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

Wlgroup; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks an experienced assurance professional to join the product and service assurance team of a multinational defence organisation. You will verify and validate delivered projects, systems, services and programmes, reporting at executive level.

Mostly on-site with some flexibility to work from home. You would lead formal reviews, appraise work against standards, and produce comprehensive test documentation while coordinating with external contractors and

Qualifications

• Five+ years planning and executing test, verification and validation on large projects.
• Testing systems for function, load, and interoperability.
• Proven ability to manage external stakeholders on large deliveries.
• Architectural literacy to reason about hardware/software designs in system docs.
• Clear, concise written and spoken communication.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and run formal reviews and assessments across complex domains and along the supply chain.
• Appraise work against standards and identify non-compliance and causes.
• Produce test documentation: event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports.
• Assure other test artefacts, especially the traceability matrix.
• Manage 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 planning

Verification & validation

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Cloud environments

Architectural literacy

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.