Independent Assurance Engineer (Test Planning and Traceability) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hague, Netherlands – WLG invites an experienced assurance specialist to join the product and service assurance team of a multinational defence organisation. You will verify and validate delivered projects, systems and services, and report findings at executive level.

Most work onsite with some flexibility to work from home. You will lead formal reviews, appraise work against standards, produce test documentation, and manage verification and validation events across complex domains.

Qualifications

• Five years planning and executing test, verification and validation on large, complex projects.
• Experience testing systems for function, load, and interoperability.
• Proven external stakeholder and delivery management.
• Ability to read system documentation and reason about hardware/software designs.
• Clear written and spoken communication.
• Experience leading testers, quality engineers or developers.
• Testing in virtualised and cloud environments.
• Experience with test, defect and requirements management tools.
• Experience independent testing where testing is done by others.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and run formal reviews across cross-functional domains and along the supply chain.
• Appraise work against standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why.
• Produce the test documentation — event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports.
• Assure other people's test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all.
• Manage the design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events.
• Support projects delivered by external contractors.
• Support the operational community through acceptance activities.

Skills

Test management

Test strategy

Stakeholder management

Cloud testing

Automation testing

Team leadership

Test documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Requirements management

Job description

Assurance is only worth having when it is independent. This post is the independent half.

You would join the product and service assurance team of a multinational defence organisation in The Hague, Netherlands — verifying and validating delivered projects, systems, services and programmes, and reporting on them at executive level. Mostly on-site, with flexibility to work from home.

What You Would Be Doing

• Planning, organising and running formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional domains, and along the supply chain
• Appraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why
• Producing the test documentation — event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports
• Assuring other people's test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all
• Managing the design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events
• Supporting projects delivered by external contractors
• Supporting the operational community through acceptance activities

What you would bring

• At least five years, recently, planning and executing test, verification and validation on large and complex projects
• At least five years testing systems and products for function, behaviour under load, and interoperability with everything around them
• Proven management of external stakeholders and colleagues through a large delivery
• Enough architectural literacy to reason about the hardware and software designs you find in system documentation
• Communication that is clear, coherent and concise, written and spoken
• Experience leading a team of testers, quality engineers or developers
• Testing in virtualised and cloud environments
• The usual test, defect and requirements management tooling
• Independent testing where the testing itself is done by someone else

Nice to have

• An advanced testing or test-management certification
• Testing in a defence or military business domain, and interoperability testing in that context
• Assurance tools and processes

Why this one is worth a look

You would sit outside the delivery teams and report upwards, which is the only position from which assurance work actually changes anything.