Deadline Date:
Monday 15 September 2025
Requirement:
Provision of Technical Software Tester Services Support the NIRIS Testing
Location:
Off-Site
Not to Exceed:
2025 BASE: NTE / week 2,700 EUR (12 weeks, total NTE 32,400 EUR);
Number of sprints is estimated. This will be adjusted based on actual starting date.
2026, 2027 and 2028 Options
Period of Performance:
2025 BASE: 13 October 2025
Required Security Clearance:
NATO SECRET
Please do NOT
apply for any NATO contract positions unless you meet ALL the following criteria:
- Current National or NATO SECRET clearance
- Nationality of one of the NATO member countries
- Current work visa for the specific location if applying for an in-country position
Any applications that do NOT meet all the above - and do not CLEARLY show these on the CV - will be deleted.
Introduction:
- The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is currently involved in the development of new capabilities for NATO as well as in the support of existing capabilities. In the light of these activities, the C2 Service Centre is looking for ONE technical software tester.
- More specifically, the work will support the full software development cycle of the Networked Interoperable Real-Time Information Services (NIRIS) software. NIRIS has been developed to meet the Minimum Military Requirement (MMR) for receiving, disseminating and providing situational awareness information for Command and Control (C2) and is currently the most widely used system for providing such information in NATO.
The main objectives of this statement of work can be summarized as follows:
- Test, update and maintain NIRIS software modules.
Under the direction / guidance of the Solution Architect, Service Delivery Manager, Test Manager and Project Manager, the services to be provided are related with executing and maintaining the NIRIS test cases. This includes the following activities:
- Write, execute and maintain the NIRIS test cases both manually and automatic.
- Work closely with the developers/subject matter experts to understand the product use cases and features.
- Attend to team meetings to provide progress updates, and impediments to the colleagues and delegated staff.
- Share the knowledge inside the team, organize trainings or demos and document the information knowledge database.
- Work independently, self-organized with focus on outcome that match the teams' target.
- Create setups that include Virtual Machines and standard servers (DNS, HTTP, Active Directory, and Monitoring) on Linux based operation systems.
Roles and Responsiblities:
- The development and testing services will be carried out on an Agency-provided laptop while using remotely the engineering and test facilities in the NATO Software Factory hosted in Microsoft Azure. These facilities consists of all necessary development and test services (such as Gitlab, Jira, Zephyr, Nexus...). The contractor shall update the status of the NIRIS development tasks in Jira, commit code in Gitla b, and maintain test procedures and test results in Zephyr. Some of the work could also be requested to be conducted locally in NCI Agency in The Hague, The Netherlands.
- The contractor will be part of a team (Service Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, Software Developers, Testers, etc.) geographically distributed and working using an Agile and iterative approach using multiple sprints. Each sprint is planned for a duration of one (1) week.
- The contractor is expected to work off site. Work on-site can also be arranged with the Project Manager.
- It may be required to travel to NCI Agency The Hague and other sites within NATO for completing these tasks.
- Travel costs are out of scope and will be borne by the NCI Agency separately in accordance to the provisions of the AAS+ Framework Contract.
- This work must be accomplished by ONE resource. In the event the contractor leaves during the contract period, he or she shall be replaced by a new contractor who has the required qualifications and is acceptable. AAS Framework contract Terms and Conditions apply.
Security:
- Performance of the services described in this SOW require a valid NATO SECRET security clearance provided by the national security organization and valid at the time of submission of the bid covering the period of the requirement.
The consultancy support for this work requires a software tester with the following qualifications:
- Candidate is able to work independently and has can-do spirit and is focused on deliverables
- The candidate has relevant and recent experience in software testing for WebGUI, RestAPI, and CLI interfaces for networking-products
- The candidate is able to troubleshoot and debug the problems on Windows Servers and Linux OS (IP Addressing, routing, DNS, HTTP, Active Directory, Certificate Management)
- The candidate has basic knowledge in programming and scripting languages (preferably in Java, Linux bash, ansible)
- The candidate has basic experience in using development tools (e.g. Jira, Zephyr, GitLab) and the Scrum methodology.
- The candidate is able to plan, write and execute manual test cases for networking- products features
- The candidate has experience in testing computer networking software and Tactical Data Link (Link16, Link22, OTH-G) software.
- The candidate has relevant experience in testing interoperability between software systems
- Possession of technical certifications (Microsoft, RedHat, CompTia, CISCO) is a big advantage
- Testing certifications ISTQB/TMAP or similar are nice to have
- Relevant experience in writing end to end automation test cases (e.g. Robot Framework, Gauge, Cucumber) is nice to have
- The candidate is fully professional proficient in English
- The candidate must have the nationality of one of the NATO nations.