HPE Hiring Software Engineer - Platform Testing (Bengaluru)

Software Engineer - Platform Testing

This position is designed as an onsite role, with the expectation that work will primarily be carried out from an HPE office.

About the Company

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge to cloud company focused on helping organizations connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications. The company works with customers to transform insights into outcomes while supporting flexible work and inclusive collaboration across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate networking switch platforms through functional, regression, interoperability, and reliability testing.
• Create and execute PoE test plans including IEEE 802.3af/at/bt compliance, power negotiation, classification, allocation, and budget management.
• Perform interface testing across copper and fiber connections at speeds such as 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, and 100G.
• Test link bring up, auto negotiation, flap recovery, FEC, MTU, VLAN, and LACP.
• Measure throughput, latency, packet loss, and error behavior.
• Develop and maintain Python based automation frameworks for platform and interface validation.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation.
• Investigate failures using logs, packet captures, counters, and platform diagnostics, and collaborate with development teams for root cause analysis.
• Work closely with hardware, firmware, and software teams to define test coverage for new features and releases.
• Prepare clear test reports, defect summaries, and quality metrics for releases.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of platform testing for networking switches.
• Experience with PoE testing and interface testing on managed or unmanaged switch products.
• Understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching concepts such as VLAN, STP, RSTP, MSTP, LACP, QoS, IGMP, and basic routing.
• Hands on Python automation experience including test scripting, API or CLI automation, and log parsing.
• Experience using testing frameworks such as pytest or unittest.
• Familiarity with network traffic generators such as IXIA, Spirent, or Trex.
• Working knowledge of Linux environments, shell scripting, and Git.
• Ability to debug issues across integrated hardware and software environments.

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of PoE standards, certification workflows, and power measurement setups.
• Experience with SNMP, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, or telemetry validation.
• Experience testing large campus network topologies and interoperability scenarios.
• Understanding of enterprise use cases involving IP phones, wireless access points, and PoE endpoints.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or a related discipline.

Success Criteria

• Achieve strong automation coverage for PoE and interface regression testing.
• Reduce manual testing cycle time and improve release confidence.
• Identify platform and interoperability defects early in the development cycle.
• Maintain a stable and repeatable testing infrastructure that supports rapid product releases.