Test Automation Engineer (Open-Source Security Platform, Python) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Henegouwen; Sur place; EUR 55 000 - 75 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

WLG in Belgium is seeking a seasoned software tester to configure and manage dedicated platform instances, plan testing environments, and coordinate with the core project team.

You will document findings, report risks, and support external users on production instances, using Python scripting, API testing, and security-aware practices.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to develop and execute test strategies across platforms.
• Experience with test automation and API testing.
• Strong Python scripting and automation capabilities.
• Basic Linux, Apache and database operations knowledge.
• Ability to configure and verify web applications with security best practices.

Responsabilités

• Configuring and managing platform instances and the underlying infrastructure.
• Occasional basic operations on production instances.
• Assessing work against standards and documenting non-compliance plus causes.
• Preparing and reporting findings and associated risks.
• Planning and managing test environments, cases and coverage.
• Documenting results to drive action and improvements.
• Occasional user-support on managed production instances.
• Coordinating test activity with external teams and members.

Connaissances

Test strategy development

Test automation

API testing

Python scripting

Security principles understanding

Communication

Teamwork

English proficiency

Formation

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Outils

Linux basics

Apache

MySQL/MariaDB

Web app configuration

Description du poste

An intelligence-sharing platform is only worth what its last release does.

What You Would Be Doing

• Configuring and managing dedicated platform instances and the infrastructure they test on, with support from the system administration side


• Occasional basic operations on the production instances


• Appraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why


• Preparing and reporting on findings and the risks behind them


• Planning and managing the testing: specifying the environment, creating the cases and scenarios, and making sure they reflect realistic operating conditions and real coverage


• Documenting, analysing and reporting results so that something actually gets done about them


• Occasional support to the user community on the managed production instances


• Coordinating test activity with external parties, including the core project team and other community members

What you would bring

• At least five years of developing and executing software test strategies


• Test automation, and API testing


• Python scripting


• Basic Linux, Apache and MySQL or MariaDB operations


• Configuring web applications


• A good grasp of security principles, practice and technology


• The ability to work alone and in a team, including supporting the people around you


• Excellent organisation, communication and analysis, and professional English


• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience — or, exceptionally, ten years of progressive expertise in this work

Nice to have

• ISTQB or a similar testing certification


• Running a threat-sharing instance as an administrator, or writing code for one in Python or PHP


• Incident response experience, and work with open-source communities


• Multinational cyber exercises, and Red Hat

Why this one is worth a look

It sits where testing, security and open source meet - you would be working with the upstream project, not just consuming it.