Principal Solution Test Engineer: Validation & Automation

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

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Principal Software Test Engineer for Solution Engineering and Customer Solution Validation. This hybrid role focuses on leading validation for large-scale networking and distributed software, with emphasis on automation, system-level testing, and cross-functional leadership.

The candidate will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive quality engineering practices across the lifecycle, delivering measurable

Qualifications

• Expert-level programming in Python, Go, or C++ with deep proficiency in at least one language.
• Extensive 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, solutions architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions.
• Participate in design workshops, architecture reviews, and planning to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability.
• Translate customer requirements into repeatable validation frameworks and present findings to stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve customer outcomes and product quality.
• Contribute to automation strategy across products and engineering teams.
• Architect and evolve scalable automation frameworks for validation.
• Establish engineering best practices for continuous validation through CI/CD.
• Drive automation tooling innovation and adoption across the organization.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Automation

CI/CD

Tools

Ixia

Spirent

JNCIA

CCIA

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Principal Software Test Engineer for Solution Engineering and Customer Solution Validation. This hybrid role focuses on leading validation for large-scale networking and distributed software, with emphasis on automation, system-level testing, and cross-functional leadership.

The candidate will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive quality engineering practices across the lifecycle, delivering measurable