Jobid=627196773101864828 (0.0984)
Deadline Date: Tuesday 21 July 2026
Requirement: Test Engineer
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Not to Exceed Rate: 79 EUR
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
Required Start Date: 1 September 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above – and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV – will be deleted.
Duties & Role:
Methods and tools
- Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
- Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
- Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.
Acceptance testing
- Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non- functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules.
- Designs, specifies and executes test cases and scenarios to test that systems, products and services fulfil the acceptance criteria and deliver the predicted business benefits.
- Collaborates with project colleagues and stakeholders involved in the analysis, development and operation of products, systems or services to ensure accuracy and comprehensive test coverage.
- Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks including the work of others.
Systems integration and build
- Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
- Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
- Defines complex/new integration builds.
- Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
- Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
- Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
- Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.
Configuration management
- Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to configuration items.
- Verifies and approves changes ensuring the protection of assets and components from unauthorised change, diversion and inappropriate use.
- Ensures that users comply with identification standards for object types, environments, processes, life cycles, documentation, versions, formats, baselines, releases and templates.
- Performs audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience.
- At least 2 years recent experience in planning and execution of test, verification and validation activities in large complex projects;
- At least 2 years recent experience with functional, non-functional and interoperability testing of systems and products;
- Proven experience with managing external stakeholders and co- workers during the execution of large complex projects;
- Ability to understand and reason about hardware and software systems architectures typically found in system design documents;
- Ability to understand technical concepts such as DNS, NTP, Email, Databases, Application architectures and inter-application communication protocols;
- Ability to communicate with clarity, coherence, conciseness and engagement, both orally and in writing;
- Certification in the area of test, verification and validation such as ISTQB or a similar certification at the foundation level
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