Test and Verification Lead (Master Test Plans, V&V) for NATO with security clearance

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

Job summary

WLG in The Hague is seeking an experienced independent verifier to plan and run formal reviews and assessments across complex, cross-functional programmes. Based in The Hague with flexibility to work from home when needed, you will lead verification activities and coordinate with external contractors to ensure compliance and robust test results.

You will manage event test planning, test case execution, and traceability while driving risk-based decisions and ensuring quality across large-scale

Qualifications

• Five+ years owning verification
• Three+ years testing (functional, non-functional, interoperability)
• Experience managing external stakeholders on large projects
• Ability to read hardware/software architectures and spot testable risks
• Team leadership experience with measurable decisions
• Testing in virtualised and cloud environments; know platforms
• Experience with test, defect and requirements management tooling

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and conduct formal reviews and assessments across complex domains
• Identify non-compliance with standards and determine root causes
• Produce essential test documentation: event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices and test reports
• Provide assurance over test artefacts and the traceability matrix
• Manage design, planning and execution of verification/validation events and report results
• Act as independent verifier on projects delivered by external contractors
• Support the operational community through operational acceptance

Skills

Verification planning

Validation planning

Test management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Cloud & virtualised testing

Traceability & requirements management

Interoperability testing

Risk identification

Tools

Test management tools

Requirements traceability tooling

Job description

Have you ever been the independent verifier on a programme that could not be allowed to fail?

This is assurance at the sharp end. You plan and run formal reviews and assessments across complex, cross-functional and supply chain domains, and you do it as the independent voice rather than as part of the delivery team. Based in The Hague, with flexibility to work from home when it is needed.

What You Will Be Doing

• Planning, organising and conducting formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional domains
• Identifying non-compliance with organisational standards and getting to the root cause
• Producing the test documentation that matters: event test plans, test cases, requirements traceability matrices, test reports
• Providing assurance over test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all
• Managing the design, planning and execution of verification and validation events, and reporting on them
• Acting as independent verifier on projects delivered by external contractors
• Supporting the operational community through operational acceptance

What you will need

• Five years or more, recent, owning verification and validation planning and execution on large complex projects. Be ready to describe two programmes where you authored or led the master or event test plan and directed execution, not simply contributed test cases under someone else's plan
• Three years or more, recent, of functional, non-functional and interoperability testing. Expect to walk through a campaign you designed, how pass and fail criteria were set, and what you found
• Experience managing external stakeholders on large projects, including a real escalation you resolved
• The ability to read hardware and software architectures from design documentation and spot the testable risk
• Team leadership experience: tell us the team size, your actual role, and a resourcing or performance decision you made
• Testing in virtualised and cloud environments, and the specific platforms you used
• Test, defect and requirements management tooling, and how you used it for traceability on a real project
• An advanced testing certification, NATO or military domain experience, and interoperability testing are all welcome

Why this one is worth a look

Independence is written into the role rather than negotiated case by case. If you have spent years being overruled on quality, this is the other side of that argument.