[6099] Support NIRIS Testing

Start date: July 2026
Clearance: NATO Secret or equivalent
Location: Remote / Occasional Travel to the Hauge

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in software testing and quality assurance within complex, distributed, or networked environments.
• Minimum 3 years' experience designing, executing, and maintaining manual test cases, including functional, regression, integration, interface, and release testing.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in defect management, including defect identification, reporting, verification, retesting, and regression testing.
•Experience working within Agile/Scrum environments, including sprint planning, test planning, defect triage, sprint reviews, and release activities.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• Minimum 2 years' experience testing REST APIs, messaging systems, data exchange interfaces, and related data processing workflows.
•Minimum 2 years' experience testing Web GUI, REST API, and command-line interfaces.
• Minimum 2 years' experience performing interoperability and integration testing across multiple systems and environments.
• Minimum 2 years' experience using test automation frameworks such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Gauge, or similar.
• Minimum 1 year of scripting or programming experience supporting test automation and troubleshooting (e.g., Java, Python, Bash, Ansible).
• Minimum 1 year of experience working with containerised or virtualised environments, including Docker.
• Experience using Jira, Zephyr, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, artifact repositories, and related testing and configuration management tools.
• Experience producing test documentation, including test plans, test cases, execution reports, defect reports, regression evidence, and release readiness documentation.
• Experience defining test scenarios, acceptance criteria, validation methods, and verification evidence.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server and Linux environments, including networking fundamentals, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Active Directory, certificates, and service configuration.
• Knowledge of interoperability and defence data exchange standards; experience with Tactical Data Links (Link 16, Link 22, JREAP, VMF, DIS, AIS, CESMO, etc.) highly desirable.
• Experience testing distributed systems and multi-component architectures involving multiple interfaces and data sources.
• Familiarity with secure testing practices and regulated or accredited environments.
• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, TMap, Microsoft, Red Hat, CompTIA, Cisco, or equivalent are desirable.
• Must be eligible to work within a NATO environment.

Activities:

• Deliver testing, validation, verification, quality assurance, and test automation activities for NIRIS software modules.
• Develop, maintain, and execute test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, and test data.
• Perform manual, automated, functional, regression, integration, and system testing.
• Support the full software testing lifecycle, including test analysis, design, execution, defect management, retesting, and reporting.
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and scripts to improve test coverage and regression capabilities.
• Support software integration, verification, and interoperability testing across the wider NIRIS environment.
• Investigate, analyse, document, and report software defects, test failures, and quality issues.
• Verify defect resolutions and software changes against requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Produce and maintain testing documentation, including test plans, execution reports, defect reports, and automation artefacts.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, technical reviews, release readiness activities, and stakeholder meetings.
• Ensure compliance with NCIA testing standards, quality requirements, configuration management processes, and project procedures.
• Update and enhance test assets, automation scripts, and documentation to support evolving requirements.
• Contribute to improving software quality, reliability, interoperability, maintainability, and operational readiness.