Test Engineer

Project overview

Assignment Description

As a Test Engineer, you will work with a multidisciplinary team on our important network infrastructure. This way, you ensure that our infrastructure meets high quality requirements, is always available, and is secure. Within our 'Highly Classified Information Systems' infrastructure subsection HGI System Development, you will use your network experience and knowledge to make the Netherlands safer. Your role is crucial for our military personnel, anywhere in the world, at any time, under all circumstances.

The activities are related to TITAAN (Theatre Independent Tactical Army and Air Force Network) and involve:

As a Test Engineer, you will be deployed to contribute with your unique knowledge and experience to the complete transformation towards a single, future-proof network landscape.

The results requested in this assignment are not just material. It is important in this assignment to work on a shared understanding of each other and of the situation and context in which the relevant matters take place, so that this leads to common starting points as a foundation for strengthening collaboration.

Background Assignment

The HGI section develops Command and Control (C2) systems for land, air, and maritime operations within Defense for operational command. In addition to these C2 systems, the supporting (communication) infrastructure is also developed and supported for the deployed domain. This HGI (Highly Classified Information Systems) network is used in the deployed field domain (semi-static) in military missions and exercises of the Army, Air Force, and Navy.

Within HGI, the following areas of attention are recognized: Network Infrastructure, Platform, Management and Control, and Applications including telephony, Microsoft Office environment, e-mail, and SharePoint. Characteristic of HGI are the tools to plan the Communication and Information Systems (resources, topology, and configurations), to record the information needs of a mission with associated roles and rights, and to provide for the automatic installation of the complete IT infrastructure.

The need to do this for more Defense IT infrastructures is increasing, and in the coming years, the highly classified information systems must align better.

• Preparing, setting up, executing, and assessing integration, system, regression, and security tests on intermediate products and complete releases.
• Intensive use of Jira/Xray for preparing and managing test cases, executing test executions, recording test results, and creating and following up on bugs.
• Thoroughly testing Regular Security Updates (RSU) and Ad-hoc Security Updates (ASU) prior to delivery, including regression testing, verification of changes, and retesting after resolved findings.
• Testing and analyzing across multiple technical domains, including Microsoft infrastructure, client, network, middleware, Management & Control, telephony, and PKI.
• Setting up and preparing complex test environments, including installation, configuration, and upgrade of products and infrastructure components, so that integration and subsequent tests can be reliably performed by the test team.
• Working on releases and test cycles where quality, clear test results, and stable delivery are central.

Responsibilities

Requirements/Wishes

Candidate preferably has demonstrable work experience within the Ministry of Defense.

Candidate preferably has experience with the activities related to TITAAN (Theatre Independent Tactical Army and Air Force Network) mentioned in the assignment description.

Additional Information

Hybrid working: The frequency is an estimate, provided the work allows. Arrangements regarding working from home are always made in consultation with the requester.

Frequency of days working from home: 2

On-call services: No

• Select and develop integration test techniques to ensure the system meets requirements.
• Design and adapt integration tests, identify open issues.
• Organize test plans and procedures for white-box and black-box testing at unit, module, system, and integration levels.
• Prepare result analysis and reporting procedures.
• Design and implement debugging and correction procedures.
• Write test programs to assess software quality.
• Develop tools to increase test effectiveness.

Project details

• Start: 2026-11-30T23:00:00
• Location: Amersfoort Utrecht, NL
• Languages: Dutch

The subsection Highly Classified Infrastructure

Requirements eCF Profile: Test Specialist

Reference Area: B.06 System Construction

This assignment is based on the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF). This is a European standard for describing IT competencies and the associated level of responsibility. The eCF profile indicates which competencies and at what level (e-1 to e-5) are expected from the candidate. We expect candidates to clearly demonstrate in their CV that they possess these competencies. This can be done by describing for each relevant assignment or position:

CVs in which the required eCF competencies are not demonstrably present cannot be fully assessed for suitability.

Candidate has at least 4 years of demonstrable work experience with the chosen eCF profile similar role.

Generic description of competence area and levels

Engineers software and/or hardware components to meet the requirements of the solution, such as specifications, costs, quality, time, energy efficiency, information security, and data protection. Follows a systematic method to analyze and build the required components and interfaces. Builds system structure models and performs system behavior simulations. Performs unit and system tests to ensure that requirements are met.

Summary of tasks and mission

Execute design and test plans. Guarantees that delivered or existing products, applications, or services meet the technical and user needs and specifications. For existing systems, applications, innovations, and changes; diagnoses failures of products or services to meet specifications.

• System Development (HGI-SO) faces a challenging assignment to undertake a renovation 'while the shop is open'. This while our HGI SO technical specialists are in high demand and therefore a 'scarce commodity'. It is of the utmost importance that HGI-SO increases its delivery reliability, as both operations and chain partners need us to realize strategic plans. We are therefore optimizing the organization and working methods of the subsection. The working title for this is: 'Pleasant Work
• Ever Smarter
• (Doing) the Right Things'. We want to optimally organize and facilitate the teams that perform the development so that they can focus on delivering quality in their field. By making assignments clear and concrete early in the process, we facilitate the teams to deliver optimally in terms of technology, volume, quality, and predictability. The Platform Engineer plays an important role in this.
• the role the candidate fulfilled
• the tasks and responsibilities associated with it
• the extent to which these align with the required eCF competencies and the level