Senior Principal Solution Validation & Automation Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 183,000 - 371,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Sunnyvale, California, 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 deep testing expertise, systems knowledge, and leadership across functions in a hybrid work model.

You will partner with engineering, architecture, product management, sales engineering, services, and customers to validate

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead validation for strategic customer solutions and complex networking deployments.
• Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions.
• Translate customer requirements into repeatable validation frameworks and present technical findings to stakeholders.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve customer outcomes and product quality.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Automation

CI/CD

Linux

Networking

Distributed systems

Tools

Jenkins

Ixia

Spirent

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Sunnyvale, California, 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 deep testing expertise, systems knowledge, and leadership across functions in a hybrid work model.

You will partner with engineering, architecture, product management, sales engineering, services, and customers to validate