QA Engineer (Manual and Automated Testing, API and SQL) for NATO with security clearance

The bugs that matter here are the ones nobody thought to look for.

A team in The Hague is delivering gap capability work packages on integrated command andcontrol software and it needs a test engineer who can own the quality of what ships. On-site inThe Hague Netherlands.

What you will be doing

• Analysing requirements and writing structured test plans test cases and scenarios fromthem
• Deciding what deserves a manual test and what deserves an automated one across functionalregression performance and security testing
• Querying databases directly in SQL to prove what the application is really doing
• Testing APIs with Postman SOAPUI or the equivalent
• Logging managing and chasing issues through JIRA
• Hunting the edge cases the meticulous logical part of the job that separates a good testengineer from a checklist

What you will need

• Real experience turning requirements into structured test artefacts not just executingsomeone elses script
• SQL you can write yourself and hands-on API testing
• JIRA or a comparable issue tracker as daily habit
• User-level comfort on Linux
• An eye for detail and a problem-solving mindset

Nice to have

• Experience with test automation tooling such as Selenium or Playwright
• Background in command and control or air operations planning environments

Why this one is worth a look

Testing here is not a rubber stamp at the end of a sprint the software is operationallysignificant so the quality bar is real and your findings actually change what ships. Normaloffice environment an established team and work that is visibly worth doing.