Quality Assurance Engineer (Threat Sharing Platform and Integrations) for NATO with security clearance
WLG Mons, Wallonia, Belgium
Financial Services · 2-10 employees
About the role
You will manage and configure threat-intelligence platform instances while coordinating testing activities across engineering and user communities. This role involves appraising work against organizational standards, documenting findings, and identifying risks within a multinational defense environment.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least five years of experience in software test strategies, including test automation and API testing. Proficiency in Python, Linux, and web application configuration is required, along with a bachelor's degree in a related discipline.
Full description
An intelligence-sharing platform is only worth what its last releasedoes.
You would run quality assurance for a multinational defence organisation's deployment of anopen-source threat-intelligence sharing platform and the integrations around it, in Mons, Belgium— working with the service delivery and engineering managers, system administrators, developersand data engineers, and with the open-source community itself.
What you would be doing
- Configuring and managing dedicated platform instances and the infrastructure they test on,with support from the system administration side
- Occasional basic operations on the production instances
- Appraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply,and working out why
- Preparing and reporting on findings and the risks behind them
- Planning and managing the testing: specifying the environment, creating the cases andscenarios, and making sure they reflect realistic operating conditions and real coverage
- Documenting, analysing and reporting results so that something actually gets done aboutthem
- Occasional support to the user community on the managed production instances
- Coordinating test activity with external parties, including the core project team and othercommunity members
What you would bring
- At least five years of developing and executing software test strategies
- Test automation, and API testing
- Python scripting
- Basic Linux, Apache and MySQL or MariaDB operations
- Configuring web applications
- A good grasp of security principles, practice and technology
- The ability to work alone and in a team, including supporting the people around you
- Excellent organisation, communication and analysis, and professional English
- A bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience — or,exceptionally, ten years of progressive expertise in this work
Nice to have
- ISTQB or a similar testing certification
- Running a threat-sharing instance as an administrator, or writing code for one in Python orPHP
- Incident response experience, and work with open-source communities
- Multinational cyber exercises, and Red Hat
Why this one is worth a look
It sits where testing, security and open source meet — you would be working with the upstreamproject, not just consuming it.
