QA – Senior Cloud Developer - Software Engineering

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Galway; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP in Galway is seeking aSenior QA Engineer to ensure quality and reliability of software products across the development lifecycle. You will work closely with software teams to define test strategies, design tests, and drive automation initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on manual and automated testing, plus collaboration across engineering, product management, and QA teams in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or closely related quantitative discipline.
• Typically, 5+ years experience.

Responsibilities

• Own QA activities for assigned features from requirements through release.
• Design, execute, and maintain test plans and cases for complex software features.
• Develop and maintain automated tests and integrate them into CI pipelines.
• Investigate defects, perform root-cause analysis, and collaborate with developers to resolve issues.

Skills

QA testing

Test automation

Python

Java

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

JUnit

Job description

Senior QA Engineer - Software Engineering

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement 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

The Role

The Software Quality Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality, reliability, and functionality of software products throughout the development lifecycle. Works closely with software developers, product managers, and other QA engineers to define test strategies, design and execute tests, develop test automation, investigate defects, and improve overall product quality.

Management Level Definition

Senior: Applies advanced technical knowledge to solve complex problems and contributes to the development and improvement of QA processes, methodologies, and automation. Works independently on complex assignments and may provide technical guidance to other team members.

Responsibilities

• Own QA activities for assigned features, from requirements and design through implementation and release.
• Review product requirements and technical designs to identify test scenarios, risks, dependencies, and edge cases.
• Define test strategies and develop detailed test plans and test cases for complex software features.
• Perform hands‑on manual testing, including functional, integration, regression, negative, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tests to increase test coverage and improve testing efficiency.
• Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines and analyze test execution results.
• Investigate test failures and product defects, perform root‑cause analysis, and work closely with developers to resolve issues.
• Analyze logs, test results, system behaviour, and configurations to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple components.
• Perform regression testing and assess the potential impact of product changes across the system.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and other QA engineers throughout the development lifecycle.
• Identify quality risks and proactively communicate issues, dependencies, and potential release risks.
• Work with complex cloud, virtualization, distributed‑system, and containerized environments.
• Leverage AI‑based tools and technologies to improve test design, automation, test analysis, troubleshooting, and overall QA efficiency.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or closely related quantitative discipline.
• Typically, 5+ years experience.

Knowledge and Skills

• Functional, integration, regression, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Test automation frameworks and infrastructure.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Golang, or JavaScript.
• Evaluating forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and executing test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures and design proposals at senior management levels.
• AI‑assisted testing and software quality engineering.

Advantageous to have experience with any of the following

• Cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Virtualization technologies, including VMware Containers and Kubernetes.
• REST APIs.
• Storage and networking.
• Accessibility.

What We Can Offer You

• Health & Wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development.
• Unconditional Inclusion.

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