Software Test Engineer (SONIC)

Role Overview

This role has been designed as ‘Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute comprehensive test plans to validate SONiC & Junos functionality on Broadcom-based switching platforms.
• Validate advanced L2/L3 features including BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN, QinQ, and multicast.
• Test and verify SAI (Switch Abstraction Interface) integration and ASIC driver behavior.
• Automate functional, regression, scale, and performance test cases using Python and Robot Framework.
• Perform deep-dive debugging across ASIC, NOS, and control/data plane layers.
• Collaborate with the SONiC open-source community to contribute fixes, enhancements, and upstream improvements.
• Validate optical modules across various speeds, breakout configurations, and transceiver management protocols (e.g., CMIS, DOM).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in network software or hardware testing.
• Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking protocols and switch/router architecture.
• Hands-on experience with SONiC NOS and SAI-based architectures.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with test automation frameworks such as Robot Framework.
• Solid grasp of SONiC architecture: SAI, FRR, Redis DB, Docker, Minigraph.
• Familiarity with Broadcom SDKs such as SDKLT or OpenNSL (preferred).
• Experience with traffic generators like Spirent or IxNetwork.
• Proficient with Git, Jenkins, Docker, and lab-based testbed environments.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and documentation skills.
• Contributions to SONiC or other open-source networking projects (highly valued).
• Exposure to telemetry, gNMI, OpenConfig, and YANG/Netconf/REST API testing.