Senior Test Engineer

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:

Job Family Definition:

Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining quality engineering protocols and methods for building, assembly and test transforming materials into partially finished or finished products. Ensures compliance of manufacturing and production processes with internal and external safety, quality and regulatory standards requirements for worldwide distribution. Designs methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of production processes, production equipment and finished products. Performs analysis of reports and production data to identify trends and recommend updates or changes to design, test, manufacturing, quality standards and procedures when necessary. Recommends performance objectives for engineering, test, manufacturing, product and design functions. May assure compliance to in-house and/or external specifications and standards (i.e. Six Sigma, Lean Sigma and others).

Management Level Definition:

Contributions impact technical components of HPE products, solutions, or services regularly and sustainable. Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Provides expertise and partnership to functional and technical project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Exercises significant independent judgment to determine best method for achieving objectives. May provide team leadership and mentoring to others.

About The Team:

Multi-Features Test (MFT) is a specialized quality engineering group dedicated to designing and validating generalized customer scenarios through rigorous testing of feature interactions and seamless integrations across multiple technology features in complex software products. The team focuses on architecting highly realistic end-to-end test scenarios and reference environments that replicate how diverse features & modules interact under deployment like environment, including various scales, configurations, and failure modes.

MFT owns the comprehensive automation framework, reusable interaction test libraries, integration scenario templates, and automated validation pipelines required to efficiently uncover defects in cross-feature behaviors, compatibility issues, and unintended side effects before they impact customers.

By continuously learning and gathering real-world usage patterns, observed interaction failures, and multi-feature dependencies from customer environments, the team enhanced this cross-feature test, and interaction to deliver high-quality integrated software experiences.

What you'll do:

• Designing and architecting comprehensive multi-features test solutions that are deeply rooted in real customer use cases and actual deployment environments, with a strong emphasis on feature interactions, integrations, and cross-technology behaviors

• Developing a robust, end-to-end test strategy and detailed test plan to ensure thorough validation of complex, interconnected software features

• Creating realistic test topologies that mirror customer production setups for multi-service configurations and test

• Performing manual exploratory testing, identifying and reporting software defects, and collaborating closely with development teams to drive timely resolution

• Automating test cases using the PyTest framework to enable efficient, repeatable validation of feature interactions and integrations

• Working closely with cross-functional teams (including product, development, architecture, DevOps, and support) to align testing efforts with customer needs, release goals, and quality standards

What you need to bring:

Minimum Qualifications:

A BE/MTech/BS/MS/MCA in EE/CS or a similar field is desired. 7-10 years of relevant experience. JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE, or equivalent certification can be added advantage.

Automation Background and Python Proficiency:

The candidate should have a strong background in automation. Proficiency in Python is essential for developing automation scripts and tools.

Technology Proficiency:

Demonstrated expertise and hands-on test experience in the following technologies is required:

• Routing Protocols: MPLS (RSVP/LDP), SR-MPLS, SRv6 VPN Features: L2VPN, L2Circuit, VPLS, L3VPN, EVPN-MPLS and EVPN-VXLAN

• Multicasting: Multicast/Multicast VPN Security: MACSEC Firewall/ACL: In depth knowledge of Firewall Filter

• Ethernet OAM: LFM, CFM, Y.1731 Class of Service: CoS, hierarchical CoS Telemetry Features: Sflow, JFlow, Port Mirroring, OpenConfig Telemetry, SNMP System Architectures: Strong understanding of Forwarding & Control Plane

Automation Framework Skills:

The candidate should be adept at using automation frameworks. Proficiency in creating new automation libraries and implementing complex automation algorithms is essential. Familiarity with PyTest, ROBOT framework is beneficial.

Networking Test Equipment:

Experience with networking test equipment is required. Proficiency in using tools like Spirent and Keysight Ixia traffic generator for testing, validation and automation is necessary.

Analytical Skills and Debugging:

Strong analytical skills are essential for debugging and isolating problems. The candidate should be able to troubleshoot and should narrow down issues efficiently.

Interpersonal and Communication Skills:

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are necessary. Effective collaboration with team members and stakeholders is important.

Adaptability and Learning Aptitude:

The candidate should be a self-starter and quick learner. Adaptability to new technologies & feature and able to integrate into solution is crucial.

Team Player:

A very strong team player who can contribute effectively to collaborative efforts.

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04

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