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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Independent Assurance Engineer (Test Planning and Traceability) - **Company:** Wlg - **Location:** Den Haag, Netherlands (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Software Documentation, Interoperability, Requirements Management, Verification and Validation (Software), Cloud Platform System - **Published:** September 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.nl/job/nl73a11280953534a91366d369c9e84256/eaa ## About the Role * At least five years, recently, planning and executing test, verification and validation on large and complex projects * At least five years testing systems and products for function, behaviour under load, and interoperability with everything around them * Proven management of external stakeholders and colleagues through a large delivery * Enough architectural literacy to reason about the hardware and software designs you find in system documentation * Communication that is clear, coherent and concise, written and spoken * Experience leading a team of testers, quality engineers or developers * Testing in virtualised and cloud environments * The usual test, defect and requirements management tooling * Independent testing where the testing itself is done by someone else Nice to have * An advanced testing or test-management certification * Testing in a defence or military business domain, and interoperability testing in that context * Assurance tools and processes ## Description WLG and our selected partners use cookies and similar technologies (together "cookies") that are necessary to present this website, and to ensure you get the best experience of it. 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Vendors Youtube common--cookies--preferences#handleAccept">Accept these cookies common--cookies--preferences#handleDecline">Decline all non-necessary cookies common--header--menu#toggle" data-common--header--menu-target="button" > Career menu Employee Candidate Homepage common--dropdown#toggle"> Share page common--share#handleClick" data-provider="Facebook"> Facebook common--share#handleClick" data-provider="Twitter"> X common--share#handleClick" data-provider="LinkedIn"> LinkedIn Quality Assurance & Testing · The Hague · Hybrid Independent Assurance Engineer (Test Planning and Traceability) for NATO with security clearance Independent verification and validation across a defence organisation's whole project portfolio - the person who says whether it really works. The Hague, hybrid. careersite--jobs--form-overlay#showFormOverlay" data-careersite--jobs--form-overlay-target="coverButton"> Apply for this job blocks--cover--scroll#handleScrollDown" title="Scroll to content"> Assurance is only worth having when it is independent. This post is the independent half. You would join the product and service assurance team of a multinational defence organisation in The Hague, Netherlands - verifying and validating delivered projects, systems, services and programmes, and reporting on them at executive level. Mostly on-site, with flexibility to work from home. What you would be doing * Planning, organising and running formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional domains, and along the supply chain * Appraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why * Producing the test documentation - event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports * Assuring other people's test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all * Managing the design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events * Supporting projects delivered by external contractors * Supporting the operational community through acceptance activities ## Related Videos - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [From Bedside Beeps to Interoperable Bytes – Getting your medical devices ready to talk the IEEE 11073 language](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/771-from-bedside-beeps-to-interoperable-bytes-getting-your-medical-devices-ready-to-talk-the-ieee-11073-language) - [Cloud Vendor Lock-In - Is it just a new version of the Database Abstraction Layers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1185-cloud-vendor-lock-in-is-it-just-a-new-version-of-the-database-abstraction-layers) - [Your Testing Strategy is broken - lets fix it!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1672-your-testing-strategy-is-broken-lets-fix-it) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) - [Excellent Software Testing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/87-excellent-software-testing) ## Related Articles - [The 8 Best Code Testing Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/402-the-8-best-code-testing-tools) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Best Companies in the Netherlands: Top 25 Companies in 2023 ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/193-best-companies-in-the-netherlands-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [The Netherlands – Europe’s powerhouse for software development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/31-the-netherlands-europe-s-powerhouse-for-software-development) - [How to land a developer job in Amsterdam](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/36-how-to-land-a-developer-job-in-amsterdam) - [How to Find Tech Jobs in Amsterdam](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/279-how-to-find-tech-jobs-in-amsterdam)