Senior Principal, Solution Test & Automation Engineer

HP Enterprise; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybride; USD 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

Hybrid work model

Industry-leading leave

Résumé du poste

HP Enterprise's HPE Networking team seeks a Senior Principal Solution Test & Automation Engineer to lead quality engineering for large-scale networking and distributed software solutions. This role combines deep testing expertise with system-level engineering, customer engagement, and cross-functional leadership to elevate product quality and reliability.

You will drive automation innovation, validation frameworks, and strategic initiatives across engineering, architecture, and product

Qualifications

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

Responsabilités

• Lead validation for strategic customer solutions and complex networking deployments.
• Define and drive automation strategy across products and teams.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture and quality practices across the product lifecycle.

Connaissances

Automation testing

Python

Go

C++

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Networking

Outils

Ixia

Spirent

Description du poste

• HPE Networking is seeking a Senior Principal Solution Test & Automation Engineer to lead quality engineering for large-scale networking and distributed software solutions
• This is a highly technical Individual Contributor role requiring substantial technical impact on strategic products, architectural initiatives, and customer success
• The role combines deep software testing expertise, system-level engineering knowledge, customer engagement, and technical leadership. The successful candidate will serve as a go-to authority for complex quality engineering challenges, drive innovation in automation and validation, and influence product quality, scalability, observability, and reliability across the entire product lifecycle
• You will partner closely with engineering, architecture, product management, sales engineering, services, support, and customers to validate complex networking solutions, establish scalable quality engineering practices, and deliver long-lasting improvements to engineering productivity and product quality. In addition to technical execution, you will provide leadership across functions, mentor engineers, and help define the future direction of solution validation and automation
• Success in this role requires substantial technical impact on significant products and programs, recognized expertise within the organization, leadership across functions, delivery of long-lasting test engineering improvements, mentorship of technical talent, and innovation that advances customer outcomes and business objectives
• Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies
• Lead validation efforts for strategic customer solutions and complex networking deployments
• Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness
• Participate in and influence technical design workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic planning discussions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability
• Translate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks
• Present technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders
• Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality
• Define and drive automation strategy across products, programs, and engineering teams
• Architect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, performance, and solution validation
• Establish engineering best practices and standards for continuous validation through CI/CD pipelines
• Lead innovation in automation infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices
• Drive organization-wide adoption of quality engineering methodologies that improve time-to-market and engineering productivity
• Identify opportunities to simplify validation workflows and reduce operational costs through automation
• Lead validation of distributed, multi-component software and networking platforms at scale
• Execute and automate regression, longevity, fault-injection, recovery, scalability, interoperability, and performance testing
• Utilize logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, observability platforms, and diagnostic frameworks to troubleshoot complex failures
• Lead root-cause investigations spanning multiple teams and technology domains
• Differentiate product defects from infrastructure, automation, and environmental issues
• Influence architecture and design decisions to improve product testability, diagnosability, and operational excellence
• Provide technical leadership for strategic initiatives, major releases, and architectural programs
• Serve as a recognized authority for solution validation, automation, and quality engineering
• Lead and connect engineering teams across functions to align around common quality objectives
• Drive quality-first engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, reviews, coaching, and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to technical innovation through patents, white papers, standards participation, publications, and architectural proposals
• Build long-term technical capabilities that create recurring business value and customer impact

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance, retirement programs and paid time off, including an industry-leading maternity and paternity leave package
• The chance to earn an annual bonus based on performance
• A hybrid, flexible work model that ensures connectivity, a commitment to our culture and continued impact for team members
• Recognition for your contributions, and potential participation in long-term incentives like annual equity awards
• Opportunities for personal and professional development to help you reach your career goals

Proven history of driving transformational automation initiativesExtensive experience designing and building automation platforms, frameworks, and quality engineering ecosystemsExpert-level programming expertise in Python, Go, or C++, with deep proficiency in at least one languageExperience integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD environmentsExperience supporting service provider, enterprise, and cloud networking deploymentsStrong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internalsExtensive experience validating distributed and multi-component systemsStrong knowledge of performance testing and traffic-generation platforms such as Ixia and SpirentDeep hands-on expertise configuring and validating multi-vendor networking environmentsMulti-feature, longevity, resiliency, interoperability, scale, and performance testingFault injection and recovery validationDeep expertise in system-level and end-to-end validationAdvanced troubleshooting across multiple software and infrastructure layersRoot-cause analysis and complex defect investigationExperience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiativesDemonstrated history of leading significant technical initiatives with measurable business impactProven ability to influence engineering decisions, architecture, and strategic directionAdvanced networking expertise in Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, Routing, MPLS, EVPN, and data center technologiesExperience with network operating systems, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and distributed architecturesIndustry certifications such as JNCIE, CCIE, or equivalentWorking knowledge of JUNOSExperience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools for automation development, test generation, diagnostics, failure analysis, and productivity improvementsTrack record of innovation resulting in patents, publications, standards contributions, or architectural leadership