{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"a656c341fdd2bc106d8fff22","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a656c341fdd2bc106d8fff22","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/a656c341fdd2bc106d8fff22","title":"Principal Software Test Engineer (Solution Engineering, Customer Solution Validation)","description":"HPE Networking is seeking a Principal Solution Test & Automation Engineer to drive quality engineering for large-scale networking and distributed software solutions. This is a highly technical Individual Contributor role requiring visible technical impact on products and major components, customer success, and engineering excellence. The role combines strong software testing expertise, system-level engineering knowledge, customer engagement, and technical leadership. The successful candidate will be recognized as an internal authority in key technology areas, drive innovation in automation and validation, and improve product quality, scalability, observability, and reliability across the product lifecycle\r\nYou will partner closely with engineering, architecture, product management, sales engineering, services, support, and customers to validate complex networking solutions, establish scalable quality engineering practices, and deliver long-lasting improvements to engineering productivity and product quality. In addition to technical execution, you will provide leadership across functions, mentor engineers, and help define the future direction of solution validation and automation\r\nSuccess in this role requires visible technical impact on products or major components, recognized expertise in key technology areas, contributions to cross-functional initiatives, mentorship and knowledge sharing, and innovation that advances customer outcomes and business objectives\r\nUnderstand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies\r\nLead validation efforts for customer solutions and complex networking deployments\r\nCollaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness\r\nParticipate in and influence technical design workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic planning discussions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability\r\nTranslate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks\r\nPresent technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders\r\nDrive cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality\r\nContribute to and help drive automation strategy across products, programs, and engineering teams\r\nArchitect, develop, and evolve scalable automation frameworks supporting functional, integration, system, resiliency, scale, performance, and solution validation\r\nEstablish engineering best practices and standards for continuous validation through CI/CD pipelines\r\nDrive innovation in automation infrastructure, tooling, and AI-assisted engineering practices\r\nDrive organization-wide adoption of quality engineering methodologies that improve time-to-market and engineering 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