leader for major feature initiatives.
• Collaborate with development architects and engineering teams to ensure quality and testability are considered during system design.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to test engineers and automation developers.
• Influence technical direction without direct authority across multiple teams.
• Define testing strategies to ensure protocol interoperability and integration with external networking platforms.
• Coordinate testing with third-party tools, traffic generators, and industry test platforms.
• Analyze defect trends, performance data, and test results to identify systemic quality improvements.
• Drive improvements to testing infrastructure, automation efficiency, and validation processes.

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.
• Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees