Automation & Integration Software Engineer

Automation & Integration Software Engineer
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
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.
Job Description:
What the role entails
We are looking for an Automation & Integration Software Engineer to help build and maintain a new automated testing platform for the next generation of UXI products. This is a software-focused QA engineering role rather than a manual testing position. You will need write code, architect automation infrastructure, work with Linux networking, and integrate several systems into a reliable test platform.
Responsibilities:
● Contribute toward the design and implementation of a scalable, reusable automated integration testing framework
● Help define a standard testing SDK that enables engineering teams to collaborate on and create consistent test cases, configure test conditions and validate expected product behaviour
● Develop and maintain automated test pipelines, supporting tools, and reproducible test environments.
● Write test scripts, conduct functional and integration testing, identify problem areas, and help implement corrective improvements
● Analyse test results and diagnostic information to distinguish product defects, environmental failures, and framework issues.
● Track errors and issues through their lifecycle, working with relevant stakeholders to support investigation and correction.
● Maintain framework documentation, usage guidance, and shared knowledge that enables teams to adopt and extend the testing platform.
Knowledge and Skills:
● Experience writing or maintaining software tooling who’s primary consumers are internal development teams.
● Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
● Familiarity with automated test harness concepts like setup, teardown, timeouts, and failure diagnostics in the embedded context
● Strong software development skills in any modern programming language
● Demonstrable experience working with:
1. Linux, Docker, and KVM
2. Network OSI Model
3. Automation tools like Jenkins, Ansible etc…
4. Test automation
● An interest in embedded Linux, firmware testing, networking, and hardware test automation
● A strong problem solving ability and a capacity to break complex tasks into clear steps with well-defined deliverable outcomes.
● An exceedingly strong attention to detail
● Excellent written and verbal communication in English
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Accessibility
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Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.
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Job:
Engineering
Job Level:
TCP_04
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