# Senior Principal, Solution Test & Automation Engineer **Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise **Location**: Sunnyvale, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: Annual Salary USD 187,000 - 377,500 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Sunnyvale-California-United-States-of-America/Senior-Principal--Solution-Test---Automation-Engineer_1211104-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_5d114ad6-504 ## Description Hewlett Packard Enterprise 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 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. **Solution Validation & Customer Engagement** - 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. **Automation & Quality Engineering** - 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. **System-Level Testing & Debugging** - 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. **Technical Leadership** - 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. **Basic Qualifications** - Expert-level programming expertise 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. - Proven history of driving transformational automation initiatives. **Systems & Networking** - Strong understanding of Linux/UNIX operating systems, networking, processes, memory management, and system internals. - Extensive experience validating distributed and multi-component systems. - Deep hands-on expertise configuring and validating multi-vendor networking environments. - Experience supporting service provider, enterprise, and cloud networking deployments. - Strong knowledge of performance testing and traffic-generation platforms such as Ixia and Spirent. **Testing & Quality Engineering** - Deep expertise in 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. **Leadership & Influence** - Demonstrated history of leading significant technical initiatives with measurable business impact. - Proven ability to influence engineering decisions, architecture, and strategic direction. - Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives. **Preferred Qualifications** - 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. ## Skills ### Required - Python - Go - C++ - Linux/UNIX - Networking - Automation - Quality Engineering ### Nice to have - JUNOS - Cloud Infrastructure - Observability Platforms - Distributed Architectures - AI-assisted Engineering Tools --- Source: [Apply at hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Sunnyvale-California-United-States-of-America/Senior-Principal--Solution-Test---Automation-Engineer_1211104-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)