Solution Test & Automation Engineer

Overview

Individual contributor role supporting quality engineering for networking and distributed software solutions, validating products and resolving complex testing challenges.

What you'll do

• Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies.
• Support and execute validation efforts for customer solutions and 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 technical design discussions and reviews to improve reliability, scalability, and serviceability.
• Translate customer requirements into repeatable validation approaches.
• Present technical findings, risk assessments, and quality recommendations to stakeholders.
• Participate in cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality.
• Develop and enhance automation solutions supporting testing and validation activities.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, and performance validation.
• Contribute to engineering best practices for validation through CI/CD pipelines.
• Evaluate and apply automation tools and engineering practices to improve efficiency.
• Recommend quality engineering methodologies that improve engineering productivity.
• Identify opportunities to simplify validation workflows through automation.
• Validate distributed and multi-component software and networking platforms.
• 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.
• Perform root-cause investigations and collaborate with teams to resolve issues.
• Differentiate product defects from infrastructure, automation, and environmental issues.
• Recommend improvements to product testability and diagnosability.
• Provide technical expertise for projects and releases and serve as a subject matter resource for solution validation and quality engineering.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to align around quality objectives and promote quality-focused engineering practices.
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing to engineers as needed.
• Contribute ideas and technical recommendations that improve product quality and engineering effectiveness.
• Support technical improvements that create business value and customer impact.

What you'll need

• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or C++, with proficiency in at least one language.
• Experience developing automation frameworks and test solutions.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD environments.
• Experience delivering automation and test efficiency improvements.
• Strong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internals.
• Experience validating distributed and multi-component systems.
• Hands-on experience configuring and validating networking environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise or cloud networking deployments.
• Strong knowledge of performance testing and traffic-generation platforms such as Ixia and Spirent.
• Strong experience with system-level and end-to-end validation.
• Multi-feature, longevity, resiliency, interoperability, scale, and performance testing.
• Fault injection and recovery validation.
• Root-cause analysis and complex defect investigation.
• Advanced troubleshooting across multiple software and infrastructure layers.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver project results.
• Ability to provide technical recommendations and collaborate on engineering decisions.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and assisting junior engineers.

Nice to have

• Should have minimum of 5+ yrs of industry experience.
• Advanced networking expertise in Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, Routing, MPLS, EVPN, and data center technologies.
• Experience with network operating systems, cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and distributed architectures.
• Working knowledge of JUNOS.
• Industry certifications such as JNCIE, CCIE, or equivalent.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools for automation development, test generation, diagnostics, failure analysis, and productivity improvements.
• Track record of innovation resulting in patents, publications, standards contributions, or architectural leadership.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India.
• Onsite role, with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.