Quality Architect

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

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Job Description:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Quality Architect to help drive the quality strategy for our Session Smart Router (SSR) networking platform. This role focuses on designing scalable validation strategies, expanding automation capabilities, and ensuring our testing reflects real-world customer deployments.

This role is critical to ensuring SSR delivers reliable performance at scale in customer networks.

The Quality Architect partners closely with development architects, product management, and testing teams to ensure quality is built into the product architecture from design through release. This role plays a key part in validating system performance, scalability, and interoperability across diverse network environments.

This position guides the evolution of our testing infrastructure and methodologies across performance testing, longevity testing, solutions testing, and large-scale network deployments.

Responsibilities:

Quality Architecture & Strategy:

• Define and evolve the overall quality architecture and validation strategy for the SSR networking platform.

• Ensure testing approaches reflect real-world customer deployments, traffic patterns, and scale scenarios.

• Identify gaps in test coverage and guide teams in developing improved validation methodologies.

Automation & Test Infrastructure:

• Architect and improve automated testing frameworks and test harnesses.

• Expand automated testing coverage across performance, scale, longevity, and interoperability testing.

• Design automation approaches that simulate long-running environments and production workloads.

Performance, Scale, and System Validation

• Lead initiatives to validate system scalability, throughput, and reliability across hardware and virtualized environments.

• Define methodologies for performance benchmarking and longevity testing.

• Evaluate product behavior under realistic traffic loads and deployment scenarios.

• Drive validation readiness and quality criteria for major releases.

Cross-Team Technical Leadership:

• Serve as the technical quality leader for major feature initiatives.

• Collaborate with development architects and engineering teams to ensure quality and testability are considered during system design.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to test engineers and automation developers.

• Influence technical direction without direct authority across multiple teams.

Interoperability and Ecosystem Validation:

• Define testing strategies to ensure protocol interoperability and integration with external networking platforms.
• Coordinate testing with third-party tools, traffic generators, and industry test platforms.

Quality Insights & Continuous Improvemen t

• Analyze defect trends, performance data, and test results to identify systemic quality improvements.

• Drive improvements to testing infrastructure, automation efficiency, and validation processes.

• 6+ years of experience in networking software development, testing, or system validation and with the below technologies unless otherwise noted.

• Experience owning or leading test strategy for a product or major feature area, including defining coverage, methodologies, and release criteria

• Experience designing and executing performance, scale, or longevity testing for large or distributed systems, including identifying bottlenecks and validating system behavior under load

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, WAN architectures), demonstrated through hands-on development, testing, or troubleshooting of networked systems

• 4+ years of Hands-on experience developing and maintaining test automation frameworks or scripts using Python, Tcl/Expect, or similar

• Familiarity with traffic generation tools and system-level validation approaches (e.g., Spirent, Ixia, or similar)

• Experience working with distributed systems across virtualized and/or physical environments, including multi-node or large-scale deployments

• Experience using CI/CD systems and test automation tools (Jenkins, GIT, or similar) to build, execute, and maintain automated test pipelines

• Ability to collaborate across development, test, and product teams

• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent hands-on experience

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 136,500 - 260,500 in Massachusetts
The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

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