Storage Systems Test Engineer (Customer-Focused)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 112,000 - 212,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Career development

Inclusive culture

Onsite work

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to join the Customer Focused Testing team. The role focuses on testing HPE storage products, validating integration with storage solutions, and reproducing customer issues in customer-like environments to accelerate debugging and resolution.

The successful candidate will have 4+ years of hands-on storage and virtualization experience, strong Linux/Windows testing capabilities, and a drive to improve product quality through

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Typically, 4+ years of hands-on experience with cloud, storage, and networking technologies, including Block, File and Object storage, Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of storage protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, S3) to support scalable and reliable solutions.
• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM) and enterprise backup solutions.

Responsibilities

• Champion customer‑focused testing practices, advocate for issue resolution, and influence product quality by ensuring the customer's point of view is represented in decision‑making.
• Design, implement, and execute customer‑focused tests for the data storage product offering.
• Rapidly gain expertise in external applications and validate integration feasibility with HPE storage products to deliver robust end‑to‑end solutions.
• Collaborate with Customer Engineering and Escalation teams to understand customer issues, perform targeted testing to reproduce problems, and work with development to accelerate debugging and resolution.
• Analyze test results, debug failures, and drive issues to resolution with development, QA, product management, and customer support teams.
• Review and provide input on functional and design specifications, and partner with cross‑functional teams including Product Management, Solution Engineering, Customer Support, and Platform Engineering.
• Identify test coverage gaps, raise defects, shift information left to upstream test organizations, and document test strategies, workflows, results, and recommendations.

Skills

Linux

Windows

Python

Debugging

Lab testing

Education

Bachelor or Master in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Test management platforms

Performance benchmarking tools

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to join the Customer Focused Testing team. The role focuses on testing HPE storage products, validating integration with storage solutions, and reproducing customer issues in customer-like environments to accelerate debugging and resolution.

The successful candidate will have 4+ years of hands-on storage and virtualization experience, strong Linux/Windows testing capabilities, and a drive to improve product quality through