Deadline Date: Tuesday 21 July 2026
 
Requirement: Test Engineer
 
Location: The Hague, NETHERLANDS
 
Full Time On-Site: Yes
 
Time On-Site: 100%
 
Not to Exceed Rate: 79 EUR
 
Total Scope of the request (hours): 600
 
Required Start Date: 1 September 2026
 
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
 
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
 
Please do NOT apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:

Current National or NATO SECRET clearance

Nationality of one of the NATO member countries

Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position

Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
 
Duties & Role:  
Methods and tools

• Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
• Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools.
• Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.

Acceptance testing

• Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non- functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules.
• Designs, specifies and executes test cases and scenarios to test that systems, products and services fulfil the acceptance criteria and deliver the predicted business benefits.
• Collaborates with project colleagues and stakeholders involved in the analysis, development and operation of products, systems or services to ensure accuracy and comprehensive test coverage.
• Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks including the work of others.

Systems integration and build

• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.
• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree system integration plans and report on progress.
• Defines complex/new integration builds.
• Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.
• Designs, performs and reports results of tests of the integration build.
• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.
• Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.

Configuration management

• Applies tools, techniques and processes to track, log and correct information related to configuration items.
• Verifies and approves changes ensuring the protection of assets and components from unauthorised change, diversion and inappropriate use.
• Ensures that users comply with identification standards for object types, environments, processes, life cycles, documentation, versions, formats, baselines, releases and templates.
• Performs audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.

Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 2 years post-related experience.
• At least 2 years recent experience in planning and execution of test, verification and validation activities in large complex projects;
• At least 2 years recent experience with functional, non-functional and interoperability testing of systems and products;
• Proven experience with managing external stakeholders and co- workers during the execution of large complex projects;
• Ability to understand and reason about hardware and software systems architectures typically found in system design documents;
• Ability to understand technical concepts such as DNS, NTP, Email, Databases, Application architectures and inter-application communication protocols;
• Ability to communicate with clarity, coherence, conciseness and engagement, both orally and in writing;
• Certification in the area of test, verification and validation such as ISTQB or a similar certification at the foundation level