Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Senior Principal, Solution Test & Automation Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States of America · Principal
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$3,445 more — $190,445 — moves this role to Level IV and 4 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $190,445 would place this position at wage Level IV. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers (15-1253) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Senior Principal Solution Test & Automation Engineer - Customer Engagement
- This is a highly technical Individual Contributor role requiring substantial technical impact on strategic products, architectural initiatives, and customer success.
- The role combines deep software testing expertise, system-level engineering knowledge, customer engagement, and technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Participate in and influence technical design workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic planning discussions to improve reliability, scalability, observability, and serviceability.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives that improve customer outcomes and product quality.
- Define and drive automation strategy across products, programs, and engineering teams.
- Drive organization-wide adoption of quality engineering methodologies that improve time-to-market and engineering productivity.
- Understand customer deployments, business requirements, architectures, and large-scale operational environments to develop comprehensive validation strategies.
- Any reliance on fraudulent communication is at the individual's own risk, and HPE disclaims legal liability for any resulting damages.
Requirements
- Expert-level programming expertise in Python, Go, or C++, with deep proficiency in at least one language.
- Experience integrating large-scale automated testing into CI/CD environments.
- Proven history of driving transformational automation initiatives.
- 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.
- Deep expertise in system-level and end-to-end validation.
- Proven ability to influence engineering decisions, architecture, and strategic direction.
Nice to have
- 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.
- HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities.
- What We Can Offer You:
Skills
- Translate customer requirements into repeatable, solution-focused validation frameworks.
- Utilize logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, observability platforms, and diagnostic frameworks to troubleshoot complex failures.
Compensation
- USD 187,000 - 377,500 in California
- The listed salary range reflects base salary.
Benefits
- Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html
Company info
- 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.
- Present technical findings, risk assessments, quality recommendations, and executive-level updates to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with customers, field engineers, solution architects, sales engineers, and services teams to validate real-world networking solutions and operational readiness.
Equal opportunity
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.
This listing is sourced directly from Hewlett Packard Enterprise's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.