Quality Architect

Quality Architect

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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:

   

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Quality Architect to help drive the quality strategy for our Session Smart Router (SSR) networking platform. This role focuses on designing scalable validation strategies, expanding automation capabilities, and ensuring our testing reflects real-world customer deployments. 

This role is critical to ensuring SSR delivers reliable performance at scale in customer networks.

The Quality Architect partners closely with development architects, product management, and testing teams to ensure quality is built into the product architecture from design through release. This role plays a key part in validating system performance, scalability, and interoperability across diverse network environments. 

This position guides the evolution of our testing infrastructure and methodologies across performance testing, longevity testing, solutions testing, and large-scale network deployments. 

Responsibilities:

Quality Architecture & Strategy 

·         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. 

Automation & Test Infrastructure 

·         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.

Performance, Scale, and System Validation 

·         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.

Cross-Team Technical Leadership 

·         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.

Interoperability and Ecosystem Validation 

·         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. 

Quality Insights & Continuous Improvement 

·         Analyze defect trends, performance data, and test results to identify systemic quality improvements. 

·         Drive improvements to testing infrastructure, automation efficiency, and validation processes. 

 ·         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