Principal Software QA Engineer

Principal Software QA Engineer

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

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

Technical Expertise

• 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

  

Leadership & Collaboration

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Proven experience mentoring junior team members and driving cross-functional collaboration

Knowledge/Skills

• 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
  • JNCIE preferred

  • Docker, , Containerization, Kubernetes

  • CI/CD, Git/Gitlab, Jenkins

  • LINUX/VM environments

  • Networking background

  • KVM

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindse