Independent Assurance Engineer (Test Planning and Traceability) for NATO with security clearance

ppbAssurance is only worth having when it is independent. This post is the independent half. /b /p pYou 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. /p pbWhat you would be doing /b /p ul liPlanning, organising and running formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional domains, and along the supply chain /li liAppraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why /li liProducing the test documentation - event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports /li liAssuring other people's test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all /li liManaging the design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events /li liSupporting projects delivered by external contractors /li liSupporting the operational community through acceptance activities /li /ul pbWhat you would bring /b /p ul liAt least five years, recently, planning and executing test, verification and validation on large and complex projects /li liAt least five years testing systems and products for function, behaviour under load, and interoperability with everything around them /li liProven management of external stakeholders and colleagues through a large delivery /li liEnough architectural literacy to reason about the hardware and software designs you find in system documentation /li liCommunication that is clear, coherent and concise, written and spoken /li liExperience leading a team of testers, quality engineers or developers /li liTesting in virtualised and cloud environments /li liThe usual test, defect and requirements management tooling /liliIndependent testing where the testing itself is done by someone else /li /ul pbNice to have /b /p ul liAn advanced testing or test-management certification /li liTesting in a defence or military business domain, and interoperability testing in that context /li liAssurance tools and processes /li /ul pbWhy this one is worth a look /b /p pYou would sit outside the delivery teams and report upwards, which is the only position from which assurance work actually changes anything. /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr