Cloud Developer III

Job description

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** **Job Family Definition:** The Cloud Developer builds quality products through test plans, automation to meet the needs of mission-critical applications and is keen to deliver quality in day-to-day activities. Implement new ideas and methods for testing, automating, debugging and delivering features with quality. Collaborates with project managers, test engineers, development partners and cross functional teams to ensure effective and efficient quality delivery, deployment, configuration, monitoring and support of Cloud engagements. The Cloud Developer provides business value expertise to execute innovative service offerings that enrich HPE's Cloud Services portfolio across multiple systems, platforms, and applications. **Management Level Definition** Contributions include applying developed subject matter expertise to solve common and sometimes complex technical problems and recommending alternatives where necessary. Might act as feature lead and provide assistance to lower level professionals. Exercises independent judgment and consults with others to determine best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives. Works independently within an established framework and with moderate supervision. **What You'll Do** Contribute to and execute test strategies for switch software and cloud deployments, covering functionality, compliance, negative, solution, integration, scale, interoperability and performance scenarios. Design, develop and maintain automated test cases and suites for APIs, microservices and containerized applications; integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable validation. Build and maintain test environments and test data for multi‑cloud or hybrid setups; use containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) to reproduce and validate issues. Develop and validate test plans, test cases and QA artifacts against product architecture and defined quality objectives; raise gaps and work with developers to resolve them. Perform root cause defect analysis in lab and staging environments using logs, metrics and traces; create reproducible test cases, defects with elaborate details, along with regression checks. Execute and report on targeted performance, scalability or interoperability tests as required for assigned components. Follow and help refine guidelines for testing programmable APIs and networked interfaces (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, YANG). Adopt and propose improvements to QA tooling and automation practices to reduce flakiness and improve efficiency. Participate in design and architecture reviews, peer test plan reviews to represent testability gaps and help define acceptance criteria. Collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams (development, SRE/DevOps, product) to clarify requirements and support release readiness. Share knowledge by mentoring junior QA engineers and contributing to team documentation and best practices. Support sustaining activities for existing features while contributing to new development and technical debt remediation. **What You Need To Bring** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field from a reputed institution. Master's desirable. 5–8 years of hands‑on QA testing and test automation experience, ideally with exposure to cloud‑native systems delivering high‑quality software on schedule in both waterfall and agile methodologies. Good background in core networking technologies and protocols (routing, switching). Areas like IP, VLAN, LACP, STP/MSTP, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, VXLAN, QoS, Multicast, High Availability and Stacking systems. Testing experience in Network Management System (NMS) is a plus. Strong scripting/programming skills for API and UI automation (Python, Cypress, Playwright preferred; Java, Go, JavaScript, Selenium acceptable). Solid debugging and troubleshooting skills, including log and metric analysis to diagnose integration and runtime issues. Strong technical role in the current position, record delivering software projects on-time and with high quality. Good experience building and maintaining automated test suites and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub). Exposure in solution testing, understanding of designing test topologies, deploying and validating systems, and debugging/troubleshooting across networking and cloud environments. Exposure to diagnosing and resolving customer issues in live production environments. Practical experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and testing applications in containerized environments. Strong knowledge with at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and common services used for testing and deployment. Good and clear understanding of software development lifecycle, test planning, defect lifecycle and quality metrics. Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross‑functional teams. Self‑motivated, independent, organized, fl