Deadline Date: Tuesday 5 November 2024
Requirement: Test Engineer
Location: The Hague, NL
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 150
Required Start Date: 8 December 2024
End Contract Date: 31 December 2024
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
The selected candidate will be part of the Independent Verification and Validation Branch in the Chief Quality Office and will perform independent testing, verification and validation on systems in line with the agreed CQO quality management system and the processes and procedures.
Tasks:
- Participate in meetings with projects and contractors with regard to testing
- Develop appropriate test, verification and validation approaches, including witness testing and manual functional and non-functional testing where applicable
- Develop test plans and test cases.
- Review test plans and test cases provided by suppliers and contractors
- Install and configure Windows and/or Linux based applications in support of testing activities
- Verify systems readiness for systems installed by suppliers and contractors
- Execute test cases against Windows and/or Linux based applications
- Write comprehensive test reports
Specific Working Conditions: The work location is the NCIA premises in The Hague, Netherlands but there is also flexibility for working from home when it is needed.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- 3+ years experience with the design, development and execution of test cases to test that systems fulfil the acceptance criteria and deliver the predicted business benefits.
- 3+ years experience with analysis of and reporting on test activities, test results, issues and risks
- 2+ years experience with attending test reviews and providing feedback on testing scope
- 3+ years of experience with manual testing of software based applications
- 3+ years of experience with installation and configuration of software based applications
- 1+ year Microsoft Windows administration experience
- 1+ years domain knowledge specifically DNS, Group Policy and managed machines in a domain
- 1+ years Linux administration experience
- 2+ years experience with using cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure and VMware
- 2+ years experience with test management tools such as Jira, Zephyr, TestRail, HPALM or equivalent
Desired:
- Experience with planning and executing formal test events such as but not limited to system acceptance tests, user acceptance tests, site acceptance tests, factory acceptance tests.
- Experience with developing and maintaining requirements traceability matrices
- Experience with interoperability testing
- Experience with installation and testing of NATO Community Of Interest Applications such as NCOP, IntelFS, CoreGIS, NIRIS
