# Network Software Test Engineer III

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Roseville, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Annual Salary USD 120,500 - 243,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Network Software Test Engineer III to join their team. The successful candidate will lead test strategy and execution for complex features and subsystems, own development and review of comprehensive test plans, and design, implement, and maintain robust Python-based test frameworks.

Responsibilities:

- Lead test strategy and execution for complex features and subsystems

- Own development, review, and continuous improvement of comprehensive test plans, protocols, and documentation

- Design, implement, and maintain robust Python-based test frameworks, harnesses, and automation suites used in CI/CD pipelines

- Leverage AI models and LLMs to accelerate test-case generation, create prompt-driven scenarios, parse and classify logs, detect anomalies, and prioritize test coverage

- Architect and execute advanced security-aware test scenarios validating encryption, authentication/authorization, access controls, firewall policies, threat emulation, and attack mitigation

- Capture and analyze packet traces and system logs; produce clear, reproducible bug reports and actionable RCA for cross-functional teams

- Run and coordinate functional, performance, interoperability, regression, reliability, and security tests across physical and virtual lab environments and production-like testbeds

- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, development, site reliability, and outsourced partners to define release criteria, improve test coverage, and influence secure-by-design practices

- Mentor and lead junior engineers in test design, automation best practices, and security testing techniques; contribute to team processes, tooling, and metrics for continuous improvement

Requirements:

- 4-5+ years professional experience in network quality assurance, network engineering, or security-focused testing roles

- BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Networking, Information Security, or related field

- Networking foundation with hands-on experience in campus and data-center deployments and production network troubleshooting

- Proven expertise in Python for automation, building test frameworks, and producing production-quality test code

- Experience applying AI/ML tools or LLMs to testing, log analytics, or automation workflows is highly valued

- Strong practical security background: experience designing and executing threat-informed tests, vulnerability validation, secure configuration checks, and collaborating with security teams

What We Can Offer You:

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing

- Investment in your career through personal and professional development programs

- Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- networking protocols
- AI/ML tools
- security testing
- test automation

### Nice to have
- VxLAN/EVPN deployments
- network security tooling
- virtualization
- containers
- orchestration

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