[6224] Assurance Engineer

Start date: Negotiable
Clearance: NATO Secret or equivalent
Location: The Hague, NL ( 70% Onsite)
Conditions: 2 Days Remote / Teleworking

Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
•The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance

•Ownership of V&V planning and execution on large, complex projects (5+ years, recent). Candidates must be able to describe in their application, in detail, at least two large or complex programmes where they authored or led the Master Test Plan / Event Test Plan and directed execution — not merely contributed test cases under someone else's plan. Be ready to discuss specific trade-offs made if selected for the interview (e.g., risk-based test prioritization, scope cuts under schedule pressure).

•Functional, non-functional, and interoperability testing (3+ years, recent). Candidates should be able to walk through a specific non-functional test campaign (e.g., performance, security, interoperability) they designed and executed, including how pass/fail criteria were defined and what was found.

•Managing external stakeholders and co-workers on large, complex projects. Candidates must provide a concrete example of a disagreement or escalation with an external stakeholder (vendor, contractor, or sponsor) during test execution, and how it was resolved.

•Ability to read and reason about hardware/software system architectures from design documentation. Assessed via a short architecture-reading exercise during the interview (e.g., reviewing a redacted system design excerpt and identifying testable risk areas).
•Clear, concise, engaging communication — oral and written. Assessed directly through the interview and through a short-written exercise (e.g., drafting an executive summary of a fictitious non-compliance finding).

•Team leadership experience (testers, quality, or development engineers). Candidates must specify in their application team size, their role (technical lead vs. line manager vs. project lead), and one example of a performance or resourcing decision they made.
• Testing in virtualized and cloud environments. Candidates should in their application name the specific platforms/environments used (e.g., VMware, AWS, Azure, on-prem virtualization) and describe one testing challenge unique to that environment.
• Familiarity with test management, defect management, and requirements management tools. Name your organization's actual toolset here (e.g., Jira/Zephyr, HP ALM, DOORS, Azure, TestRail….). Candidates should describe in their application how they used the tool to manage traceability or defects on a real project.
• Independent testing of externally-contracted work. Candidates must describe in their application a case where they served as an independent verifier of work performed by an external party, including how independence was maintained and how findings were reported.

Desirable Experience and Education:
• Advanced testing/test management certification (e.g., ISTQB Advanced/Expert level, or equivalent)
• Experience testing within the NATO/military business domain
• Experience with assurance tools and processes (e.g., audit frameworks, compliance assessments)
• Experience as an interoperability tester within a NATO context