Hybrid Principal Test Engineer - Solution Validation

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 349,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise invites a Principal Software Test Engineer to join the Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation team in Sunnyvale, CA. This hybrid role emphasizes leadership in validation, automation strategy, and product quality across complex networking and distributed software.

You will partner with engineering, product management, and customers to develop reusable validation frameworks, drive CI/CD quality practices, and mentor engineers while delivering measurable

Qualifications

• Expert-level programming in Python, Go, or C++, with deep proficiency in at least one language.
• Experience designing and building automation platforms, frameworks, and quality engineering ecosystems.
• Experience integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD environments.
• Proven experience delivering impactful automation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer deployments, architectures, and large-scale environments to develop validation strategies.
• Lead validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments.
• Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions.
• Present technical findings, risk assessments, and quality recommendations to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve outcomes and product quality.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

CI/CD

Automation

Linux/UNIX

Networking

Tools

Ixia

Spirent

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise invites a Principal Software Test Engineer to join the Solution Engineering – Customer Solution Validation team in Sunnyvale, CA. This hybrid role emphasizes leadership in validation, automation strategy, and product quality across complex networking and distributed software.

You will partner with engineering, product management, and customers to develop reusable validation frameworks, drive CI/CD quality practices, and mentor engineers while delivering measurable