1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, execute, and automate feature, platform, and system-level test plans.
- Validate Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking features, including switching, routing, resiliency, and high-availability scenarios.
- Test hardware bring-up, interfaces, forwarding paths, boot, upgrades, ISSU, reboot, recovery, redundancy, failover, and scale.
- Develop and enhance reusable Python test automation frameworks and libraries.
- Execute end-to-end testing across multi-device topologies, control-plane/data-plane interactions, and traffic validation.
- Use Spirent and Ixia equipment to generate and analyze traffic for functional, performance, and scale testing.
- Analyze failures and debug issues across software, hardware, and network layers with engineering teams.
- Document test coverage, results, defects, risks, and status updates.
- Reproduce customer issues in lab environments and validate fixes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree is a plus.
- 2–5 years of experience in networking, platform, or system-level product validation or QA.
- Strong experience with Python-based test automation and the ability to build and extend automation frameworks, preferably using PyTest.
- Understanding of Ethernet, VLANs, basic switching, IP routing, and routing adjacencies.
- Exposure to VLANs, LAG/LACP, spanning-tree variants, OSPF, BGP, ISIS, multicast, and high-availability or resiliency testing.
- Experience or familiarity with hardware-software integration, control-plane and data-plane behavior, scale, performance, traffic generators, lab automation, and result reporting.
- Familiarity with EVPN/VXLAN, VPLS, or virtualized networking environments is a plus.
- Networking certifications such as Juniper, Cisco, or equivalent are beneficial but not mandatory.
- Robot Framework experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, collaboration, and learning abilities.
Benefits
- The role is designed as onsite, with an expectation of primarily working from an HPE office.
- Health and wellbeing benefits support employees’ physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Professional development programs support career growth and opportunities to become a subject-matter expert or move across divisions.
- HPE promotes an inclusive workplace and provides accessibility accommodations during the application and interview process.
About HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) builds enterprise IT infrastructure and services, including servers, storage, networking (Aruba), and hybrid edge-to-cloud platforms like HPE GreenLake for businesses and public-sector organizations. Formed in 2015 after Hewlett-Packard’s split, HPE is headquartered in Houston, Texas and trades on the NYSE. It sells hardware, software, and subscription-based managed cloud services to help customers run workloads across data centers, colocation, and public clouds.