Principal Software QA Engineer

Principal Software QA Engineer

Onsite role located at an HPE office. You will act as the quality champion for customer‑facing networking solutions, ensuring that every feature—telemetry to routing protocols—delivers exceptional reliability, performance, and user experience.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is a global edge‑to‑cloud company advancing how people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, to turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.

• 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) and strong coding skills in Python (Pytest).
• Deep understanding of microservices, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Linux/VM environments, storage, compute, networking, REST APIs, JSON, SQL/No
  
  SQL.
• Experience with virtualization technologies like KVM or VMware and performance and load testing tools.
• Familiarity with 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.

• Complete SDLC knowledge and experience in software testing methodology, tools, test strategy, planning, and execution.
• Strong automation background to own automation strategy and tools required to build a test framework.
• Proficiency in programming in Python & Golang.
• Experience with networking protocols and test equipment: IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, LDP, BGP, OSPF, ISIS, LLDP, STP, ACL, QoS, Policer, Multicast, Security; RX‑4600 and JunSOS Space.
• Experience with test automation using Pytest Python, Spirent and IXIA test/traffic generator equipment.
• Experience with Docker, containerization, Kubernetes; CI/CD, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of networking background, KVM, and Linux/VM environments.

• Cloud architectures, cross‑domain knowledge, design thinking, development fundamentals.
• Dev Ops, distributed computing, microservices fluency, full‑stack development.
• Security‑first mindset, solutions design, testing & automation, user experience (UX).

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

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Health & Wellbeing
Comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development
Investing in your career through knowledge expert programs and cross‑division skill application.

Unconditional Inclusion
Inclusive work culture celebrating individual uniqueness and diverse backgrounds.

Annual salary in California: USD 172,000 – 349,000. Variable incentives may also be offered.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Veterans / Disabled / LGBT employer. All decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider qualified applicants with criminal histories. No fees will be charged to candidates during the hiring process.