Test Manager- Networking

Job description

Job ID 1020586 Date posted 3/13/2018 Primary Location Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Job Category Engineering Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (India)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading Technology Company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

At HPE, you’ll build the future—one big idea at a time. Ready to unleash your professional potential? You’ll use your experience and scientific knowledge to develop, modify, design, and test products, software, systems, and processes. And you’ll help drive our growth as a technology leader. If solving the world’s biggest challenges sounds like the right career path for you, read on.

Aruba Wired Networking Lab brief

This requirement is for a R&D Project Manager in the Aruba Wired R&D lab in HPE Bangalore; Aruba Networking is a key product R&D group within HPE with focus on networking products(switches/routers/accesspoints/controllers)

Aruba Wired Networking R&D team is working on products for the campus market across the edge, aggregator and core markets and for the branch networking business. Aruba switches offer high performance, scalability, and a wide range of features for core to edge connectivity that dramatically reduces network complexity and lowers cost of ownership.

Job Description

We are seeking top R&D Project Managers to lead the development of Aruba Wired Ethernet networking products that will revolutionize the future of the networking industry.  Besides being a self-starter and an excellent communicator, the ideal candidate should have the technical background and inclination to work in a startup-like environment. Your challenge will be to deduce broad concepts and/or business strategies into structured projects, drive product development by planning, executing and coordinating integrated projects. You are required to be a strong technical person who leads/participates actively in architectural and design discussions. Your charter will include developing, motivating and growing a talented, diverse team of engineers and making appropriate engineering practice/process improvements that drive high quality and optimized resource investments.

Key Responsibilities:

·  Managing the projects from start to completion including strong focus on risk management
·  Accountable for project budget, timelines and deliverable quality
·  Own/Expand product/domain competency in designated focus area
·  Motivate and growing engineering talent in your team/org to adapt to changing business/technology needs.
·  Work often involves cross organizational interactions: Hardware, Firmware, System management, Network teams, Sales teams, Architects, other organizations, etc. to arrive at best solutions.
·  Demonstrates strong business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of senior management, development partners and the eco system
·  Quality Custodian for the deliverables from your team – innate ability to anticipate and address  any actual/perceived quality issues
·  Strong ability to negotiate and build consensus in engineering community on business/technical decisions
·  Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects/product roadmap and activities in the software systems design organization.
·  Must excel at communication at multiple organization levels: customer, executives, ODMs & 3rd party development, and engineering teams

Education and Experience

·  B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech candidates
·  12+ years of relevant experience with 3+ years of leading product R&D teams

Required Domain Expertise: Enterprise networking products with expertise in L2/L3/Security Protocols & Features

Knowledge and Skills

·  Hands-on deep knowledge in Networking domain L2/L3, Application & Security protocols.
·  Proficient in software development methodologies, processes and best practices. Agile would be a plus.
·  Experience working with product marketing and architect community to help refine requirements for products
·  Should work very closely with teams – participating in all technical decision making
·  Expertise in project schedule, scope, budget, quality and risk management
·  Proven experience in supervising and developing senior technical staff.
·  Excellent logical problem-solving skills
·  Ability to communicate clearly – both written and verbal communication

Strongly Desired skills

·  Working knowledge of Ethernet network architectures & network switching
·  Familiarity with competitor products & industry standards
·  Experience with Cloud, Openflow/SDN Technologies
·  Exposure to network management in enterprise environments.
·  Experience in agile development methodolog

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Values:

Partner. Innovate. Act.

We live by three core values that drive our business.

Simplified, we are good partners, great innovators and we make things happen.

Extensive social benefits, flexible working hours, a competitive salary and shared values, make Hewlett Packard Enterprise one of the world´s most attractive employers. At HPE our goal is to provide equal opportunities, work-life balance, and constantly evolving career opportunities.

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