Interoperability Engineer

The Interoperability Engineer will design, implement and maintain interoperability solutions enabling systems and platforms to communicate effectively. The role involves developing test plans, supporting interoperability testing events, performing assessments, and contributing to assurance processes within NATO's digital transformation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain interoperability solutions that enable different systems, applications and platforms to communicate, exchange data and work together effectively.
• Develop acceptance criteria, test plans, test cases and scenarios to verify that systems, products and services meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Plan, participate in and support interoperability testing events, including NATO-led mission networks and exercises such as Steadfast Cobalt and CWIX.
• Perform interoperability assessments for projects, cross-project activities, NATO Enterprise, NATO Alliance and Mission Networks.
• Analyse complex operational use cases, extract test conditions, design test events, and report on test activities, results, issues and risks.
• Support interoperability assurance processes, maintain documentation and audit trails, and contribute to interoperability requirements traceability, dashboards, KPIs, strategies, policies and plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified university in a related discipline with 2 years post-related experience, or exceptionally at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
• At least 2 years of recent experience in interoperability events and in planning and executing test, verification and validation activities in commercial or military environments.
• Proven experience developing principles, assumptions, rules and guidelines to analyse, structure and classify interoperability requirements and their assessment for portfolios, programmes and projects.
• Proven experience managing external stakeholders during the execution of large or complex projects in a commercial or military environment.
• Experience using, designing, operating, maintaining or testing virtualized and cloud-based environments, as well as experience as a test engineer in interoperability events.
• Experience testing NATO standards such as MIP, FFT, TDL, NVG, OTH-Gold or APP-11, or commercial standards such as NTP, DNS, SMTP/S, LDAP/S, SAML or HTTP/S, with knowledge of ISTQB foundation principles.
• Desirable: ISTQB certification, advanced testing/testing management certification, experience with IO Toolset, Tidepedia, JIRA, NCIA applications, software engineering practices, scripting languages, MS Office tools, and prior experience in an international military and civilian environment with knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organisation.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Skills

• Interoperability Testing
• Test Planning
• Verification and Validation
• Interoperability Requirements Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Virtualized environments
• Cloud-based environments
• Test Engineering
• NATO Standards Testing
• MIP Standard
• FFT Standard
• TDL Standard
• NVG Standard
• OTH-Gold Standard
• APP-11 Standard
• Commercial Standards Testing
• NTP Protocol
• DNS protocol
• SMTP/S Protocol
• LDAP/S Protocol
• SAML Protocol
• HTTP/S Protocol
• ISTQB Foundation
• IO Toolset
• Tidepedia
• Jira
• Software Engineering Practices
• Scripting Languages
• Microsoft Office Suite

Languages

English