Assurance Engineer

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

·       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-writtenexercise (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 Qualifications/Experience:

·       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

DUTIES/ROLE:

·       Plans, organizes, and conducts formal reviews and assessments across complex, cross-functional, and supply-chain domains

·       Evaluates and identifies non-compliances with organizational standards and determines root causes

·       Produces test documentation: (Event) Test Plans, Test Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, test reports

·       Provides assurance over test artefacts such as the Requirements Traceability Matrix

·       Manages the design, planning, and execution of V&V events and associated reporting

·       Supports projects executed by external contractors, acting as independent verifier

·       Supports the operational community during operational acceptance activities