Senior Test and Assurance Engineer (Verification and Validation) for NATO with security clearance

Senior Test and Assurance Engineer (Verification and Validation) for NATO with security clearance Independent verification and validation across a defence organisation's whole project portfolio — the person who says whether it really works. The Hague, hybrid. Assurance is only worth having when it is independent. This post is the independent half. You would join the product and service assurance team of a multinational defence organisation in The Hague, Netherlands — verifying and validating delivered projects, systems, services and programmes, and reporting on them at executive level. Mostly on-site, with flexibility to work from home. What you would be doing Planning, organising and running formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional domains, and along the supply chain Appraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why Producing the test documentation — event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports Assuring other people's test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all Managing the design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events Supporting projects delivered by external contractors Supporting the operational community through acceptance activities What you would bring At least five years, recently, planning and executing test, verification and validation on large and complex projects At least five years testing systems and products for function, behaviour under load, and interoperability with everything around them Proven management of external stakeholders and colleagues through a large delivery Enough architectural literacy to reason about the hardware and software designs you find in system documentation Communication that is clear, coherent and concise, written and spoken Experience leading a team of testers, quality engineers or developers Testing in virtualised and cloud environments The usual test, defect and requirements management tooling Independent testing where the testing itself is done by someone else Nice to have An advanced testing or test-management certification Testing in a defence or military business domain, and interoperability testing in that context Assurance tools and processes Why this one is worth a look You would sit outside the delivery teams and report upwards, which is the only position from which assurance work actually changes anything. Department Quality Assurance & Testing Locations The Hague Remote status Hybrid The Hague About WLG Work Life Group Sp. z o.o., agencja zatrudnienia (employment agency) KRAZ no. 19578. NIP 7010247728. ul. Nowogrodzka 50/54 lok. 515, 00-695 Warszawa, Poland.