SoftwareEngineer-PlatformTesting

Software Engineer- Platform Testing 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 you will do** : Key Responsibilities 1\. Validate networking switch platforms for functional, regression, interoperability, and reliability testing. 2\. Design and execute comprehensive PoE test plans: \- IEEE 802.3af/at/bt compliance behavior \- Power negotiation, classification, allocation, and budget handling \- Multi-port power stress and overload scenarios 3\. Perform interface testing across copper/fiber and different speeds (1G/10G/25G/40G/100G as applicable): \- Link bring-up, flap recovery, auto-negotiation, FEC, MTU, VLAN, LACP \- Throughput, latency, packet loss, and error behavior 4\. Develop and maintain Python-based automation frameworks for platform and interface validation. 5\. Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines for continuous validation. 6\. Analyze failures from logs, packet captures, counters, and platform diagnostics; drive root-cause analysis with development teams. 7\. Work with hardware, firmware, and software teams to define test coverage for new features and releases. 8\. Generate clear test reports, defect summaries, and release quality metrics. **What you wi