This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some of the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the “Intelligent Edge” – and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what’s next for you.
What you’ll do:
Job Responsibilities:
- Contribute to and execute test strategies for switch software and cloud deployments, covering functionality, compliance, negative, solution, integration, scale, interoperability and performance scenarios.
- Design, develop and maintain automated test cases and suites for APIs, microservices and containerized applications; integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable validation.
- Build and maintain test environments and test data for multi‑cloud or hybrid setups; use containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) to reproduce and validate issues.
- Develop and validate test plans, test cases and QA artifacts against product architecture and defined quality objectives; raise gaps and work with developers to resolve them.
- Perform root cause defect analysis in lab and staging environments using logs, metrics and traces; create reproducible test cases, defects with elaborate details, along with regression checks.
- Execute and report on targeted performance, scalability or interoperability tests as required for assigned components.
- Follow and help refine guidelines for testing programmable APIs and networked interfaces (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, YANG).
- Adopt and propose improvements to QA tooling and automation practices to reduce flakiness and improve efficiency.
- Participate in design and architecture reviews, peer test plan reviews to represent testability gaps and help define acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams (development, SRE/DevOps, product) to clarify requirements and support release readiness.
- Share knowledge by mentoring junior QA engineers and contributing to team documentation and best practices.
- Support sustaining activities for existing features while contributing to new development and technical debt remediation.
What you need to bring:
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field from a reputed institution. Master's desirable.
- 5–8 years of hands‑on QA testing and test automation experience, ideally with exposure to cloud‑native systems delivering high‑quality software on schedule in both waterfall and agile methodologies.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Good background in core networking technologies and protocols (routing, switching). Areas like IP, VLAN, LACP, STP/MSTP, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS, Multicast, High Availability and Stacking systems.
- Testing experience in Network Management System (NMS) is a plus.
- Strong scripting/programming skills for API and UI automation (Python, Cypress, Playwright preferred; Java, Go, JavaScript, Selenium acceptable).
- Solid debugging and troubleshooting skills, including log and metric analysis to diagnose integration and runtime issues.
- Strong technical role in the current position, record delivering software projects on-time and with high quality.
- Good experience building and maintaining automated test suites and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub).
- Exposure in solution testing, understanding of designing test topologies, deploying and validating systems, and debugging/troubleshooting across networking and cloud environments.
- Exposure to diagnosing and resolving customer issues in live production environments.
- Practical experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and testing applications in containerized environments.
- Strong knowledge with at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and common services used for testing and deployment.
- Good and clear understanding of software development lifecycle, test planning, defect lifecycle and quality metrics.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams.
- Self‑motivated, independent, organized, flexible and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- Exposure to performance/load testing tools and basic capacity/scalability testing.
- Familiarity with environment provisioning and observability tooling (ArgoCD, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Prior experience mentoring or leading small technical initiatives.
- Familiarity with AI/ML techniques for test optimization and intelligent synthetic data generation.
Additional Skills:
What We Can Offer You:
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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
- 5 - 9 years experience in software engineering or testing
- Good Networking domain knowledge on Ethernet switching and Protocols
- Hands-on experience in testing Layer 7 applications and related features
- Experience with AI based automation and tool development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Hewlett Packard Enterprise and has not been reviewed or approved by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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Parental & Family Support — HPE is associated with extensive paid parental leave and transition options that allow a part-time return for an extended period, alongside supports like adoption and fertility resources. Family-oriented programs such as backup care are also part of the package, reinforcing day-to-day caregiving support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing offerings include always-available virtual counseling, mindfulness resources, and fitness access, positioning mental health support as a visible benefit. “Wellness Fridays” and paid volunteer time add lifestyle-oriented time flexibility beyond standard PTO.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) match, alongside standard insurance coverage, which provides a baseline level of long-term financial support. An employee stock purchase option is also described, adding an additional savings mechanism for participants.
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What We Do
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, college friends turned business partners, started the original Silicon Valley startup in the space of a rented Palo Alto garage. Starting with audio oscillators, the friends built the foundation for a company that would grow to become a global leader in enterprise technology. More than 75 years later, our success is exemplified through our employees’ drive to advance ideas that bring meaningful innovations to life for our customers and partners around the globe. We are guided by our mission to help customers use technology to turn ideas into value, and empower them to transform industries, markets and lives. We simplify Hybrid IT, power the Intelligent Edge and provide the expertise to make it all happen.
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