Technical Software Tester

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Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO, UN, EU, and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services, specialised aerospace and defence sales, delivery, and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting 

The NATO Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) is responsible for providing secure and effective communications and information technology (IT) services to NATO's member countries and its partners. The agency was established in 2012 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

The NCIA provides a wide range of services, including:

• Cyber Security: The NCIA provides advanced cybersecurity solutions to protect NATO's communication networks and information systems against cyber threats.
• Command and Control Systems: The NCIA develops and maintains the systems used by NATO's military commanders to plan and execute operations.
• Satellite Communications: The NCIA provides satellite communications services to enable secure and reliable communications between NATO forces.
• Electronic Warfare: The NCIA provides electronic warfare services to support NATO's mission to detect, deny, and defeat threats to its communication networks.
• Information Management: The NCIA manages NATO's information technology infrastructure, including its databases, applications, and servers.

Overall, the NCIA plays a critical role in ensuring the security and effectiveness of NATO's communication and information technology capabilities.

The program

Assistance and Advisory Service (AAS)

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) is NATO’s principal C3 capability deliverer and CIS service provider. It provides, maintains and defends the NATO enterprise-wide information technology infrastructure to enable Allies to consult together under Article IV, and, when required, stand together in the face of attack under Article V.

To provide these critical services, in the modern evolving dynamic environment the NCI Agency needs to build and maintain high performance-engaged workforce. The NCI Agency workforce strategically consists of three major categorise's: NATO International Civilians (NIC)'s, Military (Mil), and Interim Workforce Consultants (IWC)'s. The IWCs are a critical part of the overall NCI Agency workforce and make up approximately 15 percent of the total workforce.

Role ID – 2025-0273

Role Background

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for ONE technical software tester.

More specifically, the work will support the full software development cycle of the Networked Interoperable Real-Time Information Services (NIRIS) software. NIRIS has been developed to meet the Minimum Military Requirement (MMR) for receiving, disseminating and providing situational awareness information for Command and Control (C2) and is currently the most widely used system for providing such information in NATO.

Role Duties and Responsibilities

• Write, execute and maintain the NIRIS test cases both manually and automatic.
• Work closely with the developers/subject matter experts to understand the product use cases and features.
• Attend to team meetings to provide progress updates, and impediments to the colleagues and delegated staff.
• Share the knowledge inside the team, organize trainings or demos and document the information knowledge database.
• Work independently, self-organized with focus on outcome that match the teams’ target.
• Create setups that include Virtual Machines and standard servers (DNS, HTTP, Active Directory, and Monitoring) on Linux based operation systems.

Essential Skills, Experience and Certifications

• Candidate is able to work independently and has can-do spirit and is focused on deliverables
• The candidate has relevant and recent experience in software testing for WebGUI, RestAPI, and CLI interfaces for networking-products
• The candidate is able to troubleshoot and debug the problems on Windows Servers and
• Linux OS (IP Addressing, routing, DNS, HTTP, Active Directory, Certificate Management)
• The candidate has basic knowledge in programming and scripting languages (preferably
• in Java, Linux bash, ansible)
• The candidate has basic experience in using development tools (e.g. Jira, Zephyr, GitLab) and the Scrum methodology.
• The candidate is able to plan, write and execute manual test cases for networking- products features
• The candidate has experience in testing computer networking software and Tactical Data Link (Link16, Link22, OTH-G) software.
• The candidate has relevant experience in testing interoperability between software system
• Possession of technical certifications (Microsoft, RedHat, CompTia, CISCO) is a big advantage
• Testing certifications ISTQB/TMAP or similar are nice to have
• Relevant experience in writing end to end automation test cases (e.g. Robot Framework, Gauge, Cucumber) is nice to have
• The candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.

Language

• The candidate is fully professional proficient in English

Working Location

• Offsite but collaborating with team members from NCIA The Hague

Working Policy

• Offsite

Travel

• Some travel to other NATO sites may be required

Security Clearance

• Valid National or NATO Secret personal security clearance

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