Functieomschrijving
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.