Senior Assurance Engineer

The Senior Assurance Engineer will work within the Product and Service Assurance Team, responsible for independent verification and validation (IV&V) of NCIA-delivered projects, systems, services, processes, and programmes.
The role includes independent status reporting at executive level and assurance support across the Agency enterprise change management lifecycle, including in-service capabilities.

The engineer will be integrated into a multinational team of assurance engineers, contributing domain expertise as required.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Plan, organise, and conduct formal reviews and assessments across complex domain areas, cross-functional areas, and the supply chain

• Evaluate compliance with organisational standards and identify non-compliances, including root-cause analysis

• Produce and maintain test and assurance documentation, including:

  • (Event) Test Plans

  • Test Cases

  • Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM)

  • Test and assurance reports

• Provide independent assurance of test artefacts, including validation of RTMs

• Manage the design, planning, execution, and reporting of Verification & Validation (V&V) events

• Support projects where testing and execution are performed by external contractors

• Support the operational community during operational acceptance activities

• Contribute to assurance planning and reporting across multiple concurrent projects

Mandatory Requirements (Required)

• Minimum 5 years recent experience in planning and executing testing, verification, and validation activities in large, complex projects

• Minimum 5 years recent experience with:

  • Functional testing

  • Non-functional testing

  • Interoperability testing of systems and products

• Proven experience managing external stakeholders and cross-functional teams during complex project execution

• Strong ability to understand and reason about hardware and software architectures used in system design

• Excellent communication skills: clear, concise, coherent, and engaging, both written and oral

• Experience leading or managing a team of testers, quality engineers, or development engineers

• Experience testing in virtualised and cloud environments

• Familiarity with test management, defect management, and requirements management tools

• Experience working with independent testing, particularly when execution is carried out by an external party

Desirable Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced certification in software testing or test management

• Experience testing within NATO or military business domains

• Experience with assurance tools, methodologies, and processes

• Experience as an interoperability tester in a NATO context