Software Engineer II - Network Test Engineer

Description

The role is hybrid, with an average of 2 days per week in an HPE office.

The company builds networking software and platforms for data centers, cloud, campus, branch and service provider networks. The networking team is hiring a software test engineer to validate new platforms and software, working with product management, software engineering and hardware engineering.

Title: Software Engineer II, Network Test Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Review product requirements and technical designs with product management, software and hardware teams.
• Write functional, system and regression test plans for networking software and platforms.
• Run manual and automated tests that check functionality, scalability, reliability and performance.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks in Python.
• Add automated test suites to CI/CD pipelines to raise product quality and speed up releases.
• Find, reproduce, troubleshoot and document software and hardware defects.
• Work with developers to find root causes and confirm fixes.
• Test Layer 2 and Layer 3 features, routing protocols and network services.
• Run hardware qualification and validation tests on new networking platforms.
• Help improve test processes, automation and product quality over time.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or a closely related technical field.
• Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of software testing experience, or Master's degree with 1+ year of relevant experience.
• Experience writing and running software test plans and test cases.
• Hands-on Python experience for test automation.
• Strong analytical, debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work well in a collaborative, cross-functional engineering setting.
• Preferred, highly desirable: several of the areas below.
• Preferred, highly desirable: 2+ years of software testing in networking, IP services or network operating systems.
• Preferred, highly desirable: knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies such as Ethernet, VLANs, QoS, CoS, load balancing, OpenConfig telemetry, P4 Runtime (P4RT) and firewall technologies.
• Preferred, highly desirable: knowledge of routing and transport protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP, multicast, L2VPN, L3VPN and VPLS.
• Preferred, highly desirable: experience with Linux, FreeBSD and virtualized environments.
• Preferred, highly desirable: hands-on work with network test equipment such as Spirent or Ixia.
• Preferred, highly desirable: familiarity with unit, integration, system, regression, black-box and solution testing methods.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Salary range for California: annual base salary USD 108,500 to 218,500, varying by location, experience, education and skill level. Variable incentives may also be offered on top of base pay.

Applicants who need accommodation during the hiring process can request it through the company's secure form.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing benefits covering physical, financial and emotional needs.
• Career development programs, including paths to become a subject expert or move into another division.
• Flexibility to manage work and personal needs.