C003378 CQO IO Engineer (Communications) (NS) - FRI 15 Mar
EMW, Inc., Netherlands
Job Description
Deadline Date: Friday 15 March 2024
Requirement: CQO IO Engineer (Communications)
Location: The Hague, NL
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 1200
Required Start Date: 22 April 2024
End Contract Date: 31 December 2024
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties and Role:
The section where the duties will be performed is within the Chief Quality, Interoperability Branch, Interoperability Assurance Section Office. Within this section there expertise on different Interoperability aspects is gathered and the people form teams to assess interoperability at a multiple type of events. The role is to be a part of a team that deals with planning, execution and reporting on multinational Interoperability test events. Mainly to support the operational community during exercises and mission preparation events. The person will be integrated in a multinational team of test directors with the knowledge of the specific domain(s) as requested for the profile.
- Participate in interoperability testing events and leads planning and execution of events she/he is responsible for;
- Participate in Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation (CIAV) Working Groups for the different initiatives, like FMN, NRF or ARF;
- Coordinate, plan, schedule, execute and report on Interoperability Vamp;V activities. Estimate the resources and financial requirements. Produce the Event Test Plan and ensures the plan is executed;
- Analyse complex test scenarios based on operational use cases, extract the test conditions, design tests events;
- Manage the execution of the events and its reporting;
- Planning and executing multinational test events.
The duty requires the person to work in an office and IT lab environment. Travel is quite regular and must be taken into account. On average there is at least a week of travel every two months and on occasion is can be multiple weeks in a row.
Requirements
Skill, Knowledge amp; 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;
- Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency; that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to the function of the post;
- Experience as test engineer in interoperability events;
- Experience testing and configuring Commercial standards, like BGP, IPSec, PCN, QoS, DNS and PKI.
- Knowledge of ISTQB foundation principles;
- Experience using, and testing in virtualized environments
Desired:
- Advanced certification in the area of testing and testing management;
- Experience with MS-Exchange and SharePoint;
- Experience as a tester or independent verification and validation engineer, during all phases of the project lifecycle;
- Working-level knowledge of MS-Office, Project, Visio and SharePoint;